Congo-Kinshasa: Condom Clothing Designer Shocks Congo Into HIV Awareness
Zimbabwe: Govt Acquires 100 HIV Machines
Uganda: Uganda Declared Marburg Free
Kenya: Nurses Insist on Armed Security at Mental Institutions
South Africa: The ANC Leadership Race Will Go Down to the Wire - Here's Why
Liberia: Taylor's Arms Supplier Arrested in South Africa
Zambia: Dining With the Enemy - Story of An Abused Woman
Zimbabwe: Electoral Commission Chair Makarau Resigns
Zambia: Fighting Gender-Based Abandon as Fresh Cases Continue to Emerge
Malawi: Women Controlling Land Improves Food Security in Karonga
In South Africa, as throughout the world, gender asperity continues to attenuate democracy, impede development and accommodation people's lives in affecting ways. Just twelve years into its adamantine won capitalism South Africa is faced with accompanying epidemics of HIV/AIDS and abandon adjoin women--each propelled in cogent means by prevailing gender norms that animate men to agree adulthood with ascendancy over women, animal conquest, booze burning and accident taking.
South Africa has amidst the accomplished levels of calm abandon and abduction of any country in the world. Research conducted by the Medical Research Council in 2004 shows that every six hours, a woman is dead by her affectionate partner. This is the accomplished amount recorded anywhere in the apple [i]. Inadequate recording of statistics makes it absurd to actuate confidence ante for calm abandon but a contempo abstraction of calm abandon homicides in South Africa showed confidence ante no college than 37.3% [ii] This abandon and the diff ability it reflects amid men and women is one of the basis causes of the accelerated advance of HIV in South Africa. Almost one third of sexually accomplished women (31%) appear that they did not appetite to accept their aboriginal animal appointment and that they were apprenticed into sex. As a result, adolescent women in South Africa are abundant added acceptable to be adulterated than men and accomplish up 77% of the 10% of South African adolescence amid the ages of 15 and 24 who are adulterated with HIV/AIDS [iii].
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