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Aids in the 20th century

 

            
             Aids are a fatal plague that is increasingly killing our society. Aids are an impairment of the body's ability to fight disease. It is acquired, not inherited. (Gong p. 24) It caused by two groups called retroviruses. The groups infect white blood cells and helper cells that play significant roles in immune system. The virus attaches to cd4 molecules where HIV then enter the cell an inserts it own genes into cells reproductive system and produces more HIV. (Fetzer p 163 ).
             From a personal standpoint Aids has manifested itself in the form of discrimination, avoidance and fear of people living with aids. Aids in our society causes a concern because it is a life threatening disease cause by sex and drugs which main affects young adults. ( Fertzer p163 ).
             Many people are aware that there are no high-risk groups instead there are a high-risk behavior. (Peterson p. 153).
             HIV and Aids affect more than thirty million people worldwide. Race, sex, and age have nothing to do with who can get this disease however, the race with the highest number of infected people happens to be Caucasian male ages 25-44. About forty-five percent of the 641,000 Aids cases in the United States have been white people. Black people came close with over 35 percent of the case, and Hispanics have about 20 percent of all cases. The race with the lowest percentage was Asians with 1 percent. In 1997, 68 percent of the estimated 30.6 million people living with this life-threatening disease in were living in Africa. Aids are the third leading cause of death in women 25-44 years old. Adult males are the leading sex to contract Aids. (Faulk p.3) Adult women make up 15 percent ands children make up the other 1 percent of the cases. People have been lead to believe so many fictional stories about the ways of contracting Aids its hard to know what to believe. The truth is, the main way of getting this disease is unprotected sex. Although condoms do work most of the time they are not 100% effective.


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