This week I've just been getting my paper ready to turn in. There are alot of proofreading and mistakes I need to fix. We had a good question of the week this week. They've been getting better and better. I feel that I'm thinking a little differently about the fact that HIV/AIDS is affecting people's lives,their community, and their country. This weeks question of the week pertained to how should the U.S continue the fight against AIDS. Clearly informing our community and classrooms isn't enough. The infection rate continues to rise! Why?!
I think most people know about HIV/AIDS but for some reason they don't think it pertains to them. Like they are invincible or something. How many times have you heard HIV/AIDS DON'T discriminate?! At this point, everyone should know someone who has died of AIDS or has HIV/AIDS. That isn't enought to scare you straight? Oh, I forgot, because they don't live like you or they don't have the lifestyle like you, that's why they have it. Get for real people! It's not until YOU find out that you have HIV/AIDS that you ended up knowing it's real. By that time, it's too late. Take a hint, everything about having the disease is not positive.
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I read this article from a peer reviewed journal about controlling the spead in India. They were talking about how it is spread and how they try to prevent it and then they mentioned something that should have been quite obvious to me. They suggested "the local and reginal celebrities such as political leaders, movie stars, and beauty pageant winners, in the indiansubcontenent to get involved in helping people with HIV and educating the public, which would certainly raise awareness amung the rual public more quickly than current efforts." Duh! Who do most american follow, want to be like, and who they look up to? People we see everyday, people in entertaiment. If alot of intertainment people get involved in this, I truly feel it will make a huge difference!
Controlling the Spread of HIV/AIDS in the Indian Subcontinent. 2005. PLOS Med2(12): e420 www.journal.pmed.0020420
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I think your right when you say that people will only gain respect for HIV after they themselves get the virus. I'm still amazed at the level of ignorance that some people continue to portray even after being told and shown in some cases the effects of HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately some people never learn.
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ReplyDeleteI believe you're right about us not really realizing that we can get the disease till we actually do get it, that's when it really hits us!!!
You know, a thought just occurred to me when I was reading you're blog; I was thinking say that we ever agree to the stupid law of tracking down HIV+ people and putting them into camps, will that go for Hollywood stars too??? I mean imagine Bruce Willis or Angelina Jolie being tracked down and put in camps??!!! Man, that'd be really really messed up!!!! Don't you think?
The question of the week for week 11 absolutely shocked me!!!! I mean how could we even consider any of those two options. Not only would it be a invasion of privacy but it would take away freedom from these individuals. I could never agree to something like that!
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