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Running Head: EIGHT-FOLD PATH AND HIV/AIDS HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS
Eight-fold path and HIV/AIDS health policy analysis
(Impact of drug and substance abuse of the treatment of HIV/ AIDS)
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The noble eight-fold path which are used in the HIV/AIDS health analysis consist of the
following proponents: define the problem, assembling some evidence, construction of
alternatives, selections of the criteria, projection of the outcomes, confronting of the trade-offs,
decision and last of all telling your story. The procedure clarifies the issue to be solved by the
policy in the start and expounds it to the end where the story is told. The Bardach’s eight-fold
path will be used to scrutinize the problem on the impact of drug and substance abuse of the
treatment of HIV/ AIDS (Walt et al., 2008).
Define the problem
Substance abuse is the unjustified drugs and substances use, these include excessive
consumption of alcohol, and the outcomes of the abuse include medical and physical
impairments. In HIV/AIDS, drugs and substance abuse depicts a chief encouragement in the
spread of the infection. In spite of the virus infecting any individual, the probability of being
infected is significantly higher when a person a drug and substance addict. These threat can be
from the direct interaction with injection needles for drugs and substances or amplified
likelihood for risky activities due to weakened judgment (Everitt & Robbins, 2016).
Substance usage for a person living with the virus weakens their immune system more
hence intensifying the risk of other diseases infecting the body while also aggregating the
possibility of amplified reproduction of HIV in the body (Pierce et al., 2015). The users of
substances and drugs who have HIV/AIDS constantly have irregular treatment due to difficulties
which the substances bring up. Substance users with HIV have a minimal likelihood of going for
effective treatment like in clinics. This absence of treatment selections comes in the mode of
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moderately few accommodating rehabilitation amenities to help the infected as well as
insufficient access to antiretroviral therapies as well as hospitals and clinics (Cohn et al., 2016).
Assembling some evidence
This step will involve more collection of the data which will be turned into evidence
(Bardach & Patashnik, 2015).Internationally, there is an estimated three million individuals
living with HIV/AIDS who inject substances and drugs. Inside these people, matters such as late
HIV testing, low interest in the antiretroviral therapy (ART), taking the ARTs irregularly and the
necessity for managing of HIV/AIDS and HIV-relate...