Blaming others: prejudice, race and worldwide AIDS

ABSTRACT

AIDS is overwhelmingly a sexually transmitted disease, although the virus which causes it can also be transferred through contaminated blood and from mother to child before, during, and possibly after birth. We have as yet no vaccine to protect ourselves against HIV, and there is no effective treatment for the illness once it develops. Although some therapies can slow down the process, people with AIDS usually die within a few years of developing sypmtoms... To understand how HIV spreads we need to know much more about sexual habits in different countries and communities. And the best way to slow the momentum of the virus in the community is sex education persuading people to change the sexual habits which place them at risk (AU)