...Project Food Aid – Feeding America Project Food Aid is given a grant for programs that focus on relief for hunger, disaster, and/or nutrition. An organization that is a Project Food Aid is Feeding America. Their website is http://www.feedingamerica.org/. They have multiple food banks across the nation in the USA. About 200 of their food banks exist, and their main headquarters is located in Chicago, Illinois. They use their food banks to help feed the hungry in America, and send 98% of money donated to them to other programs and services that also assist in feeding the hungry. They aim for feeding families and individuals in need of food. They do this in order to help families and individuals make sure that they have enough food to eat all year long, and...
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...ADVOCACY PROJECT PROPOSAL Project Title: YouthFM AIDS Awareness Project Project Period: Three-years Target areas: Phase I: Dar Es Salaam, Coast, Tanga, Zanzibar & Morogoro. Phase II: Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma & Mbeya Total funds requested: Year-One: US Dollars -------------------- Year-Two: US Dollars ------------------- Year-Three: US Dollars ----------------- Proposal submitted to: ---------------------------------. Proposal submitted by: Tanzania Youth Aware Trust Fund Applicant’s address: Kijiyonyama Youth Center P.O. Box 77874, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Applicant’s telephone: 022-71356/ 0744-260-996 Applicant’s e-mail: youthorg@yahoo.com, www.wilmo/youthaware Applicant’s legal status: Non Governmental Organization Project Leaders’ name: Peter Joseph Masika, Director Date of Submission: September 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS PROJECT PROPOSAL SUMMARY SHEET 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 5 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 6 2. INTRODUCTION - YOUTHFM HIV/AIDS AWARENESS PROJECT CONTEXT 9 2.1 PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION 9 2.1.1 HIV/AIDS - An Overview: 9 2.1.2 HIV/AIDS in Tanzania: Young people in danger 9 2.1.2 Existing Initiatives addressing HIV/AIDS in Tanzania 11 2.2 The Tanzania Youth Aware Trust Fund 12 2.3 Relationship to Target Country Priorities 13 3. YOUTHFM HIV/AIDS AWARENESS- THE PROPOSED PROJECT 14 3.1 PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES...
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...Future Strategic Direction for Foreign Aid Canada TO: Foreign Aid Canada's Executive Management Team From: Pat Innes Subject: Review of the future direction of Foreign Aid Canada Executive Summary: Introduction: The purpose of this report is to provide a strategic analysis of the alternatives available. The report will also provide a recommendations that will: • That Foreign Aid Canada (FAC) will able to meet its new mandate of joining the fight against AIDS. • Meet the criteria set out by the CIDA officials • Ensure that Foreign Aid Canada (FAC) This report will also provide analysis of the company's current situation and present all strategic and operational issues. The report also includes instructions on how to implement the recommendation should the owners adopt the alternative suggested by this report. Situational Analysis: Mission Statement: Foreign Aid Canada provides humanitarian, emergency relief, development assistance through agricultural, water and irrigation projects, and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment to African and Asian countries in need. Vision Statement: Foreign Aid Canada vision is for a world with out unnecessary suffering. Strategic Goals/Targets: • Foreign Aid Canada (FAC) wants to ensure that their decision to join the fight against AIDS is done in the most efficient and cost effective way possible while also meeting the requirements...
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...9 -5 0 7 -0 3 2 REV: JULY 23, 2012 ELIE OFEK PSI India—Will Balbir Pasha Help Fight AIDS? (A) Every time Sanjay Chaganti, program director of HIV/AIDS Prevention at Population Services International (PSI) India, walked the streets of Mumbai's red-light district, he felt as though there was probably no other place like it in the world. Although dirty, crowded, and run-down, the district known for its brothels and the local Indian mafia was also a vibrant area that included shops, restaurants, and movie theaters. At any time of the day or night and at any time of the year, the redlight district was an area that was always alive and open for business. This particular afternoon in March 2002 was not unlike any other day in this area of Mumbai. To Sanjay and his colleagues at PSI, however, the red-light district of Mumbai was also ground zero for the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in India—something that the nonprofit organization was fully committed to prevent. Over the past 10 years, PSI had worked to educate sex workers in Mumbai about HIV and the significantly lower transmission rates that resulted from the use of condoms. It was estimated that there were between 20,000 and 30,000 sex workers within a 10-block area of the red-light district. Since roughly 85% of all HIV transmission in India occurred through intercourse with sex workers, for PSI the red-light district was a major battleground in the fight to prevent the spread of HIV. To reach as many sex workers...
