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    Aids Epidemic

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    Aids Epidemic in Africa Over 30 million people worldwide have been infected with the HIV-AIDS virus. With such high numbers‚ the troubling fact is that 95% of those cases permeate Africa. Obviously AIDS cannot be cured or reversed in any sense‚ however with proper insight and treatment it can be controlled. The means for proper treatment is exactly what Africa lacks‚ in comparison to other regions. Nearly 2.3 million deaths occurred in 2003 within the sub-Saharan region of Africa.The efforts

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    ASPCA: Dog Fighting

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    “Dog fighting is a type of blood sport in which dogs are forced to fight one another for the entertainment and/or profit of spectators. A felony offence in all 50 states‚ dog fighting is one of the most deplorable forms of animal cruelty.”- ASPCA: Dog fighting. As you can see dog fighting is brutal sport for profits and pride boosts. Dog fighting is still a problem in the world‚ even after becoming illegal. Dog fighting is growing‚ training these dogs to fight leads to animal abuse to make them cruel

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    Fighting Environmental Injustice Crystal Rainey SCI 207 Dependence of Man on the Environment Richard Hoagland March 30‚ 2011 Fighting Environmental Injustice Our envirment has been poorly treated by humans for years. It should be everyones job to help take care of our enviroment. Taking care of our enviroment and trying to make our environment healthier is a big job and is something everyone care partake in‚ but who fights for enviromental injustice. The Environmental Protection Agency or

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    Aids in Africa

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    Africa ’s growing HIV/AIDS patients. The world non-the-less isn ’t doing much about the situation that only seems to be getting worse. South Africa already has the highest growing HIV/AIDS rate in the world. The pharmaceutical companies offered very little medical donations or help; they ended up doing quite the opposite. When South Africa attempted to import generic versions of the needed HIV/AIDS drugs because of their drastically cheaper prices the pharmaceutical companies replied by taking them

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    HIV/AIDS

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    HIV/AIDS-- A Deadly Disease HIV and AIDS are a silent killer virus that many people have today‚ and even more that do not even know they have it. With the millions of viruses and diseases in the world‚ HIV and AIDS are the two that struck the world by surprise‚ becoming one of the most serious and most common diseases not just in the United States‚ but also around the world. HIV and AIDS is caused by genetics‚ accidental contamination‚ and sex; it therefore leads to medical doctors trying to find

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    Rite Aid

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    Rite Aid research notes 1. Rite Aid began in 1962 called thrift D Discount Store. It is clinging to its position as a distant third (behind Walgreen and CVS) in the US retail drugstore business. The struggling company runs some 4‚665 drugstores in about 30 states and the District of Columbia. Rite Aid stores fill prescriptions (more than two-thirds of sales) and sell health and beauty aids‚ convenience foods‚ greeting cards‚ and other items‚ including around 3‚000 Rite Aid brand private-label products

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    Aids Awareness

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    When AIDS first emerged‚ no-one could have predicted how the epidemic would spread across the world and how many millions of lives it would change. There was no real idea what caused it‚ and consequently‚ no real idea how to protect against it. Now‚ in 2004‚ we know from bitter experience that AIDS is caused by the virus HIV‚ and that it can devastate families‚ communities and whole continents. We have seen the epidemic knock decades off countries’ national development‚ widen the gulf between rich

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    HIV and AIDS

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    Kristina Nguyen HIV and AIDS The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Auto Immune Deficiency Disease (AIDS) are one of the leading killers around the world. Statistics provided by the Joint United Nations Program approximate that over 33 million people have been infected with HIV and AIDS. Of those 33 million‚ 1.1 million of those carriers are in the United States and even more shockingly‚ a fifth of those carriers are unaware that they have been infected. The World Health Organization estimated

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    is worth fighting for” (Worth Fighting For Quotes). Everyone has to get up every morning and try as best as they can on a daily basis. They are fighting for their freedom‚ beliefs‚ and in some cases others. People are fighting for their cause‚ and the greater good. Every effort people make affects everyone and everything. If so‚ then why not fight for what is right and meaningful? Things that are worth fighting for is loved ones‚ religions/beliefs‚ and freedom. Loved ones are worth fighting for. An

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    HIV/AIDS

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    HIV/AIDS in Haiti HIV/AIDS is spreading rapidly through Haiti‚ they have the highest cases‚ and due to poverty they will continue to be on the large scale. This is one of the Global Social problems brought up in Poto Mitan. According to the dictionary.com AIDS is defined as “a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections‚ as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and‚ to certain cancers‚ as Kaposi’s sarcoma‚and to neurological disorders: caused by a

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