When Melonie proceeded to do her presentation, she first identified three persons to stand up and

In August 19th, 1992 Mary Fisher Delivered “A whisper of Aids” at the Republican National Convention in Houston, TX. Mary Fisher was born in April 6th, 1948 in Louisville Kentucky. She was married in 1977 but the marriage didn't last long. Then she got married to Brian Campbell and they had one son then adopted another. After Brian requested a divorce he told Mary she was HIV positive and later on she found out she got it from him. Mary was an Artist, Author, and an Aids Activist.She created a support group for families affected by AIDS, and health care workers called “Mary Fisher CARE Fund”. The fact that Mary is HIV positive affects the speech in a huge way. People felt for her and she felt for everyone that was HIV positive or had AIDS.

Mary attempted to bring attention to the quickly spreading disease to an uneducated audience. In her bold and inspiring speech, Mary argues the importance of opening the eyes of Americans and abolishing the hushed whispers of what AIDS really is.

In the beginning of her speech, Fisher includes details and anecdotes that appeal to pathos and help persuade the audience emotionally. The topic of AIDS and HIV has a negative and almost shameful connotation surrounding it, so to combat this and

According to a report published in the February 1998 edition of “Nature”, scientists identified what they believe is the earliest case of AIDs in a man from the Congo in 1959. (Lerner and Hombs 39) By the end of the year 1980, 80 men would have been diagnosed with at least of the opportunistic infections that are a characteristic of AIDs. (Lerner and Hombs 40) AIDs cases in the 1980s increased dramatically not only around the world but in the United States, primarily in larger cities like Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. The numbers of AIDs diagnoses and deaths spiraled out of control throughout the 1980s and towards the end of 1989 there were 117,500 cases of AIDS reported and 89,000 related deaths.(Lerner and Hombs 54) In the

of HIV infections among Aboriginals, considering infection rate is as high as 3.8% of Canada’s

Now many people view this disease in a very different way, and believe that information about it is very important to all people; but most important to the young generation. The speech she gave touched many peoples hearts, including the AIDS community. She did a wonderful job when she gave this speech, because she put emotion into it and used many techniques to draw the audience in. Mary Fisher gave this speech to open peoples eyes to this disease; and she used effective pausing, explanations to unclear items, anecdotes, and repetition to clarify that not just gays or people who inject drugs can receive HIV/AIDS, but that anyone can get it. What will you do to protect yourself and the new generation from this deadly virus?

40% of syphilis (all stages), 3% of gonorrhea, and more than 1% of chlamydia cases where either previously documented as HIV co-infected or were concurrently diagnosed

In 2010 African Americans made up 46% of Americans infected with HIV/AIDS, and they only make up 10% of the American population. Out of the 46% of blacks infected with the disease 88% are females and 19% are males. The question at hand is, what’s causing so many African American woman to be infected in America?

HIV/AIDS is a devastating condition that afflicts many people in the world. It is condition that can be managed for a certain amount of time but will ultimately take the affected individual’s life. Both men and women can develop this disease through sexual contact, substance injections, or any form of blood-to-blood contact. The cases of HIV/AIDS among Euro-Canadians are decreasing whereas the cases in First Nation communities are increasing (Barlow, 2009). “Recent 2011 data indicates that Indigenous people constituted an estimated 12.2 % of all people in Canada newly diagnosed with HIV, which corresponded to an HIV incidence rate that was 3.5 times higher than among non-Indigenous people” (Pearce et al., 2015). Aboriginal women represent 45.3% of the positive test reports for HIV/AIDS, in comparison with

There are vulnerabilities to HIV that are unique to women. These help to account for the differences in infection rates between men and women worldwide. Some of those vulnerabilities include:

On August 19, 1992, a woman named Mary Fisher spoke on a rather sensitive topic in an attempt to change the world. In an address to the Republican National Convention, Fisher lectured on a subject close to her heart, HIV and AIDS. Mary Fisher is an artist, author, and of course political activist. She contracted HIV from her second husband and has since been on a mission to educate people about prevention of the disease and the treatment of people that have HIV or AIDS. Fisher was speaking at the convention in Houston, Texas in an attempt to get people to take action. Fisher wanted people to be informed about the diseases and have a genuine care about those infected. I found her speech exceedingly compelling as well as an exceptional display

Then I had the audience interact and participate in a candy game. The candy game was a variety of kinds of candy. We had at least one or two chocolate bars in the mixture with several Smarties, lollipops, and jolly ranchers. Each candies represented different situations of choices, for example the lollipops were represented with teen pregnancies, the jolly ranchers represented abstinence, the Smarties represented the STDs and the chocolate candy bars represented HIV. The game was for each person to encountered with at least three different people and to write their names on a sheet of paper. Then, once everyone had at least three people and would pass out the candies. I advise the audience to not eat the candy quite yet. Next, I would ask the audience who has certain kind of candies and tell them what the candy they have chosen represented. The game showed how quickly STDs, HIV/AIDs can spread quickly. Then, once I finished with the presentation, I would announce that we were given free one-minute HIV test outside in our mobile

Since the beginning of the epidemic, AIDS has killed more than 30 million people worldwide, including more than 500,000 Americans. AIDS has replaced malaria and tuberculosis as the world's deadliest infectious disease among adults and is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Over 13 million children have been orphaned by the epidemic. A person who is HIV-infected carries the virus in certain body fluids, including blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. The virus can be transmitted only if such HIV-infected fluids enter the bloodstream of another person. This kind of direct entry can occur (1) through the linings of the vagina, rectum, mouth, and the opening at the tip of the penis; (2) through intravenous injection with a syringe; or (3) through a break in the skin, such as a cut or sore. Usually, HIV is transmitted through:

HIV, or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is a virus which damages and kills cells of the immune system. It attacks the T-cells, key cells of the immune system, and uses them to make copies of itself. After being infected with the virus it progressively interferes and eventually destroys the immune system's ability to fight the anti-genes. HIV may develop into the syndrome AIDS, the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. HIV is an STD - a sexually transmitted disease - and therefore most commonly it is spread through sexual contact, and the virus mainly enters the body through the penis, mouth, lining of the vagina or vulva during sexual activity. HIV can also be spread through sharing syringes or needles with someone who is infected with the

HIV is found in the blood, semen, vaginal fluids, and breast milk. It is also present in saliva and tears, but there is not enough HIV to cause infection. In order to infect another person, these fluids have to find a way of getting into that other person’s blood. Sharing drug needles with a person infected with the HIV virus is high risk for transmission. Unprotected anal or vaginal sex is also risky because of the exchange of body fluids. One cannot get HIV from dry-kissing on the mouth or from donating blood.