Poverty the main culprit in Africa

Fri - 24/07/09

Thank you very much for this website and i hope our contributions will be honoured. I have worked on HIV/AIDS projects for more than ten years i think we should focus more on the preventation side than treatment inorder to achieve our objectives. Many people are indulging in unsafe sexual behaviour because of poverty according to my assessment poverty is the key issue driving people to have mainly unprotected sex because they want to earn a living. As UN can you support projects aiming at eradicating poverty and a follow up should be done to ensure that projects are practically implemented instead of basing them on reports. There is very minimal support on psychosocial programmes for orphans and vulnerable children.

- Mary

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Poverty is a HUGE Challenge

by Elizabeth Mataka on Fri, 24/07/2009 - 09:32

The main problem is that although Poverty is one word - is has many examples and is very diverse in the kinds of suffering that follows it. I agree that practical implementation of projects is needed instead of lengthy reports that rarely come to to any fruition.

The problem with your statement 'eradicating poverty' is that it is something that has defined development work from its very beginning. We are all still learning exactly 'how to eradicate poverty'. Poverty's diversity is a major challenge as the past has taught us the disastrous effects that 'one size fits all' solutions can cause.

Therefore, I must ask you - what are the specific causes of poverty in your setting and how can I use my role in advocacy to tackle these causes that you have rightly pointed out are partly the reason for scale of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Africa?

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