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The 1980’s were a period of transition for everyone. Modification was underway; fashion, music and cultures were changing. While the world was adapting to all those changes a deadly disease crept in almost unnoticed by the public. The new disease was given the name Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). No one would have ever thought that the new disease that started out so small would, in a short period of time, grow to be so large and devastating. “Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV… AIDS is the advanced form of infection with the HIV virus, which may not cause disease for a long period after the initial exposure (latency). No vaccine is currently available to prevent HIV infection” (Frey 59). AIDS “is already the fourth biggest cause of death in the world” (Aid for AIDS). The number of people infected is steadily increasing with 15,000 adults between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four contracting the disease daily; adding to the thirty-four million people currently infected (Aid for AIDS). “It is estimated that on-h