2006-11-05 00:21:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Absolutely
2006-11-05 00:23:53 · answer #1 · answered by M.C. Clarence, M.D. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The AIDS epidemic in Africa is a complicated issue.
Promiscuity is the cause for the spread of the disease in any country or culture. Condoms (even when used properly) do little to prevent the spread of the disease, contrary to what our own government tells us.
The secondary cause for the spread of infection is the lack of drugs to help control HIV and prevent an infected mother from passing the disease on to her baby.
The government in Africa does not educate its people about the disease and very few people there understand what HIV/Aids is, how one contracts it, and how to treat it.
We have a responsibility to Africa and the world to resolve this problem.
2006-11-05 03:34:35 · answer #2 · answered by Vicki 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - in addition the wildly held myth espoused by some witch doctors that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS, and the cultural problem of men who work away in the city for long periods, and maybe are unfaithful and then return to their wives. Also, the high cost of contraception
2006-11-05 00:30:42 · answer #3 · answered by Bumblebee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes because the heads of government refuse to admit to it's populations that it is causing AIDS. The governments of these countries are too poor to buy AIDS drugs and so they tell people to use garlic instead. A lot of it is caused by being born to someone who has AIDS too and have contracted it inuterine. A large percentage of the population are ignorant and it is not their fault.
2006-11-05 00:38:56 · answer #4 · answered by Carrie S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beyond a doubt. As part attempt to stem the epidemic, the S.African government provides free condoms for the population and runs a campaign advocating (for the unmarried) abstinence or use of condoms.
2006-11-05 00:28:19 · answer #5 · answered by Scabius Fretful 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
partly it is that AIDS is thought to have originated in Africa, and partly it is that it is an exceedingly detrimental area of the international with substantial social problems that would help unfold the disease (ie, prostitution, infidelity, drug use), and partly that so few of people who stay there have sufficient get right of entry to to preventative measures or wellness take care of people who're contaminated. In that ingredient, AIDS is so favourite in Africa partly for an identical motives TB and polio are making resurgences in Africa.
2016-12-28 13:31:37 · answer #6 · answered by gerda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course it is...how can it be religion ?? they dont have sex then ? so if I was a catholic I would get Aids ? the virus just goes on and on, each pregnancy means there is every chance the child will have it and of course the child will die young, aids virus is passed in all bodily fluids.
2006-11-05 03:10:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It is the second biggest cause. The main cause is the reuse of used needles for medical treatments because hospitals can not afford new or sterile needles.
2006-11-05 00:31:43 · answer #8 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. large parts of africa have been converted to catholicism. we all know that they don't allow contraception so yet again another of the worlds major problems comes down to religion
2006-11-05 00:24:50 · answer #9 · answered by dazballistic 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too much sex is the problem. No sex to spread disease! No more hungry mouths to feed.
2006-11-05 00:34:05 · answer #10 · answered by hongkongandy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