HIV/AIDS

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This paper stresses that government must take financial responsibility to control the rising cost of health care to HIV/AIDS patients. The issue isn't whether the United States can afford to treat, but whether the world can afford not to treat those affected by AIDS. The paper points out that, in the U.S., the cost of treating somebody who already has the disease costs between $20,000-$60,000 a year, depending on the available outpatient services. Pre-AIDS treatment now costs as little as $5,500 a year; but the cost of not treating a person with AIDS includes loss of income of patient and care givers, cost of treatment in homes, clinics, and hospital, funeral costs, deaths, survivor benefits, and the cost of orphans' care and support. The paper concludes that now there is no real solution to keeping costs manageable or to making sure that everyone, globally, who needs the drug treatments gets what they need.

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"The cause of so many people being infected with this deadly disease is due to irresponsibility. Drug and alcohol abuse, sexual promiscuity, ignorance, unsafe sex and unfaithfulness within the sanction of holy matrimony all contribute to the infection rate skyrocketing worldwide. In looking at the preset condition of the HIV/AIDS virus current status, we have come a long way from the individual outbreak of the 1980's but we still have a lot further to go in totally understanding what we're dealing with concerning this disease."

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