Aids 171 - An Overview of HIV for Allied Healthcare Professionals
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Educational Objectives: At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Describe HIV or human immunodeficiency virus and differentiate HIV and AIDS
- Describe the 3 stages of HIV/AIDS and list symptoms associated with each stage
- Describe the importance and outline the process of diagnosis and testing
- List 3 ways HIV can be transmitted and which groups or populations are considered high risk
- Describe how healthcare workers can be exposed to HIV at work and what to do in the event of an exposure
Course overview
This is a 1 hour audiovisual presentation on HIV/AIDS and reviews information on HIV and Aids including: epidemiology, origins, statistics and incidence, transmission, etiology, testing, treatment, prevention and protecting yourself as a healthcare worker. *Describe HIV or human immunodeficiency virus and differentiate HIV and AIDS *Describe the 3 stages of HIV/AIDS and describe symptoms associated with each stage *Describe the importance of diagnosis and testing *List 3 ways HIV can be transmitted *Describe how healthcare workers can be exposed to HIV at work and what to do in the event of an exposure
Subject areas
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