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About 28 Percent of South African School Girls Are HIV Positive

"Sugar Daddies" blamed

Reason Staff | 3.14.2013 5:40 PM

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Around 28 percent of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared to only 4 percent of boys, statistics from Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi revealed on Thursday, as he condemned the trend of young girls' involvement with "sugar daddies."

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  1. Jesus H. Christ   12 years ago

    You mean the "Sugar Daddies" who, infected with aids, rape young women under the delusion that sex with a virgin cures them of aids? Yeah, those young girls better quit that.

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