Aids Crisis Origins of Aids & How it Works 1. What are some myths about the origin of AIDS?

2. What are the most common hypothesis of how HIV/AIDS started? 3. What is the Hunter Theory? 4. What is the Oral Polio Vaccine Theory? 5. What is the Contaminated Needle Theory? 6. What is the Colonialism Theory? 7. What is the Conspiracy Theory? 8. What is the difference between HIV-1 and HIV-2? 9. How does HIV/AIDS attack the cells of the body? 10. What caused the HIV/AIDS epidemic to be so sudden if it has existed for so long? SUGGESTED SOURCES: http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/specialreports/aids/index.asp http://www.thebody.com/asp/june01/youth.html http://allafrica.com/stories/200509120770.html http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ http://www.womenchildrenhiv.org/ http://www.avert.org/young.htm Center for Disease and Control (CDC) World Health Organization UNICEF Red Cross Aids.org CQ Researcher http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/ http://www.avert.org/origins.htm

Prevention Programs 1. What programs are working to curtail aids in other parts of the world? 2. Do prevention programs have to be culturally biased to be successful? Give examples. 3. Find multiple programs that are in use today to combat aids. Education, needle exchange, etc. 4. You dont have to go into details, as other groups will cover but how do the following help stop aids: testing; blood safety; treatments. 5. Are countries/states passing laws about the criminality of spreading aids? 6. Can you find any surveys on aids prevention? 7. How has poverty been linked to HIV/aids? 8. Are there careers/jobs that are more at risk that others about transmission? What is being done for these careers? 9. Compare transmission risk in oral, anal, vaginal and other types of sexual activity. 10. How does the media play a part in HIV/AIDS prevention? SUGGESTED SOURCES:

World Health Organization UNICEF Red Cross Center for Disease and Control (CDC) CQ Researcher http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/ ETC., ETC., ETC. Testing and Treatment 1. What types of testing are currently available for HIV/AIDS? Benefits? Examples? HIV/AIDS testing 101? 2. Why isnt HIV/AIDS testing part of routine medical exams? Is it on the way? 3. What are some of the most commonly asked questions about HIV/ AIDS testing? 4. What are some reasons for getting tested for HIV/AIDS? 5. How will a persons life be different if a positive HIV/AIDS test comes back? Dating? Sex? Etc. 6. Where can you get tested in the Salem area? 7. Can you find a testing questionnaire? 8. What is national testing day? When is it? Is there a global day? 9. Is there a cure for HIV/AIDS? Any projections? 10. What are drug cocktails? Why are they necessary? 11. What are antiretroviral drugs? How do they work? Who are they a great benefit for? 12. What is the treatment of opportunistic infections? 13. What are the Federal HIV treatment guidelines? 14. List (overhead) the approved drugs for HIV/AIDS? 15. What are some alternative medicines for HIV/AIDS? 16. Pick some investigational drugs/treatments for HIV/AIDS. 17. What financial services are available for HIV/AIDS patients? SUGGESTED SOURCES: World Health Organization UNICEF Red Cross Center for Disease and Control (CDC) CQ Researcher http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/ http://hivtest.cdc.gov/ http://cascadeaids.org/hiv-testing-resources http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ Prostitution 1. How is HIV/AIDS linked to women, prostitution and poverty? 2. What countries are having severe problems with prostitutes and HIV/AIDS? 3. Why are sex workers at risk for HIV/AIDS transmission? 4. What are some programs that are working to get sex workers to leave the profession? 5. How is child prostitution a global problem? 6. How has decriminalization impacted prostitution and HIV/AIDS? 7. Why have other countries opposed the US aid package to fight HIV/AIDS unless they provide a strategy against the sex trade?

8. Are there any positive articles on the sex trade and the prevention of HIV/AIDS? SUGGESTED SOURCES: http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/specialreports/aids/index.asp http://www.newint.org/issue252/healthy.htm http://www.thebody.com/asp/june01/youth.html http://allafrica.com/stories/200509120770.html http://www.thebody.com/cdc/news_updates_archive/apr22_02/child_prostitution.html http://www.womenchildrenhiv.org/ http://www.avert.org/young.html http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/ http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ Center for Disease and Control (CDC) CQ Researcher Red Cross Aids.org UNICEF World Health Organization Infant Mortality 1. How can we reduce HIV/Aids among children? 2. What is Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia (PCP)? How does it affect children? 3. What are some facts about children and HIV/AIDS? 4. What is happening on the mother-to-child transmission of HIV/ AIDS? 5. How can HIV/AIDS be transmitted to children? 6. How many orphans are there in the world because of HIV/AIDS? 7.What is the social impact of these orphans? 8. How is poverty linked to children having HIV/AIDS? 9.What can be done to help prevent HIV/AIDS being transmitted to children? SUGGESTED SOURCES: UNICEF World Health Organization Center for Disease and Control (CDC) CQ Researcher Red Cross Aids.org http://allafrica.com/stories/200509120770.html http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/specialreports/aids/index.asp http://www.thebody.com/asp/june01/youth.html http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ http://www.womenchildrenhiv.org/ http://www.avert.org/young.htm http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/ Africa & The World 1. What areas are impacted in Africa? 2. What is a pandemic? Epidemic?

3. How has the disease impacted society in Africa? 4. What are the numbers of people infected? Compare to the US. 5. What leads to the disease spreading? 6. Are certain groups impacted more severely than others? 7. Is this causing problems in countries near Africa? Migration? 8. What is being done to solve the problem? Does the same plan work as would work in other countries? The US? 9. How is the pandemic in Africa impact your life in Salem? 10.Visuals of heavily impacted areas and compare to US Web pages World Health Organization UNICEF Red Cross Center for Disease and Control (CDC) CQ Researcher Women & Aids 1. Why are women at greater risk than men in contacting HIV through heterosexual sex? 2. Why are women at greater risk than men because of anatomy? 3. What factors make it difficult for women to protect themselves? 4. How is poverty linked to women and HIV/AIDS? 5. How is access to health care linked to women and HIV/AIDS? 6. How is access to modern contraceptives linked to women and HIV/ AIDS? 7. Find global facts on infection rates for women 8. What local laws, policies and quality of life statistics, including HIV/AIDS, as they relate to women's reproductive health and rights are being formulated? 9. What is Women Alive? How does it help women with HIV/AIDS? 10.What needs to change for women to be less vulnerable to HIV/AIDS? SUGGESTED SOURCES: http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/specialreports/aids/index.asp http://www.newint.org/issue252/healthy.htm http://www.thebody.com/asp/june01/youth.html http://allafrica.com/stories/200509120770.html http://www.thebody.com/cdc/news_updates_archive/apr22_02/child_prostitution.html http://www.crlp.org/ww_iss_hiv.html http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ http://www.womenchildrenhiv.org/ http://www.avert.org/young.htm http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/ http://www.avert.org/origins.htm http://www.avert.org/children.htm CQ Researcher Center for Disease and Control (CDC) Red Cross Aids.org

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