Noteworthy & “Command Performances” Both Near & Far
Sex and drugs and more sex and Rock’in Roll, and so on and so on…Did drugs contribute to your HIV status? Are they fueling the younger generations getting HIV and other STIs? Education about practicing safer sex, knowing how drugs fit in, and making some better choices will help change transmission rates.
Vaccines are only about 200 years old but have been the biggest impact to lowering healthcare costs and reducing human illness, disability and death than any one other intervention. Science is just begun in treating other chronic diseases with vaccines and the research is on-going.
Dec 1, 2017 – New Delhi : India has the third highest number of estimated people living with HIV in the world. The estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India was 2.08 million (20.9 lakhs in 2011) out of which an enormous 86% of whom were in 15-49 years age group. Nebraska total population is around 1.9 million…Huh.
About 36.5 million Americans still smoke cigarettes, and tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the world. While cigarette smoking rates have dropped (from 42% in 1965 to 15.1% in 2015), cigar, pipe, and hookah – other dangerous and addictive ways to smoke tobacco – are very much on the rise.
It is estimated that about 900,000 Americans get pneumococcal pneumonia each year and about 5-7% die from it (approximately 4500 – 6300). As many as 400,000 hospitalizations from pneumococcal pneumonia are estimated to occur each year in the United States alone.
“Although being intersex is relatively common, there remains a startling lack of awareness among the general population. Even as our culture has made strides toward greater understanding and acceptance of transgender rights, intersexuality remains under-recognized and taboo.”
There are currently hundreds of thousands of lung cancer survivors in the United States.
Catching it early and being able to remove it surgically results in the best outcomes, but people with all stages of lung cancer (yes, even stage IV!) have lived many happy years beyond diagnosis.
COPD can be mistaken for a sign of aging or asthma. But COPD is something different–a chronic, progressive condition that can get worse over time.
One Special day to GET IT from Anothers Point-of-View! Understanding that something exists is only the beginning of incorporating it into one’s realm of understanding.… Read More »Intersex Awareness Day Oct 26, 2017
Understanding the Asexual Community-One person at a time National and International Asexual Awareness Week providing definitions and basic information – A great place to get… Read More »Asexual Awareness Week Oct 19 – 25, 2017