Week 14 Response Prompt

This article is about the history that Aids have taken place in America. Aids was first reported in America in 1981, which wasn’t too long ago. The article covers the views of people and how it affected them and it also covers some myths about Aids. One part of the article covered a story about how Aids is not a “gay disease.” Ryan White was a teenager who had gotten HIV from a blood product that was to help with Hemophilia. With his death in 1990, the Ryan White CARE Act was formed to fund and support HIV-Aids programs. Another part of the article covered how the gay community was affected with the world panicking about Aids. This was followed by the author writing about assumptions that were made. Many people assume that if you are gay or black you have Aids.
When I first read this article I was very interested in what the author was going to say. I really enjoyed this article because it is providing people information about Aids. It is providing information that many people do not know and it also disputes any false myths about Aids. It really does bother me that people think only gays or blacks can get Aids, but after reading this article they will realize that straight and white people can also get Aids. I hope that more people will want to support and fund programs that will educate the public about Aids after reading this article.
The authors stand point in this article is a positive, informative one. He does not make Aids sound like a “gay disease” but instead starts to educate the reader about the truth. He is smart enough to not make assumptions about this disease and wants to share this knowledge with others.
One question that I have for the author is why write about America and not about the world?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7754007.stm