Course Details

Course offered Spring 2011

Honors 392 A: HIV/AIDs: Issues & Challenges (SSc / NSc)

Honors 392 A: HIV/AIDs: Issues & Challenges (SSc / NSc)

SLN 14173 (View UW registration info »)

Danuta Kasprzyk (Family & Child Nursing)
Phone: 206-524-9314
Email: kasprzyk@uw.edu
Dan Montano (Family & Child Nursing)
Phone: 206.616.0709
Email: montano@uw.edu

Credits: 5
Limit: 15 students

Honors Credit Type

Cross-listed with G H 490 B.
As part of course requirements, students will create a glossary of five terms taken from readings or lectures, to be turned in twice weekly by midnight the day before each class period.

Students will be required to write a 15 page research paper. Students will choose a developing country and describe how the in-country AIDS epidemic affects the country Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Students will summarize the in-country AIDS epidemic in terms of epidemiology (disease transmission and spread), prevention (medical/clinical and/or behavioral), and impact (individual, family, community). Students will then show evidence of how the in-country AIDS epidemic affects the likelihood of achieving the MDGs for their chosen country. Finally, students will make evidence-based recommendations targeting the AIDS epidemic for their chosen country and describe how this will affect achievement of the MDGs.

Papers will be due last week of class (June 4).

An optional discussion group to discuss issues in more depth will be held after class on Thursdays.

The course grade is based on the weighting of the paper at 90%, 5% for glossary terms, and 5% for attendance.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Summarize the history of the AIDS epidemic
2. Explain how the human-immunodeficiency virus enters the body and attacks the immune system
3. Describe clinical symptoms and manifestations of HIV and AIDS, outline disease stages and describe disease progression, including acquisition of opportunistic illnesses
4. Compare the treatment policies and options for HIV and AIDS disease between developed and developing countries
5. Summarize issues related to effective treatment of HIV in both developed and developing countries
6. Describe the factors associated with differing nations’ patterns of HIV spread
7. Discuss transmission patterns in relation to risk behaviors, describing sexual, drug and maternal-child transmission of HIV
8. Recognize the differing patterns in the national and international spread of HIV and AIDS and explain how risk behaviors and risk factors vary around the world
9. Distinguish the differential risk patterns of the spread of HIV in different countries around the world, and describe how these patterns create different AIDS epidemics
10. Identify how biological and behavioral co-factors, including other sexually transmitted diseases, play a role in the world-wide spread of HIV
11. Discuss effective medical/clinical, vaccine and behavioral HIV prevention strategies
12. Summarize the psycho-social, medical, and economic impact of HIV or AIDS on individuals, families, communities and nations
13. Delineate how the HIV/AIDS epidemic in a chosen country affects that country’s ability to reach the Millennium Development Goals
14. Respond to individuals with HIV who present in class as a panel

Course text: AIDS: Science and Society. 6th (SIXTH) edition, Fan, Conner, Villarreal. Available at the University bookstore.

Chapter summaries, review questions (for Fan, et al., 5th edition) can be accessed at: http://bioscience.jbpub.com/book/fan5e/index.cfm. Though these are for the 5th editions, they may help in understanding of the material.