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- 181: Africa 2
- ... refugees into countries where the people have difficulty feeding themselves, much less the newcomers. One of the most severe health problems in Africa in the late 20th century was the prevalence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) throughout the population. By 1991 two thirds of the world's AIDS cases were in Africa. (See also AIDS.) As with education, the African governments recognize these problems, and national budgets typically reflect high expenditures on health care. In addition to training doctors and nurses and building hospitals and clinics, some governments are ...
- 182: Hemophilia 4
- ... infusion. These clotting factors are derived from donated human blood and are supplied as purification concentrates ( a clotting factor concentrate derived from donated blood). During the 1980's, hundreds of hemophiliacs became infected with the AIDS virus (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) after receiving treatments of clotting factor contaminated with the virus. More than half of those infected have died of AIDS. Since 1985, the clotting factor concentrates were treated to prevent the transmission of AIDS and this is greatly increased the safety of treatments with clotting factor. With special training through a physician or regional hemophilia center, a hemophiliac can learn to infuse desmopressin, DDAVP, or some of these ...
- 183: Sexual Urges, Society, and Religion
- ... well, in both night clubs and Las Vegas. What use to be the vulgar, was now becoming mainstream. This trend continued throughout the eighties, but the horror of disease came to the surface. HIV and AIDS was first discovered among gay men and was seen as God's punishment for the evil ways. This ideology goes back to the Puritan and Pilgrim days. All sexually active teens and adults were told to use condoms to protect themselves from not only AIDS but herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis. Additional sex education programs were introduced to schools and organizations began to openly talk about sex and its implications. The gay and lesbian community began to fight for rights and for more public education about their community and HIV/AIDS, while Hoffman plays Tootsie to applause. The nineties represent a coming of age for sexuality. In a decade where the dominant philosophy is self-fulfillment, sex has become an obsession. Society now discusses all ...
- 184: The Way We Live Now
- The Way We Live Now abstract "The Way We Live Now" is designed to create a dialogue surrounding the issues of AIDS. The play will confront these issues and allow each reader to explore their own beliefs without being confronted by controversial situations. It is a clear, lyrical piece with emphasis placed on words and individual feelings. "The Way We Live Now" consists entirely of fragments of conversation among friends concerned about a friend with AIDS. They confer on the telephone, over coffee, in the halls of the hospital, about the patient and his illness. They speculate, prognosticate, share anxieties, trade feelings of guilt and blame, pool their medical knowledge, and ... the characters, represented only by voices in the conversation, have had to come to terms not only with the impending loss of their friend, but with their own various and unsettling responses. The disease, clearly AIDS, is never mentioned by name. The person at the center of the story serves as a mirror and sign of his friends' own vulnerability. They don't really know how to become a functioning ...
- 185: Anabolic Steroids
- ... 1996: 134. The medicinal uses for steroids are beginning to get serious attention. There is plenty of clinical evidence that these drugs can significanly enhance the treatment of muscle wasting diseases such as cancer, HIV, AIDS and other chronic illness. Similar to the debate over medical use of marijuana, those opposed to its use are typically ignorant, close minded, and have a political agenda. Mooney, Michael. “Literature of Steroids Potential Uses for Immune Therapy.” Medibolics. January 1998: 58. Anabolics significantly help AIDS and HIV patients live longer. These diseases attack the immune system. Anabolic steroids boost and strengthen the immune system. This not only helps keep the disease from spreading as quick, but also helps fight other ... for the bad effects. Just like these drugs, in therapeutic doses, steroids result in few side effects. Benefits clearly outweigh the risks. Otherwise doctors wouldn’t prescribe them at all. Does everyone think that an AIDS patient is given steroids because he is dying and it doesn’t matter what happens to him. No it is because they are beneficial. Most of the side effects that are experienced during use ...