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...(human immunodeficiency virus), which has been found to be the cause of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), would not have been the topic of a major and serious worldwide catastrophe. Twenty years ago, people were not phased by the effects that would be caused by this ever so populating disease, and no one would have ever realized that this disease would not be curable or helped without expensive medicine. Like a simple exponential growth equation, the AIDS virus has increased victim numbers by about forty million all over the world. AIDS has also shown that it is not discriminating; it has infected all races and all heritages. The AIDS crisis extends far beyond its death toll, because more than seventy percent of the thirty-six million people with HIV/AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa. Last year alone, the disease killed 1.5 million people in Africa. One third of these victims are between the ages of ten and twenty-four. The disease has been described as a development crisis; it is profoundly disrupting the economic and social bases of families and entire nations at a rate of infection at 16,000 per day. Without immediate action, AIDS will surpass the effect of the Black Plague that killed forty million people in the late fourteenth century. It is estimated that only ten percent of the death that this disease will cause has been seen. There are no known cures or affordable vaccines to prevent AIDS; the only option is for a program to prevent further spread of the epidemic...
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...stage of HIV infection is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and it can take 10-15 years for an HIV-infected person to develop AIDS; antiretroviral drugs can slow down the process even further” (World Health Organization, 2010). Some of the most popular ways HIV can be transmitted from person to person is through sexual intercourse, blood transfusions, sharing or reusing contaminated needles, and between a mother and her infant during pregnancy (World Health Organization, 2010). Preventing HIV/AIDS is a major health promotion goal because AIDS is a global pandemic. Epidemics of the AIDS virus have occurred simultaneously on more than one continent around the world. According to the website for the U.S. Census Bureau (2010) there are approximately 6,872,011,659 people worldwide as of August 25, 2010. In 2008 there were approximately 33.4 million people living with HIV worldwide, and “2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV worldwide in 2008” (World Health Organization, 2010). “67% of all people living with HIV in 2008 were in sub-Saharan Africa and 2 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses worldwide in 2008” (World Health Organization, 2010). The article that I chose to discuss is “HIV/AIDS: Traditional Systems of health Care in the Management of a Global Epidemic.” This article focuses on partnering modern and traditional/complementary medicines as an improved holistic way of treating HIV/AIDS, and its “opportunistic infections” (Bodeker, Carter, Burford...
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...Foreign Aid In the current situation from 2009-present, international assistance has been expanding its scope but it still has many problems such as corruption, inefficiency in progress or poor management and delay in helping. Last few decade problems with foreign aid are caused not only by incompetence or corruption but also related to itself complex machinery which has been trying to developed aid to transmit from donor to recipient. In addition, there are still poor and waste in aid because the corruption by the recipient government because to aid cannot go to help poor people who really need and want it most (Lappe,Collin,Rosset 1981 9). This essay will examine both of corruption and inefficiencies of assistance and give some suggestion such as they should be a committee of country’s revenue and expenditure, or aid system should be provides transparent and can be verified easily(Demon McNeil 1981 36) followed by evaluation for the best solution to solve a problems As we already knew that, now aids has come from many ways such as food aids, military assistances but the most important aid that is often a serious problem is a financial assistance. Financial aids are usually corrupted by national governments, who have been helped by the donor countries the corruptions always start at the beginning of the aid processes. In addition corruptions are likely to arise in situation where resources are transferred with substantial discretion without accountabilities to the decision...
