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Gender alone does not make one more susceptible to contracting HIV. Neither does race or ethnicity or one’s sexual orientation. This is why commentary of “risk groups” is problematic in understanding and halting the spread of this particular virus. However, one significant environmental factor that does greatly increase one’s susceptibility to contracting this virus, as I have briefly mentioned throughout, is poverty.
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Trentaz, C.R.E.H. (2012). Two More Considerations: Poverty and “Social Sin”. In: Theology in the Age of Global AIDS & HIV. Palgrave Macmillan’s Content and Context in Theological Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272904_8
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