Why dont we pay attention to aids?

Question

I was just wondering why people pay so little attention to the 1.3 million people in america who have aids. thats as many people as serve in the military, but the people in the military arent all going to die.
I kind of feel that the news has let us down by putting so much emphisis on the war in iraq, but puts so little emphisis on something that is so dangerous to us. Getting rid of aids should be our biggest priority. Its more deadly to americans than the second world war, yet we go long periods of time without it coming to mind.
Does anybody feel the same way?

If I was as partisan as you, I would just say that he was too busy dealing with people like you to solve aids, but he wasnt. Same with clinton. Its not their job to prevent aids, it ours. Im not going to hold anybody respondsible but myself if I get aids, even the person I contracted it from, since it was my decision.

The death toll for aids is not 16,000. The average latency before death is 6.9 years, or about 200,000 deaths a year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS
Aids is the leading cause of black male deaths.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/Minor.htm

Answer 1

People don't pay attention to aids like they don't pay attention to morals anymore. This world is based on sex, drugs, & violence. People don't care about anything but money and things that you can't take with you when you go. You didn't see all the diseases and crime back when our childrens come from homes with two parents and morals. There's no discipline today so kids grow up thinking they can live and do as they please. Our young are dying and it's like nobody cares. If more people had to see how an AIDS victim died then maybe they would wake up. I've watched someone I loved like a brother die from this disease and it's sad knowing there's nothing anyone can do except try to keep the next person from dying.

Answer 2

Sad fact. The only time aids gets much publicity is either if someone famous contracts it, (Rock Hudson, Freddie Mercury, if it becomes a high prifile case becasue it involves a child in some unusual circumstances, or if it involves someone purposely passing ir on knowingly (although even then unless it involves some OTHER criminal act like rape or prostitution it gets ignored or downplayed). Other than that the media completely ignores it. Personally I think that it is done so that people won't think that it is as much of a problme to give the false impression that headway has been made in combating it. Much as they have done with other diseases. We are no closer to a cure for cancer yet we don't hear much about it either. Think about it....

Answer 3

I feel horrible for anybody who suffers from this disease. It's a tragic, awful thing to suffer through. I don't think AIDS attracts as much attention as other diseases because it kills hardly anybody when compared to car accidents, cancer, heart disease, and a whole list of ways people die.

We could almost wipe out AIDS in a generation if people would stop using IV drugs and stop engaging in promiscuous activities. That is where the vast majority of people contract the disease. Think about it, 20 years from now we could almost be completely rid of this disease if people would only make better choices.

Before you go bashing me, I know there are other ways people contract the disease. Health care workers exposed to body fluids, blood transfusions, children born of HIV+ parents etc. They are the only innocent victims of this epidemic.

This disease is almost completely preventable in most cases.

Answer 4

Bush could have attacked the AIDS epidemic and made himself a hero but he attacked Iraq instead

Answer 5

Why complacency about AIDS? Because too many people think "It won't happen to ME", and that it's something only someone else will get.

Answer 6

I think people seem to think out of sight out of mind. LIke if they ignore it it will just go away.

Answer 7

the way it is now more of those military may die, than aids sufferers.