...Advertisement Max Karnaukh (T00038490) M. Johnson 22.11.2012 Fear through Advertisement An approximate of 3 million people die of AIDS every year and an approximate of 8,500 people die of AIDS every day! Therefore US government is trying to persuade people in USA to use condoms for protection to slow down this horrible disease. Furthermore companies that produce condoms are making terrifying advertisement that scare people of responsibility of having kids or having sexual diseases and this is a very good example… The advert that I am going to describe and evaluate is showing how bad decisions may influence you and others in society (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh9XwSgCigc). At the first few seconds of this advertisement you can see an old, ugly man who just robs a bank. He exits the building with an AK-47, a bag with lots of money and bullets on his shoulder. He yells “I did it” and starts shooting in the air. You can see blood on his face that meaning that he just murdered someone in there. Furthermore he is laughing really loud like a baby that just robed a candy shop. Next moment advertisement stops and you can see that authors put age of a murderer on screen “age: 73”… Next picture is from a memory of the same man. The craziest moment of this advert is in the scene where you can observe this man breaking the door into a random house. He looks much younger than he was before. Mother and daughter were watching television and now they are terrified...
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...defiantly portrays the ignorance of the American government and their lack of immediate response to this plague. It is a film that should be watched by every American, nay, every human being so that they know the kinds of cruelty this government is capable of and so that it is known world-wide the severity of this disease. AIDS. There, I said it. That wasn’t so hard. So why was it so painful for the American government to admit they had an epidemic spreading throughout the country? The answer lies in our ignorant background and lack of understanding. Being openly gay in this country often meant not holding a job, being rejecting by peers, and singled out by communities. We lacked the capacity to understand that love holds no boundaries and does not discriminate. We also lacked the capacity to understand that AIDS is a disease that also does not discriminate. After the 41 cases of this “GRID” disease were diagnosed, gay activist Ned Weeks formed the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in 1982. At first I held the belief that Ned Weeks was too aggressive in the way he went about handling the coverage of AIDS, but now I believe he was completely right in publicizing AIDS the way he did. He, along with his colleagues and friends, constantly acknowledged his lack of filter when he spoke. However, it was this exact lack of filter that got the word out about how serious this disease is. Ned fought harder for the safety of gay men more than any activist there. The other members were frightened and...
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...KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND MEDICAL EDUCATION COURSE: BSC. HEALTH SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT UNIT: HCSI 225-HIV/AIDS * Cultural, social and economic factors that increase women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. Introduction Women, especially in sub-Saharan Africa not only have the highest HIV-prevalence rates, compared to men, but also are greatly affected by the social and economic constraints that prevent them from evading high risk situations. Context-specific factors associated with women’s vulnerability to HIV infection include: Cultural Norms Cultural norms often place a high value on motherhood; attach a negative stigma to HIV-infected women, and view women and girls as primary caregivers. This places a significant burden on them. Other cultural practices such as widow inheritance and female genital mutilation (FGM) also increase women’s risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Polygamy and early marriages are also very prevalent cultural practices in some societies in the world and most especially in Africa. These setups in most cases disadvantage the women and put them at greater risk of contracting the virus and disease. Poverty Poverty sometimes prompts women to engage in risky behavior, such as exchanging sex for gifts, money or food. As a result, women are more vulnerable to contracting the virus because they are unable to negotiate safe sex. This behavior is commonly seen among transport routes as well as refugee camps, where...
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...How could tragedy be staged to show the ways in which fate and responsibility affect individuals and societies? In your answer, refer to your study and experience of TWO texts set for study. The Aristotelian definition of a Tragedy is a man of high estate who falls from grace in his attempts to defy a predetermined fate, and avoid their destiny/responsibility in order to maintain their hubristic lives. In the attempts to avoid his or her fates and responsibilities the protagonist plunges deeper into tragedy which eventually ends in the loss of himself and those around him, a sufferance he seemingly deserves from having tried to avoid his fate. Through the use dramatic techniques such as setting, chorus, lighting and movement this definition has manifested itself into my own personal adaptations of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America and Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus in order to portray the way fate and responsibility affect individuals and societies. Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles is a classic Aristotelian Tragedy about a man who sets out to find the killer of his father in order to set the people of Thebes free from famine and pain. Throughout the play Oedipus is given signs that it is he who has sinned against the gods, but he ignores these prophecies and tries to write his own fate which ultimately leads to his own demise. In order to stage this avoidance of fate I have chosen to use tiny LED lights embedded in the ceiling of the stage to represent the fact that Oedipus’s...
