AIDS and Southern Asia

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how, with the HIV/AIDS crisis in southern Asia reaching the breaking point, governments in this region need to do more to fight against this deadly disease which is spreading rapidly. According to the paper, more action especially needs to be taken to protect vulnerable women and children in the form of providing more access to education and treatment for HIV/AIDS.

From the Paper:

"Women comprise a very substantial percentage of those infected with HIV/AIDS in India. "Currently 39% of HIV-positive Indians are women" (Morris, p. 1). One reasons for the escalating risk to women and children of contracting the AIDS virus in countries such as India, where it is overpopulated, there is limited access to good jobs, and a large number of people are in poverty, is that a substantial number of women are employed as sex workers. Fighting India's AIDS Apathy discusses the fact that thousands of women working in the sex industry in India have lost their lives to AIDS and the message is just now starting to get out that these women need to protect themselves. Because these women are at high risk of AIDS, they often pass it along to their male clients who in turn pass it to their wives and families."

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