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A 14 page paper which examines how the culture of Africa has contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS in that nation. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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or another. As such Africa does not stand as a pure culture that has developed on its own. It is a nation filled with numerous cultures, and perhaps all of
them have been touched, negatively in most cases, by the European people. As such any of the problems they experience today are deeply related to the Europeans and the manner
in which their individual cultures have evolved over the past century or two, or more. The following paper examines AIDS in Africa today. AIDS in Africa is a very
serious problem that seems to be hindered in moving in a positive direction through religious groups and the government itself. Africa is dealing with AIDS in a way that has
not been seen in any other country and this is largely due to its unique cultural position(s). For example, one of the biggest problems associated with AIDS in many parts
of Africa today involves the primitive belief of men and boys that if they have sex with a virgin they will be freed from the disease. This leads them to
rape even infants in an attempt to make sure they have an infant, and they essentially only succeed in infecting more and more with the virus. With this in mind
the following paper examines AIDS and Africa from a predominantly anthropological perspective, looking at their culture as a means of understanding how the virus is spreading, and how it has
spread. History of AIDS and Africa Over ten years ago one author, Flint (1994), stated that "Ten years after AIDS was
first recorded on the western shore of Lake Victoria, where Uganda and Tanzania meet, the epidemic is still sweeping through the population, increasingly taking a toll among the civil service
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