My knowledge about HIV/AIDS..or lack of.

Through out my acedemic career the same knowledge about STD's has been pounded into my head over and over. The one heavily emphasized on the most was HIV/AIDS. I understood that can be passed from having sex or having contact with infect bodily fluids. This was so deep into my head i dont think i could forget if i even wanted to. Most of the places i learned this were from sex ed in school, from the entertainment industry and my parents. What i never learned about HIV/AIDS is where it came from, why its so infectious, when it became so widespread, and how it impacts not only people but how it impacts the economies of the affected areas. Im hoping to learn the global impact that HIV/AIDS has had and how widespread the effects are. I have been suprised at how it was first labeled as a Gay mans disease and how the timing of being gay became more openly expressed and the emergence of this new disease just happened to be in the same time frame.