HIV/AIDS: Isolation In American Society

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Have you ever felt isolated before? Have you been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS? This terrible syndrome can make you feel so isolated that even your own parents shun you. Mainly passed around by doing drugs or through sex. Many famous people have been diagnosed with this disease and have died because there is no cure. HIV/AIDS is known for making people feel isolated in American society. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS is a very serious matter and is known for taking lives because of what it does to the immune system. HIV intrudes with the body 's ability to fight the organisms that cause the disease. It is a sexually transmitted infection. In March 1993, the US voted to keep people from entering the country that had HIV. At the end of 1993 about 2.5 million people around the globe had AIDS. In 1999 HIV/AIDS was the fourth biggest cause of death, with around 33 million people living with the HIV and 14 million people had already died from AIDS. In 2006, male circumcision was found to …show more content…
On February 24, 1995 he was diagnosed with AIDS. He went to the doctor because of coughing and wincing and instead of being a little sick, he was diagnosed with something that would ruin his rap career. No one knows still to this day how he got diagnosed with AIDS, but there are many accounts that say a man named Suge Knight, a guy that Eazy-E was having a feud with ordered tainted needles with acupuncture. The reason Suge Knight did this was because of business and both record labels were in a big competition and Eazy-E was on top and was only getting better. Eazy-E didn 't have a lot of time to feel isolated because two weeks later after diagnosed he died. But one way he could have felt isolated was probably knowing that his rap career was over and that he was going to die at an early age with 9

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