Funny Monkey Man

How can a medical problem become a cultural phenomenon and what is the relationship between both? Which started first and how can we deal with both?
In the case of HIV and AIDS its inception is debatable because we always blame the monkey. But the monkey is innocent: either we injected him with HIV or he was carrying it and transmitted it to a human being. Whatever the origins of HIV, the monkey is not responsible for our sexual and drug addictive behaviours, which are found to be the prime causes of HIV transmission.

Funny Monkey Man

Funny Monkey Man
Let us discuss new cultural attitudes of the highly developed society that we are living in at the moment. The UN is developing what we call the ABC approach: A stands for ‘Abstinence’, B for ‘Be Faithful’ and C for ‘Correct and Consistent Use of Condoms’. Human attitudes towards sexual behaviour speeded up the transmission of the virus from generation to generation and from one gender to another.
The highly civilised culture reflects free sex for all with a partner who is from the same or different gender, and includes sex workers. The sidelining of the family issue and religious values and the stigma affecting the non-sexually active members of society breaks all the barriers and boundaries that builds the family which can build a stable society. The freedom of sexual behaviour and the availability of it for pre-aged school children is raising another alarm: inexperienced young girls and boys might have been contracting HIV and transmitting it without knowing. Furthermore, the acceptance of same-sex sexual practices as a part of our life becomes’ another source of transmission for HIV.