AIDS KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION FOR SOUTH KOREAN-BORN STUDENTS ATTENDI

According to the Centers for Disease Control (1998) (CDC), approximately thirteen million people in the world now have AIDS. In America, 641,086 cases have been reported since the discovery of the HIV virus and about half of these have now died. UNAIDS (2001) reports that it was projected that by the end of 2001, forty million people, globally, would be living with HIV, with most of the new infections found in young adults; around one-third of those individuals who are currently living with HIV/AIDS, are ages 15 to 24 years and most do not know they carry the virus. In fact, UNAIDS claims that millions know nothing about HIV or not enough to protect themselves from it. However, the Centers for Disease Control (1998) also reports a decline in information of HIV/AIDS, attributing a great deal of the decrease to prevention efforts. Specifically, the CDC noted that:

Prior to the introduction of combination therapies for HIV, AIDS incidence was increasing at a rate of less than 5 percent each year. Partly as a result of prevention efforts targeting those at highest risk, the epidemic had slowed considerably from the early years in the epidemic, when increases were 65 percent to 95 percent each year. In 1996, estimated AIDS incidence dropped for th

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t of many countries and their social stability. It results in poverty and retards growth. For example, in half of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, where the epidemic has increased, the annual per capita growth is falling 0.5 percent to 1.2 percent due to AIDS. It is estimated that by the year 2010, for those countries with the highest prevalence, the per capita GDP may drop by 8 percent, and by 2020 it will drop over 20 percent, and the per capita consumption may decrease even more. Industry will be faced with increased training costs, insurance and benefit costs, and increased illness and absenteeism. In an Ethiopian study of 15 firms, over a five-year-period, 53 percent of illnesses were related to AIDS (UNAIDS, 2001). The poor suffer most from the economic impact of HIV/AIDS, but all people are vulnerable. In Botswana, the adult HIV prevalence is more than 35 percent and one quarter of the households are predicted to lose at least one income earner over the next ten years. Thus it is predicted that an increase in HIV/AIDS prevalence is related to increases in the numbers of families who are poor or destitute, with the per capita household income for the poorest dropping by 13 percent. On the other hand, the number
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