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Scholarship AIDS Essay
What behavior patterns do you think your peer group could change to prevent them from becoming infected with the HIV/AIDS virus?
The summer before my senior year in high school, I participated in a pilot program offered by the East Orange Health Department. The program assigned teenagers the task of advocating HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention to their peer group. As a member of that small group, I learned that my peer group has the tendency to engage or allow themselves to fall victim to a higher rate of possibly contracting the HIV/AIDS virus.
As time passed, I took numerous steps to understand our behavior in relation to sex. As I discussed these matters with my supervisor at the time, she informed me that we treat sex as if it is a normal and meager act which holds no consequences. My peer group considers buying new sneakers more rewarding or costly than h...
What behavior patterns do you think your peer group could change to prevent them from becoming infected with the HIV/AIDS virus?
The summer before my senior year in high school, I participated in a pilot program offered by the East Orange Health Department. The program assigned teenagers the task of advocating HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention to their peer group. As a member of that small group, I learned that my peer group has the tendency to engage or allow themselves to fall victim to a higher rate of possibly contracting the HIV/AIDS virus.
As time passed, I took numerous steps to understand our behavior in relation to sex. As I discussed these matters with my supervisor at the time, she informed me that we treat sex as if it is a normal and meager act which holds no consequences. My peer group considers buying new sneakers more rewarding or costly than h...
Posted by: Leonard Herriman
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