Community Health And Population Assignment

Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION-FOCUSED NURSING
Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing
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COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION-FOCUSED NURSING1
Table of Content
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Description of the Outbreak.......................................................................................................2
Epidemiological determinants and risk factors..........................................................................2
Route of transmission.................................................................................................................3
Potential impact on community at a systems level....................................................................3
Effective reporting protocol.......................................................................................................4
Recommended prevention strategies..........................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION-FOCUSED NURSING2
Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to discuss about the epidemic outbreak of HIV virus and
the present and potential impact on human society internationally. For this in the following
section the description of the HIV/AIDS has been discussed along with epidemiological
determinants and risk factors. After that the route or transmission has been analyzed followed
by potential impact on community at system level. The effective reporting protocol along
with recommendations for prevention strategies have been discussed.
Description of the Outbreak
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS is a syndrome caused by a virus
called human immunodeficiency virus or HIV. As per the report of World Health
Organization on Adult HIV Prevalence in 2018, currently the major involved countries are
South Africa, Ukraine, Thailand, Guyana, the countries in southern Africa continent, counties
of south eastern Asia, other countries of South America continent and Australia. The first
outbreak of AIDS is discovered in April 24, 1980, when Ken Horne a resident of San
Francisco reported to the Centre of Disease control (Sabin & Lundgren, 2013). Before 1920
the HIV was only reported in Congo. Within 1980s the disease spread across five major
continents namely North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia. From 1990s
the disease also started to be spread in south eastern Asian countries (Vuilleumier &
Bonhoeffer, (2015).
Epidemiological determinants and risk factors
Rather than epidemiological determinants HIV/AIDS is associated with behavioral
risk factors. The risk factors HIV transmission among heterosexual population include
number of sex partners, frequency of unprotected intercourse, commercial sex, a history of or
concurrent infection with an STD, lack of male circumcision, and anal intercourse (who.int.,