H 312 Reflection

This class was one of the most interesting classes that I’ve ever taken as OSU. This class provide more than I expect because originally I thought we were going to just learn about AIDS and other STI in a boring way, but Lisa made it more interactive and fun. An item that was covered that I wasn’t expecting is the Tuskegee study. The most useful information is symptoms, treatment and prevention of STIs because now I know how to protect myself from certain STIs. I do not think anything is need of change because everything was interesting and not too hard to follow. I believe this course should be taught at a university level because many students are leaving home for the first time and are most likely unaware of all the dangers that sexual intercourse has to offer.

Hello I am Bob Skinner

What I learned from Bob Skinner about living with an AIDS diagnosis is that life will be hard and seem like it’s not worth living. After listening to how much medicine cost and what could happen if can’t afford the medicine, it just seems that life is almost not worth living. Why prolong the inevitable and suffer and drain your bank accounts at the same time? If you are lucky enough to get your medicine paid for then by all means live life for as long as you can.

Bob’s experience is probably much better than others around the globe. If I remember correct Bob wasn’t projected to live long, but thanks to anti-viral medicine he was able to live a lot longer than his projected date. Many people around the world cannot afford anti-viral medicine or even proper nutrition that Bob Skinner has. Bob Skinner was also very promiscuous and he went through thousands of sex partners. Having that many partners is an experience of a life time and he probably infected hundreds of those thousands his sexual partners.

HIV is transmitted in rural regions via heterosexual intercourse. The main reason is probably due to gender inequality of females. This inequality causes the females to not ask the males to wear condoms when having intercourse. In some cases, women are abused, or even killed if they ask the male to use a condom.

Living in rural regions makes it very hard to treat HIV because of the lack of resources. Usually rural areas consist of poor people that do not have any of health care. When infected, people in rural areas are forced to save up money and travel to big cities where there is health care of some sort. There is also no guarantee that they will get any treatment because anti-viral medication is quite expensive and the chance that someone from a rural region can afford it is not likely.