I don't get how a combination of abstinence, condoms, and education isn't the best way to go. Why not use every tool at our disposal?
You're right. That is the absolute best way to go.
From what I hear and read, HIV/AIDS is spread primarily by reckless young men sleeping with mulitiple partners other than their wife, coming home, having sex with her and giving her the virus. The virus then is spread to their children either through mother to fetus or through breast milk. Women are often the victims of the disease and yet they are helpless to speak up against their husbands.
What you have going on here is a cultural phenomenon almost akin to cultural exploitation of women. What I would add to yours is more political and economic empowerment to women. So treatment for AIDS should go beyond sexual education etc... It should include increased micro loans to young women entrepenuers.
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