AIDS

Women and AIDS

More that half of people with HIV/AIDS are women and 98% are from developing countries. This is because of their role in society, and more importantly, they are biological vulnerability to the infection simply because they are 2 times more likely to get infected from unprotected sex.  This is due to women in developing countries having little or no voice when it comes to voicing opinions.  They also deal with childbearing and many children are born with HIV already. 
    This draws my attentions also from discussing it in class, but because I am a female. I never really would have guessed that women would have it more than men because I just assumed that it was equal. I think that it would be terrible to be pregnant and than be forced to have sex with someone who you thought could be + but since in Africa that women dont dare ask the man to get checked, you would than get HIV, and you baby would be infected as well. This is very sad because living in America, you wouldnt think that just walking down the street, if you got raped, 9 times out of 10 you would get HIV because it is not that large of a problem. But this should help open the eyes of females everywhere to fight for their human rights.