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May 21, 2009

India’s social structure on HIV and AIDS

Filed under: Health, India — India website @ 7:21 pm

We have been discussing this for long now but the problem still remains the same. In India women are at a much higher risk of falling prey to HIV/AIDS than men because while having sex a woman’s body has more sections exposed to the HIV virus then men. Moreover there is a larger virus present in sperm than in vaginal secretions. In India the society is male dominated and women are depended on men financial and even emotionally thus allowing the men to control their lives and the right as to when, with whom and in what circumstance they will have sex. While in cities the sex workers are aware of the consequences and reasons for HIV/AIDS, women in villages or small towns who are sex workers are more ignorant and are falling prey to HIV/AIDS. At time in villages even housewives are forced to sell themselves to survive. Rapes also make women prey to HIV/AIDS. More over women buying condoms and saying no to sex is not taken in the right way in the Indian Society.

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