HIV/AIDS; Epidemic

Monday's and Wednesday's movies have been truely disturbing and mind altering. I knew that things were bad but I had no idea how bad they really were. On a global prospective HIV/AIDS has stricken a fear in to all that come near. It is to the point where if someone is infected with the HIV virus that they are not telling anyone on fear of being excommunicated from community, friends and family. My past knowledge of HIV and AIDS have been very similar to my exposer thus far in H312. From my elementary school, middle school and high school I have been shown movie after movie, read document after document and the same information conclusion in my eye's keep coming up. Education, Education, Education. This IS the most important way to control and and in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Safe sex education and practice will allieve many people of many diseases. From a biological and chemical prospective myself and as a class have learned about how it affects the WBC and immune system. Breaking both down to where they are left disastered and dicrepid. The disease has genetically been traced back to emerging around the 1930's from chimps captured and eaten by indiginous people of Africa. I believe it was an infected chimp liver that was the origins of the spread of HIV. Globally, like I said earlier, HIV/AIDS is an epidemic. In places of poverty and weakened education systems especially. What can we possible do to kill the plague that so silently lives amungst us? What has been the most suprising to me so far about watching the videos are the live footage films and pictures of full blown AIDS outbreaks in their victims. Actually the most suprising and ridiculous this that I hear was the president or vice-president of South Africa who thought has wasn't going to get AIDS or an STI after having sex with an infected woman because he took a shower after. What an idiot. And that man is leading a country.