HIV/AIDS Is An African-American Adolescent Girls Epidemic

Being an African-American woman, I try to keep up on what is going on in my community. I think that it is important for African-Americans, woman particularly, to have an interest in what happens within our community. Especially when there is an epidemic arising that is affecting our young girls and women. This epidemic I am referring to is HIV/AIDS. I have token an extreme interest in this topic because there have recently been numerous reports and articles that are focusing on the rise of HIV/AIDS in the African-American community. Of these reports and articles, more than half of the ones I read talked about how the rise is happening in the age bracket of 13-24 years old. This bracket affects peers my age and my younger family members, as well as the young girls that I mentor.

I my first paper I talked about my relationship with a young girl I was mentoring named Kira. I discussed the type of lifestyle she had and what she was used to. From Kira’s life experiences, I branched out and talked about how African-American adolescent girls, like Kira, struggle within their community, as well as outside of their community. I touched on many different aspects on a youn

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Family planning services that are free are often limited to adults or married women so that adolescents cannot easily obtain contraceptives.

After learning more about Kira’s sexual experiences, the up rise in HIV/AIDS cases within the African-American community amongst adolescent girls and women, I decide to focus on 2010 Critical Adolescent Healthy People Objectives concerning Critical health outcomes that focus on reducing the number of cases of HIV infection among adolescents and adults. The girls expressed that there are not a lot of role models in their neighborhoods. Who better to lead research studies and write and adolescent girls than women?

6. We should not wait until a man thinks it’s important, or wait until there is an epidemic occurring. Men, unfortunately, control the money, therefore control funding in many programs.

School prevention programs would be greatly effective because girls are learning around and with their peers and they are not being singled out. Dangers of Extrapolating/Transforming Knowledge

This data and research was developed for African-American women, mothers adolescents boys and girls. is not stopping them from having sex, but it could stop them from getting HIV/AIDS!

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I think that there should be more women allowed to head scientific research studies. Therefore there will be continuous scientific research to stop and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in any community, ethnicity, gender, and class. The study was conducted in low-income neighborhoods.

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Approximate Word count = 2065
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)

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