Proof that poverty does not cause AIDS

[AdLo]

http://www.iolhivaids.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3937914

HIV and Aids advocates and some researchers for many years have said that Africa's high poverty rates are contributing to the spread of HIV on the continent because poor medical care and hunger place people at an increased risk of the virus, while poverty makes some women resort to commercial sex work.

However, Zimbabwe's "experience shows that the connection between Aids and economics is not nearly so straightforward," according to the Post.

While Zimbabwe has "made strides against HIV during eight years of steep recession," wealthier neighbouring countries, such as Botswana and South Africa, have "struggled to curb" new cases "despite much higher levels of development and massive spending on the disease," the Post reports.
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Godrey Woelk, an epidemiologist at the University of Zimbabwe, said, "Having a lot of girlfriends or having 'small houses', you've got to have a degree of disposable income."

So Mbeki is wrong. Poverty does not cause AIDS, disposable income does.

 

[lsuacner]

Morality also plays a role. In a developed country conservative morals face greater opposition.

 

[Koos Custodiet]

While Zimbabwe has "made strides against HIV during eight years of steep recession," wealthier neighbouring countries, such as Botswana and South Africa, have "struggled to curb" new cases "despite much higher levels of development and massive spending on the disease," the Post reports.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314148&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/

Their graves sit at the beginning of a narrow road running through the newest part of the cemetery. Its length is a chronicle of Zimbabwe's surging death rate and plummeting life expectancy as political crisis and economic collapse have fused with rampant HIV/Aids to transform the graveyards from resting places for the elderly at the end of a full life to the premature final stop for a generation barely out of youth.

 

[Moederloos]

Based on the thread title alone, I expected this to be about Paris Hilton.
I am indeed a sad individual at times ;-)