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Originally Posted by Rasczak  The push should be prevention. You don't have to treat someone who never gets the disease. That's where money would save the most lives, but that requires people over there having to change. Just passing out rubbers and suggesting they wear them isn't doing the trick. |
I agree - but prevention is a very hard thing to do with sexually transmitted diseases. In the west there is also resistance to using condoms to this day, and as I understand it, the resistance is even greater in poorer countries. Why that is so is a good question - perhaps because when your life is so sad due to extreme poverty, the threat of possible disease and/or death in the future becomes less important to one (just guessing on that of course). Perhaps overall economic aid can also be seen as an STD prevention technique, by improving the lives of people.
And there also still remains the question of treatment for those already infected - even if its only 60% of a gazillion people, that's still an awful lot of people. Treatment and Prevention always work best hand-in-hand.