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Originally Posted by kevmartin  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. |
I did some research about attitudes towards condoms in the Kisumu area, which has the highest density of people with HIV/AIDS in Kenya and (I think; it's been a while) East Africa. The prevailing attitudes towards condoms there are that they're a "white" thing because most of the people pushing condoms are white, and there's a lot of mistrust of white people over there.