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- Discuss the impact of globalization on infectious diseases.
- Explain what causes AIDS.
- Understand the origin and prevalence of HIV in the world.
- Know why AIDS is considered a pandemic.
- Outline the stages of an HIV infection.
- Draw the structure of HIV.
- Outline the events in the HIV life cycle.
- Know how HIV is transmitted and how that transmission can be prevented.
- Know the test for the diagnosis of HIV infection.
- Describe the treatment for HIV infection.
- Describe the type of vaccines that are being developed against HIV.
- Know the causative agents, transmission, prevention, and treatments for other pandemics: tuberculosis and malaria.
- Explain the difference between an emerging disease and a re-emerging disease.
- Understand the development of antibiotic resistance.
- Know how to use antibiotics wisely.
- List examples of antibiotic resistant bacterium.
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