Aids in the U.S.
AIDS is a major concern here in the United States, as well as it is around the world. Geographers are researching the spread of HIV/AIDS throughout the world. In the world approximately twenty one point eight million have died from either disease, and another thirty-six point one million are currently infected with HIV/AIDS. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Most cases of HIV/AIDS were found in the homosexual community and intravenous drug users. HIV has been traced back to where it originated in Africa. It isn't completely proven, but scientists believe that African hunters got it from monkeys. Most likely the African butchers encountered it from cross-transmission of blood from animal populations. AIDS had stayed in Africa for a long time, it wasn't until rural to urban migration and trade routes spread the virus throughout sub-Saharan Africa to East Africa. Several things had contributed to the spread of Aids in Africa. First of all, it widely spread when a great deal of African men had to leave their wife's and families to find jobs. All these men were were living in male only hostels in mines, plantations and larg
e cities. Prostitution quickly spread AIDS amongst the men. Then when the men would go back home to visit the family, the spread would increase. Another way to obtain AIDS was by poverty, famine, war, and many other ways. Last was the ignorance and misinformation about AIDS and AIDS prevention. AIDS is having a devastating effect on sub-Saharan countries. Life expectancy in the sub-Saharan countries by thirty to fifty percent to as low as thirty years old. Usually viruses or diseases target the old or the young, but AIDS kills sexually active adults in the prime of their lives. Young adult women are hit the hardest in Africa, they get the disease faster and also die sooner. In Africa men are dominant, so women cannot control when and with whom they have sex with. HIV and AIDS are a very big issue, not only here in the United States but also all over the world. Scientists are coming up with new vaccines to stop these diseases from spreading. Right now the most HIV/AIDS problems are in the large cities, New York, China, Las Angeles, San Francisco. But as every thing else does, these diseases will filter down to the smaller cities and eventually to towns. Hopefully technology can stop or at least slow the spread of AIDS/HIV down. HIV did not just
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