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Our cramped house was always filled with people. Due to her role in the refugee community, my mother would at times hold preventive workshops on HIV. The workshop mainly constituted of statistics display, stories, contraceptive distribution but mostly laughter. To the people attending, HIV was just another too familiar danger. I was not allowed to attend any of the workshops due to my age, but my perpetual inquisitive nature led me to the discovery of leftover brochures. While reading the…

The AIDS Outbreak Over the last several decades, people have witnessed millions of people especially homosexual died from AIDS. Doctor Don Francis, who worked as epidemiologists at the CDC during 1993 and the exact time of AIDS outbreak in the United States, made a claim, “This may be the first epidemic in history”. However, this claim did not make the people especially homosexual and hatians to be aware and more careful about their health. They believed that this disease named AIDs or HIV…

In August of 1992, a speech was given by Mary Fisher called, a Whisper of AIDS. Fisher gave this speech in Houston, Texas and many people witnessed it. During this speech, Fisher elaborates on the topic of AIDS and speaks to her audience about the effects of society’s preconceptions. She uses the construction of parallel structure to show listeners that she wants their attention and focus, personification to amplify the differences between society’s actions and the effects and anaphora to once…

1 One prevention strategy for aids that was brought up in “Endgame: AIDS in Black America” was educating those in high school the importance of abstinence to prevent the spread of the disease, however that was a problem because many had already had sex. Due to the fact that it would be difficult to stop those high school students for having sex, it was suggested that the use of condoms should be promoted. Another prevention strategy was the syringe exchange program, however it was controversial…

the first stage of HIV, the infected person may have no symptoms or flu like symptoms (CDC, 2015). There is no telling when HIV has advanced into its deadliest stage; one is then at a very high risk of developing Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In the 1980’s HIV was thought to be originated in the USA from this group of gay men (avert.org, 2014). However, scientist have identified that HIV is actually a virus very similar to that found in chimpanzees’ called SIV (CDC, 2015). SIV is…

susceptible to contracting HIV/AIDS than participants who did participate (Healthcare Triage,…

We had been good friends from high school although neither of us could recall how we met. He had come from the private boy’s school down the street from my all-girls preparatory academy and that’s all I knew. He only called me when it was convenient for him or if he wanted something, and he liked to treat me like an object that he could lead on. After all, I was a whore. College was coming to an end and he had just broken up with his college girlfriend, Abby when he raped me. Christian had text…

According to Gajic-Veljanoski and Stewart (2007), “Sex trafficking is also listed as one of the factors influencing the pandemic heterosexual spread of HIV/AIDS around the world. When Nepali girls and women become infected with HIV they are abandoned and are of no longer use to traffickers. A study done by Silverman, Decker, and other doctors (2007), in which they were researching the prevalence of HIV in…

HIV/AIDS is a very serious, life-threatening, and almost entirely preventable disease. With increased education and awareness, we can continue to decrease the number of new cases each year, encourage all to become knowledgeable about the disease and get tested, and bring attention and care to current HIV/AIDS patients. One of the most at-risk groups to become infected with HIV/AIDS is young adults, who made up 39 percent of all new infections and 15 percent of all people living with AIDS as of…

Prostitution is a controversial topic of discussion in today’s society. There are many aspects in a community that are directly impacted and correlated with prostitutes, or street workers. Prostitution has affected our society through human and sex trafficking, rape, spread of sexually transmitted infections, and assaults. There are many perspectives that people develop when it comes to this topic. On one hand, people believe this profession, that women and men alike choose, is unethical and…