NR503 INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Transgender Individuals with HIV/AIDS is more common than we realize. According to Avert, Transgender people are 49 times more at risk of living with HIV compared to the general population. Globally, it is estimated that around 19% of transgender women are living with HIV. Data from Latin America and the Caribbean show that HIV prevalence is much higher among transgender women sex workers than among non-transgender male and female sex workers. There are high rates of unprotected anal sex among transgender women, which carries a high risk of HIV transmission. Several factors contribute to this such. Health disparities are so common among the transgender population for the that there is a lot of stigma and discrimination consistently happens, which leads to low self-esteem and disempowerment, and can make it harder for transgender people to insist on condom use.” [ CITATION Ave20 l 1033 ] The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) strikes the body’s immune system, in particular the CD4 (T cells), which assist the immune system fight off infections (CDC, 2017). HIV is triggered by a zoonotic infection from simian immunodeficiency viruses from African primates; bushmeat hunters were probably the first group to be infected with HIV (Maartens, Celum, and Lewin, 2014). HIV/AIDS affects more than 36 million people in the world and in this paper we will focus on Transgender individuals that are affected by HIV/AIDS, the determinants of health, epidemiological triad and the role of the nurse practitioner (NP) when it applies to infection diseases. Determinants of Health According to Healthy People 2020, “health determinants are the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status. Various considerations that influence health is policy making, social factors and physical determinants. For example, when