Aids
Writing Prompt
When AIDS emerged, no-one could have predicted how this epidemic would spread across the world and how many millions of lives it would affect. There was no real idea what caused it and consequently no real idea how to protect against it. Already, more than twenty-five million people around the world have died of AIDS-related diseases. In 2007, around 2.1 million men, women, and children lost their lives. 33 million people around the world are now living with HIV, and most of these are likely to die over the next decade or so. The most recent estimates show that, in 2008 alone, 2.6 million people will be infected with HIV virus if we don’t stop this virus or at least fill people in on this subject everyone or an even larger proportion of the world will have AIDS or a HIV of some sort. 1 in every 5 people is said to have a case of HIV even if it means it’s a small form of HIV such as cold soars although they aren’t as significant as the AIDS virus they still affect children, teen and adult’s everyday. The reason I bring this up is because although not all of the AIDS victims live in the United States, they are still humans and humans should realistically take care of one another.
The significance is that by the end of the decade more than 20 million African American will be without both of their parents or at least one of their parents, because the AIDS/HIV virus. Not only will African Americans be affected by this but the whole world if more than 20 million children parents die at least 75% of the children will be homeless or living in poverty for the rest of their lives and that is depressing thought knowing that we could have prevented this outbreak years ago by supplying humans with the proper knowledge about the AIDS virus and the HIV virus.
The solution I have come up with is to educate all races’ all sexuality all sex’s just everyone in general, I believe that if the world taught this more in depth in...
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