In South Africa, there are close to six million people that are living with HIV (more than any other country in the world); every single day in this country, close to one thousand people succumb to the disease. Despite the staggering statistics, for the past decade, the government was in blatant denial that the disease [...]

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In the quest to keep HIV from spreading at the extremely rapid rate it has been in South Africa, the 2007 Children’s Act was brought forth. This act allowed young children ages 12 and up the right to have access to all types of information concerning reproductive health. The most controversial aspect of this act, [...]

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In the United States, HIV prevention usually involves one of two mindsets. There are those who support educating the population on consistent and correct condom use in order to prevent the transmission of the disease while others urge the promotion of abstaining from sex until marriage. While these strategies tend to have some success in [...]

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