Socioeconomic Factors Affecting People With HIVIntroduction:Human immunodeficiency virus better known as HIV is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a condition in humans in which the progressive failure of the life-sustaining immune system threatening the proliferation of opportunistic infections and tumors. HIV was identified in 1983 and scientists began trying to understand where it came from, when it appeared and why it spread so quickly. Today, more than 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV. The CDC estimates that 1,144,500 people age 13 and older are living with HIV infection. These statistics scare me because in 1983, when HIV first appeared, it was only common in gay Caucasian men, where as now HIV has no particulars because they are seen in every gender, sexuality and race there is . HIV is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS cases worldwide. Patients who test positive for HIV have many factors that influence the risk of infection, rate and prevention of their positive status. Socioeconomic factors are some factors that may influence the risk, rate, and prevention of HIV-positive patients. A socioeconomic factor is the social and economic experiences and realities that help shape one's personal lifestyle. The focus of my article will be on socioeconomic factors that have a large impact on people with HIV positive status. This topic is an important one because people living with HIV all appear to have common socioeconomic factors that have influenced their HIV status in perhaps positive or negative ways. These influences can range from a person's demographic location, such as being in a rural area, which is a geographic area located outside of cities and towns, as well as… center of paper… experiences of stigma HIV: The role of visible symptoms, the centrality of HIV, and community attachment for people living with HIV. AIDS treatment: psychological and socio-medical aspects of AIDS/HIV, 25(9).Corbie-Smith, G., Akers, A., Blumenthal, C., Council, B., Wynn, M., Muhammad , M. , & Stith, D. (2010). Intervention mapping as a participatory approach to HIV prevention intervention development in rural African American communities. AIDS education and prevention: Official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education, 22(3), 184. Feldacker, C., Emch, M., & Ennett, S. (2010). The<i>who and<i>where of HIV in rural Malawi: exploring the effects of person and place on individual HIV status. Health and Place, 16(5), 996-1006.Gupta, G. R. (2000). Gender, sexuality and HIV/AIDS: the what, why and how. The HIV and AIDS Policy Act may be rev, 5(4), 86-93.