AIDS :: AIDS Essays

assist     HIV and/or AIDS is a life threatening disease that is affecting societytoday. It is a serious epidemic that is threatening millions of lives aroundthe world. A person can become HIV give thorough the sharing syringes orthrough vaginal or anal sex, one does not become infected from the air as somemight think. It is infected through the blood. Testing positive for worldimmunodefiency virus or HIV, means that you carry the antibodies, you can be HIVinfected and not have AIDS, AIDS occurs in later stop of infection. A personis infectious through all stages, although studies have shown that a person ismost infectious during the early stage of detection and in the final stage ofAIDS, during the midcourse of the infection they are less infectious. Thereare several things that one can do to prevent becoming HIV positive. One itemsis that you can get along abstinence, or on a to a greater extent realistic view, one should bemonogamous and always use condom s. It has been researched that the use ofcondoms lowers the risk of becoming HIV infected by 90%. Although thisprotection is not 100% it is the only way that actually helps prevent you fromgetting the virus. I think that society should make condoms more accessible toyoung race, I believe they should have condom machines in girl and guys give lessonsbathrooms. I also feel that they should be distributed in school social eventssuch as dances or proms, when it is most likely that they will be having sex.Giving youth condoms is not encouraging sex, in my opinion even so it is educatedthem that they must protect themselves not only from unwanted pregnancies orvenereal disease but from death, and from future spread of this epidemic.Studies shown that 50% of infected people are youths between the ages of 15 to24 years of age. (Public Health Reports Jul. 1995, v110n4, p462-466. If this isthe stage that statistics is showing that are most klikely to contract thevirus than why not do every thing possible to help prevent it.Another study that I believe has brought results in the needle switchprogram, In which drug users go and exchange their crappy needles for clean onesin order to prevent becoming or getting someone infected. "There are increasingdata showing that those who regularly exchange their syringes in such programsbenefit by lowering their risk of HIV acquisition". Khoshnood, Haven PublicHealth Reports Jul 1995, v110n4, p 462-466.I believe that AIDS education should be mandated in al states. As I