African culture has its own issues.  Here in Western culture with a supposedly educated, enlightened population with no prohibitions on sexual protection and the understanding that AIDS is virtually 100% preventable, there is a growing epidemic of the disease predominately in the male homosexual population.  Courtesy of a public school system that has adopted the "do whatever you want" and "religion is oppression" mentality of the 1960s.  

Freedom of stupidity and self-gratification over common sense and respect for self.