IDS disease is considered one of the most sexually transmitted diseases and it is a source of threat to human beings. It is a global epidemic which has no cure 100% (Lori,2000).furthermore, this disease is one of the most horrible health crises for its effects on human as social and psychological shock, loss of control over emotions and feelings, denial, fear of disease, loss of self-esteem,..etc (The Jordan Red Crescent, 2007). The AIDS disease has direct social effect in the society; it causes health problems in addition to social ones as family and relative's relations get weak which makes the patients feel isolated (Ahmad, 1990). Even the infected children may be exposed to negative reactions from the society as rejecting them and refusing to accept them in the schools to continue their learning. At the moment of discovering the disease, the AIDS Patients felt shocked, denial, blame and pangs of remorse but later he starts to accept the disease and integrate with the society.

The problem is represented by the social and psychological pressures facing the AIDS patients and make them feel embarrassed for asking for treatment and advice by visiting the centers of awareness and education of AIDS especially if they feel that their privacy has been violated and the society reject them. Therefore, the AIDS patients prefer to live in isolation before and after their sickness is revealed and consequently the number of AIDS patients who visited awareness and guidance centers does not exceed (40%) while those who did not visit the centers , their number is still unknown.

The social ,demographic and economic effects of AIDS are horrible. In some societies, AIDS disease kills a big number of young people which will lead one day to have a generation lacks adult category (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30). Because AIDS disease infects the adult, its effect is seen clearly in the sectors of army, education, agriculture, industry, transport and economy in general(World Bank,2003).additionally, experts and specialized in the economy depression pointed to the horrible and disastrous results of this fatal disease and unless anything is done, there will be total economy depression within three generations in the countries that suffer greatly because of this disease (Khozai,2004).

The spread of silence culture in the Islamic and Arab countries that obliged the woman to be obedient and no to ask her husband about his sexual relations which makes her more exposed to have an infection. the woman has to ignore the man's multi sexual relations with more than a woman. It should be stated here that 90% of AIDS cases at Saudi Arabia was because of illegitimate sexual relations (Ra`i newspaper,2003). In Sudan which has the highest proportion of Aids cases in middle east and north of America was also because of the illegitimate sexual relations with 97% (Al-Dastour,2006) while in Lebanon the proportion of AIDS cases for the some reason was 79% including the Homosexual relations with 23%. In Egypt, the official records showed that the main reason for AIDS infection was either insecure sex between men and women with 50% or homosexuality amng men with 20%.

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This disease was first discovered in USA and UK among who make homosexual or bisexual relations and about 71% of AIDS patients were infected sexually.

The World Health Organization assured that the women's vulnerability to infection is higher than the man and there are 250 million cases infected sexually yearly (Mahmoud, 2001). After 36 years of recording the first AIDS case in USA in 1981(Kamal,1992) till the 2015, the number of AIDS patients is estimated by 35 million, most of them (25 million) are from developed countries and it is expected that there will be yearly about 116000 new cases (WHO,2015). The latest report concerning AIDS showed that 168 countries informed WHO of having AIDS cases in their countries (Graeme stewart, 2005) while in 1986 there were 29000 cases in71 countries (Sahawna,1988).

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The Jordanian society with its special characteristics where values, habits, traditions are greatly respected imposes behaviors to be followed by every member in the society (Khozai, 2003). Furthermore, the Jordanian society is committed to the holy books that forbids adultery which is one of the ethic crimes(Abd tawab,1986),or illegitimate sexual contact with others for their horrible effects as diseases, social problems and family loss (Ateia,2003).

Article (282) of the Jordanian Punishment Law states: the Adulterous female and her partner are punished by prison form 6 months till 2 years(Najm,1994). According to Punishment Law, adultery is defined by sexual contact between a married woman or am n with other than his wife or her husband (Hosni,1978).

Despite of these regulations, laws, habits, traditions and religion that forbid adultery but the Jordanian statistics in this field revealed that 55% of the cases was because of illegitimate sexual relations (Ministry of Health,2015) .

The Jordanian Ministry of Health pays much attention to the AIDS disease through the effective effort in the field of prevention and health care .And the ministry considers the voluntary testing and counseling services a very important point to other activities of prevention of this disease and support to the patients and therefore, these services will be helpful to the individuals and couples.

