Disease in the News Critical Appraisal

: Disease in the News Critical Appraisal

Specifications : 3 pages , 2 Sources , APA Style

: language Write a critical appraisal of a peer-reviewed journal , news , or magazine article that you have recently read concerning one or more particular disease trends . The assignment should contain the following sections

a . Author (s . Provide information about the author (s , including credentials and academic , organizational , or institutional affiliation Does the author have a bias or vested interest

b . Type of article : peer-reviewed journal , news , and magazine

c . Introduction . What is the article about

d

. Claims . Does the article make any claims about treatment of the disease

e . Does the article provide a national or global perspective about the disease

f . Supporting evidence . What scientific evidence does the author (s present to support his or her claims

g . Conclusion

h . References

There has been a rise in the number of cases of HIV /AIDS in men who have sex with men in the US . Trends suggest that between the years 2001 to 2004 , the number of HIV /AIDS cases is rising in African American and Hispanic populations compared to the White population . The survival rates after 3 years were the lowest for men belonging to the African American and the Hispanic community compared to the White community Since , the year 1999 , there has been a rise in the number of cases of HIV /AIDS especially in men who have sex with other men

The article is a thoroughly peer-reviewed journal suggesting that the information is current , evidence-based , validated and researched carefully . The authors of the article include Hall , H . I , Byers , R H , Ling , Q , and Espinoza , L . They work for the Division of HIV /AIDS Prevention , which is a unit of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC , Atlanta , US . The journal has given the details including the contact address and the email ID of the authors thus permitting clearance of queries and doubts . The authors are well versed and experienced in the field of HIV /AIDS . Hall and Byers have completed their PhD , Ling has done MS , and Espinoza has completed DDS . The authors are from various groups , and hence they would express the problems of these groups in their work . Each of the authors has played a different role in bringing out the journal . The writing , origin of the study , designing of the study , review and the interpretation has been done by Hall . Major contributions of the writings and modeling of the data has been done by Byers . Ling has performed analysis of the data and the data progression details . Espinoza has done the interpretation and discussion of the data . As this study was just about collecting data and not performing a clinical trial , it did not involve following a protocol . The article has been broken into various subs including abstract , introduction , methods , results discussion , conclusion and references . Credential web sites such as Pub med and the CDC have also cited the article

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