Women's Studies 2163A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Good Samaritan Law, Proactive Law, Harm Reduction
30 Apr 2018
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Women’s Studies 2163 Midterm Notes
HIV basics
-John Gordon Home is the home for those suffering HIV in London
-they are concerned with minimizing risks
-they are not condoning this behaviour - just trying to create a safe space to access
safe supplies
-the Good Samaritan Law is how someone who calls in to say someone is
overdosing etc will not get charged
-opiod crisis rampant
-harm reduction is any program or policy designed to reduce drug related harm
without requiring the cessation of drug use
-some harm reduction programs:
-needle syringe exchange
-decriminalizing or proactive law enforcement
-hepatitis c treatment
-supervised consumption facilities have 4 main goals:
-1) to reduce spread of infectious diseases (hiv and hep c)
-2) to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths
-3) to bring people who inject drugs into contact with other health and social
treatment services
-4) to reduce issues in the community such as drug use in public places and
discarded needles !
-what is HIV/AIDS?
-HIV is human immunodeficiency virus
-they’re not the same thing
-it only affects and comes from humans
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-it attacks the immune system
-it attaches itself to white blood cells and replicates them
-no cure "
-AIDS is acquired immune deficiency syndrome
-you can’t catch AIDS but you can acquire hiv virus
-HIV is a virus, AIDS is a syndrome considered to be a medical/clinical stage of HIV
-if the viral load is high then there are may copies of the HIV virus in the blood
-if it is low then there are few copies of the HIV virus in the blood and treatment can
help reduce viral load
-undetectable means there are so few copies of the HIV virus in the blood that it can
be hard to ‘find’ using current tests
-if someone in Canada has sex with someone knowing they are HIV positive then they
can be penalized/jailed
-how is it acquired?
-there are 5 fluids that transmit it and have to directly enter the bloodstream in order to
give it to you
-1) blood
-2) breast milk
-3) vaginal fluid
-4) anal fluid
-5) semen
-so not necessarily just touching you could give it to you - must enter bloodstream
-if someone has a cut that is low risk
-women in London have higher risk (1/4) than rest of CAN/ON to acquire HIV (1/6) *
-it is through REPEATED exposure to it
-if mom is on anti-viral therapy chances of transmitting it are very low
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-what are ways of acquiring it?
-condom-less sex, vertical transmission (breast feeding), injecting drugs, non-sterile
tattooing + piercing, blood products (prior to 1992)
-some symptoms are:
-flu-like fever
-loss of appetite
-sore throat
-swollen lymph nodes
-women might have bladder or yeast infection
-shingles
-21% of Canadians living with HIV don’t know it
-75,000 Canadians live with HIV
-in london there were 61 new hiv cases diagnosed in 2016
-approx 70% from injection drug use
-endocarditis is a significant concern with case-fatality rate in the range of 30-40%"
-priority populations are those most likely to get infected
-* men who have sex with men have the highest rates of HIV *
-or women who have sex with someone who has HIV
-why could this be?
-repeated anal sex
-more awareness of HIV within gay communities so maybe more go get tested
-second group with highest rate are african caribbean and black people
-they might be at risk cause:
-barriers, racism, access to se hose who are undocumented, different practices of
knowledge of condom use etc
-then those who inject drugs
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Document Summary
John gordon home is the home for those suffering hiv in london. They are not condoning this behaviour - just trying to create a safe space to access safe supplies. The good samaritan law is how someone who calls in to say someone is overdosing etc will not get charged. Harm reduction is any program or policy designed to reduce drug related harm without requiring the cessation of drug use. Supervised consumption facilities have 4 main goals: 1) to reduce spread of infectious diseases (hiv and hep c) 2) to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths. 3) to bring people who inject drugs into contact with other health and social treatment services. 4) to reduce issues in the community such as drug use in public places and discarded needles. It only affects and comes from humans. It attaches itself to white blood cells and replicates them. You can"t catch aids but you can acquire hiv virus.
