In response to Dipstick's comment from a few posts back that

This is, quite possibly, the most ignorant comment I've ever read on the board. You obviously have never studied this crises, nor educated yourself before you make a comment about it.

The reason that AIDS is wiping out Africans at an alarming rate is because to suggest to African men that they should wear a condom for safety is a complete affront to their cultural heritage. In a farming community, the more children that you have, the more workers you have on the farm. Using a condom, to them, is one of the most vile things you could do.

So educating Africans about protecting themselves from the AIDS virus is incredibly difficult. Add to that the fact that many of the Africans are dying in their thirties and fourties, and you've got an agricultural crises of biblical proportions. Knowledge passed down for thousands of years, from generation to generation is being wiped out, because there's no "older generation" left to teach the children.

So, please, before you start blaming African women, educate yourself Dipstick. Then we'll talk.