Why is there an AIDS crisis and what can be done about?

Answer 1

I would say that AIDs is such a crisis due to lack of sexual education, lack of caring, or the wrong kind of both. The countries that are being affected most by AIDs are in sub-saharan Africa. The issues there are many, it is also the area of the world with the most rapes, I will not go into why rape is so rampant there, but just to say that with a high populous of people with AIDs an also large number of AIDs can only further inflame of the problem of spreading (I don't imagine rapists where condoms). Lack of sexual education is also harming the area although that is getting better and the government offers free condoms to anyone that wants them, no questions asked. There in lies another problem, religion. The area was swarmed with Catholic missionaries and so today the most common religion in sub-saharan Africa is Christianity, in the form of Catholicism. Catholic beliefs are very strongly against the use of condoms and have spent millions of dollars to campaign against the use of condoms in Africa, even the parts hit hardest with the AIDs epidemic. The pope has actively spoken out against condom use in Africa and people would rather have AIDs than go to hell. The third issue I would like to speak of is stigma. There is a terrible social stigma in Africa related to those that have AIDs. This cause many of the people that have it to lie for shame and tell others that the are fine and do not admit to having AIDs.