Short Essays

Topics for Short Essays: 6 out of 10

Choose 6 out of the 10 topics below and write a short essay on each of the chosen topics.
Total available time: 3 hrs.

I.
  1. Discuss the reasons why STDs do not remain restricted to special subgroups of the population.
  2. Discuss the reasons why many men do not use condoms.
  3. Write a brief history of the medical fight against the STDs
  4. Compare the syphilis epidemic of the 16th century with the AIDS pandemic of the 20th century.
  5. Discuss the difference between bacterial and viral STDs and its consequences for the lives of the infected.
  6. Discuss the different concepts of “risk groups”, “persons at risk”, and “risky behavior”.
  7. Explain the difference between the incidence and the prevalence of STDs.
  8. Write a brief history of “safer sex”.
  9. Try to explain why many governments failed and still fail to take adequate prevention measures against AIDS.
  10. Explain the concepts of “safe sex behavior”, “possibly safe sex behavior” and “unsafe sex behavior”.

 

 

II.
  1. Discuss the geographic distribution of various STDs and the role of travel in changing it.
  2. Try to explain why the Italians called syphilis “the French disease” while the French called    it “the Italian disease”.
  3. Explain why AIDS is not and never was a “gay disease”
  4. List and describe the STDs that can be transmitted from mother to child before and during birth.
  5. Discuss the main STD prevention strategies.
  6. What is controversial about the use of condoms to whom and why?
  7. Describe the principle and various applications of the “safe sex guidelines”.
  8. Discuss the pros and cons of HIV antibody testing.
  9. How important is confidentiality in the reporting of STDs and why?
  10. Why is it misleading to label patients “homosexual” in STD report forms?

 

 

III.
  1. What is the connection between AIDS prevention and the empowerment of women?
  2. Describe the possible economic impact of AIDS on poor developing countries.
  3. Describe the positions of the leading world religions on condom use.
  4. Explain why anonymous tests and interviews are important in the early stages of a country’s AIDS epidemic.
  5. Explain why the availability of cheap AIDS treatments is not enough to stop the epidemic in poor countries.
  6. Discuss the effectiveness of sexual abstinence programs in the fight against STDS.
  7. Discuss the policy of providing clean needles to intravenous drug users.
  8. Explain "World AIDS Day", its origin, meaning, purpose and potential
    contribition to the fight against AIDS.
  9. Discuss the UNAIDS program of  "3 by 5".
  10. List and characterize at least 10 different groups that my have to be targeted in specific AIDS prevention projects.

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