WELLNESS 7

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6-2 Final Project Milestone Four

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6-2 Final Project Milestone Four

6-2 Final Project Milestone Four: Analyzing an Issue or Event in Wellness Through the Lenses of the Natural and Applied Sciences

T’Erica Huff

Analyzation of HIV/AIDs through the Lens of Natural and Applied Sciences

HIV mutates quickly, and various strains of the virus make scientific advancements in the field difficult. Literature mainly stresses the significance of social factors in HIV/AIDS epidemics and its theory as a complement to both natural and applied sciences, methods for scientific research (Burman, Moerschell, Mamabolo, Aphane, & Delobelle, 2015). HIV provides a social commentary through the natural and applied sciences because the impetus of the issue came from scholars' initial discussion about the various innovations that characterize the epidemic. Working from natural and applied sciences sites, the researchers steadily emphasized the social part to understand AIDS significantly, thus opening up avenues for scientific reimagining and critique.

Science can help resolve and enhance the HIV/AIDS issue by facilitating the HIV research process. New prevention and treatment tools have brought most individuals within reach of ending the HIV/AIDs epidemic. With this objective, most governments are focused on both treatment targets and ambitious testing, while most global guidelines call for immediate treatment for all persons diagnosed with HIV (Burman, Moerschell, Mamabolo, Aphane, & Delobelle, 2015).Additionally, several treatment programs have been prioritized in most HIV affected areas. Social sciences play a crucial role in rolling out the ambitious HIV programs by coming up with numerous factors that impact the universal treatment and test of HIV/AIDs.

Analyzation of HIV/AIDs through the Lens of Social Sciences

The social science lens helps articulate a deeper understanding of the social issues that inform the HIV/AIDs issue by making numerous advances that have been made effective by the HIV/AIDs treatment and prevention program. These mainly entails the public health implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and the proof of concept that is mainly aimed at reducing HIV transmission and providing definite evidence of clinical gain obtained from antiretroviral treatments (Vincent, Sevelius, Lippman, Linnemayr, & Arnold, 1999).

As such, significant procedures have been implemented to comprehend both behavioral and social contexts that mainly affect the HIV prevention program, care, and various treatment interventions. These mainly entail the facilitation of counseling and testing, coming up with technologically based interventions that raise the viral suppression to the affected individuals, decreasing stigma and addressing other structural and socio-behavioral barriers to HIV/AIDS treatment and care (Vincent, Sevelius, Lippman, Linnemayr, & Arnold, 1999). Social sciences provide a juncture that is significant in assessing both the current and future plans for HIV/AIDS research in social sciences. An example of a functional framework related to the behavioral and social sciences research include the understanding of both the vulnerable populations and those at risk, improving various social approaches that are crucial to the care and prevention of HIV/AIDs and strengthening both the outcomes and design that are biomedically focused of HIV/AIDs prevention and treatment.

REFERENCES Burman, C., Moerschell, L., Mamabolo, R., Aphane, M., & Delobelle, P. (2015). Reimagining Decision Making: Addressing A Discrete Social Driver of HIV/AIDS through the lens of Complexity Science. African Journal of AIDS Research, 75-84. Vincent, W., Sevelius, J., Lippman, A., Linnemayr, S., & Arnold, A. (1999). Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration Across the Social Sciences To Reach the 10-10-10: A Multilevel Approach . Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.