Life of Bob

I learned that in most cases it is very hard to contact your past sexual partners because in most cases the time from infection to diagnosis is over several years so many people loose contact information. I think that his experience is very similar to many individuals in those societies where sexual contact must be mutual and societies where the individuals are promiscuous. In patriarchal societies the women do not really have a choice if they have sex so many women never get tested because they already assume they have it or are too afraid of the results. In rural areas heterosexual sexual activity is the main route of exposure. This is due to the fact that condom use is not practiced regularly. Also most people in rural areas tend to be very religious so instead of the usual intercourse many younger people participate in anal intercourse and over forms of sexual contact where pregnancy is not going to be an outcome so forms of protection are seen as not needed. I think that here are two major obstacles to treat rural areas; the first being education. Typically the people in rural areas are not as well educated and it takes some time for new information to reach them. Also it has to do with logistics; right now most of the programs are looking at how to benefit the most people so they tend to focus on dense populations because that is where the information will be accessible to more people.