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Ugly Customs: torn widows and girls with sleep

In most African countries, if a husband or wife died young girl dead father, local villagers will please to a man, with the widows or unmarried girls slept one night to exorcise the demons, these dedicated to accompany sleep industry man locals called clean.

However, these so-called clean who in fact was the dirtiest African Earth, they belong to the highest rate of AIDS infection, and of the blatantly will these terrible virus spread to at least hundreds of thousands of innocent women.

Some international aid organizations pointed out that, in Africa, every ten AIDS patients in the six are female, and most of them are a result of rape or similar clean, so ugly effect of customs.

In African countries, Malawi mchinji, 23-year-old young women James-Mbewe three years ago dead husband, her husband died a few hours, Mbewe, from people's sight, she neither mourning for her husband, nor does it accept the friends and relatives of comfort, but a man hid her sister's home.

Mbewe says that she wished that they never found her. But, unfortunately, her husband's family or her gamble, and eventually she escorted back. Mbewe most worried about a curtain had happened, village elders and her husband's family forced her sexual cleansing ritual, and threatens her that if she disobeys, everyone in the village died a man she's going to be a curse. Eventually, she and stand alone in her husband's cousin had sexual relations.

Mbewe recently in media interviews, said, the thought of my husband and I will cry.

He died, I have to accept such a thing, I am very afraid, I am very worried that they were infected with HIV, if I die, my children will not have to care.

Strange customs of the women suffered humiliation
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AIDS challenge harmful traditional practices

And Mbewe have the same experience of thousands of women in Africa.

This ancient African tradition has become responsible for HIV transmission.

According to a recent survey, Africa last year alone there are 230 million people being AIDS claimed the lives, while the total number of people with HIV/AIDS is more than 25 million people, of which 60% are women. In those still epidemic clean custom village, HIV spread faster. African aid staff was of the view that such an ugly customs must be completely abandoned.

But this tradition to be changed but very difficult.

Monica-na-Fu is southern Mongolia Ze area of Zambia's a nurse, she still local AIDS prevention a member of the Association. Na-rich told reporters that ends one has lasted so long thing sure is very difficult. We are born has accepted such education, if we advised them to resist such a thing, they would ask: why should we change?

James-Mbewe died three years ago, she was forced by her husband and her husband's cousin place of close to completion of the cleaning.

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Congo, Angola, Ghana, Senegal, C?te d'Ivoire and Nigeria and other countries of the village, follow the cleaning practices.

Cleaning stems from a belief that a woman is the soul of the dead husband, she is dirty, they must be clean, otherwise, you will not be able to attend a funeral or remarried.

For those not yet married girls, if they have lost both parents, must and cleaners and sleep.