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Spread of Diseases: Sex Trafficking and HIV/AIDS In chapter nine, "Fighting Global Diseases: Pandemics, Antibiotics, Resistance, AIDS, and Maternal Health," June Johnson illustrates the spread and prevention of wide spread diseases. Johnson uses key terms such as, pandemics, antibiotics, Influenza, HIV/AIDS, resistance and control to support her purpose. The stakes are the pandemics, HIV/AIDS and the resistance to antibiotics and vaccinations while the stakeholders are citizens, health leaders, pharmaceutical companies, health care workers and organizations, and political leaders. In the section Thinking Visually shows a scene from the movie Contagion about a virus that killed tons of people, the movie brought awareness to the public and the government for improvements in health care systems during pandemics.The Student Voice, "Experiencing the SARS Pandemic" by Martin Merin, shares his senior year during the SARS epidemic in Taiwan which interrupted his everyday life. Marin believes the Thai government learned how to hand le epidemics more beneficially after SARS had been controlled, "I think the Taiwan government, having learned through this experience, would now be more efficient in dealing with the threat of SARS of other similar diseases" (454). International Voices provides a speech from the president of Liberia who advocates sanitation in the country to prevent the spread of sanitation related diseases. The Global Hotspot is Sub-Saharan Africa because of the effects of AIDS has on the people in the region, the section shows an excerpt from an article which lists ways to reduce the contraction of AIDS. In "Sex Trafficking and HIV/AIDS: A Deadly Junction for Women and Girls" Amanda Kloersex advocates against sex trafficking and addresses the dangers of HIV/AIDS. In the article the stakes are sex trafficking, sex slavery, and HIV/AIDS. Koher's article was aimed at the general public in order for political figures and health officials to make efforts to prevent HIV/AIDS. Koher believes to prevent the disease from spreading involves taking action against sex trafficking organizations and HIV/AIDS; "Preventing this multiplier effect of HIV transmission catalyzed by sex trafficking involves fighting two global phenomena- a deadly disease and a highly complex and lucrative criminal industry, both of which disproportionately affect girls and women around the world" (418). The article identifies the relationship between sex trafficking victims and HIV/AIDS in which sex trafficking victims have a higher chance of contracting the disease. While establishing the relationship between the spread of HIV/ AIDS and sex trafficking, Amanda Kloer supports her claim by providing statistics about victims with the disease, data on people in other countries outside the U.S related to sex trafficking as a global transmission of the disease and provides real examples about the prevention of HIV/AIDS which went against the trafficking reform. Kloer possibly targeted trafficking or health policy makers as well as political leader with new ways of ending sex trafficking in order to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Kloer uses logical examples before proposing new reforms against sex trafficking in order to provide strengthened argumentative reasoning. The logical examples about unprotected sex which increases the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, especially when a sex trafficking victim does not have access to contraceptives. Kloer connects the local and global aspects of both issues and impotence of young girls by providin g local and global data of sex trafficking victims in the U.S and in other countries who have contracted HIV/AIDS during captivity. Works Cited Johnson, June. Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writings . 3rd edition. Boston. Person. 2014. Print. Koler, Amanda. "Sex Trafficking and HIV/AIDS: A Deadly Junction for Women and Girls."Johnson, June. Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writings . 3rd edition. Boston. Person. 2014. Print. Pp. 418-25.