Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nurse Practitioner, Trans Woman, Window Period
2 Mar 2018
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Women"s studies 2163 lecture 6 notes on the basics of hiv. John gordon home for those suffering from hiv. Counterpoint harm reduction services - needle exchange program. Their mandate is dealing with how to minimize risks not delete action all together. People engage in stuff due to trauma, addiction etc. It is criminalized but these people (drug users) are not bad people. Its not that they condone or encourage this behaviour they are just trying to create a safe space and to access safe supplies. Good samaritan law - someone who calls in to say someone is overdosing etc will not get charged. Fentanyl laced in many different drugs that people are not aware of. It only affects and comes from humans. It attacks itself to white blood cells and replicates them. Hiv is a virus, aids is a syndrome, considered to be a medical/clinical stage of hiv. High: there are many copies of the hiv virus in the blood.
