Prevention Program for AIDS in Youth in US

PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR
AIDS IN YOUTH IN US

Introduction
• One of the global problem that had affected the youth worldwide
• It has also affected huge number of youths in the US population mainly
affecting the cohort from 13 to 24 years (Boyer et al., 2017)
• Centre for diseases, control and prevention have showed that about 22%
of the US youths accounting for about 44000 in number have been
affected by the disorder.

Review of Literature
• The prevalence of stage 3 AID in US at the end of 2015 was found to be
about 304.0 for the males and 90.2 for the females and the adolescents
• 25% of the infections are spread due to the injection used while
administering drugs in the individuals (Muhib et al., 2016).
• Lack of knowledge about the infection is one of the reasons of disease
transmission and therefore unprotected sex can be one of the reason for
the increased number of prevalence in the nation

Purpose of the Project
• Promotion of the community level awareness about AIDS within a target
community
• Popularizing the concept of partner notification for effective prevention of
the transmission of the infection (Clatts et al., 2017)
• Providing effective counseling for the patients with different positive
results