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...HCR 220 Week 9 Final Project How HIPAA Violations Affect the Medical Billing Process To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/HCR-220/HCR-220-Week-9-Final-Project-How-HIPAA-Violations-Affect-the-Medical-Billing-Process Part One: Resources:Appendix A, Appendix C, and Table 8.3 on pp. 258–259 of Medical Insurance Refer toTable 8.3 on pp. 258–259 of your text to complete the CMS-1500 form, located in Appendix C, according to the following case study: A 67-year-old Medicare patient presents to the office, exhibiting symptoms of HIV infection. After detailed examination, symptoms are determined to be advanced AIDS with manifestation of Kaposi’s sarcoma and other opportunistic infections. Name: James Brown Account Number: 080811 Insurer: Medicare Policy Number: 1098765 ID number: 12345678910 DOB: 02/01/1940 Gender: Male Insured: James Brown Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Wash. D.C. 60000 Marital Status: Widowed Patient’s Employer: Retired Nature of Condition: HIV, AIDS, Kaposi’s sarcoma Date of Illness: 06/01/2007 Referring Physician: Thomas Glassman, M.D. Physician ID: 1080808080 Federal Tax ID: 5551116679 Dates of Service: 06/01/2007, 06/15/2007, 07/07/2007, 08/01/2007 Procedure: Detailed examination, screening blood panel, pathology services Patient Signature Include ICD (categories only), CPT, HCPCS, and insurance information. If you believe there is insufficient information provided to fill a required field with data...
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...And the Band Played On “And the band played on” is a movie based on the historical happening toward the occurrence and public health response towards the HIV/AIDS disease. It deals with a broad range of issues in public health through the emergence of information and the reaction to the new disease. It touches on issues concerning the heterosexual community, gay community and the medical community. It did show not only research in AIDS but also the way the federal government responded to it. The movie gives general overview of how medical research was carried out during those days. The main themes in this movie are the plight of the medical community dealing with research, government response to research and social alienation in health care. The gay community experienced a lot of suffering due to social isolation. The center for disease control singled out the gay community as the only ones who were at high risks of...
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...Aid is assistance given to promote economic growth and improve living standards in developing countries, through funding or services and programs. There are 3 main types of aid: bilateral aid, multilateral aid and non-government aid. Bilateral aid can be defined as the assistance given directly from the government of a developed country to the recipient developing country, whereas multilateral aid, which is also provided by governments, is channelled through international institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Non-government aid is provided by NGOs e.g. Red Cross & world vision, usually through public donations. Australia’s government aid is administered by the Australian agency for International Development (AusAID). Each type of aid is focused on a slightly different area: bilateral aid is generally targeted towards health, education and training programs, technological support, building infrastructure, emergency food and basic supplies i.e. shelter, medicine & clothing during crises; NGOs aim to make communities more self-sufficient and ecologically sustainable and multilateral aid is used to fund emergency relief projects, large scale infrastructure, disease control and large scale health, education and training programs. Overall Australian aid is spent equally on good governance, education, rural development, health and infrastructure. Australian aid programs also assist countries to make use of globalisation (new information...
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...version used in health behaviour and health promotion; however, it is still often referred to as Social Learning Theory. The impetus for this special issue on HIV came from a discussion a few years ago during which we established a shared interest in a revival of the sort of scholarly innovation that characterized the early years of the HIV epidemic. As far back as the early 1980s, social theorists, cultural, critics, artists and others created a vibrant body of work on HIV/AIDS. Working from various theoretical and disciplinary sites they steadfastly emphasized the ‘social’ for understanding the significance of AIDS and opened up new avenues for critiquing and re-imagining scientific, cultural and social responses to infectious disease. At its best, this work served also as an impetus for queer theory, various feminist critiques and a range of research under the rubric of science, medicine and technology studies. The contributions made by this early work and its effects on public discourse on HIV/AIDS were multiple. Among the more groundbreaking contributions worth underscoring here were analyses that destabilized the neutrality of scientific knowledge and practice, emphasizing the malleability and culture-bound nature of its disease definitions (Martin, 1994) as well as...
