Making the Invisible Visible

HIV and AIDS are two deadly deceases. Even though it was only discovered a few decades ago, it has been spreading rapidly since. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. It is a virus that affects the immune system and it causes the body to not be able to fight off other diseases. AIDS stands for Acquired immune deficiency syndrome. HIV escalates to AIDS. AIDS is basically when the immune system is already failing. In Humanities, we are currently discussing how HIV/AIDS victims are being discriminated, however we are only focusing on the discrimination going on in Malaysia. This is important to our community because it is a decease that is spreading rapidly and now the people who are getting it are mainly innocent and the amount of innocent people who are getting it are increasing. This decease impacts the victims, their family and everyone around them. It also impacts all of us. Because if more and more people are getting it and some people aren't educated about it. There will be a higher chance of all of us getting it too. Whilst I was researching this issue. I was surprised at how many people have it. There are huge amounts of people who have it now and it is still spreading! I was also surprised at the amount of discrimination towards the victims. Some victims are being shunned by not only by their community but sometimes even their families. The is also a lack of education about HIV and AIDS. A lot of people don't know about the decease or know how it is spread and are afraid about getting it. At first I was well a little mad about this issue and that we were studying it because I didn't understand about why it was important at all but as we got slightly further into it, I began to understand why so many people voted for it. It is actually an extremely serious issue and it is increasing everyday.