Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Harm Reduction, Seat Belt, Lymphadenopathy

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Samantha Brennan

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2163 lecture 8 the basics of hiv guest lecture. Rhac departments: education, primarily for priority populations, which are demographics with higher levels of. Supervised consumption services: supervised consumption facilities have four main goals, 1. To reduce spread of infectious diseases: 2. To reduce number of drug overdose deaths: 3. To bring people who inject drugs into contact with other health and social and treatment services; and: 4. To reduce issues in the community such as drug use in public places, and discarded needles. Find" using current tests: high viral load means someone with hiv is vulnerable to infection (more likely to progress to aids) Five ways (only 5 bodily fluids that can transmit the hiv to another person: 1. Breastmilk: occurs when a bodily fluid containing hiv directly enters the bloodstream. Modes of acquisition: condom-less sex, vertical transmission, non-sterile tattooing and piercing, blood products (prior to 1992)