Essay on Hcs/455 Policy Process Part Ii

Since the first occurrence of an HIV/AIDS case in Australia in 1982, Australia has been responding proactively to come up with preventative methods and treatments for the illness. Over the last ten years, we have committed over $600 million

Policy formation is very specific in that there are steps in this process. The manner in which it is formed can be defined in the Public Policy Making Model.

The policy formulation phase is very important to create new laws and implementation. The steps involved in the formulation phase of health policymaking are-

The first three chapters of the Introduction to the Policy Process talks about how our society makes policy and how different events in the country’s history can have drastic effects on policy, and how these different kinds of policy’s can have an effect on the American people as well. In this country policy making has been there from the start after the signing of the Declaration of Independence and our separation from Great Britain. The readings mention what policy is and its purpose in our government and the population at large, why policy making is important to study, the elements of the policy making system, the different environments that can affect policy, and the historical and structural contexts of policy making in this country.

4) Discuss the five major steps involved in the policy analysis process. What types of questions are asked in each step? Provide an example for each step. (20 points)

Implementation of the Ryan White CARE Act of 1990 assures, people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and their families access to quality treatments (Akukwe, 2001). On July 2010, President Obama announced the National HIV/AIDS Strategy to reduce HIV incidence, optimizing better health outcomes, and to reduce HIV-related instances (Department of Veterans Affairs National HIV/AIDS Strategy Operation Plan, 2011). To accomplish these goals, several national agencies released plans and outlines to emphasize the initial steps to support this decision. “In the past 15 years, advocates have laid the groundwork on which a rapidly expanding enforcement paradigm has arisen at the intersection of human rights litigation and HIV/AIDS policy” (Meier & Yamin, p. 81). These policies have been developing among multiple countries and transforming practice as a global response to HIV/AIDS.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) spread quickly across the continent of Africa unfortunately taking many lives and creating a burden on the countries affected. In 2011 South Africa was declared the highest population living with the virus (reference). With a growing number of individuals affected by the virus the South African government found an increased need for health care services. However, many nurses and health care providers became ill or had died from the virus, thus creating a need for the government to develop a home-based care policy (reference).

The emergence of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and the prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the early 1980s initiated widespread global panic, but not every nation took action to combat the pandemic. Control of this relatively young disease process has been addressed in different ways in countries worldwide. Depending on the cultures of the region or the political system in place, some have made tremendous strides to reduce infection

In conclusion, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is an infectious disease transmitted in several ways. Since the first outbreak of HIV in the 1980s the annual number of new cases has dropped by more than two- thirds since the 1990s. This is a result of new and advanced treatments for the disease. The government on the national, state, and local levels are working together to try to prevent new cases of HIV by educating the public and providing medical care to infected individuals. The largest group new cases of HIV infections are of men who have sex with men. The CDC is keeping track of how many new cases are arising and how many individuals are taking advantage of the services that are provided.

In most cases, when the issue of a disease comes up, most people are worried about; the severity of the disease, how it can be managed in conjunction with how it can be transmitted, so basically if it is highly contagious and most importantly, if any cure has been established for it. Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome(HIV/AIDS) is one of the most difficult epidemics to control. This is because, the HIV virus attacks the very cells designed to control and as such, can avoid exposure to treatments which is the major reason why a cure for it hasn’t been found. Owing to the lack of their knowledge of the severity of the virus, a shadow of illiteracy is cast on them because they have no access to the knowledge on how to protect themselves from the virus, let alone, prevent the spread of it. This virus is detrimental not only when a person is infected but also, when a people aren’t properly educated about the severity, prevention and steps to take after one has been diagnosed, so as to make efforts to increase the quality of life for both themselves and the people around them.

The HIV/AIDS virus doesn’t just affects individual people, it impacts households, communities, and the development and economic growth of nations. Many of the countries hit the hardest also suffer from other infectious diseases, food insecurity, and other serious problems.

Today, as we must know HIV is still spreading around the world and neither a vaccine nor a cure exists. The prevention of the disease remains the main key of the strategy to stop the epidemic. The most common mode of HIV transmission is sexual contact; therefore, HIV prevention is closely linked to the sexual and reproductive health of men and women. Effective prevention programs include interventions that promote sex abstinence, delay sexual initiation, maintain a mutually faithful partner, limit sexual partners, use condoms consistently and correctly, and counsel and test for HIV. The most effective combination of these interventions depends on the characteristics of groups infected with HIV. Effective programs also consider the social,

As a health educator this article can be extremely helpful. Health educators can work in the community to educate about healthy living. If HIV/AIDS is a concern in the community they are working for, this new guideline could possibly be used to start a support group. Any information to help people have a voice, maintain healthy lives, and provide helpful

To maximize the effectiveness of early detection and treatment for people infected with HIV; to effectively control the sexually-transmitted infection; to sustainably reduce injection drug use transmission and mother-to-child transmission; to maintain the zero transmission of HIV through blood transfusion and in-hospital cross-infection; to further lower the HIV-related mortality rate; to improve the quality of life (QoL) of the patients and people who live with HIV; to continuously reduce stigma and social discrimination against HIV-infected victims; and to lessen the prevalence of the HIV epidemic in Liangshan.

Principally, NACC is looking at HIV as an investment by focusing on the HIV service delivery modes, identifying efficiency gains so that unit costs can be reduced and more people reached through streamlined service delivery models without compromising on quality and outcomes. NACC intends to use this information to come up with the fourth national strategic plan for HIV and AIDS that is a state of the art investment plan for HIV that gives the efficiency gains by HIV programme areas, optimize allocation of HIV resources as well as looking at the fiscal space implications on HIV investments that are made in the country.