Fortunately life expectancies are steadily rising even in the African countries hardest hit by HIV. Eswatini for instance has over 25% of the population HIV positive, but the life expectancy is now up to around 60 years (it was around 40 two decades ago), only 5 years behind Pakistan.
That's not really true, as the article points out. PEPFAR has really done amazing work lowering the HIV mortality rate in developing countries. And a reminder of who may keep this program from being reauthorized: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/29/pepfar-aids...
Most of Africa is still a pretty terrible place to be gay, though.
There's also a fairly pervasive problem with sexual violence. Women tend to bear a lot of the pain.
I suspect you're trying to convey the preference for sex without a condom as misogynistic, except that women also prefer sex without a condom, it's a question of safety vs pleasure.
ChatGPT, is that you?
> A prophylactic is a medication or a treatment designed and used to prevent a disease from occurring. For example, prophylactic antibiotics may be used after a bout of rheumatic fever to prevent the subsequent development of Sydenham's chorea.
> A prophylactic is also a drug or device, particularly a condom, for preventing pregnancy.
In this case, dental treatments are used to prevent gum disease and tooth decay, for this reason, they are considered prophylactic treatments.
I guess we’ll just have to get used to this kind of thing.
But these days, people are lacing pot with fentanyl, so when Thurston Howell XIV smokes a joint at a Harvard frat party, he might well be dead, by the time he hits the floor.
To anyone that missed out, dying of AIDs is horrible. The West has the luxury of expensive drugs to treat it, but much of the developing world doesn't have that, and they are still dying like flies, with very little of the transmission happening through homosexual contact.
Africa has a big problem with that, and misogyny also plays into it, as the article mentions.
The thing that disgusted me the most, was the "Good riddance" attitude of many folks. I see echoes of that, in the Fentanylopocalypse, going on, now. As soon as Muffy and Biff start popping their clogs, though, it becomes a "national tragedy."