Poverty exposing girls to Aids

>The challenges faced by young girls at the onset of menstruation cause some to miss school for a number of days or drop out altogether. Unfortunately menstrual management is missing from the school agenda and the issue hardly captures the attention of policy makers, let alone the headlines.

Millions of girls in Tanzania are dis-empowered by the simple biological process of menstruation. Affordable and hygienic sanitary protection is not available to girls in many areas especially rural community. They resort to the use of unhygienic rags and cloths which puts them at the risk of infections.  Girls in Tanzania suffer from lack of adequate solutions to manage menstruation. Imported pads are prohibitively expensive for low-income families. Research conducted in Tanzania...

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Tecla, a young Zimbabwean girl, was sold for a few cows by her father to help alleviate the family’s poverty. She was raped by her husband, became pregnant and contracted HIV/Aids. Her baby died soon after birth. Tecla was only 12 years old.

Since the emergence of HIV/Aids more than two decades ago, there has been a number of initiatives aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus, which causes HIV/Aids. These efforts to contain new infections have taken different faces and approaches.

The Aids epidemic can brought under control by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations Aids agency.