AIDS/ HIV (describe the causes and means of transmission)
Mindmap on causes/means of transmission for AIDS/HIV.
Biology F212
Health and Disease module
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- Created on: 15-01-13 17:59
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- AIDS/HIV
- Causative Agent
- Human Immunodeficiency virus
- Transmission
- Unprotected sex
- Contaminated blood e.g. sharing needles, blood transfusions
- Mother->Child e.g. breast-feeding, during birth
- Prevention
- HIV mothers to not breast feed
- Contact tracing
- Education
- Needle exchange schemes
- Screening of blood from donors
- HIV testing for individuals
- Using condoms/ femidoms
- Discouraging sexual promiscuity
- Treatment
- Drugs that inhibit HIV 'Anti retroviral'
- Vaccine to prevent AIDS
- Medicine to boost immune system
- Treatments for opportunistic infections which develop in AIDS sufferers
- Problems with control
- Poverty
- Less education-disease/ transmission
- More IV drug use/ shared needles
- Lower availability of condoms/ religious objection
- Fewer medical centres
- Causative Agent
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