Don't trust your man

[Jacaylbaro]

Don't trust your man, Indian minister tells women

 

 

NEW DELHI, July 16 (Reuters) - Indian men cannot be trusted in their sexual behaviour and are fuelling the country's HIV epidemic, a female government minister said on Monday, slamming the country's "hypocrisy" about sex.

 

Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury said Indian women should protect themselves from HIV/AIDS by keeping condoms as their straying husbands may bring the virus home after visiting other women.

 

"You cannot trust men or your husbands, with apologies to the men present here," Chowdhury told the inaugural meeting of the National Women Forum of Indian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+), attended by a few men.

 

"If you believe that men will be careful, then you can forget about protecting yourself."

 

India has around 2.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS -- the world's third highest caseload after South Africa and Nigeria -- with about 40 percent of those infected being women.

 

Activists and officials say many women have been infected after their husbands visited prostitutes. Most wives have little power to negotiate safe sex with their husbands in a largely patriarchal and conservative society, they add.

 

Chowdhury, one of India's most outspoken ministers, said this needed to change.

 

"We are so embarrassed to ask about condoms. Women need to get condoms to protect themselves, let the men be suspicious," she said.

 

"Men will not buy a condom when they come staggering home while drunk," she added, evoking laughter and giggles.

 

This month India launched a $2.8 billion plan to fight AIDS over five years, a more than fivefold jump in spending over the preceding plan, with a strong focus on condom promotion.

 

Under the plan, India aims to push usage from 2.1 billion condoms this year to 3.5 billion by 2012.

 

"We are hypocrites. We have a 1 billion population and don't want to talk about sex," Chowdhury told reporters, referring to the refusal of some state governments to implement sex education ostensibly for going against Indian culture.

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I think they wanted to arrest Richard Gere for kissing what's-her-name-again on the cheek.

[Ibn Sina a.k.a Avicenna]

I m surprised that Indian women have not yet learned to trust MAN. But then again having seen some Bollywood movies, i cant blame them really. They are Brain Washed by the desperate search of the infamous happiness nurtured only by True Love. Do u know that Indian Brides give dowry (money or material) to the family of the groom. Just imagine trying to convince a Somali woman to pay a Dowry.

[Ibn Sina a.k.a Avicenna]

I m surprised that Indian women have not yet learned to trust not MAN - any man. But then again having seen some Bollywood movies, i cant blame them really. They are Brain Washed by the desperate search of the infamous happiness nurtured only by True Love. Do u know that Indian Brides give dowry (money or material) to the family of the groom. Just imagine trying to convince a Somali woman to pay a Dowry.

[Crystal_Clear]

What about the somali men who eat qaat, taxi drivers ,truck drivers.Its every where. You just have to be carefull.!After hearing all these crazy story. One might have to request daily HIV test. what do you say eh?

[ElPunto]

^There are many deeply traumatized ladies in this forum

[Jacaylbaro]

I'm wondering if women are trusted in India ??

 

if they calling not to trust men, them why not women too ???

[Ariadne]

^^ then maybe the population crisis can be put at sway

[Ibn Sina a.k.a Avicenna]

Along with ingnorance about HIV/AIDS, I think code of Silence around SEX are one major element that controbute to the spread of HIV/AIDS. Does any thing that treating this subject as a taboo should end both in Somalia and else where. Alot of somali man are truck drivers in America and that means alot of time away from their wives. Should some one be concerned about the fact that this could leading to some thing that could destroy the somalis communities in America (MN and OH mainly) if we dont educate about TRUST. I guess every one is busy fighting about qabil... NEVER MIND.....