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= H ope I s V ital = = A s I nfection D efeats S urvival =
 * === How do you feel when you are sick? Most likely bad. Imagine how you would feel like if you had a life-threatening infection called HIV, or AIDS. You would start to discover that your condition is more serious than a fever. HIV/AIDS is caused from mother-to-child transmission, male-to-male contact, heterosexual contact, etc. When you are infected by HIV/AIDS, you are locked inside a cage, which forbids you to share your heart with anyone. ===

=== Do you know how people with HIV/AIDS feel? They feel as if they are hidden by a rose bush. The thorns on the stems of roses prod them and their screams are out of earshot. What you certainly must do is courageously take out your magical sword, and slice down those spiky stems. The thorns may poke you throughout the challenge, but once you have chopped all of them off, the smile of the person rescued would be everlasting. ===

=== HIV/AIDS education. Medicine. Care. These are what we need from global citizens. Are you a global citizen? If the answer's yes, learn how you can help reduce the number of new HIV/AIDS infections by viewing this workshop. === || media type="custom" key="18953734" ||

My research process:
What I Know Inspiration document Topic: HIV/AIDS || || Include notes about your reasoning for your choices in red || ===** Books: **=== __ AIDS __ (Editor: Stefan Kiesbye) I will definitely use this book to find more information about HIV/AIDS, because there isn't just one author informing the basic facts about HIV/AIDS. Instead, the authors are the people who actually had or still has HIV/AIDS. I am able to understand this syndrome better now that I am reading from their perspective about the challenges they had to face while fighting against HIV/AIDS. It also gives me ideas about how HIV/AIDS could affect people in different situations. Additionally, this book has a timeline illustrating the history of HIV/AIDS. And I think the timeline is a great resource to refer to often, because I can briefly see the events that have happened starting from the 1900s up until 2009.
 * (P) Put brainstorm here.
 * (P) Broaden Your Knowledge
 * Think about:
 * Books
 * Encyclopedias
 * Online Articles
 * Websites
 * Images
 * Videos
 * Statistics
 * Charts
 * Data Bases

__ HIV/AIDS __ (Author: Katie Marsico) This book makes me realize how deadly HIV/AIDS could be. Quote from the book: "AIDS, AIDS, you're unfair to me... AIDS, AIDS, you're unmerciful to me. ...AIDS, AIDS, you left me lonely, you took everyone I had.... Oh, AIDS, I am left lonely in this world." It is so sad how one syndrome can change one's life forever. Would I be strong enough to fight against HIV/AIDS if I had them? Probably not; and the fact that children younger than me has to face the disadvantages of HIV/AIDS is truly sorrowful. And I think everyone should take some action to help the people with HIV/AIDS.

__ Surviving HIV/AIDS __ (Author: Theresa Saliba) I learned about the medication that is needed for the people with HIV/AIDS from the introduction of this book. But I realized that there is no cure that will completely remove the virus from the people who are infected yet. Quote from the book: "Medicines known as antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are avaliable to treat people diagonosed as being HIV+. These medicines suppress the virus and stop it from multiplying in the body, but there is as yet no known cure." This information helps me understand why people have to eat pills and medicine for the rest of their lives if they are infected by HIV/AIDS. I also learned from this book that the people in developing countries don't have access to the medication they need, because the drugs are too expensive. However, the book says that health organizations are working in those countries to reduce the amount of people becoming infected in the first place. This book also informed me about how people from different parts of the world are dealing with HIV/AIDS. And I think it is useful information, because I can see the different attitudes toward HIV/AIDS from many different viewpoints.

**Encyclopedias:**
http://school.eb.com/all/comptons/article-9272756 This encyclopedia articles are very helpful, because it explains very thoroughly about HIV/AIDS. Also, there are multiple pages that I can go through about HIV/AIDS; and each of them explains different information about HIV/AIDS, such as the spread of the virus, the infection, the treatment that is needed, etc.

