Why swaziland aids

Why is the HIV virus spreading at such an alarming rate in Swaziland? Swaziland is on the border of Mozambique and South Africa. Truck drivers or migrant workers stopping for causal or paid sex transmit the disease. Many people sleep with a few partners at the same time. This could be transactional sex, to help pay for school fees or groceries. It might be to pay back a cheating partner; it might be due to loneliness when a partner spends months away on work contracts.

Swaziland has high unemployment. Then there is patriarchy and polygamy. There are many prevalent scenarios. Men feel it is their right to have multiple wives and yet often they are unable or unwilling to take care of them, and their children. Young girls become pregnant and have no support from their families or the man who made them pregnant. Women are discouraged from talking about sex culturally, so often there is sexual dissatisfaction in a marriage.

The spiral goes on and on. The report says young people are often pressured by their peers to acquire material possessions they cannot afford and so they become involved with an older person who provides these things in exchange for sex. Achievements, not success. Tackle the root causes of behavior and there might be a chance. Male involvement in HIV prevention and response.

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