A report on the strategies that have been created to prevent my communicable and non-communicable diseases.

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Introduction

For the purpose of this assignment I will be producing a report on the strategies that have been created to prevent my communicable and non-communicable disease, I will than be discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each strategy and I will be comparing the local strategies to the national strategies.

The National HIV strategy

The national strategy for sexual health and HIV was created by the Department of Health, in England it contains many objectives and targets which they aim to fulfil regarding the disease HIV. Taken from the department of health website the aims are:

"The key aims of HIV prevention are:

To reduce the number of newly acquired HIV infections;

To reduce the levels of unsafe sex (measured, for example, by rates of STIs including rectal gonorrhoea); and

To raise awareness of services."

The objectives of this strategy is to try to give priority in preventing HIV in gay men or communities, to develop national AIDS Trust with London health authorities to help prevent HIV in African communities. Also to create better outreach services for people with undiagnosed HIV especially the targeting groups, to make sure