Hiv/aids

The issue of HIV/AIDS has been a developing concern since the early 1980's. It is an issue that has sparked fear in everyone, but “society” has narrowed it down to certain people that can contract the AIDS virus. The stereotypical “AIDS” victim is not an IV drug user or a practicing homosexual; it is anyone, anyone who has unprotected sex, anyone who has had a blood transfusion in the past twenty years, or anyone who was innocently brought into the world by an infected mother. As unfair as it is, HIV/AIDS can attack someone whom society would have never “branded” as a stereotypical AIDS victim. The issue of HIV/AIDS needs to be addressed, and it needs to be addressed now.

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the late stage of an infection that is generally acknowledged to be caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is a retrovirus that attacks and destroys certain white blood cells. The targeted destruction weakens the body’s immune system and makes the infected person susceptible to infections and diseases that ordinarily would not be life threatening. AIDS was first identified in the