Today's Research

In my research today I learned about the epidemic that had been going on in Jamaica a few years back. They just recently found out about the amount of people that are living there with HIV that don't know about it. Not only does this focus on the homosexuals there but amount of drug use that causes this disease. Many people are living there with or without knowing that they are infected with this disease, and they do not have good resources to get the help they need. They say that stigma is associated with AIDS because of the promiscuity of male and women homosexuals. Another factor that adds to the epidemic is the use of inject able drugs, many people there are poor so sharing needles to feed their addiction is normal. This spreads the disease more than it could be spread through just the infected homosexuals. The article states that the stigma there is to serious that there have been many suicide cases because people don't want to live like that.