Funding HIV/AIDS

According to the Human Rights Campaign, despite multiple issues with LGBTQ rights and discrimination, resources for the public health’s infrastructure have been limited due to little funds actually being put into caring for the health of the people. Regarding the last post, it is already hard for LGBTQ people to get the treatment that they need for discrimination reasons and hearing that non-LGBTQ people have limited treatment towards treating HIV/AIDS only makes it harder for them. The author of the page also explains that the funding is focused more on the ideology of the abstinence of sex programs rather than the science to make treatments and possibly even a cure for the diseases, funding over $1 billion towards failed abstinence-only sex education programs. In most states, governments also created a law where living with HIV or AIDS can be tried or even imprison if a partner simply accuses them of withholding their HIV/AIDS status which takes a more threatening approach towards decreasing the cause of HIV and AIDS.

It is highly disappointing to think that the government would try to decrease the spread of HIV and AIDS by funding most of the money towards prevention rather than treatment. In my own idea of a philosophical approach, it is like taking a risk: assuming that enough people would think of staying abstinent, they can save money for funding other things. In other words, the government depends on the people to make their right choice, which would be to stay abstinent. The end results could’ve resulted in helping more people live longer had they chosen to fund the science portion of public health rather than the idea of preventing obtaining the disease.

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