Why is HIV/AIDS so high amongst African American teenagers and why do we hear so little about?

HIV/AIDS are one of the most deadly diseases in human history. There are around 42 million people living with HIV/Aids worldwide and around 3 million die every year. African Americans have been disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the impact on their race is worsening. We, African Americans, represent 12 percent of the U.S. aids population. As stated in http://kidshealth.org/teen/sexual_health/stds/std_hiv.html, teens represent 15 percent of the African American population and they accounted for 64 percent of the new aids cases reported among teens in 2000. We hear so little about this matter of teens not telling or revealing their diseases is because as these teens get the disease, they don’t want to put themselves out there because they would be scared of the reactions they would get from their peers. They know they will be treated differently as soon as the news spread.
Hundreds of these teens are infected with the deadly disease every year. It can be transmitted from one infected person to another person through the blood stream, semen, and breast milk. Because their immune systems are weakened, people who have AIDS are unable to fight off many infections.
Today’s youth really have no idea on what damage or how much damage the infectious disease can inflict upon a person and how it can tear a person apart. This is a disease that doesn’t sleep. It just sits in a person waiting for its next victim. It strikes with out warning leaving you little information on its whereabouts and if you have it or not. Even though we have been supplied with many hospitals, many books, and so many medical places we really don’t pay attention to it because we care little about it. The youth of today just really want to have sex and as long as they fulfill their fantasies and get their desired pleasure, they don’t care about the risk that’s at hand and don’t take the advice given to them seriously at all. The results are stated in http://www.philaurbansolutions.org/site2/AfricanAmericanYouthSexualBehaviorsAndTheirImpact.pdf as to where we only recognize the effects of this deadly infection once we acquired it and realize how damaging it could be to our bodily systems. It’s a fatal process to tell a person that they have aids or HIV, just to see how devastating it would be to see them fall to their knees in deep pain with tears flowing.
The results of not using a condom are either having a baby, in which you might not be ready for, or a sexually transmitted disease which can really mess up a persons mind. It can lead to suicide attempts or maybe a person can be so devastated that they just go around spreading the disease like wildfire.