- FIRST, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website to find the following information.https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/default.html Search in the HIV Basics section. Answer in brief one sentence responses.
List the ways HIV is transmitted (spread from person-to-person).
List the prevention methods for these 5 categories—sexual transmission, IV drug use, mother-to-child transmission, protecting others when you’re HIV-positive, other prevention methods.
What is PrEP vs. PEP? In what situations are these used?
NOW, watch the video. Visit https://libguides.grossmont.edu/media/streaming-videos, click on the Swank database link at the right, log-in with your usual Grossmont-Cuyamaca info and search for the video How to Survive a Plague. Video length is 1hr 49min.
- List at least two of the activist organizations that were formed during this time period.
- What types of discrimination could HIV+ individuals face during the time period covered in the documentary? Make sure at least one example is related to the healthcare setting.
- What are some of the symptoms of AIDS described in the documentary?
- Why did the activist movement develop around this issue?
- What was the first drug developed for treatment of HIV infection, and what was the cost of it?
- After the first drug, the most effective treatments came later in the form of protease inhibitors. How do the protease inhibitor drugs work to control the virus?
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