...HIV/AIDS Policy Statement Outline Coca-Cola Hellenic is fully committed to the well being of its employees. The Company recognises that its employees can be exposed to the risk of acquiring HIV/ AIDS and that the high incidence of HIV/AIDS in some countries is compounded by the absence of social or medical support systems to treat affected people. This policy has been established to address these issues in two ways: • To reduce the risk of infection to employees and their families through education programmes that create awareness to how HIV / AIDS is transmitted, and how infection can be prevented. To ensure that by working closely with local governments, appropriate help organisations and The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Hellenic can contribute to the provision of antiretroviral drugs for affected staff and their families in countries where there is a high incidence of HIV/AIDS and where treatment is not readily available. • This Policy has been formulated with reference to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and The Coca-Cola Company Africa Corporate Guidelines. Purpose • To create awareness on the issue of HIV/AIDS by educating staff, providing confidential counselling and advice to ensure that affected employees are treated with respect and dignity. To provide guidance on such issues as testing, screening, confidentiality and non-discrimination in employment. • Confidentiality The HIV status of any individual...
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...Magic Johnson & HIV Caesar Lozano Human Sexuality Mrs. Polites December 3, 2012 What is HIV? HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus, a retro virus that causes AIDS. Statistics indicate there are more than one million people living with HIV in the United States. HIV was discovered in June 1981. Since then approximately 1.7 million in the United States are estimated to have been infected with the virus. Every 9.5 minutes someone in the United States is being infected with HIV. How does HIV work? In order to survive, HIV must enter a healthy human cell and uses the cell’s machinery to make copies of itself. HIV attaches to the cell and uses a special chemical as a key to enter. Once inside, HIV uses a chemical called reverse transcriptase to disguise itself. Wearing this disguise, HIV is ready to sneak into the cell’s control center. Then HIV uses another chemical called integrase to gain access to cell’s control center. HIV then adds its own information into the cell’s machinery and starts making copies of itself. Another chemical, called protease, cuts out and puts together the new copies of the virus. Once the new virus leaves the cell, they are ready to find and attack more cells. Anyone is capable of contracting the virus. One person who stands out with the virus is Earvin Johnson but you may know him by another name, Magic Johnson. Earvin “Magic” Johnson is a retired American professional basketball player. He played for the Los...
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...with kissing, hugging, holding hands, and coughing. Transmission is spread through infectious blood, or bodily fluids such as semen or vaginal fluids. There are 350 million carriers or more of Hepatitis B. There is vaccination for Hepatitis B. Hepatitis C – Hepatitis C (HCV) is a blood borne illness, which affects the liver. You can develop cirrhosis from Hepatitis C resulting in a liver transfer. Transmissions of HCV include drug injection, sexual activities, body piercings or tattoos, along with toothbrushes or razors and etc. There is no current vaccine for Hepatitis C. Human immunodeficiency Virus – Human immunodeficiency Virus Blood Borne Illness or (HIV) is an illness that leads to (AIDS), a condition in humans that lead to the destruction of the immune system. The majority of the (AIDS) virus is spreaded through unprotected sex, open wounds or blood that gets somehow into your body, mother to child during pregnancy through the uterus, and drug injection. Meningitis – Meningitis is a airborne bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. Mainly in babies and is caused by bacteria, an infection of some type, along with cancer that spreads to the meninges or spinal cord of the body. Influenza/ Pneumonia – Is air born condition where the lung is inflamed and especially the alveoli ( which is the small sacks in the lungs to hold oxygen) which cause fever and can lead to many chest problems. A variety of parasites can cause this entering the mouth...
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...In Africa there is a large portion of the population that is greatly affected by acquired immune deficiency syndrome also known as AIDS. This is the final stage of HIV which causes severe damage to the immune system. People who have AIDS are more likely to get infections and tumors that wouldn’t affect people with working immune systems. The spreading of the disease is hard to control because anyone who comes in contact with any bodily fluid of an infected person will most likely end up getting it as well. “About 22.5 million people in Africa have been infected by AIDS as of 2007”. The adult rate of infection worldwide is 1% while in Africa it is about 6.1%. The severity of the epidemic is largely caused by the “poverty, lack of female empowerment, and high rates of male worker migration”. One of the worst parts about the AIDS epidemic in africa is that the national health systems are ill equipped for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, which means that in all honesty the people are basically hopeless. Anything that they can do medically costs way more than the normal African has. In Europe from 1348 to 1350 there was an outbreak of the Yersinia pestis bacterium. This disease was also known as the black plague. It caused the deaths of 30 to 60 percent of europes population. More than 350 million people died from this epidemic. The European population took 150 years to recover from the high amount of death. The original carriers of the plague were the rats that were...
