sease, social costs associated with having HIV/AIDS, and the benefits of practicing safe sex behaviors. The major conclusion drawn from the findings of this study is that a significant increase in the incidence of HIV/AIDS and in the HIV/AIDS mortality rate may be expected in the near future if the beliefs of people with HIV/AIDS do not change quickly.
A disease later to be defined and designated as acquired immunity deficiency syndrome (AIDS) began attacking human beings at some point in the 1970s or, perhaps, even earlier. The discovery in 1980 that a virus, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), was the causative agent of AIDS confronted humankind with an epidemic potential not encountered since the polio emerged in 1885 and, perhaps, not since bubonic plague swept northern Europe in the fourteenth century.
The absence of a cure for AIDS or a vaccine for HIV resulted in a massive effort to stop the progress of HIV/AIDS through behavior modification. Over time, these efforts began to produce positive outcomes, as the
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