Doctor

This class is called Cure. The last unit is called Prevention. In Prevention, our third and last unit, we investigate the discovery of vaccines and medicine that prevents disease. What I learned about was many different types of ways you can prevent diseases. For our action project, we had to pretend to be a doctor and make a patient profile for a disease we chose. I chose my disease to be heart disease. I chose that because it seemed interesting. What I liked about this project was researching about pretending to be a doctor to make a patient profile. The thing I had trouble with was finding all of my research. I overcame that by looking up patient profiles. My project is below.

PIXNIO, Doctor, (2017)

How Bad Is An Outbreak Of HIV/AIDS

This course was called Disease which is a STEAM the unit was called World. In this unit, we learned about R-Naught and how a disease can spread. We also learned about the categorizing of an outbreaking disease. For this AP, we had to find a disease and do research about it and make a Newspaper about it. What I had fun when doing this project was making the newspaper. what I had trouble with was finding what the R-Naught and other research items. I overcome that by asking for help and doing more research. Overall I thought this project was fun to make.

                        

   Fodey, Newspaper,(2017).                                             Blogger, Map,(October, 10, 2015) .

My disease that I am researching is HIV/AIDS. I found an outbreak in Africa in 1990s-2000s. “1990 Jonathan Mann resigned as the head of the WHO AIDS programmed, to protest against the failure of the UN and governments worldwide to respond adequately to the exploding pandemic, and to protest against the actions of the then WHO director-general Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima. During Jonathan Mann's leadership, the AIDS programmed became the largest single programmed in the organization’s history.”

HIV symptoms include fever, sore throat, and fatigue can occur. AIDS symptoms include weight loss, fever or night sweats, fatigue, and recurrent infections. The R-Naught is 2-5. It means 2-5 of new cases from one person. Two risk factors are having unprotected sex and having another STD.

91% of HIV cases in Africa are caused by sexual transmission and virtually all is heterosexual. “So says the World Health Organization, with other agencies toeing the line. Some massive condom airdrops accompanied by a persuasive propaganda campaign would practically make the epidemic vanish overnight. Or would it?” In Africa, the HIV outbreak is epidemic because epidemic means, “a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.” In Africa, there are a lot of communities that have HIV/AIDS. “69% live in sub-Saharan Africa. There are roughly 23.8 million infected persons in all of Africa. 91% of the world's HIV-positive children live in Africa.”

There is no Vaccine for HIV yet but here is an Evaluation of: Liu J, O’Brien KL, Lynch DM et al.: Immune control of an SIV challenge by a T-cell-based vaccine in rhesus monkeys. Nature 457(7225), 87–91 (2009), of it. It says that we don’t have a vaccine but what you can do is have safer sex. For the decline of HIV, it was nearly declined over 20% overall during the past decade. Is happened because people had safer sex.

Here is a list of things to avoid a future outbreak of HIV/AIDS:

1. Use a new condom every time you have sex:

2. Consider the drug Truvada:

3. Tell your sexual partners if you have HIV:

4. Use a clean needle:

5. If you're pregnant, get medical care right away:

6. Consider male circumcision:

Work Cited 

"A Timeline of HIV/AIDS." AIDS.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2017.

"Can the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in New York City be Stopped?" Can the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in New York City be Stopped? N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2017.

Devarajan, Shanta “What caused the HIV epidemic in Africa?” 27 Jan. 2011, Web.

Fumento, M. Michael Fumento: Why is HIV so prevalent in Africa? Retrieved February 24, 2017.

ΚΟΣΜΟ, ΝΕΚΡΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ, and Προβολή πλήρους προφίλ. The history of AIDS in Africa. Oct. 1980. Web. 24 Feb. 2017.

sahoboss. HIV/aids in South Africa. 20 May 2011. Web. 24 Feb. 2017.

"Symptoms of HIV." AIDS.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2017.

"Timeline: AIDS moments to remember." CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2017.

OCD In You!

This course was called Disease which is a STEAM the unit was called Mind. In this unit, we learned about mental disease. We learned about what mental diseases there are and how to diagnose them. We learned about the brain waves and how each can work or not work with some mental diseases or disorders. For this AP, we had to find a disease and make a video, and a simulation of it. The disease I did was OCD. We had to present out project on Wednesday February 8. The thing that I excelled at was the video and presenting part. The part that I had trouble with the most was trying to find and create a simulation. I overcame that by looking up case studies and examples of OCD simulations. Overall this Action Project was great I learned some many things about OCD and how it gets diagnose. Watching the videos of the simulation really helped me think of ways to make the class feel what people with OCD feel everyday. Also by reading some articles about kids who have OCD and watching a video about Howie Mandel and his life with OCD helped a lot too. Look below to see my project!

Work Cited:

ABCNews. "Howie Mandel Talks About Living With OCD | 20/20 | ABC News." YouTube. YouTube, 28 Nov. 2009. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

"Facts About OCD." Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Spectrum Disorders Resource. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2017.

Gluck, Samantha. "OCD Diagnosis: OCD Criteria and Characteristics in DSM 5." HealthyPlace. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Feb. 2017. 

"Howie Mandel." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2017.

"Psychology Today." Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Psychology Today. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

"Region in Brain Is Linked to Obsessive Disorder." The New York Times. The New York Times, 07 Mar. 1988. Web. 08 Feb. 2017.

Sarah. "UOCD: Facts& Statistics on OCD." UOCD: Facts& Statistics on OCD. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

"What Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is all about." Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative. N.p., 13 Jan. 2017. Web. 08 Feb. 2017.

Pollution Action Plan

     This is my third Action Project for my third term course, Fuel. In this course we learned how to balance chemical equations, and discussed pollution. For this Action Project we had to do three action plans to help not pollute the air and we had to see what pollution is and how it gets into our atmosphere. We also had to make a diagram, and make it look like a paper. The thing that I am most proud of is making the diagram and making the paper. Something that was hard for me was finding the equation. Please learn more about the project down below.