RIT3 N0W.....

Talk 2 Johnson
*Propsal

Finish Paper

Undate Webliography

Interesting Facts

**Young Americans between the ages of 13 and 24 are still contracting HIV at the rate of 2 per hour.

**Half of all new infections are thought to occur in people under 25.

**Each year 3,000 adolescents contract sexually transmitted diseases, which is about one in four sexually experienced teens.

H.I.V. Thesis Statement

Essential Question: How can I educate teenagers about the facts and myths of H.I.V.?

Thesis Statement: Educating teenagers on the facts of H.I.V. and A.I.D.S. would reduce new infections by half.

B00ks

Well yesterday Jasmine Greene took my book back to the library and so I just have to see if I can find some more information using the internet........My favorite was the AIDS in the 21st Century!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm Jus Busy.....

I'm just very busy doing work and trying to make sure that everything is finished......but today I am just doing those questions and 2nite if I have time I am going to do my prososal. it should be that hard if I just follow the paper.

Helper T-Cell

I f0und s0thin' Interesting.........

Timeline
• 1981 Gay Cancer • 1982 Haitians Hemophyliacs • 1983 AIDS Prejudice • 1984 Virus • 1985 Rock Hudson, Saliva OK • 1986 T-Cells AZT• 1987 Reagan• 1988 Macrophages • 1989 • 1990 Ryan White, Condoms in School• 1991 Sex Drugs & Aids, Magic Johnson• 1992 Arthur Ashe• 1993 Needles, AZT resistance• 1994 • 1995 #1 killer of young adults• 1996 • 1997 CCR5, Cocktails• 1998 Death Rates, Plunge Cocktail Side Effects • 1999 • 2000 China• 2001 Free care in Botswana

T0D@Y

Today we I got my notes graded, well the progress..........And I got an A!!!

AIDS in the 21st Century

Wow........I had to blog about this. I just started one of my books and I didn't think it would be good just be the looks but it is.(i was judging the book by the cover) It started off by saying that a young girl who her aunt just tells her that she has AIDS! The story then continues and the girl says she didn't even get a chance to have HIV.....and she has to take 15 pills a DAY 2 stay alive.......Bye I have read more................................

~N0T3Z~

Well so far I have about 6-7 note pages finish and I have used mostly CDC, but I haven't used my books yet.

WOWwwwwwwwwww......................

I was looking on the CDC webiste and i found this pie chart and this is crazy because african americans are like 49 percent and that is damn near half......................

**NOT3S**

Well for the last couple days we have been working on NOTES for the project, we have to fill out a page for each of our essentials questions using the sources we have like our books from the library, the websites from the annotations and our interviews if we can. So far I have six of my essential questions finish and all of my pages are full.

Some NFO

**RISK FACTORS AND BARRIERS TO PREVENTION: Sexual Risk Factors**

Early age at sexual initiation. According to CDC’s Youth Risk Behavioral Survey (YRBS), many young people begin having sexual intercourse at early ages:

~47% of high school students have had sexual intercourse

~7.4% of them reported first sexual intercourse before age 13.

HIV/AIDS education needs to take place at correspondingly young ages, before young people engage in sexual behaviors that put them at risk for HIV infection.
High school students reporting ever having had sexual intercourse, 2003
Source. CDC’s Youth Risk Behavioral Survey, 2003.

Interviewing

I have decided to interview a young man named Aaron Thomas from Adagio Health. He is a peer educator and he runs a teen group on Wednesdays and on Saturdays a junior peer education training class. I feel that is will work for me because he is an expert in the topic of HIV and AIDS and will be very useful for me. I will probrably contact him through email or going to his office someday next week. I have all of my work turned in by my grade is still very low. I just turned in my interview questions on time also and i have about ten on the paper, plus I am going to ask more because I want a lot of useful information.

~Library Visit~

Last week we went to the library and I found two books and one of them was the one I was looking for. The name of the book I got was mainly for African Americans and it was a guide for black people that have to live with AIDS. The other one I have is just for history and advances for the two viruses.

************Definitions***********

Jasmine Shaw
Team: A
Date: June 1, 2007

**Key Terms**

**H.I.V.
Human- consist of people
Immune- protect from a disease
Deficiency- the amount lacked
Virus- infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts

A retrovirus that causes AIDS by infecting Helper T cells of the immune system. The most common serotype, HIV-1, is distributed worldwide, while HIV-2 is primarily confined to West Africa.

**A.I.D.S.
Acquired- develop
Immune- protect from a disease
Deficiency- the amount lacked
Syndrome- association of several clinically recognizable features

A disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, esp. by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.

