According to the news, more than 70% of women around the world have been forced to have sex without unprotection. Moreover, they found that women dare not to negotiate their partners to have safe sex because they experienced violence. Although UNAids tries to against the violence in women and help them solve this problem, HIV services they provided haven't responded the real needs of women and girls since this epidemic began 30 years ago.
After I read this article, I have a few questions in my mind. Is this a problem that many organizations around the world including governments of each country try solving it? How much effort do they put to solve it when comparing with other problems such as counterfeit products or drug? Is this problem less important than others? In my opinion, this is a serious problem that should be solved long time ago because it is not only a problem about disease, but it also reflects the problem of violence that a lot of women around the world have faced for a long time. Can you imagine how these women torture if they have to live with suffering all the rest of their whole life? What is the main problem of this? Men or women? Should men do something to fix it?
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References
UN warns HIV/Aids leading cause of death in women. (2010, March 3). The BBC News. Retrieved March 7, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8546655.stm
I agree with you. I think that this news reflects both HIV's and violent problem, and I think that the main problem is that women do not get the right to oppose as much as men because of tradition, but I think that tradition is going to improve; women are going to have more right and dare to oppose. Maybe in the next ten years, women will have the right as men have.
ReplyDeleteI think it would help to abolish all sex references in legal codes, so that the law never gives men any legal right a woman does not have. Or at least not unless there is a relevant factor to consider. This would probably cause a lot of opposition: it would upset all those who think that there are religious bases for treating men and women differently, but such religious beliefs should never be allowed to influence the law.
ReplyDeleteAnother legal change that would help a lot would be the legalisation of prostitution so that it was easy for female (also male) prostitutes to require that customers practice safe sex. When prostitution is legal, those working in that industry can also file legal complaints when they are abused.
I agree with Ann that an old tradition in some countries about unequal right between men and women are going to change into the better way and women in new genaration will dare to oppose to protect their right. And I hope this issue will be improved recently.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Peter's idea in some parts. I agree that legalisation of prostitution can alleviate this problem because the prostitutes can reject to have unprotected sex or they can file the cutomers who try to abuse them. However, what should the government do to help women facing the violent in their families? Do the government need to launch another law to help them? Is it easier to create the matter of social value to men instead of launching the new law to control it?