Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Opioid Overdose, Viral Load, Body Fluid

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Nicole Edwards

Document Summary

80/90s : hiv = death sentence, no effective treatments. Builds trust - willing to ask for support. More people in on have died in opioid overdose than hiv. Harm reduction: anything that reduces the risk of injury whether or not the individuals is about to abstain from the risky behavior. Any program or policy designed to reduce drug-related harm without requiring the cessation of drug use. People come in already using drugs and want to do it safely. Being people who inject drugs ubti contacts w health services. No cure; weak virus - as soon as it exposes to air it dies. Only comes from another human who has it. Have to have hiv first through a bodily fluid. Goal of hiv treatment is to supress the amount of hiv virus in their blood. Develops when people have hiv and are then exposed to another infection. People don"t die from hiv, they die from aids.