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UNIT 2
MODULE 3: APPLICATIONS OF BIOLOGY (cont’d)

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES EXPLANATORY NOTES SUGGESTED PRACTICAL
ACTIVITIES

Social and Preventative Medicine (cont’d)

Students should be able to:

3.5. explain the modes of HIV: mention lifestyle,
transmission of HIV and sexual intercourse,
dengue virus; sharing needles or
syringes, mother to child
during pregnancy, birth or
breastfeeding.

Dengue virus: the vector
is Aedes aegypti.

3.6. discuss reasons for the AIDS: roles of lifestyle,
regional distribution of ease of travel, cost of
Acquired Immune drugs and lack of
Deficiency Syndrome education on the spread
(AIDS), diabetes and of the virus.
cancer;
Diabetes: include the
effects of diet, obesity
and prenatal
malnutrition.

Cancer: include roles of
environmental hazards,
food additives, viruses,
genetic factors;
implications of symptom
awareness and failure to
seek treatment in
management of the
disease.

3.7. assess the impact of Include social and
communicable and non- economic issues. Use
communicable diseases named examples.
regionally; and,

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