Blog 11

 One of the biggest global issue is AIDS. AIDS was first reported in 1981. Before a name had been determined, the press started referring to it as "GRID" which stood for "gay related immune deficiency". Soon after the Center for Disease Control and Prevention coined the name the "4-H Disease". 4-H referred to the groups of people the disease seemed to single out, Haitians, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and heroin users. It is now globally know as AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome. It is also known that this disease is not limited to the 4H's, but that anyone is susceptible to it. AIDS is spread by sexual transmission, blood, and from mother to child. Globally AIDS has killed more then 25 million people since 1980.  There are an estimated 33 million living with AIDS right now. Millions of people around the globe are dying from this terrible disease to which there is no cure, most of the time they obtain AIDS because they don't know how it is spread. Help educate the world, donate to organizations that are going to countries to spread awareness.