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The Impact Of HIV/AIDS On San Francisco
The purpose of this paper is to explain the impact of HIV/AIDS on San Francisco, the rest of the United States, as well as the rest of the world. I will tell how it started small an expanded across the globe. This disease killed many and is still taking many lives today. The origin of the disease is believed to be in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where people hunted infected chimpanzees for meat and became infected themselves when they came into contact with the chimpanzee blood(Where did HIV come from?, 2012). Aids affected many cities all over the world. San Francisco was hit hardest by the virus because of its prominent gay population. Casual sex in bathhouses made the disease spread even faster in San Francisco. This led
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