The blog topic I chose to talk
about today is HIV/AIDS, because this is a social problem. The reason it is classified
as a social problem is because it affects the places it is concentrated in many
ways, which can in turn affect the world. HIV/AIDS stunts the growth of a
population, which causes people to have more children, so one survives long
enough to take care of his/her parents. However, the problem is the life
expectancy of people who live in places like South Africa don't live past 54,
so we have no productive members in society to work and produce goods. The
disease cripples the concentrated areas because it brings birth rates up, death
rates are high and the life expectancy low. The population is suffering because
there is a lack of productive members, which can cause an endless cycle of
poverty.
The article I chose talks about how
the HIV/AIDS epidemic could be getting worse and harder to combat because
attitudes are not changing, and groups like sex workers, drug users and gay men
in these areas are not taking preventative measures. There are many problems with trying to reach
people and get them help because of location and funding. The way we look at this disease needs to
change, people look at people who contract the disease as criminals and delinquents,
but there are many innocent people intertwined in this, such as those who have
been raped, and children of these victims.
HIV/AIDS infected 35.3 million
people worldwide, and eventually they get AIDS, although the prevalence of AIDS
may seem to be rising, we have found better ways to test it which result in a
reduction of HIV/AIDS in the recent years. However, the problem is not as
easily fixed by creating medicines to combat HIV/AIDS and distributing, but
educating the groups that are affected by this disease. The groups include, drugs users sharing
needles, prostitutes and sex workers as well as gay and bisexual men. These
people are often marginalized have no access to health care and can be
discriminated and criminalized which keeps them from getting help. The real solution to HIV/AIDS is education
and outreach programs, access to contraceptives and good health care to keep
people living longer to live full and healthy lives.
Emily Vestrat
11/7/2013
10:21 AM
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