Aids in America is an epidemic that is over looked. No one wants to admit that this problem is in our own back yard, but instead want to look at Africa, and focus the Aids fight there. What about our own people that are suffering from Aids?
Aids in America is an issue that is overlooked every day. Many people are suffering from this horrible disease in our own towns and cities, but no one wants to see this problem for what it is, an epidemic. Today in America more then one million people have Aids, which does not include the people that have HIV or do not even know that they are infected yet.
In America this epidemic started out in the 1980’s as a problem for gay men and not so much a problem for “main stream” society. That has changed greatly. Now more cases are showing up in straight men, and a growing number of women are being diagnosed with Aids. The fastest growing ethnicity to become infected with HIV or Aids is African American women. This is an alarming change from the prior victims of AIDs. With this shift in the epidemic, means that more children are being born already infected with this disease. The epidemic of Aids, alone, is not the most alarming fact, but the fact that Americans are turning a blind eye to this problem.
On any given day you will be able to see some television ad or article talking about the Aids epidemic in Africa, but you will be hard pressed to find information on the problem at home. The internet is flooded with information on how bad this problem is in Africa but they fail to mention the fact that it is a problem at home to. This disease is something that can be contained fairly easily. Almost every person in America knows how to protect them selves from contracting this disease. In America this epidemic should not even be an issue, but by ignoring the fact that it is an issue only makes the problem worse. We need to fix the problems at home before we go and fix this epidemic in other countries.
