Disparities of DiseaseHIV/AIDSTextbook: 412-416

Today’s learning goals:•What is HIV? What is AIDS?•What is a pandemic•What area of the world has been the most

affected?•What is the history of HIV/AIDS?

Timeline, locations, gender, ignorance, 4 words, speed

•What is happening in Africa?•What can be done to solve the problem?

In Africa – 4 words, ABCs, Empower, Treatment, Support

In Core Nations – ARVs, Cost, Funding, Research

•What’s next?

Activity:• We are going to explore how a disease like

HIV/AIDS spreads

• You will each receive a piece of paper informing you whether or not you are HIV/AIDS + or -

• You will move around the classroom and each round, you will shake hands with someone

• If they blink twice while shaking your hand you have contracted HIV/AIDS. (If they don’t you’re virus free)

• If you were blinked at this means that when you shake the next person’s hand you can choose to blink twice at them, passing on the disease, or not.

Reactions to the activity?•How did you feel moving through the activity?

•Between whom did the disease spread?• (Male, Female, Parent-child)

•Knowing what you do now about HIV/AIDS, how could this activity be modified to improve or make the problem worse?

• (Disclosure, parent-child, empowerment, education etc.)

Worth Reading

•http://www.amazon.com/We-Are-All-The-Same/dp/1594200289

Dallas Buyers Club

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8utPuIFVnU

•2013 Film about HIV/AIDS in the USA. Set in the 1980s when there was limited access to the medicine azidothymidine (AZT) for those who were infected with HIV.