HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS

Introduction

African American are the main victims that face severe issues and concerns of the HIV\AIDS among the other racial and ethnic group in America. The researches show that the 14% of the African American are the part of the population. In the year 2009, it is recorded that 44% of the African American were got infected with the disease. The predictable rate of AIDS infection for black men was more than six and a half time higher as compared to the white men, also two and a half times as high as that of Latino men or black women (www.cdc.gov).

The influences of HIV/AIDS on women are the economic, education, cultural and social restrictions and unequal right of entry to the specific information and services. HIV stigma and discrimination are closely related and canbe dounf on the broader perspective in America (Henry, 2005). The reality that stigma remains in developed societies like United States where treatments have been extensively available for over a decade, also reveals that the relationship between HIV treatment and stigma is not straightforward.

HIV/AIDS is an issue that has been studied in different research from different perspectives, such as quality of life. This virus can be transmitted when blood, semen or vaginal secretions come in contact with infected mucous membranes or wounds of an uninfected person. Additionally, pregnant women can pass HIV to her baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding (Rose, 2011).

Discussion

The individuals that are living with the Stigma of HIV\AIDS face the issues and problems of discrimination all across United States. The larger number of people living with the HIV stigma in African American communities tends to have sex with the partners of the same race and ethnicity (Rose, 2011). HIV and AIDS are closely linked with the sexual stigma. HIV/AIDS are also the reasons for low labor ...