The first AIDS case was recorded for a Jordanian woman in 1986 and it was because of a blood transfer abroad (Belad Newspaper, 2002). Since that date, the Jordanian program for AIDS prevention was adopted and the Ministry of Health adopted the main goals of the international AIDS program which fighting the disease, reduce its spread and its effect on the patient and his family and the society in general. the total number of the diseases which were discovered from 1986 (the date of establishing the national program for AIDS prevention) till 2015 was 1222including 325 Jordanian cases and 897 cases for non Jordanians . the total number of deaths because of this disease was 115( Ministry of Health,2015).

In 1999, Ministry of Health established Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Centre to provide advice and help to the youth to enable them to make their own decisions towards behaviors that may cause health problem as AIDS. Moreover, the center provide counseling and social, psychological and health care to the AIDS patients and their families in addition to supply them with bulletins, regulations and guidance concerning prevention of this disease(Ministry of Healt,1999). The hotline in this center is being supervised by three employees: health supervisor, a doctor, social expert). Terms definitions: ? AIDS: It is one of the sexually transmitted diseases in the world which has no treatment till now . It transmits form the man to the woman and vice versa or form a man to a man by polluted injections, multi sexual and illegal relations and having some other venereal disease. ? Coexistence with AIDS: Accepting the disease, following up the treatment, and the specialized instructions. ? Coexistence with society: Integration into the society and living with respect and non-discrimination. ? AIDS patient: The patient who was proved to have this disease and visited the medical center for help. ? Difficulties: It is the problem facing the patients that cannot be solv VI.

To identify the social and economic characteristics of AIDS patients in Jordan according to the place of infection, age, gender, and way of infection). To determine the difficulties facing AIDS patients in Jordan.

The study used the comprehensive social survey for all AIDS patients in Jordan who visited the counseling centers in different Jordanian districts (Amman, Zarqa , Jerash , Madaba , Aqaba, Al-Balqa).

For collecting data, the researcher used a questionnaire consisted of 30 items distributed into dimensions: the first one related to the patients' general information while the other addresses the difficulties facing the patients in Jordan and the suggestions they have to face these difficulties. To check the instrument's validity, it was presented to five arbitrators who are specialized in (medicine, sociology, social service, psychology, religion) to identify its appropriateness to the study's goal and their notes were taken into account. The instrument's reliability was checked by applying it on a sample consisted of 10 patients and Alpha coefficient was calculated and its value was (0.89%) which indicated that the instrument has a high degree of reliability.

The descriptive method was used to analyze data and the means and standard deviations were used. The results were as follows:

Results concerning the first goal: identifying the AIDS patients' social and economic characteristics in Jordan according to (place of infection, age, gender, way of infection).

Although most of the cases took place outside Jordan(67.7%) as it is illustrated in table (1), about 95 cases were in Jordan which indicated local infection to the cause of the disease and therefore there is a need to condense health awareness ,guidance and prevention programs to reduce the spread of this disease.

Table (1) showed that the categories (20-29) and (30-39) are the highest one in being infected by this disease with (35.6%) each, followed by the category(40-49) with (14.9%). It is noted that the age of 76% of the patients was less than 40 years and it is the period of being active economically and sexually. Data showed that 61% of the patients were males while 39% were females.

The previous table also showed the 55% of the patients had the infection through illegitimate sexual contact, blood transmission was the cause of 20.3%, Homosexuality practices (11.6%), drugs and intravenous injection(2.2%) whereas the infection from the mother to her child was (2.8%). And thus, much attention should be given to awareness programs, education sessions focusing on the religious aspect in this issue. In the same context, Sheikh Mohammad Sayed Tantawi ,sheikh of Al-Azhar, called all the religious leaders in their societies to fight against AIDS to protect the young who will be the leaders in the future (Tantawi, 2006).

Although most of the infection cases occurred among non-Jordanians with (73.4%) as it is illustrated in table (1), about (26.6%) of the infection cases was among the Jordanian which indicates local transmission to the disease and therefore there is an eager need to have more education and awareness, and prevention programs to reduce the spread of this disease locally. (2) showed the difficulties facing AIDS patients ordered ascending according to the their means. The difficulty of shame and discrimination because of the disease sensitivity came first with high degree, followed respectively by the difficulty of lack of privacy specially in the public and private hospitals with