Daily Dose of MD : HIV/AIDS in the Shadows?
Monday, August 3, 2009
, Posted by Ashleigh Fitzwilliam, CEO and Founder at 12:39 PM
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AAmerican society and popular culture is drenched in sex, drugs, and the counterculture. Sex in particular has always been and forever will be the hot topic among the young and middle-aged audiences. The media plasters television screens, computer desktops and NYC magazine/newspaper stands with images of sex, sex,sex. Modern culture stipulates that "sex sells." However, the same passions and energies exhausted on promoting sex is in no way comparable to that of safe-sex advocacy and HIV/AIDS awareness. The national HIV?AIDS amnesia needs to be cured promptly. The important question is- how?
For starters, it is most imperative to acknowledge HIV/AIDS in its entirety, considering all races, ethnicity, social and economic demographics, impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Let us no longer deem HIV/AIDS as simply an epidemic; it is a pandemic, stretching far beyond the equatorial boundaries of the Earth, past foreign continents, countries, states and provinces. It is a global problem, and therefore the global community must wage war against it. CDC reports, accounting for the United States alone, indicates that the estimated total of cases among Black/African American individuals living with AIDS in 2007 was 426,003. Staggering integer indeed!
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Keep in mind ladies and gentlemen, that this number only constitutes that of reported AIDS cases, which is still yet a misleading fraction of the true total of people living with AIDS who have not been accounted for in the annual CDC reports. Quite simply, the number is much larger. The White community is second leading in AIDS cases, landing an incredible 404,465 in the CDC charts for year 2007.
We are currently in 2009, and these numbers have not decreased, rather the opposite is occurring- AIDS cases are gradually increasing each year. So, what can you deduce from this exponential trend? Is there a problem with our HIV/AIDS campaign? The callous fact is that there are many holes in our campaigning initiatives. Preaching abstinence has proven counter-productive in our attempt to eliminate HIV/AIDS proliferation. The vast public needs to take charge of their own individual health and well being. Self-responsibility and accountability should be the primary and modern focus. Concisely, safe-sex (male condoms, female barriers)is vital; employ it!
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-F56wZRzY
For starters, it is most imperative to acknowledge HIV/AIDS in its entirety, considering all races, ethnicity, social and economic demographics, impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Let us no longer deem HIV/AIDS as simply an epidemic; it is a pandemic, stretching far beyond the equatorial boundaries of the Earth, past foreign continents, countries, states and provinces. It is a global problem, and therefore the global community must wage war against it. CDC reports, accounting for the United States alone, indicates that the estimated total of cases among Black/African American individuals living with AIDS in 2007 was 426,003. Staggering integer indeed!
-Image provided by GoogleKeep in mind ladies and gentlemen, that this number only constitutes that of reported AIDS cases, which is still yet a misleading fraction of the true total of people living with AIDS who have not been accounted for in the annual CDC reports. Quite simply, the number is much larger. The White community is second leading in AIDS cases, landing an incredible 404,465 in the CDC charts for year 2007.
We are currently in 2009, and these numbers have not decreased, rather the opposite is occurring- AIDS cases are gradually increasing each year. So, what can you deduce from this exponential trend? Is there a problem with our HIV/AIDS campaign? The callous fact is that there are many holes in our campaigning initiatives. Preaching abstinence has proven counter-productive in our attempt to eliminate HIV/AIDS proliferation. The vast public needs to take charge of their own individual health and well being. Self-responsibility and accountability should be the primary and modern focus. Concisely, safe-sex (male condoms, female barriers)is vital; employ it!
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-F56wZRzY
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