Tuesday, September 29, 2009
9/23 Reading
After reading the first chapter of AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease, Change, Consciousness, and Denial, I was thoroughly surprised by the impact that AIDS will have on the rest of the world. Before this reading, I had thought that the disease was mostly localized in sub-Saharan Africa and found sparsely around the world. Having grown up in Taiwan, I had only encountered one AIDS case, so the disease felt distant to me. However, the statistics given by Box 1.2 to 1.7 on the current global situation of AIDS showed that my previous beliefs were rather naive. For now, sub-Saharan Africa may be the most affected by the virus, but it is spreading dramatically throughout Asia. According to the statistics, “Asia will overtake sub-Saharan Africa in absolute numbers before 2010; by 2020 Asia will be the HIV/AIDS epicentre.” Thus, currently Asia is quite close to overtaking sub-Saharan Africa already. This fact just totally shocks me. It is difficult to imagine that in the near future on AIDS prevention ads, instead of seeing an elderly Ugandan woman like described in the introduction, I will see an elderly Chinese woman who resembles my grandmother. The demographics of Asia may resemble those of Uganda’s as illustrated in Figure 1.3 in which the cohorts between ages 20 and 50 are deficits. This realization makes me even more eager to help find a solution to this problem, because now the disease feels so close to home. However, many of the problems associated with prevention that are brought up by the article also apply to Asia. Asians are just as concerned about lineage and passing down names as Africans, making it difficult to promote abstinence, especially in rural areas. Moreover, AIDS is and will be affecting the more underdeveloped areas of Asia where nutrition is poorer and treatment less available, contributing to the spread of the disease. Hopefully, the solutions to these problems will be addressed later on in the text. The statistics provided by this chapter has enhanced my interest in the topic of this class because AIDS is now a disease I can relate to.
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