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...HIV/AIDS social and behavioural research: past advances and thoughts about the future Authors: J P Moatti, Y Souteyrand Journal: Social Science [?] Medicine This paper is an introduction to the various contributions in this special issue of Social Science & Medicine which are an attempt to synthesise the main debates of the 2nd European Conference on Social and Behavioural Research on AIDS held in Paris, in January 1998. The paper discusses how the recent advent of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) and new trends in the epidemic (its concentration in the socially most vulnerable groups and countries) have affected the research agenda of European social and behavioural sciences (SBS) in HIV/AIDS. Questions which had already been thoroughly studied by SBS (like determinants of HIV-related risk behaviours, or impact of gender and socio-economic inequities as well as discrimination on the diffusion of HIV) will have to be "revisited" in light of these recent changes. New issues (such as risk behaviours among already infected patients. impact of therapeutic advances on psychosocial and daily life management of their disease by people living with HIV/AIDS, adherence to treatment, or "normalisation" of AIDS public policies) will have to be strongly and quickly dealt with, in order for SSB to keep the pace with the rapid evolution of the epidemic and of the societal responses to it. Finally, the paper argues that to face these challenges, new theoretical and methodological...
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...Activity 3.2: The case of organ removal without permission (case 2.17) considered from a Kantian perspective The trauma experienced by families who became aware that the organs of their dead children had been removed without their knowledge, let alone permission, raises a number of ethical issues. The following discussion ignores that a number of doctors acted deviously and deceitfully in falsifying records to keep their actions concealed from public gaze. Instead, the focus is upon the development of ethically-based rules of practice to govern the use of human organs. In this context, it is difficult, if not impossible, to construct a Kantian-based justification of the doctors’ actions. Employing the concept of universalisability, categorical imperatives such as, ‘doctors should always allow their professional interests to override patients’ (or relatives’) interests’, or ‘doctors should always deceive patients’ are clearly flawed at both an ethical and practical level. With respect to the former, such commands run counter to one of the formulations of the categorical imperative, i.e. the need to treat fellow human, beings as ends not means. In terms of the practical implications of such an imperative, if patients, or their relatives, knew that doctors could never be trusted the relationship between doctor and patient would become fraught and would be likely to seriously undermine medical treatments and research. This would clearly be against the interests of...
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...from one of the world's worst AIDS epidemics. Every Saturday, nearby cemeteries are busy with the arrival of people who have died from AIDS. Funeral directors state that about 30 or 40 people are buried every week, as a result of AIDS. It is said that in South Africa, one of every ten people has AIDS. Some 17 million people in Africa have died representing almost 80% of AIDS deaths world wide. This is the equivalent of the combined populations of New York City and Los Angeles (www.Time/2001/aidsafrica). There is a conspiracy of silence fueling the spread of HIV in South Africa. Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa, and has one of the fastest growing infection rates AIDS is now South Africa's leading cause of death. Last year it accounted for 40% of all deaths between the ages of 15 and 49 (US.news2.yimg.com). By the year 2010, HIV prevalence in adults is projected to reach 25% of the total population. South Africa is projected to have the highest AIDS death rate until 2015. At that point, the population will have decreased to the point that the death rate will no longer be as high as in other areas. South Africa has a population close to 40 million people - an estimated 4.2 million (10.5%) are infected with HIV. Of these, half are women ages 15-49. Over 40% of pregnant women are HIV-positive. The impact of AIDS in South Africa is overwhelming. The disease has orphaned 370,952 children, 95,000 children have been infected with AIDS and the adult prevalence rate...
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...In my paper regarding communicable diseases I choose to discus HIV/AIDS. In this paper I will discuss HIV, and the different ways HIV is transmitted, to the many complications that are associated with HIV, and discuss how community health nurses can help patients develop a plan for managing the disease process. I will also refer to an agency that can help nurses gather data they need to treat patients physically, and emotionally, as well as resources for patients to refer to when they feel like they need questions answered to their questions. According to (AIDS.GOV) “HIV” stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. I will discuss what each letter represents: H – Human – This virus can only infect human beings. I – Immunodeficiency – HIV weakens your immune system by killing off vital cells that help fight the disease and infection. A weakened immune system cannot protect the host or human like it should be able to. V – Virus – A virus can only replicate over and over by invading a cell within the body of its host. HIV is similar to other viruses, such as the flu or the common cold. The biggest difference is that in time, our immune system can destroy most of the viruses in our bodies. With HIV the body’s immune system can't eradicate the virus. In turn once a patient is diagnosed with HIV they have it for the rest of their natural life. Like many viruses, HIV can lay dormant for extended periods of time in the cells of your body that attacks a key part of your immune system, the...
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