ive relationships, and often have mental problems on to of that-the list goes on and on. So our clients today are much more complicated to treat" (Thurman 1). However, they do not agree on its importance compared to other diseases and medical problems in the United States. I feel that AIDS is a very important disease to be worrying about in today's society, because it is hurting all ages not just the older groups of people. Fumento makes a point of explaining how heart disease and cancer consume more lives on average in a year than AIDS ever has. He states that "AIDS cases diagnosed would be but a fourth of all 1993 cancer deaths", heart disease would be even more than that, yet heart disease funding is only two-thirds of that of AIDS (529). Fumento also points out that cancer and heart disease pose a far greater health threat than AIDS. "Heart disease kills over 750,000 Americans a year"(529). Freundlich, on the other hand, says that AIDS is far too unstable to be neglected. She states that even though the death count of heart disease and cancer are very high, they are extremely predictable and have leveled out year after year because of current medical technology. The death count of AIDS, however, is almost never the same each year; some years it may be low, and others very high. This causes researchers to question if they are making decent progress in the AIDS field. At the rate of which AIDS is spreading, "in the next decade alone, doctors will be treating a million or more people who are already infected with HIV, the disease which leads to AIDS"(Freundlich 534). Thurman says that "The rate of AIDS death is decreasing dramatically, which simply means that we're going to have more sick people."(Thurman 1) This shows that AIDS is still a problem, and people are going to think that because people are not dying from AIDS itself, then the problem is over. I think that even though the death counts of heart disease and cancers a...