South Africa , raped by her own uncle who tried to get rid of the deadly virus . The persistence of the myth may have to do with socioeconomic factors that also exacerbate the prevalence of AIDS /HIV . Thus , Bamber et al (1997 ) state that ``although STDs like syphilis and gonorrhea may not normally be directly related to poverty and malnutrition , they are certainly not unrelated (31 . Thus , the girl described by Meel (2003 ) lived in Transkei , one of the most poverty-stricken...











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