My Awarness Againist AiDs

I love to share my awranesss anout HIV and Aids. I wrote this award winning paper about AIDS/HIV. Read it and tell emwhat you all think


Throughout the years, the prevalence of the HIV/AIDS virus has increased drastically, but the community that has been affected tremendously has been the African Americans community. Individuals are being infected each day and as an African American community, w need to promote ways to change this epidemic but we are neglecting this situation as if it were not occurring. Teens are being infected with this disease due to peer pressure and self-esteem issues. While teens are being infected so are their parents, family, and friends. African American women are being affected because of peer pressure as well but it seems the use of drugs and needles, which has increased their likelihood of becoming infected. The men within our African American community have becoming the target for infections. This is due to funding for prevention within the jail system has decreased as well as homosexuals men (down low men) decline to admit to their heterosexual partners that they are sleeping with partners of the same sex. Men, women and children are dying daily due to as a whole we are not accepting the fact that unprotected sex is causing more harm than we realize. Our leaders, political officials and others who influence the community could prevent this situation from escalating and if they realized that at this rate, the plan for decreasing the infection rate within the community would change. HIV/AIDS impacts the community each day and because we are neglecting, it will never end. Teenagers are our future and everyday another one of our future presidents, lawyers, doctors, or teachers are dying because of infections of HIV/AIDS virus. Therefore, we should try to make a change to avoid this situation. Peer- pressure has become one of the major assets that amplify infections. Teens do what they see or believe that others do. As a teenager, I thought that being popular or having various quantities of friends is what teens want to have. Some of them will do anything to get that. In 2004, 4,883 young people received a diagnosis of HIV infections.

African American women are dying from the virus everyday because of the fact that they are taking this situation lightly. By making this a nonchalant issue, more women are becoming infected. A majority of African American women ignore this epidemic because no one believes that it is as close to home as we realize. Women are pressured everyday by men to have unprotected sex and by choosing to have unprotected sex they are increasing their risk for infection. People have to make their own decisions and based upon your decisions you are saving your life as well as others. Women are easily manipulated in which men take advantage of that. Everyday their will be another victim that will become infected but different ways and it’s because we believe that this as the “gay White men’s disease”. Everyone believes that it won’t happen to him or her and that’s why we’re neglecting it. Precious Jackson was a woman who told he story about how she caught the disease from he boyfriend. “ He told me that he didn’t like condoms, and he wasn’t gong to wear them and not to ask. So I didn’t.” Due to aggressiveness towards the situation, she didn’t speak out. She ended up catching the disease. She is proof of how ignoring the situation can affect lives. Her life will never be the same and it’s because of he being infected by a man ho she trusted. He did not know that he had the disease and it is because he did not get testes until he went to prison. Many African American women tend to take a man’s word for things and do what they feel is expected of them to do because they are in a relationship with that person which may lead up to becoming infected with the virus. Many individuals’, not just women, tend to use their anger that they have towards other individuals who gave them the disease towards others.

By taking their aggression out on others, they end up passing the disease on because of unprotected sex. Robbie Thompson was a rape victim in which that’s how she caught the disease. She resented men for that so “ she didn’t care that she was passing along the disease, sometimes to unsuspected john who offered to pay her double if they didn’t wear a condom”. She did not care that she was depriving others from fulfilling the rest of their life by passing the disease on to them and because testing is irrelevant to so many within the community, others would’ve been infected also. African American women are not recognizing the harm that they are doing to themselves and others if they do not change their sexual habits. Black women in 2002 accounted for 67 percent of the country’s AIDS cases among women. They have low self-esteem and don’t know how to say “no” to a man because they ant to be loved. Women also tend not to deal with individuals that they have contracted the virus from. They believe that no one would love or accept them because they have the disease. Women fail to realize how there are so many things that can be done to prevent this situation from occurring but they don’t because of people excluding this situation as if it isn’t a high priority that we need t focus on within the community.
Our men have been the largest targets for being infected. Our prison system has lacked funding for the testing and prevention of the HIV/AIDS VIRUS. Because of this, many individuals leave jail with the disease and passing it along to their partners. Once again, the only way we can prevent anyone from passing the virus is to wear condoms. AIDS is so common in the gay community especially in the African American men. Many prisons are trying to reach the point to separate homosexuals from other men to prevent causing of AIDS. They have also thought of preparing or handing out condoms to prison attendants. Gay Women don’t usually catch the virus because they don’t usually have intercourse. They can only really catch it fro touching such as fingers. Men are really affected by the virus but studies show that more and more women are affected daily.

In conclusion, AIDS/HIV virus has really affected the United States and many countries across the globe. We can only protect ourselves, have a strong trust and do that we believe as right. Protect your virginity and keep it safe.