There is no doubt in my mind that AIDS is one of the worst diseases ever to infect the people of this world. Americans may be afraid of getting infected with AIDS, but in a place like Africa, they are no longer afraid. The reason being that in a country like Botswana, 39 percent of adults are infected with AIDS. It has become a part of their life. Anyone can see that these people need any kind of help they can get. I also think that it is obvious that the help from organization like UNAIDS is not working and that something else needs to be done. I feel that to help these countries we must come up with a different approach and experiment with different ways to help these people, and maybe we can at least slow down this increasing disease.
I agree with many aspects of this article, one main reason for the transmission of AIDS may if fact be because of poverty. Ultimately, I feel that if more money would go towards something as simple as sanitation and health care for these people that things could really turn around. I feel that these are the root of the problem and need to be addressed if anyone intends to do anything to fix this AIDS epidemic. If these people had a clean and sanitary way of living than we could decrease the number of AIDS infections and save many lives.
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I feel the same way about changing the way we are dealing with Aids. Just like you said, obviously whatever we are doing now is not working and we are just throwing our money away. We need to change what we are doing and put more money in to basically anything that will make our immune system stronger. Unlike people in poverty we Americans have better sanitation, nutrition, and other sources of care that make our immune system stronger. The problem isn’t that people in Africa are having over 250 times as much unprotected sex as us its because they have weakened immune systems