{"id":7668,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/we-cannot-live-without-sex-aids-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:53","slug":"we-cannot-live-without-sex-aids-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/we-cannot-live-without-sex-aids-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"We Cannot Live Without Sex &#8211; AIDS in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vivid account of plague of AIDS in strife-torn Uganda.  AIDS called &#8220;slim&#8221; due to its effects on the body.  Half of adults in one hospital tested positive.  A survey of truck stops showed about 70% of prostitutes and 33% of truck drivers infected.  50% of pregnant women.  Open sores due to syphilis may be reason heterosexuals are main target.  A Ugandan local government official, Badru Rashid, said, &#8220;You see, a man has a wife, and a woman has a husband.  But they also have many, many good friends.&#8221;  Another said, &#8220;We cannot live without sex.  What else is there, where is the enjoyment?  We might as well be dead.&#8221;  Hundreds of thousands may be infected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivid account of plague of AIDS in strife-torn Uganda. AIDS called &#8220;slim&#8221; due to its effects on the body. Half of adults in one hospital tested positive. A survey of truck stops showed about 70% of prostitutes and 33% of truck drivers infected. 50% of pregnant women. Open sores due to syphilis may be reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,23,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}