AIDS & RAPE IN SOUTH AFRICA

It's sad to see how this disease is so rampaged around the world!

That there has not been a cure found for it as of yet. It has been suggested that a cure can be found, however its all about the money for the Pharmaceutical folks. Well here it is 25 years later its sad to see what the country had to resort to in order to protect its women from HIV & Rape.

SOUTH AFRICAN ANTI-RAPE CONDOM
Posted Apr 12th 2007 5:03PM by Angela BronnerFiled under: AIDS: 25 Years and Counting

The adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" has taken on new meaning. And with the RapeX anti-rape female condom, that pound is coming out of somebody's johnson. RapeX is a female condom that damages a rapist's penis after penetration with sharp microscopic barbs that hook into the skin. After the man is incapacitated, this ostensibly gives the woman time to escape.

The condom can only be surgically removed (thereby catching the perp redhanded), but supposedly will not cause major damage if removed immediately.

Invented by Sonette Ehlers, a blood technician at the South African Institute for Medical Research, RapeX has been in existence since August 2005 and is to be inserted and worn when a woman is "on a train, working late, going out on a date with someone you don't know too well, going to clubs, or in any situation that you might not feel comfortable or even just not sure."

Rape plays a significant role in the high prevalence of HIV among women in South Africa.
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