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Allan
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Maqus
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Maqus
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In case you've ever had the tiniest fantasy of having sex in Eastern Europe -- don't!
Int. Herald Tribune, December 14, 2004
The feminization of AIDS
This year, once again, the annual report from the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS and the World Health Organization tragically documents the way the global AIDS epidemic is still killing millions of people and spawning hot spots in Asia and Eastern Europe. The most striking news is that AIDS is fast becoming a disease that strikes younger women disproportionately. Ignorance is part of the problem, but the laws and social customs that keep women powerless and poor - and subject to sexual exploitation - are far more insiduous.
According to the new report's eye-opening analysis, AIDS is spreading quickly into the ranks of women - both single and married - in regions where AIDS is already well established. In sub-Saharan Africa, women 15 to 24 years old are three times as likely to be infected as men the same age. In Thailand, 90 percent of AIDS transmissions a decade ago occurred between sex workers and their clients. More recent estimates suggest that 50 percent of the new infections are occurring between spouses, as men who picked up AIDS from prostitutes pass it on to their wives.
The soaring infection rates among younger women are driven partly by social customs that require the women to remain ignorant of sex and sexuality until they marry. Indeed, UNAIDS researchers have found that a majority of young women in some nations have no idea how to protect themselves from the AIDS virus. The root problem, especially in many developing nations, is a pervasive gender inequality that keeps women from amassing capital, asserting their rights under the law or even deciding when to have sex. A staggering number of women reported that their first sexual experiences came as a result of rape.
Marginalized in the economy and under the law, women in developing nations are often left with sex as their only marketable resource. In some parts of Africa, older men who take young lovers commonly help the girl's family by paying for school fees and food. Young women who are bartered this way have no standing to refuse sex or ask their partners to use condoms. Marriage and fidelity offer little protection from disease for these women, who typically marry older men who have been sexually active for decades. In some areas, infection rates for young married women who remain faithful are actually higher than for single women not yet in permanent relationships.
AIDS education is crucial in fighting the epidemic. But information alone is not enough. Countries with entrenched epidemics need to enhance women's rights under the law and end retrograde traditions that make them second-class citizens. Only then can women hope to protect themselves.
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Anyone volunteering to write a similarly eye-opening, well-informed, consistent and impartial article about the topic für Allgemeine Zeitung?
Int. Herald Tribune, December 14, 2004
The feminization of AIDS
This year, once again, the annual report from the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS and the World Health Organization tragically documents the way the global AIDS epidemic is still killing millions of people and spawning hot spots in Asia and Eastern Europe. The most striking news is that AIDS is fast becoming a disease that strikes younger women disproportionately. Ignorance is part of the problem, but the laws and social customs that keep women powerless and poor - and subject to sexual exploitation - are far more insiduous.
According to the new report's eye-opening analysis, AIDS is spreading quickly into the ranks of women - both single and married - in regions where AIDS is already well established. In sub-Saharan Africa, women 15 to 24 years old are three times as likely to be infected as men the same age. In Thailand, 90 percent of AIDS transmissions a decade ago occurred between sex workers and their clients. More recent estimates suggest that 50 percent of the new infections are occurring between spouses, as men who picked up AIDS from prostitutes pass it on to their wives.
The soaring infection rates among younger women are driven partly by social customs that require the women to remain ignorant of sex and sexuality until they marry. Indeed, UNAIDS researchers have found that a majority of young women in some nations have no idea how to protect themselves from the AIDS virus. The root problem, especially in many developing nations, is a pervasive gender inequality that keeps women from amassing capital, asserting their rights under the law or even deciding when to have sex. A staggering number of women reported that their first sexual experiences came as a result of rape.
Marginalized in the economy and under the law, women in developing nations are often left with sex as their only marketable resource. In some parts of Africa, older men who take young lovers commonly help the girl's family by paying for school fees and food. Young women who are bartered this way have no standing to refuse sex or ask their partners to use condoms. Marriage and fidelity offer little protection from disease for these women, who typically marry older men who have been sexually active for decades. In some areas, infection rates for young married women who remain faithful are actually higher than for single women not yet in permanent relationships.
AIDS education is crucial in fighting the epidemic. But information alone is not enough. Countries with entrenched epidemics need to enhance women's rights under the law and end retrograde traditions that make them second-class citizens. Only then can women hope to protect themselves.
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Anyone volunteering to write a similarly eye-opening, well-informed, consistent and impartial article about the topic für Allgemeine Zeitung?
my dying groom
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My fantasies can't be stopped by such inconsistent articles, I have been sexually active for centuries.
snow2fall
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mood: excited cos I'm leaving for Vienna tonight. Gotta pack my stuff now. Gonna hear one last lecture before Christmas this afternoon and then head to the central bus station. :hotjump:
Bastet
ironing...
snow2fall
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Bastet
ironing...
Maqus
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Allan
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Loona
*~holdacska~*
uaaaaa I feel damn hungry but I'm lazy to go out and eat (go on, I know I'm weird, just say it...), I have only ate a chocolate bar and an orange today 
by the way what's with that handball match, Maqus?
by the way what's with that handball match, Maqus?
Maqus
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nomana-nuniyan
Heyoka watching Trona
Maqus, I just noticed that your user name is spelled with a Q not a G.
I think I'll call you Q.
I think I'll call you Q.
Maqus
pocket frictionary
Cabrón, cabrón, cabrón, cabrón
All the world would take a Q from anything you do
If you only knew
That they're just like you
All the world would take a Q from anything you do
If you only knew
That they're just like you
