19.6.07
12.6.07
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.
8.6.07
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.
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.
1.6.07
************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.
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.
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