Multi Genre Project 2 – Summary
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a disease characterized by damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Originated in sub-Saharan Africa in the 50s the disease later appeared in the United States in 1979, with very seldom patients. In the 80s there was a ton of cases dealing with the mysterious virus which was kind of out of the ordinary. People all around the word were getting infected, but in the U.S., the illness mostly spread through the homosexual community and intravenous drug users. Throughout the years AIDS has continued to spread. In the year of 2006 there is estimated to be about forty-million people that has the disease and twenty-five have actually already died from it. Even though treatments have improved and life expectancy is longer HIV still remains a fatal illness.There was a big concern about how safe it was to allow AIDS patients to continue attending school or going to work with healthy people. Many HIV patients felt as if they where being discriminated from attening jobs and school. Many people felt that HIV was something serious to be around since it was a life or death situation. As more information about the disease became available, people where forced to accept that anyone could contract HIV not just in high-risk categories.
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