Assignment on Impact of Social Determinate on Health of Sex Worker

The impact of social determinants of health on
specific vulnerable group in two different
countries

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a cause of AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency
syndrome). It is a condition which resultant life-threatening infections and cancers as a result of
immune system failure (Šehović, 2017). Social determinants of health encompass various
conditions in which people in a community grow, work and live. Power and resource
availability, monetary distribution, social gradient, exclusion, social support, addiction habits are
several circumstances which affect everyone’s health conditions. Sex worker is a specific group
of people that can be defined as an individual who earn money as a consideration in return for
rendered sexual services. This assignment aims at examining the impact of several social
determinates i.e. stigma, discrimination, social justice, gender and sexuality, living environment
and health care system on the health of sex workers as specific vulnerable group. Despite various
health awareness and promotional campaigns in Australia, HIV rate shows a rapid increase.
According to Australian Federation of AIDS, in 2015, there were 25,313 people recorded as HIV
positive out of these, 90% were diagnosed by the year end. Out of these, 68% cases reported
sexual contact between men as a key reason of HIV while 20% were caused by heterosexual sex
and 5% as a result of use of injected drugs. Although after a rise in 2012, new diagnoses
treatment stabilized the number of HIV positive people; still, there is a significant proportion of
people are HIV positive. In Tanzania, the number of HIV positive people is 1.4 million, out of
which, 4.7% are adults. According to 2016 statistics, 33,000 people dead due to AIDS and in the
year, 55000 people were discovered with new HIV infection (Ahaneku & et. al., 2016). Thus, the
present essay will discuss and critically examine the impact of social determinants of health on
sex workers in two different countries; Australia and Tanzania.
MAIN BODY
AIDS is not a disease as it comprises number of symptoms. If in an individual, some
serious infectious found and damage his immune system to a great extent, then it will be called
AIDS. It flows through three different stage including Acute HIV infection, chronic HIV
infection and AIDS at final stage (Whiteside, 2016). First stage develops within around 2-4 wks
after HIV infection and fever, rashes, headache are some of the common symptoms of it. In this
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