**Websites/ Online Articles:**
@http://www.worldandischool.com/subscribers/searchdetail.asp?num=25623 I think this online article will be very useful for me to use, since it talks about the past, present, and future of HIV/AIDS. Quote from the website: "According to a 2006 report by UNAIDS, there are about 40 million people worldwide infected with HIV...meaning there are 6,000 new infections a day; one every fifteen seconds." This quote clearly shows that HIV/AIDS is a global issue and we need to do something right at this moment before another fifteen seconds pass by and another person becomes infected.

@http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/infection/hiv.html I like this online article, because it helps me understand the concept of HIV, and what it does our body. Additionally, I found out that HIV means human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS mean acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. This website will help me understand the relationship between HIV and AIDS as well.

@http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/channel_condition_info_details.asp?disease_id=1&channel_id=1020&relation_id=70907 This article clearly describes the facts, causes, symptoms, impacts, and medication of HIV/AIDS, so I think it will be very useful to basically understand what HIV/AIDS really are. I also found out that HIV/AIDS could cause cancer by reading the online articles in this website.

http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/friends/friend_hiv.html# HIV/AIDS is a global issue and we need to know how we can help. And I like the fact that the online articles in this website focuses on how we, as middle-school students, could treat and care for the hearts and minds of our friends who have HIV. I think people will feel more involved in this global issue if they know how to take care of their friends who have HIV; because that means that we can do something ourselves to reduce the stress and pain of people with HIV.

@http://womenshealth.gov/ This website will provide me with all sorts of information, because it has numerous topics to explore on HIV/AIDS. I want to especially focus on the topic about HIV/AIDS and women. Quote from the website: "Today, about one in four Americans living with HIV are women." This tells me that women are a big part of HIV/AIDS, and we have to take some action to prevent more women from being infected. For me to provide the global citizens information about how we can help the women with HIV/AIDS, I first have to know the basic situation and issues. And I will be able to receive a lot of valuable information from this website about this particular topic.

@http://www.unaids.org/en/ I think this website will inform me about the current events related to HIV/AIDS. It will also provide me details about the hopes, dreams, plans, and services currently running to save the children suffering from HIV/AIDS.

**Digital Files:**
This PDF file is about a NGC Global Project called APOPO - Tanzania. The project concentrates on three global diseases: HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB. But I focused on reading the part about HIV/AIDS. And I liked how it gave me a list of practical solutions that will help the people with HIV/AIDS. List of solutions: • Know the facts about transmission. • Talk about AIDS – This is one of the best ways to end the silence and stigma that surround HIV/AIDS. • Appeal to the governments of both developed and developing nations to support the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. • Demand access to life-saving drugs by protecting the right to health over the right to intellectual property in trade agreements. • Support education/prevention programs that are comprehensive and research-based. • Advocate for the debt cancellation of highly indebted, AIDS-stricken countries. Now I can thoroughly understand how we can help as global citizens.

**Images:**
The women in these two pictures are holding the signs that say 'I am facing AIDS for a better future' and 'I am facing AIDS in search of HOPE!'. Just like these signs, I think everyone should be super positive, even if they are HIV-positive.

**Videos:**
media type="custom" key="18462758" width="110" height="110" I was already informed about how a lot of people in Africa are infected by HIV/AIDS, but I didn't know a lot of details. So I liked how this video showed me the lifestyle of the children with HIV/AIDS in Africa as well as how, why, and where people are getting infected. I learned that the children with HIV/AIDS have difficulty catching-up with the class, because they have to miss school sometimes. Also, I realized that those children are mostly lonely and in an unfortunate situation. This video made it clear that HIV/AIDS is a serious problem in Africa, and it was so heartbreaking to see the children having to face HIV/AIDS in poor conditions.

media type="custom" key="18466836" width="90" height="90" I liked how this video set a goal for us to accomplish, which is to make sure children everywhere can be born free from HIV by 2015. And it really makes us want to accomplish this goal and make the world free from HIV. This video also encourages us to believe it, and do it.

**Statistics/ Charts:**
The amount of people with HIV in different parts of the world is displayed in this graph. And I can see that the African and American regions have the greatest percentage. This information helps me understand where people are being most affected by HIV/AIDS.

These two circle graphs illustrate how male and female grown-ups get infected by HIV/AIDS. And the graph says that 61% of the males get HIV/AIDS from male-to-male contact, and 66% of the females get infected from heterosexual contact. I think this circle graph gives me the basic idea about how people get infected by HIV/AIDS.

