Essay, Research Paper: Aids And Teens

AIDS and TeensKids and young adults are the fastest rising group for HIV transmission today. People are beginning to experiment sexually contact at a young age. Unsafe sex is both stupid anddeadly. By deadly I mean the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the virus that causes AIDS(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Most teenagers don't even understand whatthe virus does to the body. According to a study done by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the numberone killer of people between the ages of 24 to 40 is AIDS. Considering the fact that it
takes the virus an average of 8 to 13 years to become deadly, most people who fit intothat category were infected as teenagers. There are 2,184 reported AIDS cases to date for people ages 13 to 19. So theycontracted the diseases before they were teenagers. Not all of them contracted the virusfrom unsafe sex. There are other ways to contract the virus, such as from bloodtransfusions and other blood products. However, according to the national AIDS hotline,our blood supply is the safest in the world. The chances of contracting the virus fromtransfusions are slim to none.