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Products, events and programmes
Published in Roger Silver, Health Service Public Relations, 2018
Materials provided for a national or international campaign, such as World AIDS Day, can be enhanced not only by the way they are used but by adding a few inexpensive extras. In recent years, the symbol of World AIDS Day activities has been a red ribbon, worn to signify support for people who are HIV positive or have AIDS.
Sexual health promotion for black and minority ethnic men
Published in Laura Serrant-Green, John McLuskey, Alan White, The Sexual Health of Men, 2018
Laura Serrant-Green, John McLuskey, Alan White
The project has challenged myths and stereotypes that surround black men and their sexual health. It has demonstrated that they will use condoms but often the problem is around accessibility of condoms. You either have to be under 18 years old or feel confident using a sexual health service to access free condoms, otherwise you pay for them, and condoms are often not a priority when you have limited funds. It also gives us a platform to promote campaigns such as Sexual Health Week and World AIDS Day, and in the past additional resources have been produced such as mugs and calendars featuring health education messages and the participant businesses from Awaredressers. The calendars were handed out to clients and have kept the HIV/safer sex message on walls throughout the year, as well as featuring all those involved. This has been very successful and will hopefully be continued each year.
Talking about sex
Published in Hilary Curtis, Tony Hoolaghan, Carey Jewitt, Sexual Health Promotion in General Practice, 2018
Hilary Curtis, Tony Hoolaghan, Carey Jewitt
A ‘hook’ or ‘excuse’ can be used, for example, ‘Because World AIDS Day(1 December)/Valentine’s Day/the holiday season/Christmas is coming up, we’re having a special focus this week on sexual health. Do you have any concerns you would like to raise about your relationships and sex life, or about AIDS?’
Learning about occupation together: An interdisciplinary graduate course
Published in Journal of Occupational Science, 2023
Suzanne Huot, Laura Yvonne Bulk, Natasha Damiano, Anne-Cécile Delaisse, Bahareh Kardeh, Saori Ogura, Susan Forwell
Through this course and the co-construction of the two assignments through class discussions, I explored the potential of Lefebvre’s (1991) theory of the production of space to develop an occupationally informed interpretation of this theory for application within my thesis. This entailed examining how occupation is relevant to Lefebvre’s theory, what can be learned about occupation by applying this theory, and what novel contribution occupational science can make to understanding the spatiality of occupation. The first assignment provided an opportunity for me to apply Lefebvre’s theory to a specific example involving a particular occupation. I chose to analyse the Act up-Paris protests at place de la concorde on world AIDS Day in 1993 (Ernst, 1997). The protests were organized to raise awareness about the epidemic that was receiving little attention from the public or the State at that time. The discussions prior to the assignment allowed me to choose this specific situation that would serve as an archetype to shape an initial occupationally informed understanding of the theory. Moreover, the discussion during the oral presentation of the assignment allowed me to see the relevance of Lefebvre’s theory to the study of occupation more broadly, as other students shared their reflections regarding how they could relate aspects of this theory to their own research.
Effectiveness of a Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge and Attitudes Toward HIV among Young Women in India
Published in Journal of Community Health Nursing, 2018
Sujayalakshmi Devarayasamudram, Jennie C. De Gagne, Neeraja P. Kurudi, Hee Sun Kang
This study’s findings have several implications. HIV should be a significant part of the community nursing curriculum as nurses could play a pivotal role in increasing their patients’ knowledge about and attitudes towards HIV. It is also important for nurse educators to plan, organize, and supervise HIV education campaigns in various settings such as tribal, urban slum, and rural areas. STPs should be a standard in nursing practice. Nurse practitioners, in any setting, ought to conduct individual, family, and group counseling sessions on HIV. Practitioners in the maternity setting may carry out activities such as counseling of antenatal women on the significance of HIV testing and conducting safe delivery of HIV-infected women. Nurses in clinical settings can also play a vital role in planning, organizing, and implementing the World AIDS day awareness campaigns. Nurse practitioners should take an active role and work with home care agencies and other community agencies to provide follow-up services for clients with HIV/AIDS. Nursing administrators have to motivate hospital administrators to sponsor the nurses so they can participate in continuing education programs to keep up to date on their knowledge and practices related to providing care to the HIV-infected clients and their families. They should identify resources and teaching/learning materials and make these available for nurses to use in the community to create awareness regarding HIV. At the national and international levels, collaborative efforts are needed to reduce social disparities related to HIV.
Opting Out: Aging Gays, HIV/AIDS and the Bio-Politics of Queer Viral Time
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2022
At another meeting, PrEP was mentioned again when members discussed the recent Toronto LGBTQ Pride Parade (June 2018): One member stated that the parade was full of pharmaceutical companies and their floats for PrEP and ART drugs, which mostly consisted of good looking men carrying placards along the parade route or cute gay couples staring out at the crowd on posters mounted on balloon-festooned flat-bed trucks. Robert stated that PrEP now dominates all LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS events like the Pride Parade and World AIDS day (December 1) and that these “sales pitches” were “brainwashing” people: “AIDS day should be about AIDS, not PrEP.”