"Is AIDS Mainly in Homosexuals?"
AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, has been around for a decade. A disease that over time shuts down a person's immune system causing the white blood cells to weaken, making them unable to protect the body from outside germs and infections.
Since the first case of AIDS was reported in medical literature in the late 1970's, people have been wondering what is the origin of this foreign disease?
Lisa Law stated in 2000's Sex Work in Asia that there are new debates on the origin of AIDS from prostitution.
Many other science experts believe AIDS arose from our ape predecessors (Lawson). The AIDS epidemic began spreading throughout the entire continent of North America by the year 1980 (Altman). Although it was unclear if the first person diagnosed with AIDS was in fact homosexual, the disease had spread more throughout the gay community causing people including the media to market it as a "homosexual disease."
As Dennis Altman said in the......
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