Archive for 12. October 2009

Stop HIV and AIDS By: Brian Blomberg

How do you feel when I say that there are an estimated 1 million people walking around in the United States with one of the most deadly diseases? Since HIV was discovered in 1981 in the United States more than 500,000 people have died from AIDS and over a million are currently living with it. Some more statics from avert.org say that 75% of the people diagnosed with HIV are men. One very sad statistic is that in 2007 there were 3,792 children under the age of 13 with HIV. This is very hurtful because these kids did nothing wrong to deserve this kind of disease. These children could have got the HIV through breast feeding, labor, pregnancy, or delivery. Parents need to make the right decisions and get checked for these types of diseases and not have kids if you have this disease. From these irresponsible parents our society is getting hurt from it and the number of people with HIV is going to continue to grow in the years to come.

This is a major social problem in the United States and worldwide. As a society we have become careless and not cautious with what we do. I feel that this is another major social problem that needs to be addressed at a young age in our school systems. We need to get kids to want to get tested and not afraid, to be tested. Everyone’s mindset needs to get away from not caring about others but to get tested so you are not harming anyone else. If we develop programs in schools now we will be able to minimize this disease instead of keep letting the numbers grow. The easiest way to prevent the spread of HIV would be to use a condom, for example FGCU gives out free condoms to students. I think this is a great way to help stop the spread of this terrible disease. I think this same idea should be in high schools too and not just colleges. Many young teens sometimes don’t use them because of the expense. This social problem needs to be addressed by our society as soon as possible before things get worse.

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