Question

Developing A Program For Prevention of STDS For this exercise, you need to play the role of an HIV/AIDS prevention specialist and help design a program for your culture to promote condom use. You need to answer the following questions: 1. What are some of the cultural barriers that might inhibit condom use? Are any of them similar to those in Mexico? 2. What are some measures that you would suggest to help people who are sexually active overcome these barriers?

Answer 1

1) Although North America is generally very open and progressive society but still like every culture it also has some shortcomings, one of them is the importance and influence of catholic church on a large population in this region, the Catholic Church prohibits the use of any contraceptive and abortion techniques to its followers, according to them by doing this, people are interfering with the nature’s way of working, but unfortunately STDs didn’t exist 2000 years back, STD is the grim reality of 21st century and to counter that contraceptive measures needs to be taken place on a large scale.
Secondly, there’s a widespread drug and substance abuse in the US and Mexico, and it has been seen that major population of drug users have STDs, it is spread through infected syringes and not using contraceptives during sexual contact.
Thirdly, children coming from dysfunctional families should be monitored and counseled from time to time since reports have shown that due to the mental trauma they face during their growing years affects them severely and to ease this pain they mostly turn towards drug use.

2) Me as an HIV/AIDS prevention specialist would design a program under which more and more focus would be emphasized upon teaching sex education to children from a tender age and making them aware about safe sex and STDs, additionally I’ll be making sure that the availability, accessibility, and affordability of contraceptive products is regulated by the government so that all sexually active use them and help stop spreading of STDs.