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HIV/AIDS
Awareness is Power
As the global population increases, so does the potential for disease.
What's the deal with this blog?
This blog is designed specifically for the spring term theme (of, you guessed it) "Global Problems, Local Solutions" for Ms. Saxe's general biology classes at New Hampton School. This year we are going to focus on turning the phrase "human impact on the environment" from a negative phrase to a positive phrase. Before we do that, we need to learn the basics about ecology and sustainability.
This blog is designed to keep students, tutors and parents informed as to what is going on in class. Students should check this daily for announcements, resources, homework and links to class projects. Homework may be posted here outside of class. But, to be fair, homework that is due the next day will only be posted before 5pm the day before it is due.
If you'd like to see what we did in the fall or winter term check out the blog Biology @ New Hampton
This blog is designed to keep students, tutors and parents informed as to what is going on in class. Students should check this daily for announcements, resources, homework and links to class projects. Homework may be posted here outside of class. But, to be fair, homework that is due the next day will only be posted before 5pm the day before it is due.
If you'd like to see what we did in the fall or winter term check out the blog Biology @ New Hampton
Information on Climate Change
Research Tools
Samples of Student Projects from 2007
Links to posts with student discussions from 2007
- Responses to "What are the top 5 global problems?"
- Local solutions for global warming
- What E Block learned from State of Denial
- What C Block learned from State of Denial
- What B Block learned from State of Denial
- What A Block learned from State of Denial
- Would you recommend State of Denial
- Reflections on Kurt Vonnegut (part 1)
- Reflections on Jurt Vonnegut (Part 2)
Emerging & Re-emerging Diseases (from 2007)
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- Groups & Topics for the final project
- Bottle Biology A & E blocks
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- Infectious Disease Presentations
- Researching in the ARC
- Infectious Saturday
- Infectious Disease Presentations
- HIV/AIDS wrap up quiz*
- Structure & Replication of HIV
- Progression and replication of HIV
- Kurt Vonnegut & You
- Thoughts from Kurt Vonnegut
- Basic Biology of HIV & Disease Progression
- Movie Wrap Up (Wednesday & Thursday)
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- State of Denial
- Wrap up on Global Warming
- Jess's Newspaper Article on Global Warming & Lakes
- Debates: US, China, Industry & Environmentalists
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13 comments:
TAK
I learned...
1. About 4.2 million of the SOuth Africans have AIDS.
2.Sex workers are high demand in South Africa.
3.Migrant workers are primary cause of spread HIV or AIDS
4. HIV is a very serious problem in SOuth Africa but the president Mbeki keep saying that HIV doesn't causes AIDS.
5. AZT medicine can prevent HIV transmiting from parents to child.
Patrick
I learned...
1. President Mbeki doesn't believe that HIV leads to AIDs. He believes they are both diseases of poverty.
2. During apartheid the white minority controlled 90% of South Africa's wealth and land.
3. Mining is a huge part of the South African economy.
4. Townships still exist, even though they were technically eliminated.
5. South Africa is a prime place for drug companies to conduct drug testing because people there are desperate for medication.
Sayde learned...
1. 95% of the entire AIDS population live in South Africa.
2. Because most of the South African's cannot afford medication, they are prime subjects for possibly dangerous drug testing.
3. The apartheid was when the white South Africans seperated the balcks from themselves and moved them away from the cities into nearby, poor townships.
4. Though the apartheid is now over, many blacks still live in poverty.
5. The South African president at the time of the movie was hurting his country by refusing to believe there was any connection between HIV and AIDS.
Carol
I learned...
1: There is a 67% chance for pregnant mothers, who are HIV positive that their children don't get infected, if they get a specific treatment weeks before the birth.
2: A lot of people don't want to get tested because they are afraid. They just ignore it.
3: The treatment is too expensive for a lot of people in South Africa.
4: Sex workers are in high demand in South Africa.
5: The president of South Africa thinks that HIV doesn't cause Aids.
