Health Promotion HIV AIDS
Module title: Health Promotion HIV & AIDS Introduction The purpose of this poster is to help young people and anyone else who is interested about themselves and hopefully, to raise awareness, to enable them to avoid contracting HIV and AIDS. AIDS is caused by a virus called Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). HIV can infect cells in the blood and in other tissues including the brain. HIV mainly infects cells of the immune system which is the body’s defence against disease. ... These cells are important in co-ordinating the immune response, and as they eventually decline in number the HIV positive person is more likely to get certain infections, known as ‘opportunistic infections, and cancers. When certain specific opportunistic infections or cancers develop, a person is considered to have AIDS. The time between becoming infected with HIV and developing AIDS is on average 8 to 10 years. ... Why is HIV and AIDS education important for young people? Young people are especially vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s). ... Its easy to think that AIDS is something for other people to worry about - gay people, drug users, people who sleep around. This is wrong - all teens, whoever they are, wherever they live need to take the threat of HIV seriously. ... htm) One way of promoting health in the community is by using Beattie’s model (Niadoo, 2002) of intervention, which the writer has chosen on designing the health promotion poster on the facts of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency (Aids). This is to promote health awareness to young people with an age group of 15 to 24 years, because of the constant reminder of the media and the news papers about how many people are affected and dying of Aids. Beattie’s model (Niadoo 2002), have four paradigms for health promotion, these are generated from the dimensions of mode of intervention these are, The Individual Authoritarian, The Individual Negotiated, The Collective Negotiated and The Collective Authoritarian. ... The purpose for utilising Beattie’s model (Niadoo 2002) is because it includes a variety of methods, from giving advice, education and behaviour change interventions such as lifestyle and focused on the individual responsibility to practice safer sex, on our campaign of HIV and Aids. ... The writer is aware, that these methods visualise a different and more equal relationship between the health promoter and the client than those used from the individual authoritarian. The promotion of health is to be negotiated between both parties, taking into account people’s beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge. ... The writer feels that these highlight an understanding of the processes, which have an effect on health outcomes and assist people to develop the skills to challenge these processes. ... The writer understands that when dealing with individuals with sensitive issues like HIV and AIDS a more suitable method of intervention is needed to be designed to protect individual’s rights, therefore a poster was chosen as the means of communicating the knowledge to the masses.