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Aids in Africa

The father of your children works a few hundred miles away and you only see him a few times a year, all the while he sleeps around. Every act in sexual intercourse is a risk. As you go to your place of work you see teenagers tending to their households because their parents have already died and they are left with nothing. At the next house, the wife is renowned a whore for asking her husband to use a condom and she’s thrown into the streets after vicious beatings. On the side of the pathway lies an elderly man in complete illness where he is just frowned upon and given nothing to mend his sorrow. All the people that you work with are desperately in need of doctors and clinics, but like the rest of the population, have no money or control. One third of the people that you work with are fatally ill and once the identity of their illness is realized to society, they are completely shunned by everyone. The political people and leaders of high-class look on as if nothing is wrong....

Posted by: William Katz

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