AIDS: A Preventable Epidemic

AIDS is the worst disease epidemic to ever spread throughout the world since the Black Death took the lives of more than one third of the European population back in the Middle Ages. AIDS, which is an acronym for Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, is a disease cause by the HIV virus. The disease kills white blood cells which are the main component of our immune system that helps to fend off dangerous diseases and other …

…If we have a vaccine, we already are containing the disease. Then comes the cures and treatments. Needle exchange programs are also needed throughout the United States. It is a proven fact that these programs lower the amount of people that contract the HIV virus from dirty needles. Third, abstinence needs to be the word about sex used in America for teens. If we get this message through, we can save a lot of lives.