Sorry about last week and not posting up a blog. I have been in and out of the hospital the past couple of weeks because of my anemia. But I am now back on track. The country that I chose to look into was Switzerland. I wanted to know what some of the European states were doing about the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I came to see that in Switzerland they have a pretty good hold on the situation. According to the university of California, San Francisco the adult prevalence of AIDS in Switzerland is 0.6 percent. Over the years they have been able to control the spread of AIDS. One of the things that I thought was interesting about Switzerland is one of the laws that they have implemented. Before you have unprotected sex you have to tell the person about your personal history. If you transmit HIV/AIDS to someone else you can be considered liable in a court of law whether you knew or not. With this law it forces people to be aware and check. Awareness is key and having to tell your sexual history makes it easier for others to know, and knowing makes it easier to make the proper precautions. When it comes to confidentiality and the laws that they have put in place. Switzerland goes by the UNAIDS protocol. This is simply rules and regulations that are designed to protect people living with the disease, so that they can have normal lives. These protocols protect people in the nine areas of everyday life, and at three levels: legislation, written regulations, and actual practices. That to me was a sigh of relief. It is refreshing to know that there are certain places that are really doing things to try and get a hold of this epidemic. And it is also nice to know that they are trying to help others affected by the virus be able to have a normal life, and not have to worry about being discriminated because of it.
Cite:
Bernard, Edwin. (2008, July 18). European AIDS treatment group. Retrieved from www.eatg.org
(2001). HIV/AIDS institutional discrimination in Switzerland. Social science and medicin, 52(10), Retrieved from www.sciencedirect.com doi: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00266-5
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Soraya, what don't you understand about blogging. Each week you are to do your general blog about what you have been learning or growing from with respect to the course. You are to do a piece on your research topic called Did You Know and then if I add something to that week, you do that as well. You don't substitute the add on for the entire blog. You are losing valuable points each week because you are not doing as instructed.
ReplyDeleteHow can you hold someone liable if they themselves do not know they are HIV positive. If asked the question they would say no, to the best of my knowledge I do not have HIV. Then low and behold they do and pass it on. Seems to me that Switzerland would do better to required an HIV antibody test before individuals could hook up. Then everyone would know for sure. The drawback to that thinking though is that the test wouldn't last for long; a day at the most. So you can see how difficult it is to be able to tell someone for certain that you are negative.
A sexual history is just that. I slept with 10 people in the last 10 years. That averages out to one per year. To the best of my knowledge no one was HIV positive. How can you dispute that statement?
Nice post.