The woman, in the prime of her being, was forced to have sex with the man in order to retrieve water for her children, recalled Geeta Rao Gupta at the "The New Face of AIDS" discussion held in Edgartown last week.
The man, Gupta said, wanted to claim what he believed was a right and capitalize on the vulnerability of the desperate woman. Though the two parties did not have HIV, the male-dominance dynamic, played out in countries across the globe, is one factor resulting in the spread of AIDS.
"Economic and social dependency on men is a major driver of the epidemic," Gupta said in a phone interview four days after speaking on the panel that addressed the socio-economic effects of AIDS.read more
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