Gunnar,
1. Most south africans have the capability to take the test,but they're afraid of the results.
2. The repercussions of having AIDS in some communities can result in being stoned to death.
3. President Mbeki continues to prefer his oppinion of HIV/AIDS over that of the whole scientific community.
4.Although the appartheid may have ended in the 90's, most blacks can still only afford to live in the poor towns.
5.Drug companies have a complete monopoly on drugs like Diflucin, which could save thousands of lives in South Africa.
1. With miners being away from their families for up to 11 months, they turn to prostitutes, contract HIV, and then take it back to their communities where it can be spread to their wives and children.
2. Drug companies test their drugs for HIV on South African HIV positive patients. The problem is, the patients are not getting paid for it, and if the drug is harmful to them, they and their families get no compensation.
3. The president of South Africa during the filming of this movie continually stated that HIV and AIDS had no links to each other and that poverty is what is to blame for the AIDS epidemic. His claims greatly influence the country's HIV positive population.
4. The drug ATZ can reduce the risk of a mother passing HIV to their unborn child by 67%.
5. Most people, especially men, are unwilling and feel unsafe to tell people in their community they are HIV positive. Many will knowingly infect others.
- Nicoya
1.The president of the Africa did not believe AIDS caused by HIV.
2.HIV can cause hearing problems ( deaf)
3.The drug for HIV is expensive, because it is monopoly
4.South Africa has most percentage of people have HIV than other country
5.A lot of people is miner, because they want to afford the tax.
Bruce C
jun
1.there are 4.2 people have aids in south africa.
2.president do not want to help people who have HIV
3.HIV make people have ear infections.
4.about 95% people who have AIDS live in south africa
5. drug AZT can prevent child geting HIV from mother who is HIV positive
1. One doctor diagnoses a patient with HIV every day.
2. Even when apartheid was overthrown, black South Africans remained in the townships because they couldn't affortd to leave.
3. Miners live away from their families 11 months a year to make money. This increases prostitution
4. Participating in drug trials in the most common way in South Africa for people to get drugs.
5. A really sick person with HIV/AIDS might qualify to receive medication for only 3 years
~Jess N~
I learned that
1. What an Apartheid is
2. I learned prostitutes are in high demand in poor areas such as places where people work in mines, and people unknowingly catch H.I.V because of this
3. I learned that President Mbeki has very strange views on H.I.V which influences his people in bad ways such as some people stopped taking treatment because they believed what he was saying (when he doesn't have much of a scientific back round)
4. I learned in one Doctor's office he went from having his first H.I.V positive patient in '96, to diagnosing one patient everyday H.I.V positive.
5. I learned of the drug patent monopoly occuring in South Africa.
Allie Lee
1. Drugs for HIV/AIDS are hard to come by in Africa because they are usually too expensive for people to afford.
2. 95% of the people in the world who have HIV/AIDS live in Africa.
3. The African President Thado Mbeki does not believe that HIV causes AIDS and he is seemingly unwilling to listen to other peoples opinions on the matter besides his own.
4. People are sometimes fired from their jobs or killed for having HIV/AIDS or admitting that they have the disease so they often choose to keep it a secret.
5. Many Africans are too scared to have an HIV test because they do not want to hear the bad news.
Ben B.
1. Drugs for HIV/AIDS are hard to come by in Africa because they are usually too expensive for people to afford.
2. 95% of the people in the world who have HIV/AIDS live in Africa.
3. The African President Thado Mbeki does not believe that HIV causes AIDS and he is seemingly unwilling to listen to other peoples opinions on the matter besides his own.
4. People are sometimes fired from their jobs or killed for having HIV/AIDS or admitting that they have the disease so they often choose to keep it a secret.
5. Many Africans are too scared to have an HIV test because they do not want to hear the bad news.
Ben B.
1. I learned that the apartied act took away 90% of blacks land and gave it to whites
2. Economic Dependence on the mines last to this day (11 months out of year men leave families to work0
3.1/3 from working in the mines come back with HIV because of prostitutes near the mine
4.Systemic Thrush= fungi infection in the mouth
5. Drug owners have monopoly inflating drugs expense
-olivia
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