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HIV Myths Due to its association with behaviours that may be considered socially unacceptable by many people, HIV infection is widely stigmatised. As per the commitments made in the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS adopted in June 2006, countries around the world are currently in the process of revising their national AIDS plans and targets so as to significantly scale up their response to AIDS towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010. The human rights of women, young people and children must be protected if they are to avoid infection and withstand the impact of HIV. Cultural expectations often clash with sexual practice or behaviour – for example men who are away from home for long periods of time (eg the apartheid years in South Africa with men working away in the mines) using the sex industry while expecting women at home to be pure. Married women are then contracting HIV as they cannot expect their husbands to wear condoms. Sex with virgin cures AIDS myth – a flurry of articles about this in 2003/4: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/29/southafrica.aids and although the myth has now been widely debunked a website trawl shows people still asking that question as recently as 2007 and an article of that year shows it was still a problem in Zambia then http://www.thewip.net/contributors/2007/07/will_sex_with_a_virgin_cure_hi.html Information about the work of UNAIDS in tackling HIV and AIDS: See especially links with human rights, Resources available about the global AIDS epidemic: A handbook for parliamentarians on taking action against HIV OneLove – a unique campaign that began rolling out across southern Africa in October 2008. The UNAIDS-funded project aims to get people thinking and talking about their sexual behaviour and get them to realise that having multiple concurrent partners is potentially risky where HIV is concerned. A site that looks like a dating one to challenge stereotypes about people with HIV: and click here to see a newspaper article about it
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