Identify sources of, and evaluate information about, noncurable and serious but treatable infections, including HIV and Hepatitis C.

Discuss standard precautions/strategies to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases (e.g., washing hands, personal protective measures such as not sharing personal items, immunization, insect precautions, needle safety, avoiding other's body fluids, condoms, sexual abstinence).

Describe ways that non-curable infectious diseases, including Hepatitis C and AIDS, are transmitted and explain ways to avoid and/or reduce the risk of infection/co-infection.

Perceive how beliefs in the myths and assumptions related to the transmission of infections diseases, including HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, affect the health and the identities of the individual, family, and community.

Analyze how non-curable infections, including HIV, affect more people than they infect.

Examine how thoughts and feelings about HIV infection might reinforce or challenge personal standards.

Analyze the emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of wellbeing that influence and are influenced by non-curable and serious but treatable infections, including HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C.

Form a personal response, in ways that affirm own personal standards, to some of the health challenges facing families and communities in regards to AIDS.

Predict what might happen if only one aspect of health (i.e., only the physical) is addressed when a person/community is infected/affected with a non-curable infection.

Investigate and communicate what can happen when a holistic approach (body, mind, heart, and spirit) to management of non-curable infections is/is not adopted.