I. INTRODUCTION In the early 1980’s a new disease known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was introduced into the medical field. The disease was something new to study and had no cure at the time. Society began to speculate were this disease came from. For approximately twenty years the disease was thought of as the gay mans disease. Not until the early nineties did society begin to see that the disease was not a gay …showed first 75 words of 2921 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2921 total…effort into this disease globally it is killing families, cities, and there are continents at risk of a major outbreak. Six million people are reported of having the disease 890,000 of them are on the North American continent ( American Association for World Health, 1999). The policy’s main goal is to make sure people with HIV/AIDS are given opportunities to get healthcare benefits and counseling for family members who have a loved one with the disease.