MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Sub-Saharan Africa, Gross Domestic Product
19 Dec 2016
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Hiv is aided and abetted by a few common factors: widespread poverty, massive migration, weak leadership, homophobia, tensions between church and state, and a dearth of research into patterns of transmission. Compounding the problems, hiv-infected people face pervasive stigma and discrimination, sometimes even from doctors and nurses. Caribbean, in contrast, largely has a heterosexual epidemic that"s fueled by the popularity of sex workers, who do a thriving business with both locals and tourists. The church, a major cultural force throughout the region, has pressured politicians to block condom promotion in several countries. Yet in other areas, priests and nuns, working side by side with aids researchers and activists, run novel efforts to thwart the epidemic. The garden-variety b is the main subtype in central and much of south america. But there is much more genetic diversity in the countries of the southern cone southern brazil, paraguay,
