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HIV

Introduction

The AIDS epidemic takes on different prevalence patterns and epidemiological profiles in different parts of the world. The continent of Africa, particularly the southern region, continues to have the highest HIV/AIDS incidence and prevalence rates globally. Many of the highly industrialized countries of the Western Hemisphere, including the United States, report declining epidemiological trends in AIDS overall, but their incidence rates in certain subpopulations are rising. In the Eastern Hemisphere, countries that once formed the Soviet Union face a young and rapidly growing epidemic. Latin America and the Caribbean exhibit evidence of a growing threat, while East and Southeast Asia, which include countries such as China and India that contain some of the world's largest populations, may someday outstrip Africa in terms of their absolute number of cases if their current escalating rates of HIV/AIDS go unchecked (Cleary, Devanter, Rogers, 57). Not all countries, however, are experiencing such acceleration. Brazil, Thailand, and Uganda serve as role models for others in successfully reducing previously rising transmission rates.

At present, the cost of antiretroviral therapy in the least developed countries ranges from US$300 to US$1,200 per annum, a sum that places it out of reach for many. Currently, 6 million people infected with HIV in the developing world are estimated to need access to antiretroviral therapy to survive. Only 400,000 have this access. A number of global programs are either poised for or actively engaged in facilitating or providing treatment, but the demand throughout the world far exceeds the numbers to be served.. After analyzing a community effort to regulate men's sexuality, I propose that HIV avoidance schemes should aim more on endogenous types of risk decrease while simultaneously speaking to functional components that help possibilities for men's extramarital sex.

Discussion

As a risk assembly for HIV, wed women illustrate the limitations of customary public wellbeing forms that aim mainly on an individual's dodgy behaviors without completely accounting for lesser risk affiliated with a partner's behaviors and the communal and financial contexts that leverage an individual's sexy decision-making (Rhodes, Malotte, 36). To realize marital HIV risk, it is significant to proceed from considerations of dodgy behaviors in the direction of an investigation of how dodgy positions form possibilities for men's extramarital sex, which makes both men and women susceptible to infection.

Using months of ethnographic study in Iguana District of southeastern Uganda, I analyze aspects of the broader context that helps or endows men's extramarital ...