Whoever runs the day care center might also not understand how to work with disabled children or children whose first language is not English. Parents might want to monitor their child's progress at the child care center before committing to a long program of care. HIV: Causes and Solutions

Discussion 1

There is no one cause for the AIDS crisis. However, a lack of proper medical funding in regions with populations hit most severely by the disease is a major cause of the proliferation of AIDS. The large for-profit pharmaceutical corporations funnel far more money into marketing than into research and development, making the search for a cure or a vaccine thwarted by the quest for financial gain.

Discussion 2

The primary cause for the AIDS crisis is the stigma that still surrounds the disease until this day. When AIDS was first spreading during the 1980s, the sexually transmitted virus was most commonly affecting the...

Prejudice was a major reason why the media and religious groups portrayed the disease as a "gay" illness when in fact it is as easily spread via heterosexual sex or blood transfusions. Homophobia therefore created a large lag in the empirical research needed to find a cure or vaccine.
Discussion 3

The main cause for the current AIDS crisis is an imbalance of power among the global community. In particular, the wealth disparity between nations has meant that poverty-stricken regions of the globe have less access to education, medication, and prophylactics. Without access to adequate and correct information, people in poor African nations and poor Asian nations have become besieged by the epidemic. Similarly, a lack of medical resources in poor nations has exacerbated the epidemic. Lack of access to preventative measures like condoms is another reason why people in the Third World are more severely affected than people in the First World.