Can high HIV/AIDS prevalence be blamed on ignorance?

It is quite surprising that HIV/AIDS prevalence does not get any better despite national and international effort to alleviate it. For uneducated people this can plausibly be blamed on lack of information. This claim is particularly applicable for isolated members of the society with limited access to information. Such communities do not benefit from media or word of mouth campaigns by several organisations. For instance, in Lesotho, there are people who live in mountain areas which are generally inaccessible. Thus, those people are still very oblivious and dissident about HIV/AIDS due to lack of information. Therefore, for them it is quite reasonable that a high rate of HIV/AIDS prevalence is the result of ignorance. However, it is shocking to realize that even the most educated people fall victims of this disease. Musicians sing about HIV/AIDS but die from it. Teachers teach about it, activists give precautions to public, counselors provide counseling sessions to the victims, nurses and doctors witness its existence everyday in their work place but they become HIV/AIDS victims. Everyone who visits the hospital witness the misery of the HIV/AIDS victims. There are messages allover the country; at schools, on roadside billboards, on flyers everywhere, inside most public places and on some consumer products. Despite all these, professionals and the literate populace still die of HIV/AIDS. Let us start taking responsibility and refrain from blaming the circumstances. It is unfortunate that the society that is mostly threatened by HIV/AIDS is the working class group which comprises young energetic members of the community. As such, HIV remains a threat to development as generally holds back socio-economic development of countries. Young people should take HIV/AIDS as ‘a wake up call’ to revive their power to take action. Responsibility should be viewed as an outstanding cure for HIV/AIDS