Scholarly Nursing Project: HIV/AIDS Awareness and Prevention Program

This project presentation focuses on an HIV/AIDS awareness initiative. It begins with an overview of the problem, including statistical data on HIV/AIDS prevalence, particularly among youth. The research rationale emphasizes the need for community awareness and early detection. The project's aims and objectives include promoting community awareness, encouraging partner notification, and providing counseling to patients. The expected outcomes are successful self-management tactics for patients, increased detection rates, and reduced prevalence. The project timeline outlines activities from topic selection to final outcomes. The presentation includes a detailed literature review and references. This project is a scholarly nursing project which is research-based and reflects the integration of theory and practice. The project involves a range of action steps, presentation of the project to a selected group of people, and analysis of audience knowledge. This project aims to address a health-related topic and is a practice-based and/or research-oriented project, which has a clearly defined purpose and expected outcome(s).

PROJECT PRESENTATION
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Background of the problem
 HIV AIDS can be defined as a disorder
that leads to suppressed immunological
response of the body (Lansky et al.,
2014)
 In accordance with the recent statistical
figures, it has been predicted that 1.1
million of the youth population in the U.S
are affected with AIDS (Hall et al., 2013)
 Studies reveal that there is an 8%
increase in the number of people
infected with AIDS each year (Johnson et
al., 2014)

Research Rationale:
 The alarming rate of increase in the
prevalence rate of HIV has emerged
out to be a major concern at the
national level
 The rationale for conducting the
research is to create awareness
among a community population so
as to encourage prior testing to
detect the infection

Aims and Objectives:
 The prime objectives of this research
would comprise of the following:
 To promote community level
awareness about AIDS within a
target community
 To popularise the concept of partner
notification so as to prevent the
transmission of infection
 To provide counselling to patients
with positive results

Expected Outcome:
 The expected outcome for the
research proposal would comprise of
the following:
 Imparting successful self-
management tactics to the positively
screened patients
 A 5% increase in the detection rate
of the infection within the initial
phase
 Popularising partner notification and
reducing the prevalence rate by 5%
Outcome 1
• Imparting successful self-management
strategies to positively screened patients
Outcome 2
• Increase detection of the infection at initial
phase by 5%
Outcome 3
• Popularising partner notification and reducing
the prevalence rate of HIV infection by 5%

Proposed timeline:
 The proposed time line for the
project is discussed below:
 Selection of research topic: 0-2
weeks
 Literature Review: 3-6 weeks
 Data collection: 7-8 weeks
 Data analysis: 9-10 weeks
 Final outcome: by the end of the 14th
week
0-2 3-6 7-8 9-10 14th
Research
Activities
Weeks Weeks Weeks Weeks Week
selection
of
Research
topic
■
Literature
Review ■
Data
collection ■
Data
analysis
■
Final
outcome
■

References:
Hall, H. I., Holtgrave, D. R., Tang, T., & Rhodes, P. (2013). HIV transmission in the United States:
considerations of viral load, risk behavior, and health disparities. AIDS and Behavior, 17(5), 1632-1636.
Johnson, A. S., Hall, H. I., Hu, X., Lansky, A., Holtgrave, D. R., & Mermin, J. (2014). Trends in diagnoses of
HIV infection in the United States, 2002-2011. Jama, 312(4), 432-434.
Lansky, A., Finlayson, T., Johnson, C., Holtzman, D., Wejnert, C., Mitsch, A., ... & Crepaz, N. (2014).
Estimating the number of persons who inject drugs in the United States by meta-analysis to calculate
national rates of HIV and hepatitis C virus infections. PloS one, 9(5), e97596.
Rosenberg, E. S., Grey, J. A., Sanchez, T. H., & Sullivan, P. S. (2016). Rates of prevalent HIV infection,
prevalent diagnoses, and new diagnoses among men who have sex with men in US states,
metropolitan statistical areas, and counties, 2012-2013. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2(1).
Shea, K. M., Kammerer, J. S., Winston, C. A., Navin, T. R., & Horsburgh Jr, C. R. (2013). Estimated rate of
reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection in the United States, overall and by population
subgroup. American journal of epidemiology, 179(2), 216-225.

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