NUR 6301 Advanced Nursing Theories
Question:
HIV aids is a global problem in youth worldwide and in US a huge number of youth population is infected. Not only the youths , the young adults are infected by this disease in US. HIV is virus borne disease and the responsible virus for this disease is Human immuno- deficiency virus. The main reason of HIV infection among the youth is sexual activity among the student. Almost half of the young US population is infected by the HIV. The report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that, in 2014 almost 22% of the US youth ( age group of 13-24 years) that is almost 44000 youth have HIV infections in the US(Johnson et al., 2014).
In case of the youths who are using intravenous injection drugs, it is seen that the prevalence of infection is much common. In this report the rate of HIV infection in youths in US is discussed. In addition, the ways in which the rate of infection can be reduced is highlighted. The main aim of the project, implementation procedure, influencing factor for that project is also discussed in this report.
Definitions of terms
HIV: It is an immunodeficient virus under the subgroup of retrovirus and it is responsible for AIDS that is a disease that cause progressive failure of the organs in the human body and may cause mortality (Chun, Moir, & Fauci,2015).
Retrovirus: This type of RNA virus can insert their own copy of genome into the host DNA and cause infection to the host (Knight , Collins & Takeuchi, 2013).
Injection of drug is very much associated with the transmission of blood borne disease like AIDS, caused by the HIV virus. According to Lansky et al. ( 2014), in US 8% of population had been found who have used to inject drug that is persons with drug inject ( PWID).
Answer:
The prevalence of stage 3 AID in US at the end of 2015 was found to be about 304.0 for the males and 90.2 for the females and the adolescents 25% of the infections are spread due to the injection used while administering drugs in the individuals (Muhib et al., 2016).
Lack of knowledge about the infection is one of the reasons of disease transmission and therefore unprotected sex can be one of the reason for the increased number of prevalence in the nation Promotion of the community level awareness about AIDS within a target community Popularizing the concept of partner notification for effective prevention of the transmission of the infection (Clatts et al., 2017).
Providing effective counseling for the patients with different positive results In choosing the correct setting, rehabilitation unit of the particular university would be chosen Individuals in the rehabilitation units are seen to be engaged in drug taking behaviors and hence it would be helpful for targeting the correct population (Johnson et al., 2014) Moreover, a health promotion campaign and education session would be also helpful for targeting all the young adults of the university.
Nurse from the hospital will be appointed to understand the scenario of subject population Need to seek for permission from the college authority Need to seek for ethical permission to follow the protocol successfully
Survey should be conducted Collected data will be analyzed Health promotion plan would be implemented accordingly after determining the lack of knowledge of young people in each aspects (Fisher et al., 2016).
51 students of the rehabilitation unit would be taken in consideration for the survey 150 students from first year of graduation would be taken for survey Start anti-retroviral therapies who have been infected Developed awareness programs in a community based manner Health education session to the young people Encourage the young people about safe sexual activities (Bauermeister et al., 2017) Provide free of cost medication for the people who are suffering from the disorders.
Provide HIV detection kits for identification of the correct sage of the diseases Advocate to the government about policy introduction Counseling sessions for the affected individuals and arranging for correct social support and referrals only involving youths of the university but cannot involve the youths from all over the nation very difficult to assess the implication of this project for the future If the project is found to be successful, this can be applied at a larger scale in the nation and would help in reduction of the prevalence of the AIDs in the young people in the nation
References:
Bauermeister, J. A., Connochie, D., Eaton, L., Demers, M., & Stephenson, R. (2017). Geospatial indicators of space and place: a review of multilevel studies of HIV prevention and care outcomes among young men who have sex with men in the United States. The Journal of Sex Research, 54(4-5), 446-464.
Boyer, C. B., Greenberg, L., Chutuape, K., Walker, B., Monte, D., Kirk, J., … & Adolescent Medicine Trials Network. (2017). Exchange of sex for drugs or money in adolescents and young adults: an examination of sociodemographic factors, HIV-related risk, and community context. Journal of community health, 42(1), 90-100.
Clatts, M. C., Davis, W. R., & Sotheran, J. L. (2017). Correlates and Distribution of HTV Risk Behaviors among Homeless Youths in New York City: Implications for Prevention and Policy. In Children and HIV/AIDS(pp. 103-116). Routledge.
Fisher, C. B., Arbeit, M. R., Dumont, M. S., Macapagal, K., & Mustanski, B. (2016). Self-consent for HIV prevention research involving sexual and gender minority youth: reducing barriers through evidence-based ethics. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 11(1), 3-14.
Fonner, V. A., Armstrong, K. S., Kennedy, C. E., O’Reilly, K. R., & Sweat, M. D. (2014). School based sex education and HIV prevention in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PloS one, 9(3), e89692.
Johnson, A. S., Hall, H. I., Hu, X., Lansky, A., Holtgrave, D. R., & Mermin, J. (2014). Trends in diagnoses of HIV infection in the United States, 2002-2011. Jama, 312(4), 432-434.
Miller, R. L., Janulis, P. F., Reed, S. J., Harper, G. W., Ellen, J., Boyer, C. B., & Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions. (2016). Creating youth-supportive communities: Outcomes from the Connect-to-Protect®(C2P) structural change approach to youth HIV prevention. Journal of youth and adolescence, 45(2), 301-315.
Muhib, F. B., Lin, L. S., Stueve, A., Miller, R. L., Ford, W. L., Johnson, W. D., … & Community Intervention Trial for Youth Study Team. (2016). A venue-based method for sampling hard-to-reach populations. Public health reports.
Van Handel, M., Kann, L., Olsen, E. O. M., & Dietz, P. (2016). HIV testing among US high school students and young adults. Pediatrics, peds-2015.
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