Aids in the U.S.

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 an

Prostitution quickly spread AIDS amongst the men. Scientists are coming up with many new vaccines to help prevent AIDS or HIV. In Africa men are dominant, so women cannot control when and with whom they have sex with. Maybe some day they will be able to find a cure for it. Many AIDS programs demanded that the government donate funds to the prevention of AIDS programs. This is new and state of the art technology, and the best part is that it is actually quite simple and is inexpensive. Hopefully technology can stop or at least slow the spread of AIDS/HIV down. In the Western Hemisphere, some of the first countries to be infected with HIV were Haiti and others surrounding. The only down side to this type of drug is that it is still fairly new, so we don"tmt know the long term side affects are yet, and at this stage it is extremely expensive. 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. Scientists are coming up with new vaccines to stop these diseases from spreading.