Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)* is an international epidemic, infecting millions of people world wide, including those who are in developed countries. Most people are aware that men who have sex with men and intravenous drug users are at the highest risk for AIDS transmission, but what about the risk for women and for youth? |
HIV and AIDS education has been spread throughout North America, most people now have an idea of what AIDS is and what happens when you aquire AIDS...but do they know that it can happen to them? Most people think AIDS happens only to Homosexual men or in Third World Countries or to Prostitutes. Not to them! |
Canada and the USA are modernized societies with the latest advances and trends in health care. People with HIV and AIDS are living longer and healthier lives due to advances in technology and research.
Despite all of this, the incidences of HIV/AIDS transmissions are still increasing every year.
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This page is designed to bring awareness to continuing rates of HIV infection and transmission and the changing faces that AIDS affects. It specifically looks at the continued growth in HIV transmission in women and youth because of the common misconception that AIDS only affects homosexuals and drug users.
*HIV and AIDS are used interchangeably throughout these webpages, because the differences between the definitions does not change the context or the content of material in focus.