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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
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Samples of Student Projects from 2007
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- 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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- HIV/AIDS wrap up quiz*
- Structure & Replication of HIV
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1-HIV/AIDS was and remains the single greatest cause of death in South Africa.
2-The President of South Africa does not believe that AIDS can come from HIV
3-Over 800,000 people tested positive for HIV during the making of the film. Over 150,000 of those people were babies.
4-Even after all the protests and gatherings, the president still believes that HIV is caused by malnutrition and poverty, not an STD.
5-Even with the right treatment, and years of medication, there is still a chance that you can become infected.
1.Around 4 million of the South Africans have AIDS.
2.During something called the apartheid of South Africa the Whites controlled around 90% of South Africa's land and wealth.
3. The President of doesn’t believe that AIDS comes from HIV
4. HIV & AIDS is the single greatest cause of death in South Africa.
5. Even if you take the drugs for years and get treated by doctors you still have a chance of getting AIDS.
1) AIDS can have a severe impact on appearance
2) Possibly as many as 3 out of every 4 miners in South Africa has AIDS
3) Medication prices range from $500-2,500 per month
4) There are people who believe there is no link between HIV and AIDS
5) It is (or was) illegal to import generic drugs into South Africa as a substitute for Pzfizer's expensive ones.
-Matt M
1. Anti-retroviral therapy is very expensive.
2. HIV/AIDS is a pretty recent virus.
3. South Africa has the most infected people in the world.
4. The President does not believe AIDS is a problem.
5. Pfizer has a monopoly on the treatment medication in South Africa.
1. The meds. that do not have a 100% chance to work is expensive.
2. South Africa’s President is in denial of the link between HIV and AIDS.
3. During a period of time, the white minority took power.
4. Even if the drugs were affable, it wouldn't provide a sanitary environment.
5. Deaths from HIV and AIDS are the leading cause of death in South Africa.
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
1. 2000 people are infected with hiv each day
2. Diflucan has a monopoly on drugs in south africa
3. most people are ashamed to say they have hiv
4. most people who are getting treatement are on drug trails
5. it is illegal to bring generic less expensive drugs into south africa
-kiersten w
1. Aids dose not actually kill you it leads to an opportunistic dieses that dose you in.
2. Political bureaucracy can severely worsen an epidemic like Aids
3. Phisers drug monopoly has caused anti-aids drugs to be unaffordable to lower up to upper middle class citizens in south Africa
4. The poverty of the country has made Having Aids that much more devastating because there is no welfare, child support and home care on a national level
5. I also learned that the president of south Africa has not acknowledge HIV as causing Aids and has done nothing to help the situation
Matt H.
1. Apartheid
2. I learned that doctor's diagnose more than one person a day.
3. most people are scared to say they have HIV (one woman was stoned because she told her community that she had HIV)
4. Pfizer isn't makeing anti-HIV meds. affordable.
5. 1/3 of mine workers get HIV from nearby prostitutes and spread it to their families unknowingly.
Chloe G.
ew. i just wrote mine, and it didn't get published...so i have to do it again.
1. one person finds out they are positeve each day.
2. 11 months of the year men are away from home because of work.
3. sex workers are in very high demand, therefore spreading HIV like crazy.
4. even with medical insurance most hiv meds are unaffordable
5. the president is in denial when it comes to HIV and AIDS realation.
whitney
1. Even semi-wealthy people cannot afford HIV drugs.
2. People with HIV still don't help the problem by having kids.
3. People get killed for admitting their HIV+.
4. The president is just turning his back to the issue telling himself it is not a big deal.
5. People in the US know its a problem but not to the extent that it is.
Diflucen is the most commonly used medication to treat HIV, but it's extremely expensive.
Pfizer has a monopoly over the South African diflucen market
The spread of HIV from mother to child can be prevented by giving the mother medications in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy.
AIDS is merely a subdivision of HIV. AIDS is just a classification of HIV.
President Mbeki actively denied the connection between HIV and AIDS.
~david
- miners are away from families from 11 months of the year which leads them to have sex with prostitues and become infected with HIV.
- HIV medication costs $500-$1000 a month.
- Aparthied moved all blacks into Townships.
- Doctors diagnos at least 1 person a day to be HIV positive.
- The President (who is an IDIOT) likes to believe there is no connection between HIV and AIDS... good observation
--KAYLA
- That the Pfizer drug company has a monopoly on drugs in South Africa, which it uses to inflate prices.
- That Thado Mbeki, the President of South Africa, denies there is a connection between HIV and AIDS.
- That 2000 new infections of HIV occur daily.
- That AIDS is expected to kill 6 million people in South Africa by 2010.
- That one of the earlies vectors with which HIV was spread in South Africa was through prostitution at coal mines.
-- Alex S.
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