The other epidemic
Jacobson, J.L.
World Watch 5(3): 10-17
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0896-0615 PMID: 12317426 Document Number: 319610
Sexually transmitted diseases cause more problems for women, than AIDS causes for men, children, and women combined. Yet, the cure for this problem is simple contraceptive prevention. In developing countries women can be abandoned, abused, and even murdered for being infertile, yet 70% if female infertility is caused by the STDs they contracted from their husbands. Men are the agents that transmit STDs, not wives, not prostitutes. Men seeking commercial sex can infect a prostitute who then goes on to infect many other men who then infect their wives. In overview, STD rates are that same for men and women. STDs cause 750,000 deaths annually and 75 million illnesses among women yearly. By 2000, estimates are double.