SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Seroprevalence, Nonvenereal Endemic Syphilis, Serostatus

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1801
• Professor: Denielle Elliott

Document Summary

Seroprevalence: the level of pathogen (virus) in population as measured in blood serum. Terms: aids, epidemic, hiv, medical anthropology, seropositive, seroprevalence, sida, transmission. Aids is deadliest infection of world- killing 3 million people every year. Antiretroviral drugs have lengthened the lives of many. Antriretrovial drugs are expensive & people who need them cant afford them. W/o medication & support people living w/hiv are likely to infect others & die. How poverty & inequalities play role in contracting aids. Circumstances like poverty, gender inequality put individuals at risk of increased infection. Circumstances beyond individuals control can place them at risk of infection- social, political, cultural & economic. Powerful forces that result in hiv in haiti: inequality, poverty, political. U(cid:374)e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)ed (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) fro(cid:373) rural areas (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) se(cid:454) (cid:449)ork (cid:449)he(cid:374) there"s (cid:374)o other optio(cid:374) Truck drivers & soliders are groups w/ above average hiv infections. Inability of women to protect themselves from hiv infections.