Essays on Hiv

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...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adolescent sexual minority males (ASMM) education on condom use and HIV reports compared to their counterpart adolescent non-sexual-minority males (non-ASMM). Men who have sex with other men are at a much higher risk of...

Amoebic liver abscess is a most common extraintestinal manifestation of amoebiasis which is most commonly present with high grade fever with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Here we present a case of 32 year male patient newly diagnosed as People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) withamoebic...

HIV which is a sexually transmitted disease have become a treat to the current society. Currently, this disease has no cure. It has been found that the disease affect over millions of people around the world and the number of HIV patients are getting increased...