Health - HIV/AIDS Flashcards
1
Q
Causes of HIV/AIDS
A
- unprotected sex with infected person
- sharing needles
pregnant woman passing onto babies
2
Q
Effects of HIV/AIDS in developed countries
A
- Treatment is expensive
- negative impact of families
- poor welbeing of effected person
- family meber having to take car of you
- inability to work
3
Q
Effects of HIV/AIDS in developing countries
A
- inability to work resulting in no income
- lots more deaths compared to developed countries
- treatment is expensive
- children miss school too look after poeple
- children can be left orphaned
- people dying younger
4
Q
strategies used to manage HIV/AIDS
A
- drugs to slow down effects of the virus
- health education programmes
- Agencies made funding available
