HNN217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Needle Exchange Programme, Immunodeficiency, Breastfeeding
15 Jul 2019
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Health literacy knowing general information about your health and how to access and use it: numeral knowledge for drug calculation, basic reading knowledge, difficult understanding medical documents. How to avoid misunderstandings: simplifying terms, asking what they understood. Hiv human immunodeficiency virus, it is a virus that can cause aids when active. Modes of transmission: breast feeding, bodily fluids, bloods transfusion, though birth, sexual transmission. What factors that increase the risk of infection: sharing needles, unprotected sex, blood transfusions, multiple sexual relationships, men having sex with men, poverty, sexual workers, prison (male sex and drug use or people with background of these) How can transmission of hiv be prevented/risk reduced: needle exchange programs, education and awareness, condoms, clean needles, safety precautions (avoid blood contact, screening and testing. Population that"s at risk: gay men, sexual workers, population from underdeveloped country, prisoners, drug users, transgender people. Questions: in case scenario 3, prevalence and incidence statistics are reported.
