{"id":1530,"date":"2004-05-19T08:04:55","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/05\/19\/\/"},"modified":"2004-05-19T08:04:55","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T12:04:55","slug":"1530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/1530\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iafrica.com\/aidswise\/features\/321507.htm\" rel=\"external\">It&#8217;s risky being a South African woman<\/a><\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/aids-ribbon.jpg\" alt=\"beaded aids ribbon\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>Young South African women are bearing the brunt of the HIV\/Aids epidemic with nearly one in four women aged 20 to 24 testing HIV positive compared to one in 14 men of the same age, a new study has revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Youth reported easy access to condoms and this was borne out in the study that showed significant use of condoms among young people. While 33 percent of youth who had sex in the past 12 months reported always using a condom, 67 percent were still not using condoms consistently.<\/p>\n<p>Denial and the failure to internalise risk were partly to blame, the country&#8217;s &#8216;culture of death&#8217; associated with violent crime, high road accident rates and the cheap cost of life, contributed to this nihilistic attitude. Young people who were surrounded by death felt that taking a risk by having unprotected sex, &#8216;far outweighed the benefit&#8217; of preventing something that might occur in 10 to 15 years time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s risky being a South African womanYoung South African women are bearing the brunt of the HIV\/Aids epidemic with nearly one in four women aged 20 to 24 testing HIV positive compared to one in 14 men of the same age, a new study has revealed. &#8220;Youth reported easy access to condoms and this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}