Essays about: "HIV prevention thesis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words HIV prevention thesis.

  1. 1. Modelling the Impact of Drug Resistance on Treatment as Prevention as an HIV Control Strategy

    University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Andreas Rylander; Liam Persson; [2019]
    Keywords : Bachelor Thesis; Applied Mathematics; Stochastic Modelling; HIV; HIV Control Strategy; Resistance Profiling; Treatment as Prevention; Kandidatexamensarbete; Tillämpad Matematik; Stokastisk Modellering; HIV; Smittorisk-förebyggande Behandling av HIV; Resistansprofilering;

    Abstract : Uganda is using a strategy called treatment as prevention where as many individuals as possible that are infected with HIV receive treatment. As a result, the number of newly infected individuals has decreased significantly. However, there is a discussion about a potential problem regarding transmitted drug resistance. READ MORE

  3. 2. You can’t eat the sweet with the paper on : An anthropological study of perceptions of HIV and HIV prevention among Xhosa youth in Cape Town, South Africa

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Kajsa Yllequist; [2018]
    Keywords : HIV; HIV prevention; condom attitudes; Xhosa youth; loveLife; gender inequality; hegemonic masculinity; ulwaluko.;

    Abstract : South Africa has the biggest HIV epidemic in the world and the HIV rates among youth are especially alarming. In 2016 there were 110 000 new cases of HIV among 15 to 24-year-olds. The aim of this study is to describe and analyse perceptions of HIV and HIV prevention among Xhosa youth in the township of Langa, Cape Town. READ MORE

  4. 3. Is it enough to ‘add homosexual men and stir’? The significance of materialism in HIV prevention in the Global South.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Katharina Jemima Hopp; [2017]
    Keywords : HIV AIDS; homosexual; Uganda; materialism; sexual citizenship; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Given the HIV/AIDS peak in the 1980s, Uganda has been hailed as a success story after having dramatically decreased the infection rate in the 2000s. However, the country’s HIV/AIDS rate has started to increase again in recent years. READ MORE

  5. 4. From Deadly Disease to Chronic Condition : A Study of the Gay Casualties in the 'War on AIDS' in Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Fredrik Nyman; [2015]
    Keywords : HIV; AIDS; blood; knowledge production; policy; bureaucracy; documents; risk; gay men; prevention; treatment; stigmatization; heteronormativity;

    Abstract : Every society in the world has its own AIDS story. A story of uncertainty, moral panic, and social persecution of sexual and ethnical minorities. Sweden is no exception. READ MORE

  6. 5. Exporting Sexual and Reproductive Values - A study on the existence of U.S. SRHR politics in international AIDS relief and prevention aid in Africa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Jennifer Hagy; [2014]
    Keywords : Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights SRHR ; United States President´s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief PEPFAR ; United States Agency for International Development USAID ; HIV AIDS; women and international development; sexuality; motherhood; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the ideologies and moral values regarding sexuality and gender within the United States national realm of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR); and furthermore what how these ideologies and morals are translated into development policy. Through the method interrogative insertion, I have explored in the U.S. READ MORE