AIDS
The World Pandemic
Acquired Immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to immune system and numerous of dead all over the world. AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death among people ages 25 – 44 in the United States. Millions of people around the world are living with HIV/AIDS, including many children under age 15 (PubMed Health). In addition, AIDS ranks the first leading of death in Vietnam. More than 260000 people living with AIDS and an estimated 100 people become infected every day (AIDS in Vietnam). Based on this information, we know that AIDS is one of the most powerful killers in the world. It kills more than millions of people per year. Unfortunately, we cannot produce medicine to cure this pandemic. Its damages are very huge and last long. It almost destroys everything of human such as job, family and country. My father’s friend is one of the millions patient whose life was done away by AIDS. He lost his job, his family, and his future. This tragedy turned my friend into emaciated and morose. Therefore, I want to know more about this pandemic. I want to rescue all the AIDS patients over the world. I hope that one day I can produce a medicine which could stop this terrific pandemic and bring back my friend family. “The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS”, by Stephen Jay Gould will give us some knowledge about this disease and from that; we could avoid the number of people getting AIDS.
“The AIDS pandemic, an issue that may rank with nuclear weaponry as the greatest danger of our ear” (Gould). A nuclear weapon costs nearly billion dollar to create and can kills millions people. AIDS doesn’t cost any but still can cause millions of death. In this article, Gould mentioned that the world has ignored AIDS, and viewing it “as a contained and peculiar affliction of homosexual men” in 1984. This lacking of understand of people at that time took part in spreading it in a simple exponential manner. Without
Acquired Immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to immune system and numerous of dead all over the world. AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death among people ages 25 – 44 in the United States. Millions of people around the world are living with HIV/AIDS, including many children under age 15 (PubMed Health). In addition, AIDS ranks the first leading of death in Vietnam. More than 260000 people living with AIDS and an estimated 100 people become infected every day (AIDS in Vietnam). Based on this information, we know that AIDS is one of the most powerful killers in the world. It kills more than millions of people per year. Unfortunately, we cannot produce medicine to cure this pandemic. Its damages are very huge and last long. It almost destroys everything of human such as job, family and country. My father’s friend is one of the millions patient whose life was done away by AIDS. He lost his job, his family, and his future. This tragedy turned my friend into emaciated and morose. Therefore, I want to know more about this pandemic. I want to rescue all the AIDS patients over the world. I hope that one day I can produce a medicine which could stop this terrific pandemic and bring back my friend family. “The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS”, by Stephen Jay Gould will give us some knowledge about this disease and from that; we could avoid the number of people getting AIDS.
“The AIDS pandemic, an issue that may rank with nuclear weaponry as the greatest danger of our ear” (Gould). A nuclear weapon costs nearly billion dollar to create and can kills millions people. AIDS doesn’t cost any but still can cause millions of death. In this article, Gould mentioned that the world has ignored AIDS, and viewing it “as a contained and peculiar affliction of homosexual men” in 1984. This lacking of understand of people at that time took part in spreading it in a simple exponential manner. Without
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