PSEC Application Essay

Jessica Ackerman


August 26, 2008


P.S.E.C. Essay


In the U.S. alone, more than 400,000 people are living with HIV/Aids. Amounts are steadily increasing year by year, more so within the last two decades. In the 90’s, the promotion of education regarding HIV/Aids was the hot topic. Now many people are getting the impression that HIV/Aids is not an epidemic anymore, since education and promotion has gradually decreased.

The numbers of people diagnosed with HIV/Aids are approximately 37,000 and death rates have amplified to 15,000. With numbers increasing this rapidly, I believe that education about HIV/Aids should be expanded on. Though more and more research is being done, research efforts are not being shared publicly. Education throughout schools is an important place for this information to come from, since youths are becoming more infected. However, from personal experience through my school, I did not learn much about HIV/Aids at all. I believe that schools should expand on this topic because if we don’t share the information to the younger generation, especially ones with no access to info, they won’t understand how serious the problem really is.

One in four teenagers are infected with some type of sexually transmitted infection; one type is HIV/Aids. Education about HIV/Aids is the key ingredient to reducing numbers; numbers of deaths and diagnoses. If we don’t educate, no one can learn and I believe that everyone should be educated on problems within our world.