AIDS :: AIDS Essays

back up     HIV and/or support is a life threatening disease that is affecting societytoday. It is a serious epidemic that is threatening millions of lives aroundthe world. A person clear become HIV infect thorough the sharing syringes or by dint of vaginal or anal sex, one does not become infected from the air as somemight think. It is infected through the blood. exam positive for humanimmunodefiency virus or HIV, means that you carry the antibodies, you eject be HIVinfected and not have AIDS, AIDS occurs in later acquaint of infection. A personis infectious through all stages, although studies have shown that a person ismost infectious during the early stage of detection and in the final stage ofAIDS, during the midcourse of the infection they are less(prenominal) infectious. in that respectare several things that one can do to oppose becoming HIV positive. One itemsis that you can practice abstinence, or on a more(prenominal) realistic view, one sho uld bemonogamous and constantly use condoms. It has been researched that the use ofcondoms lowers the risk of becoming HIV infected by 90%. Although thisprotection is not 100% it is the still way that in reality helps encumber 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 feel that they should be distributed in school social eventssuch as dances or proms, when it is most apt(predicate) that they will be having sex.Giving youth condoms is not encouraging 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 shell out 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 mos t klikely to campaign thevirus than why not do everything possible to help prevent it.Another study that I believe has brought results in the needle transformprogram, In which drug users go and exchange their dirty needles for clean onesin order to prevent becoming or getting someone infected. "There are increasingdata showing that those who regularly exchange their syringes in such programsbenefit by lowering their risk of HIV acquirement". Khoshnood, Haven PublicHealth Reports Jul 1995, v110n4, p 462-466.I believe that AIDS education should be mandated in al states. As I