- 186: Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only
- ... as treatment sparked in the late 1970’s (14, p.2). Today, marijuana has a positive reputation for helping cancer patients overcome the nausea associated with chemotherapy, treating glaucoma, and in stimulating the appetite of AIDS patients (14, p.3). Studies have shown that marijuana clearly controls nausea and vomiting in many chemotherapy patients, helps AIDS patients gain weight, and greatly reduces damaging pressure in the eye caused by glaucoma (4, p.1). The fact that smoking marijuana to relieve medical distress is still illegal is alarming. If marijuana can help ... p.4). Ultimately, the best question to inquire about the legalization of marijuana is-- why not? Marijuana should be legalized for medicinal reasons only. It assists with the relief of horrible diseases, such as glaucoma, AIDS, cancer, and MS. It is less nauseating then swallowing a pill. It works better than other medicines made to work like marijuana. It makes the controlling of dosage much easier, and it is a ...
- 187: Price Policies Have Wider Range of Destructive Demerits
- ... structural changes were required. These included the diversion of land to other uses, the conservation and protection of the environment, the integration of structural change with regional economic development and the implementation of direct income aids. (17) This impetus for change began, however, in 1988 when the Council of Ministers approved a regulation 2052/88 which was to reform the operation of the Structural Funds as part of the European Agricultural ... For the period 1994-1999 the ESF will receive 33.5% of Structural funding. (30) The Guidance section of the EAGGF is involved in all agricultural structural development in the EU. It invests in and aids the modernisation of farms. It supports extensification, set aside and environmentally friendly farming practices. It also gives aid to young farmer's and offers early retirement. Aid for mountainous regions, poor ecological areas and LFAs ... to be through structural reorganisation. There has been a shift from a pure agricultural policy, however, to a rural policy whose two main characteristics are to help maintain a pleasant and attractive environment through adequate aids to farmers and the adoption of a bottom-up approach which will integrate rural communities. The new structurally oriented agricultural policy costs less money to operate than the former price-oriented policy and has ...
- 188: Is the US Policy on Drug Prohibition Effective?
- ... amount of a regulated dose would have given the desired effect (Evans and Berent, eds. 22). Another outcome of prohibition on the individual could also be considered a concern of society since the spread of AIDS affects both groups. The transfer of AIDS through needles needed most commonly during the use of heroin has become the most common manner in which the disease currently spreads. The treatment and prevention of the people who get AIDS from heroin use cannot be effective so long as users are being persecuted by law enforcement (Trebach and Inciardi 35-36). The implications of these two beliefs of proponents of decriminalization are imperative to ...
- 189: Censorship On The Internet
- ... could not be discussed over the Internet. This is not protecting children, but depriving them of material that could be very useful and valuable (Bray C7). Many of the proposals would have outlawed information including AIDS, Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, museum exhibits and, the Vanity Fair cover showing a picture of pregnant Demi Moore (Levy 20). Another reason they should not regulate cyberporn is the overwhelming number of volunteering business people ... with objectional materials and offensive language. The danger in allowing this to happen is that not just sex and foul language is diminished, but information on topics that are sex related like STD’s or AIDS would be censored. Most medical web sites would need to be “cleaned up” for publishing material on how to put on a condom and how to protect your self while having intercourse. Stories and new ... of the diseases out there that a parent would rather their child experiment with sex over the Internet instead of learning the hard way with other kids. People do not get pregnant or contract the AIDS virus by having cyber sex. Also viewing pornography is a way of letting children and teenagers explore their sexuality with out embarrassment. If kids go into the real world with more exposure to sex, ...
- 190: “Smoke” The Prohibition!
- ... in Pulp Fiction when she snorted cocaine that was so potent that it nearly killed her. Another outcome of prohibition on the individual could also be considered a concern of society since the spread of AIDS affects both groups. The transfer of AIDS through needles needed most commonly during the use of heroin has become the most common manner in which the disease currently spreads. The treatment and prevention of the people who get AIDS from heroin use cannot be effective so long as users are being persecuted by law enforcement. The implications of these two beliefs of proponents of decriminalization are imperative to defense of the individual. "Defense ...
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