In: Psychology
1)Social psychology is the study and analysis of the social problems in society with the factors leading to such problems in society. There are variety of social problems like sexism, ageism, racism and stigmatization by illness. It is related to mental illnesses caused by intake of banned drugs which have adverse affects on the health of a person leading to mental degeneration. There is social stigma related to occurence of HIV disease in society. It studies the following perspectives like
Staat pointed out social term in 1983, refers to social environment and social behaviour in society. It refers to social groups, organizations, social norms and culture in society. It is the study of individual behaviour in society and its impact on the life of other people.
2) The relevant cultural variables that promote maintenance of such issues in society are age, gender, sex, race, cultural and ethnic background of people. There should be awareness about the harmful affects of this disease and necessary precautions should be taken to avoid the spread of this disease by HIV virus in humans. There is antiretroviral therapy which has increased the life span of people suffering from HIV infection. There are various steps for analysing the theory driven and problem driven social psychology.A tool called PATH (Problem, analysis, test and help) is applied for studying the psychological behaviour of people in society suffering from diseases like AIDS.Intervention mapping is done to analyse the problems, intervention and implementation and evaluation of problem in society.
3) This issue continues to exist as there is a rapid mutation in the genome of HIV virus which helps in evading the immune system in the infected cells of the body. This leads to further proliferation of the virus in the human genome with weakening of the immune system. There is promiscuous behaviour in people with lack of awareness regarding the spread of this virus in the body of human beings. There are a variety of antiretroviral drugs which are rendered inactive due to the development of new strains of this virus prevalent in the society.