C228 Task 2 Community Outbreak - Wgu

This study source was downloaded by 100000859819779 from CourseHero.com on 01-17-2023 14:28:12 GMT -06:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/82460281/WGU-Community-Outbreakdocx/ 1Community Outbreak1`Community OutbreakEmma JohnsonWestern Governors UniversityC228: Community Health and Population-Focused NursingInstructor: Julie HawkinsonThis study source was downloaded by 100000859819779 from CourseHero.com on 01-17-2023 14:28:12 GMT -06:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/82460281/WGU-Community-Outbreakdocx/2Community OutbreakThe human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is the communicable diseases that has had anoutbreak across international borders I choose. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, otherwiseknown as AIDS, is the most advanced stages of the HIV infection, (WHO, 2017). Avert (2019) states, It is widely believed that HIV originated in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo around 1920 when HIV crossed species from chimpanzees to humans . Up until the 1980s,we do not know how many people were infected with HIV or developed AIDS. In 1981 HIV was first identified among gay men in in California and New York when and where the disease isperceived to have started, (Avert, 2019). Every single country in the world was affected by this virus by 1985, making HIV a global pandemic. Epidemiological determinants of HIV and route of transmission include unprotected sex, drug use and perinatal transmission. HIV is spread through contact with blood, semen, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids or breast milk of a person