The Oppression of Women Drives The AIDS Epidemic in Africa

Women's oppression has pushed AIDS epidemics in Africa Africa is now faced with a serious crisis of AIDS epidemics that accounts for more than 70% of the world's HIV-positive population. There are, of course, many factors that could lead to explosive expansion of human immune function, but in chaotic networks of infectious diseases in Africa, many of these problems have one thing in common. Repression of women in Africa can be regarded as a cultural career of the virus. In African society, women become helpless and existing gender inequality is the main cause of disease transmission.

Furthermore, in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, as in other parts of the world, inequality and economic depletion between men and women are part of the epidemic. Women and girls are discriminated from the perspective of education, employment, credit, medical care, access to land and inheritance. In countries where epidemics are prevalent in Africa, it is shown that up to 80% of women aged 15-24 lack adequate AIDS knowledge. Women and girls may need special attention in all HIV prevention programs

In the past 10 years, women are the first responsible persons of HIV / AIDS global epidemic disease. In Africa, women account for 60% of people living with HIV. In many societies, women have lower social and economic status than men, simply because they are women. In Africa, this makes women more vulnerable to HIV, and then HIV brings women into poverty in a bad cycle. Women often lack the social and economic power to safe sexuality and are therefore vulnerable to HIV infection by sexual partners. In contrast, in Thailand and Cambodia, the proportion of sex workers using condom has risen to 90% due to the educational program, and these behavioral changes have a positive impact on the spread of the disease I will. In Australia, HIV / AIDS has little influence on the female population, mainly limited to homosexual communities and injectable drug users. (Un.aids.org, 2008)

At the conference, Professor Alan Whiteside of Natal University outlined the current epidemic of AIDS centered around sub-Saharan Africa. The epidemic in Africa is not uniform, southern Africa is the most serious epidemic that HIV infection rate continues to rise. In Uganda the prevalence is decreasing, while in other countries the fashion trends are steady or slowly rising. The size of the epidemic in southern Africa is particularly worrisome because it is the most developed region of Africa and southern Africa is expected to become a continent powerhouse for economic development.