Tucker Muse

 

World history

 

15 September 2003

 

Mr. Haskell

 

Aids Causing Death in Africa

 

            One of the biggest unsolved problems in the world today is AIDS. This is because it is killing many innocent lives. Thinking about it you would ask yourself, ‘why are so many innocent people dieing.’ The answer is people in Africa just aren’t being helped. One thing for certain is that chances are, some of these people aren’t even aware of this disease. A lot of the people that are even aware of AIDS don’t know they have it and still go around passing it on to many different people. Another problem is that money is scarce making it next to impossible for the infected people to even get medicine. Lastly the people that have this infection are passing it on not only to the other people but more importantly they are passing it on to there kids as well. There are at least 10,000 people per day being diagnosed with the disease. Also with the U.N. beginning to give up hope it is not looking to good.

            Obviously there is not too much the people of Africa can do with AIDS spreading like wildfire. The meds are to expensive and too many have to where it is being transferred to more and more people. However there could be a solution. I believe that if a vaccine or some type of immunization is created, with a lot of donations and help from other countries we could get Africa vaccinated. This would be a good plan because we would not only save people, but more importantly we could stop a generation of children growing up without a family. That is why this must be done soon.