Image: Sick Pygmy children line up for medicine after numerous deaths. Digital image. Pinterest. N.p., n.d. Web.
HIV has becoming a growing problem within the pygmies community. They are getting pushed closer to villages to work as casual laborers and on commercial farms. These places expose the pygmies to sickness' and other diseases including HIV. Not only that, but due to poverty, it is quite common for sexual exploitation to occur with women. This exploitation makes it very easy for HIV to spread throughout the indigenous groups.
Exploitation: treating someone unfairly so that it will benefit your work
HIV has becoming a growing problem within the pygmies community. They are getting pushed closer to villages to work as casual laborers and on commercial farms. These places expose the pygmies to sickness' and other diseases including HIV. Not only that, but due to poverty, it is quite common for sexual exploitation to occur with women. This exploitation makes it very easy for HIV to spread throughout the indigenous groups.
Exploitation: treating someone unfairly so that it will benefit your work