BIO SCI 45 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Viral Load, Sub-Saharan Africa, Harm Reduction
28 May 2016
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Some places in africa have plans for azt and therapies to prevent the hiv spread to the newborn. Usually accidental needle incidents to health care professionals. Treatment for prevention: therapy reduces viral load, lowering risk of sexual transmission. Concept that if we treat individuals, the viral load is reduced and that lowers the risk of sexual transmission. Cdc made a major shift in how we should be targeting people with prevention methods. Cdc decided to target the general population for hiv prevention methods, not the high risk groups. Early prevention programs targeted (via mass media, peer-education approaches): But did not intentionally target hiv+ persons. Approach may have been appropriate due to: There is a lot of discrimination present, even in healthcare settings. It is not quite the issue it was in the 1980s. Positive prevention focuses interventions on persons who are hiv+ A fundamental shift after 22 years; cdc officially endorsed positive prevention in 2003.
