And deaths will increase until African men drastically change their sexual activities and behaviour. Polygamy continues to be widely practiced. Besides all African men grow up in the belief that it is their birthright as men to have sex with any woman or girl they wish by any means including violence. But of course in order to realize and understand these facts you have to go to Africa, to rural areas and small towns where the majority live in traditional ways and where AIDS is now rampant. Polygamy of course assures the spread of AIDS besides African men consider any woman easy prey.
Young women have no protection, no help and no support.
Going to school is a huge hazard for girls who are raped both by their teachers and classmates quite aside from being easy prey for any man on the way to school. Sub-Saharan African countries exclude women from land ownership yet women till the fields and produce the food every man, woman and child needs to live. Women are treated as property with no voice in making decisions over their own lives. Women and children are the foremost victims of tribal warfare by men that rages throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa and is spreading continuously throughout the continent, killing and violating women and children. These male dominated African societies must change or AIDS will kill everyone.