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Showing 1 to 20 of 1061 for “"HIV/AIDS"”.
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Teachers'attitudes towards HIV/AIDS programme
… to investigate teachers' attitudes towards the HIV/AIDS programmes, which the government had supplied to the schools a few years ago. This concern was triggered by the researcher's own experience in dealing with these teachers whom he found to be protective, passionate about the disabled …
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Neuropsychiatric features of HIV/AIDS
The central hypothesis of this thesis was that HIV psychosis and mania are overlapping manifestations of the neuropathophysiological consequences of HIV characterized by symptoms suggestive of sub-acute delirium and cognitive impairment. It was also hypothesised that HIV-associated mania and …
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The 'links' on HIV & AIDS : an examination of the construction of HIV & AIDS in The Link
HIV and AIDS is discussed and addressed at various levels throughout the written media. The goal of this thesis is to gather information on how HIV and AIDS is represented and constructed in one university newspaper and to offer a preliminary description of how HIV and AIDS is discussed and …
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Resiliensi Orang dengan HIV/AIDS (ODHA)
… Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) merupakan penyakit yang dapat mengancam seluruh lapisan masyarakat dari berbagai rentang usia, jenis kelamin ataupun kelas ekonomi. Virus ini tidak hanya menyerang kekebalan tubuh manusia, akan tetapi dapat mengakibatkan tekanan-tekanan …
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HIV/AIDS Prevention: Educating Future Generations
… implementing more educational interventions on HIV/AIDS would lead to lower incidents of HIV/AIDS among youth. A quantitative research design was used to determine the level of knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes of high school students in regard to HIV/AIDS. The targeted population were youth …
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Modelling HIV/AIDS epidemic in Nigeria
… is one of the countries most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, third only to India and South Africa. With about 10% of the global HIV/AIDS cases estimated to be in the country, the public health and socio-economic implications are enormous. This thesis has two broad aims: the first is to …
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Psychological explanations in HIV/AIDS counselling
… and prognosis of Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are shared or differ between African health workers (counsellors) and their African clients who are affected. Medical anthropology and constructionist theory provided theoretical frameworks to …
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Caring from the margins: Community HIV/AIDS care work as social reproduction in the era of HIV/AIDS
… holding firm to the belief that community HIV/AIDS care work is profoundly deprivational for the women who do it. With a commitment to feminist research, I was interested in exploring what care work meant for gender equality and commensurate development consequences. Employing the …
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Multiscale Modelling of HIV/AIDS Transmission Dynamics
… question: Can we use a multiscale model of HIV/AIDS transmission dynamics to assess the comparative effectiveness of health interventions that are implemented at different scale domains? To achieve the set objectives of the study, we use multiscale modelling approach, a new and emerging …
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Women Living with HIV/AIDS and Disclosure
… in the United States are infected with HIV. One in four of those with HIV are women. Disadvantaged women living with HIV/AIDS (WLWHA) continue to experience barriers to disclosing their HIV/AIDS status due to intimate partner violence, sexual abuse, and stigma. The purpose of this study …
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Culturing Talk About HIV/AIDS in Ireland
… with the ways in which discourses about HIV and AIDS are generated in Ireland and how they are cultured within the various practicums in which they are generated. I discuss this in relation to three practicums: the practicum of microbiological science as taught to undergraduate students, …
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HIV/AIDS und die Rolle der Medien
Die HIV/AIDS-Epidemie breitet sich auf der ganzen Welt aus und betrifft Menschen ungeachtet ihrer Rasse und Lebensart. In vielen Studien wurde gezeigt dass die Medien eine bedeutende Rolle in der Konstruktion und Verbreitung von Vorstellungen und Bildern bezüglich HIV/AIDS spielen. Die …
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HIV/AIDS Frames in African-American Media
… are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. HIV/AIDS coverage in one African-American print medium, Essence magazine, was analyzed from August 2000 to August 2010. During this period, new technological advancements were made in the plight against the epidemic, specifically …
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Decisions to care for HIV/AIDS orphans
… future, who will be orphaned as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In all likelihood, these children would have experienced psychological trauma through the illness and death of people close to them, and the social isolation that accompanies HIV-infection and AIDS-related illness and death. The …
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An analysis of pre-service teachers' HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy and their HIV/AIDS teaching tasks
… the interface between pre-service teachers' HIV/AIDSknowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy, and their intentions to teach HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy. It is located within the models of teacher education which provides a conceptual framework to analyse HIV/AIDS pre-service …
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A yoga intervention program for HIV/AIDS caregivers
HIV/AIDS has reached alarming proportions in South Africa, with many people's lives being affected. This research project looked more closely at caregivers involved in HIV/AIDS work, examining their stress levels and their psychological well-being. A yoga intervention program was implemented with a …
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Current HIV/AIDS Infection Rates: Categorization and Stigmatization
… of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were first identified, certain segments of the population were thought to be at greater risk than others for contracting the disease (Centers for Disease Control, 1981). This classification of the population into "high" risk groups has …
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HIV/AIDS activism in England, c. 1982-1997.
… and individuals who responded politically to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in England. It spans the years of the first confirmed AIDS-related death in the UK, that of Terry Higgins in 1982, until 1997. This was the year after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) transformed the …
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