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This 10 page paper details the horrible attrocities in Africa and crimes being perpetuated against women which can be directly linked to the epidemic HIV outbreaks. The problems are outlined and examples given to support the claim, as well as quotes from the United Nations briefing on the issue. Solutions are offered as stated by International and African Women's groups. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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are just as staggering, and what is worse, most of these statistics are gender biased. Meaning, that because of their social status, the disintegration of family support structures, and lack
of economic support the fate of the woman in Africa is dire. In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV-infected women outnumber infected men by a ratio of more than six to five(CNN, 2002).
What all this seems to point out, then, is that to prevent the spread of HIV, the plight of the African woman needs to be addressed and rectified. There is
no better way, perhaps, to bring the problem to the intimate place that it needs to be, from the larger, generalized, de-personalized topic of HIV, to the more specific top
of how individually, this disease coupled with the tragic role of the African woman is leaving too many children without mothers. This, then, is the shared story, courtesy of Time
Magazine (2000,July). Caroline Nantamu was the mother of four children and she was HIV positive. She found out that she was positive from a routine test while she
was pregnant with her youngest child, Joseph. When she questioned her husband about it, he denied having the virus, yet refused to be tested. He died shortly after she was
diagnosed with what many assume was AIDS, though this was never confirmed. Faced with the certainty that Caroline would never see her children grown, she had to face the awful
fact, as so many African women did, that their children were going to alone in the world(Time, 2000). Her oldest son, Patrick , when she became ill, had to grow
up much faster than any child should be forced to. One has to ask, of course, where the rest of the extended family are in cases like this. Well,
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