Without animals to help us in these researches, we would not have most of the drugs, vaccines and medical treatments. ... We can learn a lot from treating animals that are already sick or injured in testing new life-saving drugs and surgical method. ... If someone placed a piece of lipstick in my eye, I do believe it would irritate my eye also. I don't believe lipstick is gong to be used in the eye area, unless you are a mindless idiot. ... Experimental animals have helped us in countless ways from developing life-saving drugs and making vaccines to safety-testing equipment so that man ca...

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Most people believe that the origin of HIV, the AIDS virus, allegedly African native, derives from a chimpanzee carrying a similar virus. ... Also in people who share the drug taking equipment of intravenous drug users and people who are exposed to contaminated blood products in the early 1980s such as hemophiliacs. ... There are many trials currently underway of new anti HIV drugs which are being used in combination with very encouraging results. ... These drugs may have unpleasant side effects such as nausea but as more is known about them, drugs are being refined to make them mo...

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A fact: marijuana is one of the safest drugs on the market. ... Pot, another name for marijuana, is a drug made from the dried leaves and flowering tops of hemp plants. ... Their decision was altered when the committee took concern of Rebagliati's drug consumption. ... This concludes that marijuana at large quantities will not cause severe transient episodes of confusion or frank toxic delirium ("Drug"). ... Such results have been marked in numerous other cases, leading scientists to firmly believe that marijuana does help glaucoma patients (Grinspoon 146). ...

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Physicians conclude Tipranavir has proven to be effective in individual HIV/AIDS patients during the drug trial testing. ... Those drugs keep the virus at low or imperceptible levels in the blood. ... The majority of people believe that if they use a condom it will all be okay and they cannot contract the virus. ... Drug abuse is a very widespread problem all over the world. ... Specially trained counselors help drug abusing HIV/AIDS patients as well as patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. ...

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People who have unprotected sex are most likely to contract a STD, those who have multiple partners, and whose sex partners include drug users who share needles. ... Some people believe that STDs can be transmitted through shaking hands or other contact. ... Gonorrhea is treatable with several antibiotics, although it has become resistant to treatment with many drugs in the past several decades. ... Drug treatment programs must be completed even if early doses of drugs appear to soothe symptoms entirely. Exposure to small doses of antibiotics that do not kill the infection may ena...

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Frank Kendig stated in a speech: "In pharmacology there can be little doubt that the traditional and basic procedure of animal experimentation has been central in the development of drugs used in the treatment of diseases of known etiology - drugs such as antibiotics, antiparasitics, antiallergenics, and others. It has also led to the development and validation of drugs useful in the treatment of diseases of unknown etiology - drugs such as antiinflammatories, pain relievers, and drugs for nonspecific disorders such as heart and renal diseases. ...

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The document also states that government leaders believe that providing HIV infected people with health care is not "cost effective." ... In addition, pharmaceutical companies are eager to provide cheap drugs for AIDS patients. Global mobilization is underway to combat AIDS by developing life-saving drugs, strengthening health care of developing nations, establishing prevention programs, and developing AIDS programs at community levels. ... AIDS costs the economy, not only in loss of workers, but also in the increase costs for medical care and drugs. ...

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These factors include unprotected sex, sexual contact with multiple partners, a history of STIs, abusing alcohol or using recreational drugs, injecting drugs and being an adolescent female. ... A person can have an STI transmitted to them from items such as needles from body piercings and tattoos, or injecting drugs into the system. ... Also, being under the influence of drugs or alcohol can increase your risk of exposure because judgment can be clouded during this time. ...

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At Harvard's primate center in Southborough, tests are underway on an AIDS vaccine, an early test for Parkinson's disease, and treatments for drug addictions (Ethics and Animals). ... Believed to be a loose organization of fewer than one hundred militant members, ALF is supported in it endeavors by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an aboveground animal rights group that publicizes Alf's violent, fanatic escapades at press conferences. ...

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Identify and evaluate the relevant issues and priorities in safer sex education, in relation to children. The teaching of sexual education is a lifelong process of gaining information and developing attitudes, beliefs and values about the identity, relationships and intimacy of you as an individu...

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He only lists the advantages of abstinence leaving out any for school provided condoms as he believes there are none. ... Then goes on to add if sex is going to be "something you can't stop kids from doing" so is smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, and shooting guns. ... He uses this extreme assumption to persuade his audience to immediately reject condom distribution, but I believe that handing out condoms will not lead to such problems. ... It seems that he believes that the farther our society breaks away from the older ways of life the more chaotic and out of control we are becoming. ...

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He only lists the advantages of abstinence leaving out any for school provided condoms as he believes there are none. ... Then goes on to add if sex is going to be "something you can't stop kids from doing" so is smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, and shooting guns. ... He uses this extreme assumption to persuade his audience to immediately reject condom distribution, but I believe that handing out condoms will not lead to such problems. ... It seems that he believes that the farther our society breaks away from the older ways of life the more chaotic and out of control we are becoming. ...

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I believe that youth needs to be educated on important aspects of sex because it is an important part of becoming a sexually active person, which allows one to protect themselves as well as others at any age. ... It is believed that sex education promotes sex and encourages the young to go out and do the deed. ... Abstinent only programs teach the youth that waiting for sex is a positive and healthy way to live their lives as well as showing ways to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drugs have a negative influence and can deter one from the goal of being abstinent. ...

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In a world where so many people from all spheres of influence are suffering and being plagued by this deadly virus that has spread and almost engulfed the whole world, it is of great importance to look at the way in which Christianity have done or need to do in response to HIV and AIDS. There are many people who have praised or still praise small Christian communities which have developed some social groups as a way of responding to the call of those in need of help, those who are suffering in one way or the other from HIV and AIDS. On the other hand some patients have experienced hell on eart...

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