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NR503_Infectious_disease_paper1.docx Week 5: Infectious Disease Paper Chamberlain University College of Nursing NR503-60501 Week 5: Infectious Disease Paper Transgender Individuals with HIV/AID... S is more common than we realize. According to Avert, Transgender people are 49 times more at risk of living with HIV compared to the general population. Globally, it is estimated that around 19% of transgender women are living with HIV. Data from Latin America and the Caribbean show that HIV prevalence is much higher among transgender women sex workers than among non-transgender male and female sex workers. There are high rates of unprotected anal sex among transgender women, which carries a high risk of HIV transmission. Several factors contribute to this such. Health disparities are so common among the transgender population for thethat thereis a lot of stigma and discrimination consistently happens, which leads to low self-esteem and disempowerment, and can make it harder for transgender people to insist on condom use.” (Avert, 2020)The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) strikes the bodys immune system, in particular the CD4 (T cells), which assist the immune system fight off infections (CDC, 2017). HIV is triggered by a zoonotic infection from simian immunodeficiency viruses from African primates; bushmeat hunters were probably the first group to be infected with HIV (Maartens, Celum, and Lewin, 2014). HIV/AIDS affects more than 36 million people in the world and in this paper we will focus on Transgender i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . [Show More]

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