I learned that HIV/AIDS is the center of mortality in Africa from observing these two graphs. It was shocking to see that almost all of the deaths from HIV/AIDS is from sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, I always thought that poverty was the biggest reason for mortality in Africa, so I was surprised to see that HIV/AIDS was the greatest cause of death in 1999.

From viewing these three graphs, I learned that there are more children living with HIV, more children with new HIV infections, and more child deaths from HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa than in North America. This clearly states that we seriously have to give more attention and care to the children in sub-Saharan Africa. || Add to original Inspiration or do another. Record your metacognition using the note feature of Inspiration. || || (thesis) that clearly shows your research. || ====** HIV/AIDS is a death-dealing infection that can only be prevented with HIV/AIDS education, medication, and the care of global citizens. **==== || researching. //.// || || resources. || acquired immune deficiency syndrome, human immunodeficiency virus, HIV/AIDS orphans, ARV drugs/treatment, HIV/AIDS and children, HIV/AIDS and sub-Saharan Africa, HIV/AIDS education, mother-to-child transmission of HIV, needle sharing, symptoms of HIV/AIDS, AIDS campaigners, AIDS charities, AIDS Drug Assistance Program, World AIDS Day ||
 * (P) 2nd Time Around Brainstorm
 * (P) Define your topic: write a statement
 * (P) Form questions:
 * Form - What is it like?
 * Function - How does it work?
 * Causation - Why is it like it is?
 * Change - How is it changing?
 * Connection - How is it connected to?
 * Who, What? Where, When, Why,
 * How, What if? How? So what? || [[image:Screen_shot_2012-05-21_at_9.06.03_PM.png width="800" height="526"]] ||
 * (P) Make an outline of the areas you are
 * (P) Make a list of key words to locate
 * (L) Locate a variety of sources; evaluate 2 || [[image:Screen_shot_2012-05-25_at_2.00.43_PM.png width="800" height="472"]]

|| works cited using Noodletools || Works Cited
 * (L) Select resources from your list & build

AIDS. United States of America: Christine Nasso, 2008. Print.

“AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome).” Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition. Britannica Online Encyclopedia, n.d. Web. 14 May 2012. .

“HIV, AIDS, and Women.” Womenshealth.gov. N.p., 1 July 2011. Web. 18 May 2012. .

HIV/AIDS in AFRICA: A 10 MINUTE OVERVIEW. YouTube. UNICEF, 26 Feb. 2008. Web. 18 May 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogTwwepces>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and Other Diseases. New Global Citizens. N. pag. PDF file.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Marsico, Katie. HIV/AIDS. North Mankato: ABDO Publishing Company, 2010. Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“My Friend Has HIV. How Can I Help?” TeensHealth. Nemours, n.d. Web. 18 May 2012. <http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/friends/friend_hiv.html#>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“People Charts (HIV and AIDS Statistics).” AidsinAfrica.net. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://www.aidsinafrica.net/people_charts.php>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Saliba, Theresa. Surviving HIV/AIDS. N.p.: Arcturus, 2010. Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UNAIDS. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://www.unaids.org/en/>.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">11-06-01-HIV 44. 31 May 2011. Flickr. Unicef Haiti, n.d. Web. 1 June 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/unicefhaiti/6050110539/>.

====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">3D Person - Puppet With an Orange Megaphone. 2 Mar. 2018. Flickr. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/11299154@N07/3924513163/>. ====

====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">CD4 Protein Fragment, Molecular Model. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 1 Jun 2012. [|http://quest.eb.com/images/132_1188522#] ====

====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Hawkey, Sean. HIV Positive. 18 Aug. 2003. Flickr. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkey/116429134/>. ====

====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">HIV. Illustration. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 1 Jun 2012. [|http://quest.eb.com/images/161_2359217#] ====

====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">'HIV+' Anna. 8 June 2008. Flickr. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/gezzebro/2561669830/in/set-72157604762185875/>. ====

====<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Mother And HIV-positive Child. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 1 Jun 2012. [|http://quest.eb.com/images/132_1275396#] ==== ||