Blog 2- How HIV Becomes Aids

Hello everyone,
                          Throughout my research I found  a lot of informations on HIV and AIDS that I thought everyone should know. I found a perfect video that will trace steps by steps how HIV turns into AIDS and some of the stuffus they are saying are actually some of our assignments.

DID YOU KNOW

In Sub-Saharan African the most trusted style of treatment is trough traditinal hearlers. "Traditional healers rely on medicinal herbs and some also on spiritual powers to heal illness"(Sehovic, 2010). Many traditional healres claimed that their "concoction of herbs and plant material can cure HIV"(Sehovic, 2010) and that they were reveal to them by their ancestor in their dreams.

Sehovic, Annamarie Bindenagel . (2010, April 30). Myths, Mysteries and Medicine in Fighting HIV and AIDS. Retrieved from http://www.consultancyafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=392:myths-mysteries-and-medicine-in-fighting-hiv-a-aids&catid=61:hiv-aids-discussion-papers&Itemid=268

                                                                                                                                                    

Blog 1- My First Week of Class!!!!

This is like my third online class and it feels like I've never been in one before. I can honestly and shamefully say that I am extremely confuse in this class so far, and I kind of have an idea why? Like I said before, this is my third online class and the previous ones  were extremely easy and the works load were a lot less. I think I kind of underestimate this class as the others and waited at the last minutes to do my works. And yes!!!Teach and Linda had  warned us about it but as you can see, I didn't listen. But as far as the disease goes, I am an certified nursing assistant so I had to undergo a lot of trainings on HIV and AIDS and I've been in contact with some HIV patients, so I am some what more confortable and understanding of the disease now. But humanly I am kind of scared, especially by the amount of cases of death reported each year due to the disease. It makes you wonder if anyone is safe!!!!! This first week alone I learned that if I want to pass this class, I need to stop procrastinating. As the semester progress, I feel like each week my knowledge on the HIV disease will increase profondly that if caring a conversation with my family and friends that HIV will be in my top list of subject to talk about.

Did You Know????

In many countried in South  Africa, the citizens blame witchcraft for the increase of  deaths caused by HIV and AIDS. "UNAIDS estimated that 250,000 people died of AIDS in South Africa during 1999. City officials in Durban and Johannesburg announced in May that the number of deaths in 1999 was more than twice that of five years earlier. They predicts that the death rate will continue to rise at 20% per year". They encounter that it is very difficult for healthcare workers to educate the citizens on how to avoid the disease.

http://www.sss.ias.edu/files/papers/paperten.pdf