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Prevention is one argument for treatment. Community stability is another. Half of the infected in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and AIDS will leave millions of children parentless. Even if the drugs that are available can only preserve life by 10-15 years, those years are critical if communities are to survive. And beyond either of these arguments is a basic humanitarian obligation. With effective life-extending AIDS drugs available at prices below $1,000 a year, allowing millions to perish would be a monstrous sin of omission...
...cycle of disease and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa will never be broken unless the women there can claim autonomy over their own bodies. Their subservience and absolute powerlessness, as is true in many places in the world, only serve to condemn more adults and children to suffering and death. I'm extremely angry that the world decries the symptoms but is not solving the underlying problems. These African women experience human rights violations every day of their lives. LYNN HIGHLAND Morrison, Colo...
...while we are able to send in troops to enforce peace in warring nations, and we can provide relief for victims of nature's disasters, we are failing in the fight against the deadly disease of AIDS as it takes its toll all over the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The saying "It takes a village to raise a child" also applies in this case; it takes the global village to combat the devastating and destructive strength of the AIDS virus. As long as developed countries don't take measures to help the underdeveloped nations of the Third World...
...attitude. Take Malawi, where the government, which had denied the existence of the disease in the country, has launched an AIDS-awareness campaign. This type of action must eventually take place everywhere in Africa. The West can make it happen faster by declaring that the leaders of the sub-Saharan African countries are guilty of genocide of their own people, and by imposing sanctions right away. CHEM COHEN Vancouver...
What he likes best is dry sex. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, to please men, women sit in basins of bleach or saltwater or stuff astringent herbs, tobacco or fertilizer inside their vagina. The tissue of the lining swells up and natural lubricants dry out. The resulting dry sex is painful and dangerous for women. The drying agents suppress natural bacteria, and friction easily lacerates the tender walls of the vagina. Dry sex increases the risk of HIV infection for women, already two times as likely as men to contract the virus from a single encounter. The women, adds...