Essay - This Paper is Written in Newspaper Column Style and Discusses...

This paper is written in news***** column style and discusses the women with AIDS in New York. The writer attempts to shed light on the topic and provide some insight to the needs and advances of those who have it. *****re were seven sources used to complete this paper.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in this nation is almost two decades old, ***** while we have made many advances, we still have a very long way to go before the battle ***** over. Women nationwide ***** recently been moving to ***** forefront in the fight against AIDS for several reasons. ***** who become pregnant while they have the disease can pass that disease onto their babies. Women *****ten are more susceptible to the disease from a m*****n than a man is from getting it when having relations with a woman, and ***** have al*****s ***** underrepresented in health concerns, ***** AIDS being no exception. ***** York City has long since been known as the most *****ward thinking city in America. It is ahead of the rest of the nation in many areas including, fashion, publishing, and cost of living. One area ***** it is one of the nation's leaders in ***** been the ********** ***** females with the HIV virus. In recent years ***** city has ***** working hard to get a h*****le on ***** st*****tistic and drive the numbers down. The effort ***** been successful for the most part while *****re are still many obstacles ***** overcome.

Average costs for the treatment of women in NYC ***** are HIV positive is $20,000 per ***** ***** year. ***** total cost ***** the United States ***** ***** care and treatment of AIDS patients toped $6.7 billion annually according to recent studies ***** those *****s equal less than one percent ***** all medical spending on patients for ***** care nationwide(Women, 1998).

In NYC like anywhere else in the nation the majority of Aids/HIV infected females come from minority populations, which are primarily Hispanic and African American. For many years, ***** women themselves have been blamed for the fact that they have the virus(Bunting, 1996). This is following ***** same path that women have always followed in that they have ***** blamed for their own troubles including domestic violence, ***** lack of health care. The AIDS ***** in NYC with females has long ***** been shrugged off with the attitude that *****y ask ***** it by becoming prostitutes, or not ins*****ting on protection with their sexual partners(Smith, 1990). "They have ***** stigmatized for ***** gender, their sexuality, their ***** status, and their poverty, as well as ***** their HIV-positive status(Bunting, *****)." It was predicted ***** by the year 2000 women would make up 30 ***** of the total United States AIDS population ***** those ***** in *****(Bunting, 1996).

There are currently thous*****s of women in NYC who are undiagnosed due to fear, stigma and lack of re***** for medical ca*****. " Women with HIV have been forced to contend ***** the multiple ********** of *****