Lesson Focus: What are the Impacts of HIV/ AIDS?
Connect: What is HIV/AIDS? Look at the 5 facts about HIV/ AIDS. Which do you think are true or false? You have 5 minutes!
Lesson Outcomes What: Identify what AIDS/HIV is and what the causes are. How: Describe the effects of the disease in different places and Explain how the disease can be prevented. Why: To understand the global impacts of this disease.
1.
HIV and AIDS is… a virus a form of the flu a deformity 2. The number of people who have HIV or AIDS in the world is predicted to be…. 28 million 34.5 million 18 million 3. There are more men than women who have AIDS or HIV. True False Neither, it’s the same 4. The number of people who die from AIDS each year is estimated to be. 28,000 280,000 2.8 million 5. HIV and AIDS is a disease has been around for thousands of years. True False
Self assess your answers: ?/5 1.
a virus 2. 34.5 million 3. Neither- it is roughly the same amount 4. 2.8 million 5. False
How many did you get right? Do any of the answers surprise you?
Activate: What is HIV/ AIDS? AIDS is an incurable virus. HIV is the 1st stage of the disease: HIV/
HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
The virus attacks the body's immune system (the system that fights illness) by destroying the white blood cells that are responsible for fighting infection.
What do you think will happen? ď‚› If
a healthy persons has a cold? ď‚› If a person with HIV gets a cold?
Stage 2: HIV -> AIDS The
second stage of this virus is AIDS.
AIDS:
This
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
is when the immune system completely stops working.
What do you think will happen? ď‚› If
a healthy person gets pneumonia?
ď‚› If
a person with AIDS gets pneumonia?
Shocking statistics: ď‚› Today
34.5 million people are estimated to carry the HIV/ AIDS virus. ď‚› Every year 2.8 million people die from it.
Demonstrate: Your Mission! You
are a research team of doctors wanting to know about the HIV/ AIDS virus…
Working in groups you must use the resources to create an information poster
What does my poster need to include? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
What HIV and AIDS are How you can get the virus Describe the rate of HIV and AIDS in the UK Describe the rate of HIV and AIDS in Africa Suggest reasons why AIDS is worse in Africa than in the UK Explain at least 2 ways of reducing the chance of getting AIDS
How did you do? Revisit
the 5 success criteria
How
many did you get out of 6?
6/6?
= 1 merit
Good
Luck!
Reflect: What would you do? ď‚› This
African child doesn’t know anything about HIV/ AIDS yet he is at high risk of getting the disease. What could you tell him?