Brazil Soldiers Bring AIDS and STDs to Yanomami Indians
AIDS and other sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) are spreading among tribal peoples, including the Brazilian Yanomami Indians, due to increased contact with outsiders and dramatic social change, says Survival International, an international organization that defends tribal peoples, in its new report, "Progress can kill."
Yanomami Indians in Brazil report that soldiers stationed on their land have brought gonorrhea and syphilis to their communities through sexual exploitation of tribal women
They fear that the soldiers will also transmit AIDS.
West Papua has a rate of AIDS at least 15 times the rate in Indonesia as a whole
The province is home to 312 tribes who have suffered extreme oppression and violence since the Indonesian occupation in the 1960s
Many tribespeople even believe that the Indonesian military is introducing HIV/AIDS deliberately in order to wipe them out
AIDS was virtually unknown among the Bushmen
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