AIDS- not someone else’s problem
The article is found in the bookMaking Connections by Kenneth J. Pakenham
AIDS (acquired immune- deficiency syndrome) spread among young especially white homosexual males in the United States since late 1970s. And because of medical experts disregarded it, Centers for Disease control’s slowed reaction, and the White House didn’t want to talk bout illegal and homosexual the response to AIDS in U.S was slow in these early days.
Because of that, researchers began to provide some information of this disease. By the early 1980s, researchers found it is a blood transmitted disease , it will damage the human immune system. the nost common transmission routes are: unportected sexual with infrcted person, use of contaminated hypodermic needles in illegal drug use, and contact an infected mother and her child during pregnancy.
Now, AIDS has become an international epidemic because the increased number of HIV infected and lots of people deaths in this disease.
The U.S. government paied a lot of money to provide the information about AIDS. However, the situation is not optimistic because of the anribiral drugs is not effective and developing an effective vaccine is so difficult. while the recent information we have got already, it seen easy to achieve that goal.
Tere are three reason lead to the task of developing prevention program is not easy: the cost to treat AIDS is high; people don’t want talk about their sexual experiences such as homosexual sex, sex with prostitutes, sex with multiple parterns, ans underage sex; and the lack awareness of AIDS.
Experts know that they can’t ignore these obstacles if they want to defeat AIDS.