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...Intro today’s workplace calls for mastery of the basic elements of public speaking Help you identify the best strategy and structure for your presentation. Give you specific techniques for presentation style and delivery. Provide a detailed checklist for using visual aids. Introduce you to a powerful technique for calming presentation nerves. 5Ss of Effective Presentation: 1. Strategy – understanding your audience and its needs. 2. Structure – preparing your content. 3. Support – making sure you have sufficient evidence. 4. Style – delivering the material confidently and appropriately. 5. Supplement – calming the nerves by being well prepared for key questions and arguments. Formulate Your Strategy common purposes include: To motivate. To inform. To persuade. To demonstrate. To teach. Action: Think about a situation where you have in the past (or might in the future) needed to present to people, persuading them to take a specific action. Fill in the Presentation Strategy Triangle on the next page. answer these questions: What is the subject of the presentation? Write the subject in one sentence or less. What is the general purpose of the presentation? Is it to persuade, inform, teach, motivate? What is your specific purpose? Use the following questions to guide you: What do you want the audience to learn? What behaviors or attitudes do you want the audience to adopt? How do you want the audience to feel afterwards? What...
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...“The Quest for an AIDS Vaccine” Sha’Quita Septs August 25, 2012 “Abstract” Over the past two decades doctors and research scientists have been trying to find a cure for the incurable virus of AIDS. Millions of people worldwide including infants have contracted this disease from birth. AIDS was first identified in the early 1980’s in America and most of its victims were drug users and gay African American men. Over sixteen thousand African American men and women have been diagnosed with AIDS which is over 50% of the world of the African American population. By 1990, over 30 million people were diagnosed with this disease. The need for an AIDS vaccine is very imperative because the death toll for people with AIDS is drastically increasing every year at a towering rate. Ever since AIDS was discovered, there have been several attempts to find a cure for this disease. Unfortunately, after twenty years of research; doctors and scientists are still no closer to finding a cure than when AIDS was first identified. “The Quest for an AIDS Vaccine” Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a medical condition that one must have tested positive on a HIV test and have another disease that is known as an "AIDS defining disease." These diseases include: yeast infections (candida), cervical cancer, Kaposis Sarcoma, tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus, and pneumonia. AIDS was first identified in the United States during the early 1980’s. In 1981, the first cases of AIDS were detected...
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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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...Community Teaching Work Plan Proposal Directions: Develop an educational series proposal for your community using one of the following four topics which will be chosen within your CLC group: Primary Prevention/Health Promotion Planning Before Teaching: Name and Credentials of Teacher: | Estimated Time Teaching Will Last: 2 periods, approximately 50-55 minutes in length. | Location of Teaching: Urban High School | Supplies, Material, Equipment Needed: Laptop, Overhead Screen, Condoms, DVD, Chalk, Pens, Paper, Index Cards | Estimated Cost: Laptop is owned by teacher already, screen for PowerPoint provided by school, additional materials approximately $75-$100 dollars (including purchase of educational DVD). | Community and Target Aggregate: Teenagers primarily 9-10th graders | Topic: Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases | Epidemiological Rationale for Topic (statistics related to topic): Teenagers engage in sexual risk behaviors that have untoward health outcomes. The statistical data provided from the CDC is alarming: * 46% had ever had sexual intercourse * 34% had had sexual intercourse during the previous 3 months, and, of these * 39% did not use a condom the last time they had sex * 77% did not use birth control pills or Depo-Provera to prevent pregnancy the last time they had sex * 14% had had sex with four or more people during their life * An estimated 8,300 young people aged 13–24 years in the 40 states reporting to CDC...
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...response to HIV and AIDS, describe the disease, how it is transmitted, and the environment factors that may make someone vulnerable to it. Additionally, this paper will identify standards and alternative treatments to HIV and AIDS, the methods used to control the spread of the disease and the consequences of not controlling it. Finally, this paper will include community health promotion and wellness strategies to help prevent the disease. AIDS was first noted in the early 1980s among men with multiple sexual contact with other men and drug users who shared hypodermic needles (Zelman, Raymond, Holdaway, & Mulvilhil. 2010). Since first note in the early 1980s HIV and AIDS have not been exclusive to men but have infected women as well. AIDS is now known as one of the top causes of death in women. HIV is the fourth leading cause of death among women today. HIV is growing among minorities and is the largest in African-American males, with a rate of 6% rate of an African-American male having the disease, and it is also higher with Hispanics more than Caucasians (Zelman, Raymond, Holdaway, & Mulvilhil. 2010). Subsequently, HIV and AIDS is not the same thing. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) AIDS is the full blown disease, while HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. First, Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV transmission can occur with unprotected sex or with needle sharing (WebMD. 2012). AIDS is most common in the...
