Essays on Hiv

The HIV infection development into a lingering illness has ramifications across every clinical care setting. Every nurse is supposed to be well-informed regarding the testing, prevention, chronicity, and treatment of the ailment to give high-quality care for persons with or at risk for HIV. As...

Several large multi-national studies have established that transmission of HIV does not occur between sexual partners when the viral load is undetectable (

The major research component to this article is to discuss the distinct phases that are characterized by an HIV infection. The logic being used in the research component of this study is based off of research done to understand the behavior of the infection, and...

For my second work placement I worked as an Assistant Researcher at a teaching hospital. My Department focused on Population Health and Infectious Diseases; a new area for me, as it was not covered in my degree modules. However, unlike my first placement, I did...

This essay will explore the impacts of the social determinants of health in the context of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), comparing the impacts of gender, stigmatism and discrimination of women in Swaziland vs. Australia. HIV is a virus that causes AIDS...

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a new disease in 1981 when increasing numbers of young homosexual men succumbed to unusual opportunistic infections and rare malignancies. A retrovirus, now termed human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), was subsequently identified as the causative...

Amongst numerous problems, the terrible AIDS pandemic that has continued to devastate the country remains the most disturbing to me as an individual. I recently got to learn that Kenya has the joint fourth largest HIV epidemic in the world with 1. 5 million people...