Critical Analysis of an Article on HIV/AIDS Prevention Issues for Women

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Introduction:
This review is about the main points, gaps and critique of the article. The main information provided in this review will help you gain new insight on women HIV/AIDS prevention issues. As a society, we focus on individualist ways of prevention. We try to enforce and educate individuals on HIV/AIDS prevention on an individual level but it’s more complex because women have a lower status compared to men, this disempowerment can lead to violence in relationships with men therefore, negotiating condom use for women can lead to violence. The angle this review will be focusing on is how these gender roles affect women’s HIV sexual risk behaviours and behaviour reduction.
Article Structure:
The article was organized very well because there were headings to help understand the content material. The structure of the article enabled me to understand the main points through repetition of important issues.
What you should notice throughout the article is that the author has a very strong view on the women’s side of HIV/AIDS prevention, she defends women and does not put them at fault in these situations, and this could make her seem like a feminist.
Article Summary (6 points):
The main reason why this article was written was because there was a lack of attention on risk behaviours regarding women’s HIV prevention in the US. Since women have not been paid attention to, they are more susceptible then men in contracting HIV/AIDS. We need to design a risk reduction program that pays more attention to women.
The author mentions a few key take away main points. First of all, solutions must address the underlying causes of HIV risk among women. This mainly includes poverty and disempowerment because women in lower living standar...

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... make women more susceptible to HIV/AIDS and other sexual diseases. This injustice needs to be solved on a global context.
Conclusion:
In my opinion, I think this is an extremely important issue to address because many women on a global context are vulnerable and susceptible to HIV/AIDS. The long history of male attitudes on threats and violence needs to be analyzed in order to implement prevention plans that work.
The article has changed my knowledge and opinion about HIV prevention because it provided me with a multidimensional view on the gender roles that affect society that have been ignored in many prevention programs. We must consider the role of men in women’s risk especially the beliefs, values, norms, attitudes towards women and the power in males in relationships. The article provided a new insight on how to implement new prevention programs for women.

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