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...other cases, girls that do not abort their foetus might abandon their babies as soon as they are born as they are unable to raise them. This leads to a rise in the number of babies being abandoned in the country. Most of the time, these babies are often dead by the time they are found. If caught, the mothers of these babies are punishable by the law. On the other hand, teenagers that engage in premarital sex can be going against the law if they are minors, even if there is mutual consent. Most importantly, as those that engage in sex before marriage usually have unprotected sex, there is a high risk for them to contract sexually transmitted diseases like Herpes, Chlamydia, Genital Warts, Gonorrhea, Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other diseases as people who engage in premarital sex tend to have multiple sex partners. Some sexually transmitted diseases...
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...Cultural and Disease Paper AIDS in the United States There exist deadly diseases which continue to pollute the citizens of the United States. It is essential because each citizen must be enlightened of the circumstances to channel it and at this present time there is absolutely no solution to the problem. The epidemic I am conveying of is AIDS. AIDS does not at all show prejudice in addition to all to everyone is exposed to the disease. The Center for Disease Control in 1981 transferred out their report advertising abnormal deaths and outbreaks (Begley, etal, 2001). In March 1981 there existed about eight instances reported of a contentious form of Kapos’s Sarcomi arrived in New York. In the article it spoke about five homosexual men that had come down with an unusual parasitic lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. About the same time there was an increase of Kaposi’s Sarcomi that was a rare form of benign cancer which was for the most part detected in older people. A while after the report outside of the Centers for Disease Control a task force was arranged in order to examine the abnormal increase of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and additional frequent life threatening opportunistic infections (AVERT, 2010). The New disease there was very little known about it, and it seems to be affecting the gay population. At first in the beginning it was a profuse belief around this disease that exist later explain inaccurate. A peculiar assumption was made in...
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...The film "And the Band Played On" was a very graphic portrayal of the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. It vividly depicted the medical, social, government, and political forces behind the AIDS epidemic's origin and rapid spread. It tells the political as well as the scientific struggle that occurred with the discovery of AIDS. The main character, Dr. Don Francis, heads the research of AIDS with little money and little help. The reason for the lack of funding was because AIDS was considered the “gay man’s disease” and there was more emphasis on who discovered the disease rather than actually helping those who had it. This movie was about the government and many other individuals being ignorant and looking the other way because homosexual males were seen as a lesser priority and an inferior group. CDC officials ran into a large barrier during their investigation; homosexual men refused to allow themselves to be submitted for testing, and the tracing of their sexual encounters. The CDC took a very long time to trace the spread of the disease to a single person, who turned out to be a homosexual flight attendant who was extremely promiscuous with other men. This was a large accomplishment at the time, but was only a small success in the process as a whole. Other major factors impeded the progress of effectively handling the epidemic. These included the initial lack of interest by media and politicians...
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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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...Internet and Sexuality 2. Sex is always around us and it comes in many forms, from billboards, television, magazines, internet and of course everyday life. Who would have thought fifty years ago that you would be able to view sexual nature content at any given moment all in the comfort of you home. The internet provides us with the freedom to explore sex like never before and because of this “freedom” I believe that it has change many people views on sexuality, good or bad it has changed and this can be both beneficial and harmful on the views of sex. There are many negative and positive views on how sex is portrayed on the internet and more importantly who are these viewers that can access sexual content. I will give my opinion on both the negative and positive on how the internet can change ones views on sexuality. Lets start with the negative. I feel sex is overly glamorized and this glorification is widely accepted in society today. This can cause young children and young adults to think that sex is not a scared thing shared between two adults but instead shared for any and anyone, For instance, Adult porn is a growing and successful business. Porn is easy to find and access through the internet. No need to be over the age of eighteen, there are a few sites that have blockers up and the ones that do just have a button to enter the site if you are over age. A curious child will enter see and learn many things that...
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...Fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, rashes, muscle aches and night sweats are all symptoms that have been associated with the HIV/AIDS virus (AIDS.gov). These particular symptoms are very common and can be misdiagnosed as something as simple as the flu, or respiratory or gastrointestinal infections. Many who are diagnosed with the virus are not even aware of because the virus can be dormant for up to 10 years before it begins to progress into AIDS. More than 1.7 million people have been diagnosed with the HIV/AIDS virus since the early 1980’s; before it was given the name (HIV) Human immunodeficiency virus it was known as GRID (Gay- related immune deficiency). Many believed that this virus was only associated with homosexual males, when the virus began to spread and more than just homosexual males were being diagnosed the name was changed to accurately describe the demographic that the disease affected in 1986. Scientist believes that the HIV virus came from chimpanzees in the Western parts of Africa and the virus came into contact with humans when the humans hunted the affected chimpanzees for meat. (What is HIV/AID 2012?) The immune system of a person that has been diagnosed with the HIV virus will slowly deteriorate, making it difficult for the body to defend itself from the virus. The HIV virus will begin attacking the defense cells found in the white blood cells; T- cells or the CD4 cells. These cells are considered the body’s line of defense against any bad viruses...
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