The Silent Killer of African Americans: The Epidemic of HIV/AIDS

The world epidemic of HIV / AIDS has become a frequent perpetrator of many dead people of African-Americans affected by viruses since the first discovery in the world, especially in the early 1980s. African Americans are only responsible for a small part of the total population of the United States, but they are the most affected ethnic groups. The epidemic of HIV and AIDS has not only targeted African-American men, but over the years has grown to black women, homosexuals, bisexual men and young people.

Since 1981, more than 700,000 AIDS patients have been reported in the United States, and there are possibilities that 900,000 Americans are infected with HIV. The epidemic is the fastest growing among ethnic minorities, the main killer of African American men. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of African Americans affected by AIDS is about seven times the number of Caucasians, and the number of Hispanics is three times that of Caucasians. HIV is also infected by exposure to infected blood. Before blood donated blood is screened for evidence of HIV infection, HIV is transmitted by introducing contaminated blood or blood components before introducing HIV into the blood product before breaking the heat treatment technique . Today, due to blood screening and heat treatment, the risk of HIV infection due to this blood transfusion is very small.

Since 1999 there was an indication that the political response to the epidemic of HIV / AIDS in Africa is changing rapidly. The series of international conferences emphasized the development of HIV / AIDS and Africa and greatly strengthened the environment for the government to cope with the epidemic. The 13 th International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa in July 2000 was the first international AIDS conference held in African soil and received international and African regional reports. In the same year, the African Unity Organization (OAU) - 53 members now turning into the African Union - included HIV / AIDS at the Togo Summit. In the latter part of the year 2000, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) held the Africa Development Forum in Addis Ababa. There, high-ranking government officials participated in this forum to discuss HIV / AIDS.

Refusing US government and South African government's policy on HIV / AIDS greatly increased the influence of epidemics to their respective countries. The president during the epidemic of HIV / AIDS did not know the true destructive power of the disease, but was blinded by wrong prejudice. In the United States, "President Reagan hosted a new epidemic of five years before announcing the term" AIDS "for the first time" (Drucker, 2012). Not only did President Reagan fail to promote AIDS treatment, it could not completely solve the problem. This rejection to focus on expanding HIV / AIDS faster and easier. In a study quantifying the influence of government ignorance during epidemics, "a conservative conservative group of preventable HIV infections was 4394 (15% for needle change) to 9666 (33% incidence ) Drucker 2012). 2009). 2009)