AIDS Relief

[felkor]

Lately, I've been reading through the book, The Aids Crisis: What We Can Do. It's been an interesting book, and has lent some insight into what the various issues are and how they're being dealt with

Comments

[kisekileia]

You're not trying to get the people at the companies to stop having sex, though. Denying the sex drive is a very, very difficult thing for many people to do. I think condoms are a more workable solution than abstinence, especially given the discouraging data about abstinence-only sex education in the U.S. and the cultural pressures that many women in particular face in Africa. I think that encouraging fathers to marry their daughters off at later ages and promoting accurate information about HIV (i.e. that sex with a virgin does NOT help anything) would probably do more to keep teen girls from getting infected than just telling teen girls not to have sex.

[felkor]

It's not like I'm saying that we should "just telling teen girls not to have sex

[kisekileia]

Okay, fair enough. As long as it's taught along with other information, and is taught in ways that are feasible to put into practice.

[t_jay]

I have to admit, I got a chuckle out of this comic, too. Politically correct is something I am not!