HIV/AIDS terms starting with E

6 terms

  1. Early Intervention Services (EIS) Activities designed to identify individuals who are HIV-positive and get them into care as quickly as possible.
  2. Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA) Geographic areas highly-impacted by HIV/AIDS that are eligible to receive Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A funds To be an eligible EMA, an area must…
  3. Epidemic A disease that occurs clearly in excess of normal expectation and spreads rapidly through a demographic segment of the human population.
  4. Epidemiologic Profile A description of the current status, distribution, and impact of an infectious disease or other health-related condition in a specified geographic area.
  5. Epidemiology (EH-pih-dee-mee-AH-loh-jee) The study of the patterns, causes, and control of disease in groups of people.
  6. Exposure Category In describing HIV/AIDS cases, same as transmission categories; how an individual may have been exposed to HIV, such as injecting drug use, male-to-male…