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...medical means to protect inmates from contagious illness, how are government-sponsored condoms a stretch? However, of course, there are those annoying moral issues. As if gay inmate sex was not enough to make the conservatives grumble in the first place, the idea of combining it with prophylactics. Is this the worst idea ever thought of? Violence is also against the rules in jail and we all see how effective it is as a deterrent. They put offenders into solitary confinement, so why not isolate those with STDs or HIV in their own separate wing. This seems unlikely as our prisons are swelling past capacity by the hour. The only choice the penal establishment has with sex is the length of the consequences. There are many aspects of prison a man will live with for the rest of his...
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...The set of essays I read focused on three major aspects of HIV/AIDS social work: general group and individual therapy for HIV positive homosexuals, rehab for HIV positive people with substance abuse issues, and research and therapy for infants and children born and tested positive for AIDS virus. Each essay focused on what each social workers day was like on the job and what their cases entailed daily. In the first essay, the social worker is an HIV positive gay man who had lost his own partner to the AIDS virus. He continues to counsel other gay men in the same positions of dealing with the loss of loved ones and partners to the virus (Shernoff p.73-79). The second essay is about a rehabilitation clinic that houses HIV positive clients also dealing with substance abuse (Lorber p.81-87). The third focused on counseling children and babies that acquired the AIDS virus at birth because either of their parents were infected and had passed it on to them (Haggerty p.89-93). HIV/AIDS is a very taboo topic in our society. Usually it is stereotyped around only affecting gay men and women. I was motivated when reading these essays and seeing how there was no judgment passed and no discrimination. These social workers do an amazing job with helping clients understand and interpret technical medical diagnosis and offering emotional support for each client differently. I felt that the first essay hit me the most because after all he has faced, he continues to help others deal with life...
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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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...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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...FTVS 598: TAKE HOME FINAL ESSAY. By Vivek Nipani 1. In Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) what qualities does Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) project or possess that make her seem so tough? How or where does her femininity figure in her toughness? According to Sherrie A. Inness in “Lady Killers, Tough Enough?” what are two ways that Hollywood cinema undermines and punishes tough or powerful women? How is this twice demonstrated in Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur,1998)? And how does Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) re-assess her gender to secure lasting power? Finally, in what way can she be considered according to Inness’s formulation, “pseudo-tough?” It is interesting to note that women in Hollywood are not considered tough even when they play characters that can break and haunt a male protagonist in the film. Sherrie A. Inness in her chapter, “Women warriors and wonder women in popular culture,” mentions that, all women in Hollywood are not as tough as they seem. They repeatedly show the tough and masculine killer nature is nothing but all women or feminine underneath. They are made and designed to be desirable by men, even if they are found in the middle of an intense battle, they show no signs of breaking a sweat, with their beautiful hair flowing in high speed shots and are lithe stylistically to make them look like an Amazon warrior with a ton of sexuality. I found this analogy true and very interesting as we were shown the clip from the Ridley Scot film, Alien...
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...A woman can become infected if she has unprotected penetrative sex vaginal or anal, with a man who has HIV. A woman having vaginal sex with a man who has HIV is 2-3 times more likely to become infected than a man would be if he had vaginal sex with an infected woman (HIV and AIDS). AIDS is also spread though sharing contaminated needles for IV drug use, transfusions of blood or blood products from a person with AIDS and children born to an infected mother. Many women in the U.S. have poor access to health care. In addition, women may not perceive themselves to be at risk for HIV infection. Because of this, symptoms that serve as a warning sign of HIV infection may go unheeded (Women and AIDS). Early diagnosis of HIV infection allows women to take full advantage of drug therapies for opportunistic infections, which can forestall the development of AIDS related symptoms and prolong life in HIV-infected people. (Women and AIDS) There are different theories as to the origin of AIDS. AIDS was identified as a new disease in 1981 (Sowadsky). HIV is believed to have originated in Africa sometime between the late 1940s and the early 1950s from the monkey AIDS virus SIV, (Simian Immudificiency virus) (Sowadsky). The two viruses are very similar and are transmitted the same way. However HIV only causes AIDS in humans, and SIV only causes AIDS in monkeys. The SIV virus is found in blood. HIV must have entered humans via monkey blood. This could’ve happened by humans drinking monkey blood...
