Living the in Washington, DC metro area has definitely increased my HIV/AIDS awareness. Every since I moved here, which was back in 1995, I have heard numerous stories about the increasing rates of person being infected with HIV/AIDS. Still, not much has changed over the last 14 years, except the numbers have increased tremendously. In fact, seems like more people have become more provocative and more careless.
We have to educate our children and ourselves. The youth are suffering a great deal because they are not being educated about the virus. We are teaching children how to play sports, read, dance, sing, etc, but we are not teaching them about their bodies and how to keep it healthy. Instead, young people are being taught to be abstinent. While this is great, it is also idealistic. In reality, there will be young people that will have a desire to engage in sexual activity and chose not to wait. So do we simply act like those young people don’t exist? No. We need to educate them as much as possible and teach them how to be safe. 
Washington, DC is number one in the nation for HIV/AIDS, and Baltimore is number two. African –Americans, a minority race, has the highest percent of persons infected with HIV/AIDS in the United States. As an African-American, this makes my skin cringe. We have got to make some changes and educate the community, so that we will have a surviving chance.
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