Aids and the Black community
...aceted point of view because it has Social, Political as well as historical implementations. Historically and politically HIV/AIDS has been ever present within the African American community. AIDS is not belived have been around in Africa before it had even become know as the killer AIDS that ravicious the African American community today. HIV/AIDS has been affected politically by the fight for better access to medicine and care for patients in lower income (tipically black) areas, this battle also spreads in to our current problems with HMOs and other Health care providers and their expensive plans (generally unaffordable to African Americans in low income areas). all of these issues lead to the uncontrolled spread of HIV/AIDS througout the African American community. Socially the African American community has been greatly affected and left vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS virus because of out society and because of the images that are displayed to our young black community (the rising demographic in HIV/AIDS pandemic). Images and ideals of promiscuality and unprotected sex tied into hip-hop and other media accessible to the black community have given a false sense of protection, invincibility and immortality to young black who are engaging in these dangerous activity, leading to the sp...