Or a Alzheimer's Awareness Day. Or a Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Or a Poverty Awareness Week. Or even an Arbor Day.
These are important issues that should be talked about throughout the year. Yes, most intellectual people talk about them throughout the year. But when major networks show a commercial about AIDS one day a year and think that they have done their job, then we have a problem.
The fact of the matter is that all these thing are, to a certain degree, preventable. People always have this mindset that, No that won't happen to me. I will never be poor and living on the streets. I won't completely forget my family and friends and won't even know what is going on around me. People at my school go around, having sex with the same people, and they have no clue that they could get HIV and eventually AIDS.
World AIDS Day is in itself important, but shouldn't schools at least talk about it a little bit. I mean, maybe your school did, but my school, like with any issue that might cause the slightest bit of arguement, chose to ignore it. So what exactly is World AIDS Day for? If it isn't to educate young people about the treat of AIDS, then why even have it.
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You make a good point- so many people forget that even tho there is a special day set aside for awareness of AIDS, Cancer, Alzheimer's and so forth- we shouldn't stop our brains from knowing these things occur EVERYDAY! I'm sure the patients of these horrible diseases probably wish they'd only be sick one day out of the year!
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I think what you have just touched on is the underlying issue in dealing with HIV/AIDS. No matter how many people are living with HIV, no matter how many people have died and are dying from the disease, no matter how closely it may affect your life - HIV/AIDS is still 'taboo' to talk about and be educated about especially here in the US where we only teach a strict abstinence only education. World AIDS day is for people to become educated, it is a day for people to be reminded why they should be so dedicated to eradicating preventable disease. World AIDS day is a day when we can reach out to people who may not be aware, people who we can inspire, it is a day when we remember the human face of the diseasem beyond all the numbers and figures and statistics.
- Challenge yourself everyday, if you don't then it is a wasted day.
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