Title: Stony Brook and How It Connects to a Greater Problem
Thesis Statement:
- Topic: Clinics/Public Health Centers –> Stony Brook is an example of public health center that thrives
- Possible Stance: Stony Brook’s work has impacted the larger community for good.
- Purpose: Public health crises that persists can take ques from Stony Brook to help our own health problem,
- Since Stony Brook is an example of a successful public health center, and the work of this medical center has impacted the larger community in a good way, we can use use Stony Brook as an example to help our own health crisis that persists today.
- Introduction
- Background info on HIV/AIDS
- HIV
- HIV is a virus that is spread through transmission of body fluids. It attacks the immune system cells usually called T cells. This damage to the immune system allows for other diseases and infections to affect the body as the broken immune system is unable to fight off such infections. (HIV.org)
- AIDS
- AIDS is a more severe version of HIV. When a person’s HIV has turned into AIDS, there immune system is so damaged that opportunistic infections, infections more sever in patients with damaged or weakened immune systems, cause a person to become even more ill or to die. (HIV.org)
- HIV
- Info about NAMES project and quilt?
- How Stony Brook ties into
- Background info on HIV/AIDS
- Section 1: Stony Brook Quilt
- HIV/AIDS Treatment Center
- Stony Brook University Medical Center
- When was it founded?
- Source: “HIV Program”
- Who founded it?
- Who was it designed for?
- Public or private?
- Source: Mastroianni, Peter “HIV Testing and Counseling”
- This Source talks about HIV testing on campus for students, so it was definitely available for them.
- Source: Mastroianni, Peter “HIV Testing and Counseling”
- Public or private?
- Who works there?
- Students or professionals
- When was it founded?
- Stony Brook University Medical Center
- HIV/AIDS Treatment Center
- Section 2:
- How Stony Brook relates to other quilts.
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- HIV/AIDS Treatment center in New York
- #
- Another HIV/AIDS treatment center in another city
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- The connection between these
- What this shows/symbolizes
- A greater meaning?
- How Stony Brook relates to other quilts.
- Section 3: Public Health Crises Today
- Crises
- Social/economic groups most likely to contract this health issue
- Source: Des Jarlais, Don C., et al. “Racial/Ethnic Disparities at the End of an HIV Epidemic: Persons Who Inject Drugs in New York City, 2011-2015.”
- Source : Ford, Jason A and Khary K Rigg. “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Factors That Place Adolescents at Risk for Prescription Opioid Misuse.”
- How is this similar to how/who contracted HIV/AIDS?
- Source: Wakeman, Sarah E, et al. “From Documenting Death to Comprehensive Care: Applying Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Epidemic to Addiction.”
- How is this similar to how/who contracted HIV/AIDS?
- Section 3: Connecting all of these together
- What can we learn about treatment/community/commitment to public health crises from Stony Brook?
- Conclusion