How can the spread of AIDS in africa can be slowed?!


Question: Education is a start, but that's not going to happen. Instead we are sending drugs to them that prolong the lives of the infected and allow them to go around infecting others.

The reason ebola hasn't taken over the world is that it burns itself out very quickly. Those who are stricken with it die before they can spread it to the rest of the world.


Answers: Education is a start, but that's not going to happen. Instead we are sending drugs to them that prolong the lives of the infected and allow them to go around infecting others.

The reason ebola hasn't taken over the world is that it burns itself out very quickly. Those who are stricken with it die before they can spread it to the rest of the world.

People need to start protecting themselves when they have sex.

If people in Africa learn about it, and how it is spread. Such as needles, sex, etc. Then they'll take better precautions.

microbicides (or a vaccine which is likely in the far future)

all other ways require large social changes to modify human behavior.

Microbicides, even if only partially effective can reduce the spead exponentially because each infection that is prevented not only helps that person, but reduces the probabilty of infection for anyone that person has sex with as well.

There are many diseases as deadly as aids, and many diseases far more contagious (flu). However there aren't any disease that have a combined effected nearly as bad. reducing the contagious factor with microbicides will stop many deaths and will likely not be nearly as difficult as condom to get people to too use.

That is a excellent question. the number one problem in Africa is that fact that most of the population do not know how HIV/AIDS is contracted. The vicious cycle of poverty is responsible for this.

children grow up in poverty, leave school early or not go to school at all to work at a very young age. this denies them of basic education. health promotion activities do not work in Africa because of the simple fact that around 98% of the worlds population who are illiterate live in developing places like Africa.

Education will stop the spread of AIDS not money.

It would really help if all the religious groups over there would educate them about safe sex instead of preaching to them about abstinence (which is not going to happen and a lot of women have no choice about saying no). It would also help if these religious groups stopped pressuring western governments (particularly the American government) into not teaching about or providing condoms for these people.
It would also help if some of the African leaders set an example regarding either being monogamous or practising safe sex.





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