A.i.d.s / Social & Medical Impact

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...impact on the world. AIDS has quickly reached epidemic proportions. It knows no boundaries. Social Impact of AIDS: Patrick O'Connell, director of Visual AIDS says this concerning AIDS, "This is not just an urban, gay, white male thing. We are all living with AIDS. Let's start acting like we are" (Iverem, PG). Tourist brochures proclaim the charms of local wineries and wildlife sanctuaries at Jamestown, a former mill town of northwest New York State. The town of 35,000 has recently had an unwelcome distinction. It is the town in which one man is believed to have infected teenager after teenager with the AIDS virus (Brownlee, PG). Eleven young women under the age of 20 tested positive after unprotected sex with the one man (Brownlee, PG). Authorities claim that the man knowingly infected six of the young women after being told that he carried HIV (Brownlee, PG). The man may have infected up to almost 100 people in the state of New York (Brownlee, PG). Because of a young woman who was only 13 when he had sex with her, the district attorney filed charges of second-degree rape (Brownlee, PG). ...

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