{"id":28763,"date":"2018-10-24T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28763"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:12:46","slug":"womens-rights-and-personal-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/womens-rights-and-personal-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s rights and personal choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/womens-rights-and-personal-choice\/article24196592.ece?utm_source=tp-opinion&amp;utm_medium=sticky_footer\">Women\u2019s rights and personal choice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The American economic review in its research paper \u201cLegal origins and female HIV\u201d has highlighted how Africa legal system has influence HIV prevalence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>HIV a virus that is transmitted largely through unprotected sex and which damages the immune system.<\/li>\n<li>The research paper has compare the Influence of common law and civil law on African woman.<\/li>\n<li>Finding of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>About 80% of women in the world who are infected with HIV infections are in Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Africa is the only geographical area where the number of HIV infection in more in women than men.<\/li>\n<li>The prevalence of HIV infections is not uniform across Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The report finds that HIV prevalence among African women is higher in countries that had their legal origins in the common law rather than under the civil law.<\/li>\n<li>Female HIV infection rates are 25% higher in common law countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Reason for increasing HIV in common law:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The common law does not provide property rights to African women after marriage.<\/li>\n<li>The common law has undermines the bargaining power of women within their families.<\/li>\n<li>The bargaining power in turn has increases the chances of them being forced to engage in unprotected sex with their husbands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>The civil Laws has reduce HIV cases as it provide for:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Women with better marital property rights.<\/li>\n<li>Offered the right to joint ownership of all property under marriage.<\/li>\n<li>Civil law offered explicit protection in the case of a divorce.<\/li>\n<li>Better bargaining power within their households.<\/li>\n<li>Provide better and increased chances of negotiating safe sex.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s rights and personal choice News: The American economic review in its research paper \u201cLegal origins and female HIV\u201d has highlighted how Africa legal system has influence HIV prevalence. Important Facts: HIV a virus that is transmitted largely through unprotected sex and which damages the immune system. The research paper has compare the Influence of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/womens-rights-and-personal-choice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Women\u2019s rights and personal choice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704885125},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}