AIDS :: AIDS Essays

AIDS     human immunodeficiency computer virus and/or AIDS is a life threatening unsoundness that is affecting societytoday. It is a serious epidemic that is threatening millions of lives aroundthe world. A person can become HIV infected thorough the sacramental manduction syringes orthrough and through vaginal or anal sex, one does not become infected from the air as somemight depend. It is infected through the blood. Testing positive for humanimmunodefiency virus or HIV, means that you carry the antibodies, you can be HIVinfected and not have AIDS, AIDS occurs in later stage of infection. A personis infectious through all stages, although studies have shown that a person ismost infectious during the early stage of contracting 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 practice abstinence, or on a more realist ic view, one should bemonogamous and always use condoms. It has been researched that the use ofcondoms lowers the seek 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 people, I believe they should have condom machines in girl and guys schoolbathrooms. I also experience 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 promote sex, in my opinion yet it is educatedthem that they must protect themselves not only from unwanted pregnancies orvenereal disease but from death, and from future revolve 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 everything possible to help prevent it.Another study that I believe has brought results in the needle exchangeprogram, In which drug users go and exchange their dirty needles for clean onesin order to prevent becoming or getting someone infected. "There are increasing entropy 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