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HIV/AIDS (Groups Vulnerable to HIV/AIDS (Girls and Young Women (Lack the…

- - - - The most common form of HIV/AIDS transmission is through sexual contact with an HIV-positive person. If a person already has Sexually Transmitted Disease(STD), the risk of infection is even higher since STD weakens the immune system.
      - Sharing of needles.
      - Blood transfusions
      - Transmitted from a pregnant mother to her baby.
  - - - Introduction of a disease to a location outside of its current geographic range
      - Often occurs when a community migrates from one location to another
- - - - Discrimination
        
        Refused access to health care facilities
        
        Rejection by family or community
        
        Expelled from school or denial from housing
    - - Unaware of how diseases is transmitted and do not know how to protect themselves
        
        Cultural Practices that keep girls from knowing about sex and sexuality till marriage
    - - Drug injection or sharing needles
        
        Refusal to use condoms
        
        Drug and alcohol intoxication affects judgement and can lead to unsafe medical practices, which put people at risk for getting HIV or transmitting it to someone else
    - - Mistakes, corruption and negligence associated with medical practices
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        Business activities such as the involvement in illegal drugs or commercial sex work
      - These women usually have limited education and job training
        
        Find employment in jobs with low pay and no job security
        
        Do commercial sex work
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        Movement of people from one place to another, often for work reasons, in search of better work opportunities
      - Separated from families for a long duration of time
        
        Live in a foreign place and feel socially excluded, lonely
        
        Involved in Risk-taking behaviours
        E.g Miners & Truck Drivers
      - Tourism
        
        take risks that they do not take in their home country
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        Situations in which large numbers of children lose their parents due to HIV/AIDS
      - Orphans usually vulnerable to forced labour, forced into the sex industry and recruitment as child soldiers
  - - - Medication: Antiretroviral drugs
        
        Have to be taken daily for a lifetime
        -Expensive ( E.g in some LDCs, cost $69 -$900per year )
      - Mothers with HIV AIDS
        
        Receive antenatal treatment, which is treatment prior to delivery, to reduce the risk of passing on HIV/AIDS
    - - Shortage of skilled labour in the workforce
      - Employees with HIV/AIDS absent from work
      - Lack of funds result in less effective education system, resulting in lower skilled work force
        
        A lower skilled workforce deters foreign investment and hinder economic growth