Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is a .
            
            
the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which attacks selected .
            
cells in the IMMUNE SYSTEM and produces defects in function. .
            
AIDS cases have also been reported in almost every country in .
            
the world. Sub-Saharan Africa in particular appears to suffer .
            
a heavy burden of this illness. Also from what I have read .
            
women are more likely to suffer from this deadly disease. Why?.
            
Because of the mistreatment that women still tend to receive .
            
even after one hundred years later of fighting for some sort.
            
of rights.
            
	The number of new cases of AIDS in women of reproductive .
            
age is increasing at an alarming rate. AIDS has become the .
            
leading cause of death for women between the ages of 20 and 40 .
            
in the major cities of North and South America, Western .
            
Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. By doing a little reasearch .
            
of my own, I have realized that With women's desire to survive .
            
in an environment where they are rarely employed in wage labor .
            
or other "legitimate" jobs, they become prostitutes in order .
            
to earn a living. Condom use among prostitutes in infrequent. .
            
By reading this and the article that I was familiarized with .
            
when learning about this disease I have come to the conclusion.
            
that women are the one's who are highly infected with this.
            
disease.
            
	I have come to the realization that it is not fair for.
            
anyone to be infected by this diease, and I mean anyone when I.
            
say it, but why should women have to fight such a tragedy.
            
every day of their lives when we have been doing so for the .
            
past one hundred years. It's just not fair anymore. When.
            
reading the articles and viewing videos in class I have become.
            
more familiarized with the subject and it's sickening to even.
            
think about it. I am not trying to say that men should be .
            
infected with this but why should women have the higher .
            
percentage of fighting this battle? We have done so when it.
            
comes to marriage, work, voting and now a deadly disease? .