At the same time, across campus in Wallace Hall, a handful of academics from around the world gathered to address the horrors of the AIDS crisis in Africa. In the world, 34.3 million people are infected with HIV or AIDS, Dozie said. Nearly 25 million of those live in sub-Saharan Africa. And 12 million are children, most girls. Families need food.
Girls go out in search of rice and exchange sex for food.
In-between office hours, married women engage in sex to earn money, he said. University students are told that variety is the spice of life. Young people leave rural areas for the city to find work, engage in sex with multiple partners and then return home to infect other villagers. Families don't teach their children about sex because of conservative values. Virginal women are expected to be ignorant about sexually transmitted disease prevention.