AIDS- not someone else’s problem

The article is found in the book named Making Connections by Kenneth J. Pakenham

AIDS (acquired immune- deficiency syndrome) spread among young white homosexual males in the United States since late 1970s. It was regarded as an unknown disease at that time that nobody knew how to treat it.

In recent years, the response to AIDS was reduced in the United States foe three reasons: doctors didn’t think it was a new disease entirely; the Center for Disease Control slowed the reaction to AIDS; and the White House parried the relationships between AIDS and illegal drugs and homosexual sex.

Because of that, researchers began to provide some basic information about AIDS. By the early 1980s, researchers found it is a blood transmitted disease and it will damage the human immune system.

Now, AIDS has become an international epidemic because the increased number of HIV infected and deaths people.

The U.S. government spent much money to provide the information about AIDS. However, most experts thought AIDS was hard to treat because it was difficult to develop an effective vaccine. However, thanks to the recent information we have got already, it seen easy to achieve that goal.

There are three obstacles to developing prevention program: the cost to treat AIDS is high; people don’t want talk about their sexual experiences; and the lack awareness of AIDS.

Experts know that they can’t ignore these obstacles if they want to defeat AIDS.