What do people think when they are first asked a question such as "Why do diseases like HIV-AIDS seem to hit the world's poorest people?"
"lack of education, funding, and rights" - Rogers
"no independence, no freedom!" - Anonymous
"Environment; because of drought less access to money, less access to health care"- Peer
"Good Government should be able to finance minimal care!"- Peer
People are becoming increasingly enraged with the lack of basic human rights that each citizen of the global community should be given at birth and throughout life. It is not by choice that people are being born into areas where they are stripped of their last thing they can call their own: their humanity. When people are not provided with things such as education, clean drinking water and access to health care we will always see a rise in disease, such as HIV-AIDS. Through out history humanity has been faced with wide-spread epidemic as we see now but in the past together we have been able to overcome it. Now a days, the western world is comfortable with where we stand and do not feel it to be our issue to go in and eradicate disease in other areas such as the third world where disease hits the hardest.
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