– Today HIV and AIDS cases are stillaa

– Today HIV and AIDS cases are still going up and there is no clear sign of the trend slowing down. Even in the age of information education for AIDS is still very far from making any dent in the effort of controlling the spread of the disease. Education for preventing the disease is especially having a hard time getting through countries that still have very deep rooted taboos in talking about sex which is one of the major components of AIDS education. Because it is culturally motivated the taboo stops the information drive from getting in deeper to the many people who are at risk of contracting the disease.

A Stanford study way back in 2006 has uncovered a flaw in the usual ways of educating high risk countries from the disease. Many children who have been interviewed in the study would easily know that AIDS can be passed on through blood, but refining that question to more complex ones like how would blood be infected with the virus and the children are at lost and are really not sure how that can actually happen.

The countries where talking about sex is a taboo also have laws that supports the very attitude that supports the sensitivity of that topic making it harder to develop an educational program that is appropriate and legal, at the same time clear enough for everybody to understand. This is the very hurdle that many concerned international organizations are seeing in countries that is really having a hard time stopping the rise of HIV/AIDS cases