One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.
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Mr. Lewis's book is a compilation of lectures he delivered as a private citizen during the past year. In his last chapter, he commends South Africa for devoting an ample share of its budget to AIDS problems and for its efforts to prevent new infections. But on treatment, it is lagging unconscionably, ... What troubles me, and troubles me deeply, is that the United Nations knows that something is terribly wrong, and yet we feel we cannot say anything about it.Stephen Lewis
I want to be cautious here, because Africa is a hugely complex continent and you can't really generalize about it.
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If the funds are not there you compromise treatment, care and prevention and compromising these means compromising millions of lives on the African continent.
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It is always the village women who drive these things.
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The situation of people living and dying with AIDS in parts of Africa is so desperate that even the most basic help will bring solace and hope.
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