Question:

HIV aids is a serious problem in the youth of the world. The US has a high number of infected youth.

In the United States, this disease is not limited to young people.

HIV is a virus-borne illness. The responsible virus is Human immunodeficiency viruses.

HIV infection among young people is mostly due to sexual behavior among students.

HIV is affecting nearly half the US young population.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Johnson et al. 2014) reported that almost 22% US youth between 13 and 24 years old were infected by HIV in 2014. This equates to almost 44000 people with HIV.

If you look at the case of youths who use intravenous injection drugs, you will see that infection is very common.

This report discusses HIV infection rates in US youths.

A number of ways that infection can be reduced are also discussed.

This report covers the main objective, implementation procedure, and influencing factor of the project.

Definitions

HIV: This virus is an immunodeficient subgroup of retrovirus. It is responsible for AIDS. It can cause progressive organ failure in the body, and possibly death (Chun. Moir. & Fauci.2015).

Retrovirus: These viruses can insert their DNA into the host and cause infection (Knight & Collins & Takeuchi 2013).

Injection of drugs can be linked to the transmission blood-borne diseases such as AIDS.

Lansky et.al.

According to Lansky and al. (2014), 8% of US population have used inject drugs, which is people with drug inject ( PWID).

Answer to Question: NUR 6301 Advanced Nursing Theories

One of the major problems that has affected youth globally is It has also affected large numbers of youths in the US, mainly the cohort between 13 and 24 years old (Boyer, et al, 2017). The Centre for diseases control and prevention estimates that around 22% of US teenagers have been affected, accounting for roughly 44000 people.

At the end of 2015, US stage-3 AID was at 304.0 and 90.2 respectively. For adolescents, 25% of the infections were spread by the use of injections to administer drugs to them (Muhib et.al., 2016).

Lack of knowledge about the infection can lead to disease transmission. This could explain why there is an increase in AIDS prevalence in the country. Promoting the idea of partner notification for effective prevention (Clatts et.al. 2017, 2017).

The provision of effective counseling for patients with various positive results. When choosing the right setting, the rehabilitation unit of the university would be chosen. Students in these units are often involved in drug taking behavior and it would be beneficial to target them (Johnson and al., 2014).

To fully understand the situation of the subject, a nurse will be sent to the hospital.

A survey should take place. After analysing the data, Health promotion plans would be created to address the gaps in knowledge among young people (Fisher et. al. 2016,).

One hundred and fifty (51) students from the rehabilitation center would be considered for the survey. 150 first-year graduates would also be considered.

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