**Helper T cells
Known as white blood cell, help fight infection diseases

**Retrovirus
A RNA virus that reproduces by makes itself in to DNA

**Body Fluids
Any fluid in the human body, such as blood, urine, saliva, sputum (spit), tears, semen, mother's milk or vaginal secretions. Only blood, semen, mother's milk and vaginal secretions have been linked directly to the transmission of the HIV virus.
**CD4 (T4) or CD4+ CELLS
White blood cells killed or disabled during HIV infection. These cells normally orchestrate the immune response, signaling other cells in the immune system to perform their special functions. Also known as T helper cells. 2. HIV's preferred targets are cells that have a docking molecule called cluster designation 4 (CD4) on their surfaces. Cells with this molecule are known as CD4-positive (or CD4+) cells. Destruction of CD4+ lymphocytes is the major cause of the immunodeficiency observed in AIDS, and decreasing CD4+ lymphocyte levels appear to be the best indicator of morbidity in these patients. Although CD4 counts fall, the total T-cell level remains fairly constant through the course of HIV disease, due to a concomitant increase in the CD8+ cells. The ratio of CD4+ to CD8+ cells is therefore an important measure of disease progression. See also CD Nomenclature; CD8 (T8) Cells; Immunodeficiency.



**Prevention**
**Abstinence
No vaginal, anal, or oral intercourse.

**Condom
A thin sheath, usually of very thin rubber, worn over the penis during sexual intercourse to prevent conception or sexually transmitted disease.
**4 Ways it is Transmitted**
**Blood
The fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates

**Semen
The viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa

**Vaginal Fluids
Vaginal lubrication is the naturally produced lubricating fluid that reduces friction during sexual intercourse. Vaginal dryness is the condition where this lubrication is insufficient.

**Breast milk
Milk that is produced in small sac-like glands of a human breast, esp. for feeding babies

**Treatments**

**Cocktail
Three or more anti-HIV medications in a daily regimen

**AZT
Azidothymidine (also called zidovudine or ZDV; the Burroughs-Wellcome trade name is Retrovir). One of the first drugs used against HIV infection, AZT is a nucleoside analog that suppresses replication of HIV. See also Nucleoside Analog.

TOPICS 4 DA KLAS......

Today and Yesterday the class just listened to others present about their topics. Everyone had a lot of good topics and I was very surprised. I would have to say that my favorite was the one about African-American police brutality. This a something that really needs to be approached and that is why I like it.

**Sample Annotation**

"HIV and AIDS." Teen’s Health. April 2007. Nemours Foundation. 18 May 2007 >.
This not only is a good website but it has informal information for teenagers, and since they are my main focus and audience for the project I will be able to teach them in a way they will understand. The website covers the topics from what it is to how the diseases can be treated. I will probably use this one the most because it has everything I need.

??Idea??

A friend of mine gave the idea that one day in class maybe i could have my classmates watch a movie. The movie is called, "Life Support" it is a very good movie, and it would keep the attention of my peers plus the movie is informal and it is based on my topic.

http://adam.about.com/encyclopedia/infectiousdiseases/HIV-infection.htm

I chose this website because it was the first one i really looked at. Its also has a lot of useful information on it. It consist of everything that surrounds the topic of HIV, and it provides some very useful information

Fln@L Pr0duCt

This the final product of my poster. The red ribbon voices HIV and AIDS awareness. The pictures surrounding the bow simlply represent The struggle of the average person with the disease.

Those little bit of ten minutes that is spent with the one you "think" love can't and won't compare to what can possibly happen to you for the rest of your life. Please make smart decisons because they can affect the rest of your life.

QUOTE..

"She has her father's eyes, and her mother's AIDS....."

MY POSTER

Today i just added some stuff to my posters. I actually found that there aren't a lot of visual pictures that convey my topic, and the ones they have take a lot out of you emotionally. I put a quote on my poster that really caught my attention because a child was saying, "I have HIV, please give me a hug, I can't make you sick." That just really caught my attention and i am starting to learn more and more about my topic everyday!

Today's Post

Well write now. I'm just working on my Poster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May 3, 2007

Hello!!! TODAY I'm just finishing up interest inventory questions. That is basically all I did today except for help Eltie out a little bit with learning how to link.

What did I do 2day!!!!!! :P

Today, I just did what I do everyday! I looked for information regarding my topic. I have cam eto he conclusion that there is no turning backk and this is the topic that is will be sticking with. (HIV Awareness) I actually did find a great deal of useful information, and i linked them on my blog page.

My First Post!!!

This is my first post about my graduation project. I've had this idea in my head for the longest! I want to do something that no only will benefit mybut my peers also. I am going to do it on HIV AWARENESS. HIV is something that you can't get rid of and it only takes one time to get, because it isn't shy and it doesn't care. I feel that it is essential to educate my peers about the what is out there. To many of us are walking around and doing things that we have no business doing and aren't aware of the risk our there.