Cdc And Its Partners Are Piloting A High Impact Prevention

I interviewed Dr. Kwa Sey who is an epidemiologist with the Los Angeles County department of Public Health and the Director of the International Health Program at Charles R. Drew University (CDREWU). Dr. Sey earned his M.A. in epidemiology and a PhD in Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) school of Public Health. He has over 16 years of experience working in Public Health. He currently directs CDREWU funded HIV Behavioral Surveillance in Los Angeles and DHAPP funded HIV prevention programs internationally.

Similarly, another resource within the knowledge center on the website, is Competencies. These competencies are listed on the website as a resource to supply a guide for counselors and other helping professionals within the field to ensure that they are adequately and ably serving, working, and advocating for clients from different populations (cite). There are a variety of competencies to consider. The competency that was examined in this paper was Competencies for Counseling the Multiracial Population, which was published in March 2015 (cite). These competencies are extremely helpful for new counselors and even seasoned counselors that need to brush up on ways to serve their clients from various backgrounds. This resource helps the counselor utilize their sessions with their clients with respect to their background while still adhering to ethical standards. They are constructed in a way that the information is organized in accordance with the Council for Accreditation for Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Standards eight common core areas (cite). For example, in the Competencies for Counseling the Multiracial Population document, it discusses the languages and definitions that could be used in a session with multicultural individuals such as when dealing with interracial couples, multiracial families, or transracial adoption (cite). The document then goes on to list standards and objectives, which are

This article focuses on what comprises an effective and efficient preventative education program as it relates to HIV/STD prevention relative to sexual activity. Techniques of teaching are taught to reinforce the behaviors and activities that lead to the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Workshops, courses, and seminars have been implemented to improve cultural competency to effectively provide service delivery to diverse clients. One of the approaches by Delgado et al. (2013) used Inventory to Access the Process of Cultural Competency (IAPCC-R) to measure cultural competence levels. The training consisted of a single one hour session for a period of six months and then a follow up was measured after three months of completion.

Cultural Competency Having cultural competency within an agency is invaluable because it informs how that agency provides its services to clients. Cultural competence is commonly defined as “a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enable the system, agency, or professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.” In practice, this means availing consumers of services that are both accessible and culturally responsive. For some clients, providing culturally targeted services provides consumers with a safe space and a means of healing. Equally important, clients can examine how their cultural identity may be impacting their physical and mental health.

On the other hand, although the healthcare provider is able to speak their patient's language, providers often fail to consider the patient's education level and may at times use medical jargons that the patient may not understand, thus resulting in a failure to communicate with their patient. Healthcare provider may lack the skills and knowledge in understanding their patient's culture other than their own. This often results in the medical provider "pushing" their beliefs onto their patient and if the desired results are not realized, this results in mistrust of the healthcare provider and the healthcare system. To increase cultural competence among healthcare workers and increase the amount of minority's access to healthcare, medical schools and medical facilities are incorporating "Clinical Cultural Competence Interventions." The goal of this program is to provide "educational and training interventions to equip healthcare providers with the knowledge, tools, and skills to better understand and manage socio-cultural issues in the clinical encounter," (Betancourt, Green, Carrillo, and Ananeh-Firempong, 2003, p. 298). Again, although the guidebook is an excellent tool, to achieve the desired health outcomes, it is up to the provider or healthcare team to incorporate these evidence based practices into their

As a healthcare practitioners, husband, and father, I think that the CDC had every right the detain Mr. Speaker, to enforce public health law. In the scenario it stated that Mr. Speaker knew of his deadly illness before he boarded the plane to return back to Atlanta. It was the responsible of Mr. Speaker, to inform the crew of his contagious illness so control measures could have been put in place to minimize expose of his illness to other passenger on the airplane. The Center for Disease and Control (CDC) has guidelines in place for the aircrews members to prevent the spread of germs in the respiratory system such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome [MERS] ("Infection control guidelines for cabin crew members on commercial aircraft quarantine

Providing quality delivery care is the cornerstone of Kaiser operation and addressing language needs of the diverse communities it serves is receiving attention from the National Diversity and Inclusion Office. Kaiser’s National Diversity and Inclusion was established with the objective to promote, support, and assist the regions in implementing the Kaiser Permanente Board of Directors agenda in providing culturally competent medical care and culturally appropriate services to improve the health and satisfaction of its members.

Interest in the subject of cultural and linguistic competency is beginning to reach the “tipping point” (Gladwell, 2002). Over the past two decades, there has been an “explosion” of interest in developing programs that meet the general, mental and oral health, as well as social service needs of the country’s increasingly diverse population. Cultural and linguistic competence initiatives are underway at the systems, organizational, and clinical levels in a variety of institutions. A growing number of federal agencies, foundations, and private organizations are supporting innovative educational, research, and service delivery services. The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), for example, has Centers for Excellence (COEs) that use a curriculum guide for integrating cultural and linguistic competency content, methods and evaluation into existing academic programs (HRSA, 2005).

The National Center for Cultural Competence developed a validated assessment tool “at the request of the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS)” (National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC), 2004). The intent of the assessment tool is to “to enhance the delivery of high quality services to culturally and linguistically diverse individuals and underserved communities” (NCCC, para. 1, 2004).

There are a lot of governmental bodies that regulate social and economic businesses and have a lot impact on agencies with their rules, laws, and regulations. One of the given industries that impacts or societal and health in a lot of ways would be the The Centers for Disease Control. This regulatory agency would fall under Public Health and The Occupational safety and Health Department.

The Hispanic community will continue to be affected by HIV/AIDS at higher rates due to their behaviors, social economic standing, and cultural beliefs. Preventions need to include these cultural beliefs and use those strong cultural beliefs to increase knowledge and safe sexual practices. Health care providers

Project RESPECT was an effective intervention program for STDs and HIV transmission in which 5,758 heterosexual patients were recruited at five separate health clinics. Each patient was randomly selected to participate in one of four varying, in person, intervention methods. Enhanced Counseling consisted of four interactive theory-incorporating sessions. Brief Counseling was two shorter sessions that concentrated on risk assessment and reduction. The two Didactic Message Interventions, one with and one without follow up interviews, gave the patients standard notes over the current methods for care in prevention of STDs and HIV. For three of the four methods, there was follow up interviews every three months for one complete year post enrollment,

HIV/AIDS is a devastating condition that afflicts many people in the world. It is condition that can be managed for a certain amount of time but will ultimately take the affected individual’s life. Both men and women can develop this disease through sexual contact, substance injections, or any form of blood-to-blood contact. The cases of HIV/AIDS among Euro-Canadians are decreasing whereas the cases in First Nation communities are increasing (Barlow, 2009). “Recent 2011 data indicates that Indigenous people constituted an estimated 12.2 % of all people in Canada newly diagnosed with HIV, which corresponded to an HIV incidence rate that was 3.5 times higher than among non-Indigenous people” (Pearce et al., 2015). Aboriginal women represent 45.3% of the positive test reports for HIV/AIDS, in comparison with

Within the United States health disparities exist regarding HIV infection, with ethnic minorities and men who have sex with men (MSM) disproportionally affected by the virus, relative to the entire population of the States. While no cure (nor a vaccine) exist for the virus, HIV prevention measures are available that can reduce the risk of most people of contracting the virus, especially useful for those individuals described above that are disproportionally affected. "There have been exciting recent advances in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention for men who have sex with men (MSM) in the last several years" (article citation). Prevention methods include condoms, which have been available for many years, and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis