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Why do alot of people have AIDS in Africa? |
Just wondering as always..... Africa is a developing country, where people have little money, and there is very little health care. They do not have in depth sex education as we do, and many people/children can not afford to attend school anyway, and do not get educated. As it is a very poor country, some women have to take to prostitution in order to feed their families, many do not know about condoms or how to use them - so the virus gets passed on. I watched a documentary a while ago about the spread of HIV/AIDS, it said the virus is spread from parts of Africa to other parts of Africa by men travelling from place to place for work, such as men delivering things by van, or fishermen sailing around the country. When they reach their destination they often stay overnight - very often having sex with women they meet there. Resulting in either the man infecting the woman with HIV/AIDS, or vise versa, and very often the men have wives/girlfriends back home - to whom the newly infected man will pass it onto when he returns home. Some possible transmissions may arise because some men believe the myth that if they have sex with virgins they will be cured of various STD's - very often resulting in rape - which passes the virus on. Additionally, the situation is more complex there than it is in the west because not only do people have HIV1, but the HIV2 virus exists there as well. Because they do not have access to condoms or they are not taught safe sexual practices. Lack of treatment, lack of access to contraceptives, lack of education with how it is transmitted. aids is thought to have originated in africa and since africa in many parts is poverty stricken many people that have sex cannot either afford condoms or just dont use them that is how stds are transmitted by unprotected sex therefore majority of people living in africa have aids This is a work in progress-giving the knowledge and the empowerment to understand the disease to these people. Some girls trade sex for a day in school or a meal in Africa-BAM-they're infected-they get pregnant and the child is born with HIV. Things like that. From what I heard, alot of women get aids from sexual intercouse and bad habits. Then they become pregnant. They have a choice, feed their baby and give them aids (as in breast feed cuz they cannot afford food) or starve their baby. It's quite sad. What would you choose? To wonder is good, that's how things get invented. Aids is synonymous with Africa because it started there. The living conditions now, the intelligence and the amount of education. It was thought that the Green monkey, when eaten passed the AIDS virus that was harbored in the brain, to the people eating it. Now the theory is it's passed through eating the meat of the Chimpanzee from a certain area. Passing AIDS through sex is a secondary way to pass the disease, actually through the bodily fluids, sex included. |
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