In the last few decades, many diseases have spread across all the nations. A numerous amount of these diseases are extremely life threatening. Of these diseases there is one which progressively affects millions of people. HIV is a deadly disease that has changed the world by taking millions of lives. Because HIV is a sexually transmitted disease, raising awareness, as introducing new methods for a safer sex is as vital as finding a cure. “HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a lentivirus that causes the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infection and cancer to thrive. A person can be infected with HIV from infected blood, semen,
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As the doctors started to analyze the unfamiliar fevers in their bodies they realized that these men all had something in common; they were homosexuals. People started viewing the homosexual community as the initiators of the disease and started referring to it as the “gay flu” and “gay cancer.”(Yount 2003 p.12) Due to this belief, society ignored the illness because it affected a group that Americans did not approve. However, in 1982 scientists discovered that the disease could also be sexually transmitted by both homosexual and heterosexual individuals. Which made clear that not only a group of people could be on risk to contract the virus. Causing attention in society of the virtual awarenes the disease occupied around the …show more content…
In these circumstances, and for vulnerable young people in general, the most effective HIV prevention intervention may be a program that encourages them to stay away from sex altogether, to decline penetrative sex, to delay it until within a monogamous relationship or marriage, or to encourage both members of a couple to practice strict monogamy.” (www.aidsmap.com) In particular, young people tend to be more vulnerable to these types of things. Many young people do not take into consideration morals or their own personal beliefs. Some young people may not even be aware that there is an age of consent. As they go on and have unprotected sex they are more likely to end up with an STD, such as
As the doctors started to analyze the unfamiliar fevers in their bodies they realized that these men all had something in common; they were homosexuals. People started viewing the homosexual community as the initiators of the disease and started referring to it as the “gay flu” and “gay cancer.”(Yount 2003 p.12) Due to this belief, society ignored the illness because it affected a group that Americans did not approve. However, in 1982 scientists discovered that the disease could also be sexually transmitted by both homosexual and heterosexual individuals. Which made clear that not only a group of people could be on risk to contract the virus. Causing attention in society of the virtual awarenes the disease occupied around the …show more content…
In these circumstances, and for vulnerable young people in general, the most effective HIV prevention intervention may be a program that encourages them to stay away from sex altogether, to decline penetrative sex, to delay it until within a monogamous relationship or marriage, or to encourage both members of a couple to practice strict monogamy.” (www.aidsmap.com) In particular, young people tend to be more vulnerable to these types of things. Many young people do not take into consideration morals or their own personal beliefs. Some young people may not even be aware that there is an age of consent. As they go on and have unprotected sex they are more likely to end up with an STD, such as