I have to start out by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of taking H312this term. I have learned so much about the variety of health topics that was covered all through the class as well as understand how important and vital health education the the public really is, even about such talk as SEX in public or in a classroom.
One of the major highlights that I beleive that I will walk away from the class glad that I learned was the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. I had never even heard of it before taking this class. It is hard to beleive that the experiments that occured as well as the amount of time this evil experiment happend for!!!! I have also found how important for students and citizens for that matter to be infomred on a regular basis about the variety of health matters that are present. The United States lives in a nut-shell at time, seeing that it is not uncommon for people to engage in risky behavior but have the mindset that
Its kind of a funny, but wierd thing all at the same time. Since taking this class, I will walk around campus as a young college student that I am and will notice certain health problems/promotions that I have learned about in class. For example, down at the Health Services office, there is a basket that is full of condoms, which is a basic form of health promotion.
If I could change one thing, it would be a tie between one special speakers come into class and and share what it is like living with a certain virus (ex: HIV/AIDS - BOB and TB?, Syphilis?) and putting an actual condom on an actual bannana!!! Other than that, I honestly thought the class was awsome!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Bob Skinner
One thing that I did learn from listening to Bob’s testimony about living with AIDS is that it is a very expensive virus to deal with. Through his life, Bob has found ways to make ends meet to help not only pay for the antibiotics and medicine needed to fight and sustain the virus, but also to try and have money to live off of. However, I am thoroughly disappointed that Bob didn’t really discuss how it is living with AIDS, but rather it seemed very informal on his part, and more like a basic health class.
I thought that Bob’s experience is similar in many ways to other people around the world on the basis that he is a man that did contract the HIV virus from homosexual risky behavior. However, after listening to what he had to say, it seemed as though being infected never really bothered him since he was happy participating in all the risky behavior that he didn’t really care what happened latter on. Even now, he is very open to how hard it is to live with the virus, but I got the feeling that it didn’t really change his very on risky behavior.
I think to state the obvious is that in Bob’s situation, he is a very lucky man. He has the privilege and access to immediate health care that the United States has available that a good portion of other countries on a global scale struggle to make ends meet. Bob stressed on the fact that here in the United States he has the ability to work with the government to educate the public on a wide variety of topics, one including options to help pay for the expensive costs for the medicine and antibiotics needed for proper treatment. However, this is a huge privilege seeing that in some countries is actually very rare to have a person that is educated about such health topics, let alone programs that are installed and ready to go in the country to help with pricy costs, like in the United States.
Bob had mentioned that in majority of HIV/AIDS patients are heterosexual. He went on to say that condom use is not taught in rural places as commonly as in the city. Social inequality comes into play as women do not have the same status as a man does in aspects of condom use, which makes sense in the spread of HIV. Also, education of such health topics is not as common as in the city. In the city, citizens have access to things such as newspapers, internet, television and other helpful resources that lend a helping hand with informing the public; not always present in urban communities.
I thought that Bob’s experience is similar in many ways to other people around the world on the basis that he is a man that did contract the HIV virus from homosexual risky behavior. However, after listening to what he had to say, it seemed as though being infected never really bothered him since he was happy participating in all the risky behavior that he didn’t really care what happened latter on. Even now, he is very open to how hard it is to live with the virus, but I got the feeling that it didn’t really change his very on risky behavior.
I think to state the obvious is that in Bob’s situation, he is a very lucky man. He has the privilege and access to immediate health care that the United States has available that a good portion of other countries on a global scale struggle to make ends meet. Bob stressed on the fact that here in the United States he has the ability to work with the government to educate the public on a wide variety of topics, one including options to help pay for the expensive costs for the medicine and antibiotics needed for proper treatment. However, this is a huge privilege seeing that in some countries is actually very rare to have a person that is educated about such health topics, let alone programs that are installed and ready to go in the country to help with pricy costs, like in the United States.
Bob had mentioned that in majority of HIV/AIDS patients are heterosexual. He went on to say that condom use is not taught in rural places as commonly as in the city. Social inequality comes into play as women do not have the same status as a man does in aspects of condom use, which makes sense in the spread of HIV. Also, education of such health topics is not as common as in the city. In the city, citizens have access to things such as newspapers, internet, television and other helpful resources that lend a helping hand with informing the public; not always present in urban communities.
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