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There is a crisis going on in Egypt that many Egyptians are unaware of. There are thousands of Egyptians living with AIDS and they have no clue that they have the AIDS virus (http://www.aegis.com). Many of the people in Egypt do not know how to treat people with AIDS and they do not know how to act towards AIDS patients. The people in Egypt are very poorly educated on the subject pertaining to AIDS. The AIDS crisis is not an enormous problem let alone a major concern for the government of Egypt at this point in time. But the AIDS crisis is destined to gradually grow over the next few years if a number of things do not change. For the people living in Egypt the greatest obstacle stopping AIDS prevention is the people’s general ignorance and extremely poor lack of knowledge pertaining to the subject. Although Egypt has a low incident rate at this moment, Egypt is a country at extremely high risk as a result of this ignorance. Background AIDS stands for “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.” The term first appeared to the public in an article published by the “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” (MMWR). This is a weekly paper established by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Before the Center for Disease Contro