first discovered in 1981. However, it was not named until

several years later. It is thought that AIDS was present in the

United States, Europe and Africa for at least ten years before

the first cases were discovered in 1981. AIDS is a disease which

involves the breakdown of the immune system. The virus that

causes this breakdown is known as HIV which stands for human

immunodeficiency virus. When this virus enters a body, it

infects the bloods T cells where the virus grows. Slowly the

virus will kill these cells. Since these T cells aid in fighting

infection, as they are killed, the body is no longer able to

fight away infection and is extremely susceptible to illness and

infections.1 AIDS is a disease that is becoming more and more

prevalent in society. The World Health Organization and the

Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS estimate that,

world-wide, forty two million people have been infected with HIV

since the onset of the epidemic in 1981. Each day an estimated

sixteen thousand people internationally become infected.2

HIV/AIDS can be transmitted through exchange of bodily

fluid; which includes unprotected sex, a mother's breast milk,

now society rejects AIDS patients because of fear of contracting

could only hope that this brutal epidemic will leave the world

hard to find because the disease had such a strong stigma

in this age group are in their sexual prime. Another factor

for Africa. HIV/AIDS also puts a huge strain on the national

preserve is such a small fraction of all those infected. Should

At the beginning of the the AIDS epidemic, the disease was

able to see how society need to find a place to deposit blame and

longer ignore the global concerns. If HIV/AIDS is not prevented

You could theoretically look at this situation through the social

If we think globally, the countries with the most need for

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