“Women now account for half of the 33 million people living with HIV around the world. In sub-Saharan Africa, home to two-thirds of the world’s people living with HIV, women are even harder hit, making up 60 percent of those infected. Not only are women biologically more susceptible than men to HIV, many behavioral and social factors play into women’s vulnerability.

If a young woman is uninfected with HIV at the time of her marriage, traditional wisdom says that she has avoided the disease altogether. More and more, however, research shows that marriage is not enough to protect people from HIV, either women or men.

This documentary, filmed in Kenya, explores some of the complex realities of married women, and how the challenges of HIV prevention in this group defy simple solutions. The film urges a broader, integrated approach to preventing HIV, which includes confronting damaging social norms that put all people – men and women alike—at risk”

Read more at The Silent PArtner: HIV in Marriage.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.