A study found that women that are in committed monogamous relationships are still being infected by HIV/AIDs. They tend to not use condoms, but that doesn't protect you from a cheating husband.
Numerous independent studies on HIV and AIDS have found many cases in South Africa where women who practise monogamy in relationships and remain faithful to their partners have nonetheless become infected with HIV.Scientists involved in several of these studies have also cited the difficulties that women have in persuading longstanding male partners to use condoms, explaining this by profound discrepancies in equality between men and women on the interpersonal emotional and psychological level.
According to the United Nations AIDS Programme (UNAIDS), 13.2 million women in sub-Saharan Africa alone are HIV infected, accounting for 76 percent of all women living with HIV.
In Africa, 77 percent of new infections occur in women.
That is upsetting.
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Perhaps the Bushes will have to rethink their plan of promoting monogamy within a marriage as the best way to protect women from AIDS.
This is the same thing we see in India, isn't it?
Yes, "a significant proportion of new infections is occuring in women who are in monogamous relationships and have been infected by husbands or partners who have multiple sex partners."
http://feministing.com/archives/005461.html
Empowering the world's most oppressed women is the key to stemming the HIV/AIDS pandemic, philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates told the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference.
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20060814/aids_conference_060814?hub=TorontoHome
Yes. In India, "a significant proportion of new infections is occuring in women who are in monogamous relationships and have been infected by husbands or partners who have multiple sex partners."
http://feministing.com/archives/005461.html
Empowering the world's most oppressed women is the key to stemming the HIV/AIDS pandemic, philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates told the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference.
Yes, a July 31 post here said that in India "a significant proportion of new infections is occuring in women who are in monogamous relationships and have been infected by husbands or partners who have multiple sex partners."
Empowering the world's most oppressed women is the key to stemming the HIV/AIDS pandemic, philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates told the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference.
I say every woman should just wear one of these at all times. Any man who, say, refused to wear a condom would be in for a rude awakening.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9145415/
While their intentions to create better cities were similar, Le Corbusier and New Urbanism seem miles apart. Their conceptions started from very different premises. For the first the image is rational and mechanical: the house as a dwelling machine, where the car is king. For the second, the image is organic, where ‘community’ is at the centre.
In the US more than elsewhere, towns and cities have been pulled apart by putting the needs of the car centre-stage. Hence the appeal of New Urbanism whose tentacles are now spreading. It has a view, a manifesto and set of principles, of how life should be lived, seeking to establish a link between the physical design of cities and social aims like ‘a sense of community’ providing an alternative to automobile-oriented planning that has torn and fractured most places apart, less so those whose historic cores have remained.