User:SCounts2/sandbox

Title: This tutorial was very helpful in learning how to navigate through editing Wikipedia. After going through this tutorial I understand the purpose of a sandbox and how to use it. I learned the difference between source and visual editing and how to add in pictures and videos to your articles. I am now aware of Wikipedia's copy right and plagarism rules. I also learned your articles must be neutral or unbiased.

Evaluation of Article: Misconceptions of HIV/AIDs

This article is poorly written in some aspects. There are grammatical errors such as; "20016" stated as a year. This article is also very hard to follow and disorganized when just looking at the contents. It needs to be clarified what each section is talking about in regards to the misconceptions after HIV/AIDs. The article kind of jumps around from place to place with out a certain structure to what the author is talking about. However, the content is accurate and the article does provide meaningful misconceptions and relevant history.

Short Summary:

I would like to organize the content so that it flows better. I would also like to add different stigmas about HIV like that you can't have a family when you are HIV positive, discrimination about HIV, how ethnicity and social factors contribute to misconceptions,and misconceptions about prep and ARV treatment options. I also would like to to talk about how you can't just look at someone and tell they have HIV.

Write up for week 7:

HIV is a lot more than just living with it. It is facing struggles every day, it is learning how to have a healthy family, it is facing social stigmas all the time, and most importantly it is learning how to be strong through it all. I believe there has to be a certain dialog and understanding of HIV when you have a conversation about it to someone who is not HIV positive. I say this because stigma and history allows people to be looked down upon when associated with HIV because of the origins of AIDs. I believe thats why it can be harder sometimes to have the conversations about being HIV positive.

HIV and Families- A frequent misconception about HIV is that you can not get pregnant without spreading HIV to your baby. however, with consistent treatment women can have babies without their babies becoming HIV positive. As well as be in happy succesfull marriages or relationships with out their partner contracting HIV.

HIV discrimination- For many nears people who are infected with HIV have been believed to be dirty or drug user or someone portraying risky lifestyle behaviors. All though that can be true, that can also be stereotypes that are produced from stigmas. Not all people with HIV are drug users or engaged in risky lifestyle behaviors. Some people contracted HIV at birth. HIV positive people can still live healthy and normal lives.

HIV and social factors- Many different different social factors contribute to stigmas and misconceptions about HIV. With many different theories and controversies of relating HIV to a certain group of people and communities, it has been difficult to understand and address the disease within different communities. It began with politicians and national leaders and the means of addressing the disease. Many leaders proclaimed that the disease was a result of people’s lifestyle habits that they believed were against biblical beliefs. As time went on more and more cases of HIV were being discovered in many different types of people such as; drug abusers, women, children and most evidently black men.