Does male domination affect AIDS transmission to females?

Male Sexism and Domination and AIDS

Heterosexual males' sexist and misogynist beliefs and behavior toward females in patriarchal societies is a major cause of the spread of AIDS, and hence of increasing rates of femicide.(1) The passage on the spread of AIDS in the Caribbean (above) gave examples of common manifestation of male sexism and male domination that can have lethal consequences for females when their male partners have HIV/AIDS:

1. Males who refuse to wear condoms with their female partners despite engaging in sexual relations with others (male and/or female);

2. Males who engage in sex with others (male and/or female) but who fail to divulge their non-monogamous behavior to their female sex partners. This deprives these women of the opportunity to protect themselves from contracting HIV, to protect any children they may have from the same fate, and to save their own lives by refusing to engage in sexual relations with their partners.

Other examples include:

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