Therefore,
it is important for the patient to get tested to ensure treatment is no delayed
and risk further complication. As the virus progress the illness associated
with it becomes more complicated and difficult to treat because without
treatment the immunodeficiency rises. “The majority of disease occurs in the
advanced stages of HIV infection where immunosuppression is the predominant
influence Hogan, C., & Wilkins, E., (2011).” Therefore for patient should
seek early treatment and adhere to medication regimen to decrease progression
of the infection and prevent further complication. Other issues that need to be
address is measures need to be taken for early testing, without being tested
many patient are able to transfer the virus from one person to another without
even knowing. Early diagnose of the disease will give patient the opportunity
to seek medical care and become knowledgeable of the step needed to take to
prevent them from infecting other individual. Several states have now implement
policies to test newborn babies for the HIV virus without permission of the
parents.
HIV
affect people from all different background, however group on minority continue
to be disproportionately impacted. This can be seen with majority of the
reported case in the United State are of racial and ethnic minority population.
A contributing factor to this problem, are lack of resources, high risk
behavior and unequal access to health care people for minority population.
Cargill, VA & Stone, VE (2005) HIV is a public issue that has caused
widespread epidemic infection and impacted people from all over the world. It
affects individual of all ages but are more prevalent in young people with
adolescents accounted for half of the 20 million new sexual infections reported
in the United State CDC.GOV (2014). Other factors that played a role in the
increase in HIV are the influence of an individual society; this include social
determinants of the individual such as, behavior, access to health care,
genetic, social influences and the person’s physical environment Maurer, F.,
& Smith, C.,(2013).
These
factors can have a significant impact on the individual’s health and the
development of illness. This is because of genetic predisposition factors and
certain risk behavior, also the disparity of health within population of racial
and ethnic groups that prevent the availability of education and resources to
fight HIV. One examples of this is problem with sexual assault on women in many
under develop countries; these women and children has no choice in the matter
there physical environment put them at risk and as a result many contracted HIV
and other sexually transmitted disease. Other issues include prostitution, drug
use involve the sharing of unsterile needles and lack education to implement
primary prevention. These issues are more prevalent in racial and ethnic
minority group and impacted health is responsible for influencing health in a
negative way.
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