Ending Gender Inequality: A Key to Stopping HIV

Becky Kuhn, M.D. explains how ending gender inequality will be a key step in the fight to stop the spread of HIV. This video is freely downloadable from http://www.archive.org/details/aidsvideos_gender . Visit http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. Disabled accessibility: The transcript for this and many other AIDSvideos.org videos can be downloaded from http://aidsvideos.org/translate.shtml . [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate our videos into other languages! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to to learn how you can help!!! © Copyright 2007-2011 Global Lifeworks. All rights reserved. This work is licensed to be used for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.]

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News & Politics

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• hiv
• aids
• gender
• inequality
• equal
• rights
• abuse
• rape
• stigma
• discrimination
• infidelity
• marry
• sex
• culture

[umaralansari]

I see... Comments have to be APPROVED, eh?

Information control... Nice... :)

[AIDSvideos]

umaralansari - It's no secret that I've turned on YouTube's comment moderation feature for this channel. The AIDSvideos web site has a documented comment policy. Click the "Comment Policy" link for a description of the policy and the reasons for it.

[umaralansari]

Western researchers on AIDS in the 80s stated the virus has bio-engineered characteristics.

The likeliest reason for the wide and deep impact of AIDS in Africa and other places is AIDS-contaminated vaccination programs...

I would contend that if AIDS were not a bio-engineered population control vector directed at poor, populous nations, we would see the deepest impact of the virus in highly-promiscuous Western populations.

[AIDSvideos]

"Western researchers?" There's a stereotype for you (as well as a complete failure to cite sources in a verifiable way). Go to the AIDSvideos web site and click the links "Myths" and FAQ." Those pages debunk claims that HIV is man-made. Briefly, it's been found in stored blood samples dating to 1959, genetic studies indicate HIV-1 originated in humans around 1931, and at that time, technology didn't exist to bioengineer a virus.

[umaralansari]

Pity this video concentrates on exploitation of women in "developing" nations, so-called...

As if male faithfulness in 'developed' nations is some kind of standard to go by... That old "promiscuous negro" racial propaganda canard... Allied to the "oppressed woman" canard... The abuse of women in Western 'developed' nations is endemic, going by statistics. Women here are routinely treated as sex objects regardless of all the spin.

[AIDSvideos]

umaralansari - This video neither states nor implies that promiscuity is correlated with any racial or ethnic group, nor does it use the offensive racial term you did, nor does it stereotype any racial or ethnic group. If there's anyone who seems in the grip of racial stereotypes, it's you, who see them in a video where they are not in fact present. Abuse of women is a problem everywhere, but in general, higher per capita income and democratic rule correlate with a lower rate.

[Sismiques]

@aidskilla

It is more bias against males.

[jdk209]

Men in India go to sex workers because they have to wait to get married. Young women get married sooner. So there is a large population of young single men who can't find a woman to be with so they go to sex workers. How is that problem going to be solved?

[menderfire9]

One thing not mentioned is how poor nutrition, malnutrition and a poor immune system greatly contributes to acquiring HIV through sex. The general public does not understand this because the industrialized system does not want us to know and except these facts. HIV is not only due to sexual exploitation but nutritional compromises and exploitation too. People of all incomes eat so poorly they are at increasing risk of all diseases. The poor are at highest risk, including STDS & AIV & AIDS

[Janvierireland]

They cant just leave because they are poor and also to learn how gender inequality is related to the spread of hiv/aids listen to this video.This situation is mostly in the developing world.