Demographic Paper

Demographic Paper
The patients living with AIDs in America at this current time is currently around one point two million people. And a fifth of these are unaware that they have this infection. Early on in the United States the normal affected persons with this disease was men who have same sex partners, and those who used drugs and needles. But in today’s society AIDs has become more serious in the Black American and Hispanic/Latino population. Today many are still affected directly like thousands of gay and bisexual men and others injecting drug users daily. Many of the poor Americans are more likely to be affected with this disease. Within this population the homosexual poor males are more likely to become affected because of the lack of disease control and preventative contraception.
The federal budget for spending on domestic HIV epidemic has risen many AIDs organizations have become mobile to help with testing and treatment. On average an AIDs patient annual health care cost is around twenty thousand dollars. The sicker the AIDs patient the higher the cost of care. Patients with low CD4 cell count average around forty four thousand year in health care coverage and at home care. This total is in medical supplies as well. The prescriptions are included in the amount of health care coverage costs yearly as well. This is an expensive disease and there are so many ways to prevent one from contracting it. But it is still an epidemic in America. There are other ways the cost can vary such as according to the age of the patient. For gay males the cost is nineteen thousand a year in medical expenses, the cost for drug addicts is twenty one thousand a year, and for patients under the age of thirty the cost is only twelve thousand a year. This is because they are usually healthier than older patients such as those over the age of fifty. Their