I saw the story below yesterday on the news and couldn’t believe it when I saw & read it, and many others I’m quite sure will feel the same way if and when you/they read it………..Well, believe it cause it’s true and StoptheACLU has more on the s…

According to CDC, to which I linked, women who have contracted AIDS account for about 18% of total cases.

About a quarter of those cases were a result of IDU, which cuts that number even more.

The trends don’t deviate far from those numbers.

As I pointed out:

“102,936 cases were women who reported that they were exposed by heterosexual contact. Every one of those cases, obviously were caused either by a man who had contracted AIDS through either sodomy or IDU.”

For all the accusations you throw around about the ignorance of others, you sure put on good One-Man Parade of the [edited]. You might want to keep your little battles confined to your middle school locker room, because lightweights like you don’t belong in the discussion.

“Almost exlusively,” huh? Even though 2/3 of women (who now account for 30% of new AIDS cases a year in the U.S.) get it by screwing men? Would it really trouble you that much to research your posts instead of making things up, or is the urge to lie and spew too great for you to overcome?

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Girls are particularly vulnerable to HIV/STDs infection in all regions, it is thought that teen age is a period of multiple, rapid, and profound changes and transitions. Such concerns are particularly important for adolescent girls: Adolescent girls today are much more oppressed. They are coming of age in a more dangerous, sexualized, and media-saturated culture. They face incredible pressures to be beautiful and sophisticated, by chemicals which mean to encourage them to be sexual. As they navigate a more dangerous world, girls are less protected. On the other hand, the low social status of women in many poor countries encourages gender discrimination, domestic and sexual violence and psychological abuse, so that they have no control to negotiate safe sex.

Biologically, young women are more susceptible to HIV infection than older women. Because they make up a large proportion of the sexually active population of developing countries, a large proportion of new infections occur in this age group. A survey conduct by Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation of three brothels in southwest region in Bangladesh, this study did point out that almost 16% of sex workers enter the profession before the age of 18 years, and 30% enter between 18 to 24 years of age. Approximately 10% of prostitutes belong to the scheduled castes minority people.

The HIV/AIDS programme specialist Mr. Mohammad Khairul Alam said, “several social norms and immature behavior fueled of this disease to scatter rapidly. There are several social components link to develop this harmful situation. Poverty-behind to force it, Gender discrimination plays a vital role; Frustration & risk behavior help to sink humanity resulting infection. The link between poverty & gender discrimination are help to decline socio economic prosperity. This link creates several anti social poisonous issues also. Such as trafficking to prostitute, sell sex for earn or living, break down family norm to create frustration and driven drug point. We notice easily that Illiteracy is the main watchword of all circumstance. So it is not easy to remove it from the society, several programs & strategy are needed to gain sustainable position”.

In some cultures, young women are sexually abused by older men in the belief that they are less likely to be infected with HIV or even that sex with a young woman who is a virgin is a cure for HIV/AIDS. Moreover, young people are often less likely to have access to the information and means to protect themselves from HIV infection. For all of these reasons, UNFPA is right to make young people a focus of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes. In some countries, adolescents aged 10 to 15 should be a priority, as these are the years when sexual initiation occurs and sexual attitudes and behaviours are established. In these countries, HIV/AIDS prevention messages should focus on younger youth to be effective. Programmes of sex education and safe sex promotion for pre-teens and young teenagers have been successfully implemented in countries as diverse as Uganda and Sweden.

Recently, ‘Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallan Foundation’ response to HIV/AIDS has focused mostly on three types of work: community mobilization for prevention through the promotion of fidelity, condom-use and abstinence; advocacy on access to affordable treatments, targeted at medicine producers and international donor organizations; and work to ‘mainstream’ support to AIDS-affected individuals and communities into poverty mitigation work. HIV/AIDS has good relation between poverty and gender inequality. Without decline gender discrimination, poverty, all effort will destroy to prevent HIV/AIDS or sustainable development of this sector.

Zannat Ara Naznin
Gender Consultant
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Zannat@37.com

Source: UNFPA, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation, UNAIDS

Unfortunately, most of these organizations seem to be making a choice that, in effect, makes people’s lives less valuable than their feelings.

Only an honest discussion can possibly yield positive results.

Every human has the right to make choices. The flipside is that every human must be held responsible for those choices. Now there are some exceptions such as a rape victim or the victim of spousal infidelity, but the vast majority of AIDS patients contracted it as a direct result of some lifestyle choice.

There’s no need to get into the homo/hetero argument. It doesn’t matter who one has chosen to be sexual with or in what manner one chose to do it. All that matters is that person was aware of the risks and proceeded anyways. Roll the dice enough times and you can be sure the House will win.