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...HIV/AIDS PATHOPHYSIOLOGY By: Tina Green HIV/AIDS Hook & Thesis statement What is AIDS? I. How is it contracted? A. Where did AIDS come from B. Who is at risk of infection? II. Transfer of the virus A. Is anyone safe from the virus? B. Is there a cure? III. Statistics A. How many people living with HIV? B. How many people living with AIDS? IV. Conclusion A. Medication B. Prevention What exactly is HIV? HIV is an abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This virus can lead to AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). According to Aids.gov, more than 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV infection, and almost 1 in 6 (15.8%) an unaware of their infection. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is an infectious virus that destroys the Immune system and makes it harder to fight off infections. Where did HIV come from? The aidsinstitute.org states, “Scientists identified a chimpanzee in West Africa as the source of HIV infection in humans. The chimpanzee version of the immunodeficiency virus (called simian immunodeficiency virus or SIV) was most likely transmitted to humans and mutated into HIV when humans hunted these chimpanzees for meat and came into contact with their infected blood. Over decades, the virus slowly spread across Africa and later into other parts...
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...life has been spent trying to please Max Fisher, her mother's second husband. Her mother was an alcoholic, as was Mary, who also married twice. Both marriages ended in divorce; after the second divorce, she learned that her ex-husband had infected her with HIV. As she becomes part of the AIDS community, she loses friends to the disease, and she gets more critical of conservative responses to AIDS. She characterizes some Republican rhetoric on HIV-positive immigrants as ``horrible'' and condemns the Christian right for its moralism. But Fisher writes around other issues, leaving it unclear, for instance, whether she agrees with media accounts that portrayed her famous 1992 speech as the only moment of compassion in an otherwise vicious convention. (Dorfman, 2012) On August 20, 1992, Mary Fisher addressed the Republican National Convention in Houston. She spoke for ten minutes in the middle of the day, a time when most audience members milled around and talked rather than listening to the speakers. Fisher spoke in a way that established her presence and commanded the respect and undivided attention of her audience. She represented the demographic that people considered to be excused from AIDS, above falling victim to its disturbing effects. But at the...
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...remember that, like many my age who work in the public sector, I don’t own a flat. The Guardian generously paid for the lawyers, and in September 2008 Rath dropped his case, which had cost in excess of £500,000 to defend. Rath has paid £220,000 already, and the rest will hopefully follow. Nobody will ever repay me for the endless meetings, the time off work, or the days spent poring over tables filled with endlessly cross-referenced court documents. On this last point there is, however, one small consolation, and I will spell it out as a cautionary tale: I now know more about Matthias Rath than almost any other person alive. My notes, references and witness statements, boxed up in the room where I am sitting right now, make a pile as tall as the man himself, and what I will write here is only...
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...Discussion Paper – Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria In a 2-3 page narrative, reflect upon the video shown in class and answer the following questions: What was your lasting impression after seeing the video? Why? Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria is a film What part of the video struck you most? Why? What do you think should happen in the future? Clear message The acting is terrible They thin it's AIDS 250 sex partners in a year? The mortality rate could be 100% Gay pneumonia or gay cancer Butcher's Bill Putting money towards the department of defense None towards public health PAC man --> something's gobbling up T cells Mix between Feline leukemia and hepatitis B Tracking patient 0 --> French Canadian I airline Stewart Links it to sexually transmitted disease Most connections made in bath houses When he told them that most of the people that got it was at a bath house, there was an uproar Saw it as gay bashing Bath houses didn't get closed Blood transfusions Couldn't get name because there's still no evidence The naming of the disease AIDS from GIRDS Since it doesn't just appear in gay men Doctors didn't inform her about blood donor Blood company refused to do testing on current blood transfusions 89% of hemophiliacs have become infected "When doctors start acting like businessmen, who can the people turned to for doctors?" New human retrovirus with a bar Competition between Gallo and the French on who discovered the virus first ...
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...Contemporary Problems Women Living With HIV/AIDS HSM/210 Human Services in the United States Delthea Taylor-Jones March 10th, 2013 Over 300,000 women were infected with H.I.V. as of the year 2011. (www.apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.22300, 2013) Though a staggering statistic, these strong women are trying to pave a way of life into mainstream society. The vast majority of these women are someone’s mother, daughter, or sister that is focused on living a long normal life with an often deadly disease. Why are women the most infected with H.I.V. in any certain region that engulfed with the disease? Today nearly 60% of all adults living with HIV in the most affected regions are women. These statistics are astounding and as a country there needs to be an intense sense of urgency with this matter. In order to increase the response to the epidemic we need to make our response more effective, we need more women in decision-making, more access to information and services for sexual and reproductive health, and more focus on promoting and protecting the rights of women and girls. These women need to know that they are precious jewels of society and their knowledge and first-hand experience with the disease would prove to be vital in our fight to save thousands of lives of those future mothers of our earth. It has been said that every minute, another woman gets infected with H.I.V. and the infection rates in women ages 15-24 are twice as high as young men in the same age...
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