May 6, 2008  Project Evaluation: Blog 9  I'm going to be
evaluating the Millenium goal number six and this group was from
our section on friday section 9 and their topic that they were
working on was HIVS/AIDS. They realm of response was to combat
HIVS/AIDS in South Africa and the reason they chose this area
was because it was one of the highest percentages of infectants.
Some of the contributing factors that this group discovered that
causes or spreads AIDS is: rape, cultural/ ethnic barriers,
political opposition, conspiracy theories, and social stigma. In
the culture of South Africa polygamy is being practiced and
that's not good because then the disease can spread even more.
Also, they have a tradition where if a husband dies the wife is
suppose to have sex with the dead husband and this is called
sexual cleansing. Also, they have traditional healing and this
is where if someone is sick they go to the medicine doctor and
all that person does is cuts little cuts in the persons back to
release the sickness.