I think a large amount of money should go towards saving people from aid/hiv because, if we don't in time it would get worse. It would be spread around everywhere get way.. worse than it is right now. Already we have thousands of people in canada dieing from it and, millions in other places. Just sufering and worring that they can't do the things they loved to do before. Alot of people might be losing their brother or sister or even their mom or a friend. If you were to think for a second you were in their shoes how painful it might be like. Well we can help them think about it, if we all pitched in like 30 dollers we could, raise up too 20,000,000 witched would help a large amount with getting rid of Aids/HIV!!!!

HIV/AIDS & Black Death.

HIV/AIDS is a horrible disease that has led to many deaths. In my opinion i think that not enough money is being spent on a cure. HIV/AIDS kills the t-cells if the immune system, which results of a fatal immune deficiency after a period that last about 10 years or so. Most people, when diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, no symptoms with occure. The awful virus kills the cells that are primarly infection fighters called CD4 cells. AIDS is the later stage of HIV infection, when the body loses the ability to fight other infections. The virus passes form person to person primarily through sexual activity. It can also spread through the sharing of hypodermic needles, and mothers who are infected can pass the disease on to their children at birth. A cure for HIV/AIDS has not yet been discovered yet, but many scientists and doctors are working on it. Not enough money is being spent on HIV/AIDS, when it should be one of our main priorities insted of building amusement parks, and malls, and other pointless things. If we keep spending our money on building, and more and more poeple are getting HIV/AIDS, then more and more people are dying, and won't be able to use the things we build.
A United Nations agenct called UNAIDS believes that we are only at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This agency researches the spread of HIV/AIDS and it beliebes that over the next two decades, at least 68 million people will die of HIV/AIDS. The majority of these deaths will occure in the poorest countries in the world, big surprise. If we use our money, and donate it to the poor, third world countries, less and less people will die. UNAIDS estimates there are 40 million people in the world living with HIV/AIDS, including three million children. Africa is the continent hardest hit by HIV/AIDS. In one Africa country, Botswana, 39 per cent of adults are infected with the virus. While there is still no cure for HIV/AIDS, in some cases the disease can be controlled with medicatioin. A mixture of drugs, referred to as "drug cocktails" can be effective in prolonging the life of HID/AIDS sufferers. However, the "drug cocktails" are very expensive, which is another reason we should be dontating money to third world countries. By helping with HIV/AIDS, your not only helping people that are affected by it, your helping everyone. Making the world a better place, for everyone. :)

The Black Death and HIV / AIDS

We need to bring HIV / AIDS under control! I have never met someone who had it, but i have herd a great amount about it. We should be spending more to find a cure that could save millions. Kids and adults have to be more informed so we have a better risk of not getting it. If we don't get this message out. HIV / AIDS is going to harm our country badly. Even worse than the Black Death did. If this goes on for any longer, soon there will be a huge crisis and it will be hazardous. It will be even harder to cure all those that we love, so why not put our efforts in finding a cure now? No one should ever suffer with this horrible disease. We HAVE TO find a cure! Are we going to stand here and do nothing while our people are dying all over the world? We have to think about our future generations. Do you want them to have a chance at getting HIV / AIDS?

HIV/AIDS

Millions of people, mostly Africans, are infected with the horrible disease known as HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS is a virus that destroys the immune system, which protects the body from diseases. If your body cannot protect itself from the millions of diseases in the world, how could you survive? since the first case of HIV/AIDS in Africa in the 1980's, this has a been a question that has puzzled the world for years. Now the problem that troubles the average person is that why we haven't found a cure for this disease. The problem is money, it always is. Though there is a mixture of drugs called a "drug cocktail" that can be effective in prolonging the life of victims. However, the problem, again, is money and the poor, suffering Africans cannot afford these drug cocktails that can price up to $250 a day. Up to 40 million people are shadowed with HIV/AIDS, which a wake-up call that needs to be picked up. To make matters even worse, it is estimated that a whopping 68 million will die of HIV/AIDS within the next twenty years! That's more than 3 million people a year that are dying from this pandemic. If the government doesn't put a stop to this, maybe half the world will die from HIV/AIDS and the drug cocktails aren't helping. Out of the 40 million people with of HIV/AIDS, only 730,000 are receiving cocktail, and unfortunately, only 30,000 of them are African. Not only are they suffering from poverty, HIV/AIDS has practically become a daily part of their lives. By this rate, I wouldn't be surprised to see continents wiped out by this pandemic.

