HIV/AIDS

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This paper gives a short description of the history and demographics of HIV/AIDS over the past few years and examines the development of laws in different countries to protect HIV/AIDS patients from prejudice. Criminals and vandals who target HIV/AIDS positive men and women are subject to harsher penalties because it is considered a hate crime to target someone based on a disability. In the Western World, disability is a special status, and it is treated as such with respect to the law.

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"These laws were put in place to protect a class of people that were subject to discrimination. Discrimination in all forms begs certain philosophical, ethical questions. For example, there are only 36.1 million people with AIDS across the globe. This is less than 1% of the world's population. Many more people die of hunger everyday. Instead of making medication widely available, why don't we spend that money developing under-developed, hungry countries? Furthermore, AIDS/HIV can be infectious. One someone is sick, they stay away from people, so that they don't get others sick."

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