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Sexual Violence, Rape, and Child Abuse Can Make Vulnerable Of Women for
HIV/AIDS
The global HIV/AIDS
pandemic signify one of the most pressing threats known to mankind. Globally
more then 17.7 million women are now living with HIV/AIDS. This is above 50%
of infections worldwide. In some parts of
Africa around 60% of
people who are HIV positive are women. Last year alone 1 million HIV
positive women died of AIDS-related illness.
Adolescents girls are
at fastidious vulnerable in HIV/AIDS. In some of the poor countries in
world, girls, aged 15 to 19, are infected at rates as much as seven times
higher than boys; in some regions, girls are infected at twice the rate. The
disproportionate impact is related to widespread sexual abuse and gender
discrimination against girls, making it extremely difficult for them to
protect themselves. Females are also biologically more vulnerable to HIV/STIs
transmission because of the immaturity of their reproductive tracts and the
much higher rates of HIV/AIDS transmission from males to females.
It is widely known
that some older men who are regular client of sex industry, often seeking
young girls or virgin girls, some time they offer huge money for this, so
young girls are also trafficked for this. In many AIDS-affected countries,
including Thailand, men are seeking younger and younger sex workers in the
hope that they will be HIV-negative, but older men are presumed to be HIV
negative, mostly in some of the worst affected countries in Africa. This
phenomenon, particularly in the poorest countries, often goes beyond the
stereotypical man who is much older or much richer; it can involve anybody
who has more economic power than a adolescent girl and has no scruples about
exploiting such badly poor girls. Openly, the practice feeds on
circumstances of poverty and economic dependency and puts adolescent girls
at danger of infection from older men or those who have had many sexual
partners and are more likely to be infected. Adolescent girls may be bound
to engage in sex because they lack livelihood options or to help their
families, to feed and provide better their charge. In several cases, this
amounts to survival sex and occurs when diluted adolescent girls find no
opportunity or economic alternatives.
All over the world it
also rising by anti social circumstance, such as sexual violence, rape, and
child abuse,
South Africa has the highest per-capita rate of reported rapes in the world.
but laws fail to punish them in maximum time. Cause of previous experience
other; time & cost for police case and child or girls sensitivity, risk
bringing shame and stigma, their family think safe would be hidden real
fact. To respond to the double challenge of HIV/AIDS and violence against
women
It is susceptive in
some region in
Brazil, India etc, marriage itself may be a vulnerable factor, and female
who believe they are in monogamous relationships might be at risk of
infection. In many regions, a double standard exists whereby men are often
permitted, if not encouraged, to connect in sex outside the regular marriage
or relationship while women are emphatically condemned for it. Young women
in Asia,
for example, are being infected in increasing numbers by their husbands, who
engage in extramarital/commercial sex, yet these women have little power to
insist on safer sex from their husbands. Further, their risk of HIV
infection seriously increases when other STIs are present. This tendency is
also visible in parts of
America and Africa.
Definitely poverty is
one of the most significant factors in the spread of HIV/AIDS of women.
Moreover, the social and cultural factors play an equally unfaithful role.
In particular, gender discrimination and low esteem of women are prime
reasons. From her birth, the girl child is discriminated against in all
spheres of life, be it subsistence, nutrition, health, education and
love/affection. Young women are grown up always treated as a substandard
member of the family, community and society. This reasons females to hold
themselves in low self-respect and makes them weak, frightened, vulnerable
and powerless to resist the might of patriarchy.
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