Why more money should be spent to stop HIV/AIDS

I think more money should be spent on finding a to stop HIV because

• People from all around the world are dieing from HIV/AIDS (Around 68 million)
  
• The disease can spread very fast
• The population will decrease in lots of cities
  
• Kids can die too even pregnant woman.
  
• Doctors can even get the disease
  
• Towns and cities will lose money
• Africa has lots of sick and dieing people
  

If the disease is stopped then

• It won't just cure Canada it will cure the world
• Population in cities will increase
• There will be more doctors to tend the sick
  
• Towns and cities will get more money from tourists
• Africa will have less sick people
  

Canada can help all theses countries just by donating money to help doctors find a cure for HIV/AIDS

hiv & aids .

Most people know about the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in the world but mostly in poor parts of Africa. So many people are dying because of it and still there isn't a cure. If something so serious is happening and killing so many people I would expect that they would try really hard and put more money and time into finding a cure for this deadly disease. If no one does anything about it, it will just keep spreading and killing so many people. Worldwide estimates that as of December 2000, there were an estimated 36.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS (34.7 million adults and 1.4 million children under 15). Since the epidemic began, an estimated 21.8 million people have died of AIDS (17.5 million adults and 4.3 million children under 15). Just think about how bad it's effecting the world already, if we just leave this alone and don't find a cure all it's going to do is get worse. Alot of people don't care as much and actually understand how bad HIV/AIDS can be and how many people have died from it. I think scientests or whoever is incharge of finding cures for it should try alittle harder because it's been going on a long time and it's not going to stop until we make it.

HIV/AIDS

I think that HIV/AIDS is a serious problem. If we all work together then this disease could be stopped. I predict that if everyone in the world (6.8 billion people) donated a reasonable and affordible amount for a cure, then this global pandemic would end once and for all. Another idea to stop this disease would be adding t.v and radio commercials explaining what HIV/AIDS is, how it is spread, how its caused, and what to do and where to go if you think you have this disease. If we all worked together to stop HIV/AIDS then this global pandemic would end once and for all.

Brenna Patterson :)

HIV/AIDS

The pandemic should be kept under control so more people can recover from the disease. More money should be spent so that the disease is not widely spread in Canada because more Africans are coming to Canada looking for a better life in Canada and coming over and marrying Canadians. AIDS should be stop ed because it is affecting millions of people that don't have much money to begin with and they have to stay home and take care of their family when they could be out making money working. The pandemic should be stopped because more and more people are dieing now 46 million people have died cause of the disease and it is about 2 times as many more people have died from AIDS as the black death.

Stop Homework!

I think we should stop homework indefinitely, because we have school six hours a day, homework after school for about one to two hours which equals up to seven to eight hours a day of learning. Other than school people do other things as well such as sports, playing instruments and having some down time in life. Take me for example, I play soccer and I can not miss practice unless I am sick or I really can not go, so when I do go I usually have not finished my homework by then so when I get back I am finishing it up at 8:00-9:00. We kids also have friends to hang out with, but you, Mr.B are keeping use from doing things like hanging out with friends and having some downtime, so ban homework....indefinably.

let us go early! (:

Dear Mr.Westhaver.

i think we should be able to leave school early everyday if we finish our work early. I think this is because if we focus and do our work it might motivate us to get it all done so we can leave. If all our work is done, theirs no point in staying at school, and any extra stuff we need to get done we can do for homework on our own time. Any students that wish to do their work at school, can stay the full day, and any that want to finish it and then leave early, must make sure it is ok with their parents and home room teacher. Before students leave, they must show their teachers their finished, assigned homework. Students might get extra sleep and be more focused the next day, from having more time off during the day, and a lot less homework. In my opinion, this could help in a lot of ways and make the learning experience more enjoyable.