Who is Vulnerable to HIV and AIDS?
Everyone is vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. Social vulnerabilities and factors that drive the HIV epidemic are: poverty and social instability that result in family disruption, high levels of other sexually transmitted infections, the low status of women, orphaned and other vulnerable children, human rights violations, ineffective leadership during critical periods in the spread of HIV, low literacy, urbanization, imprisonment, migration and separation from family, lack of access to health care, and sexual violence. Sexual violence includes high incidence of forced sexual intercourse by male partners and poor negotiations on condom use.
