Tags: AIDS , Charlize Theron

London: Hollywood actress Charlize Theron got a rude shock when she learnt that people from her native land South Africa have poor knowledge about AIDS.

In South Africa HIV-positive men believe that by having sex with a young virgin can be cure them of this disease. Town Rape Crisis Centre in 1999 was opened in a bid to stop the spread of AIDS but decade later people are still under the illusion that simple cures can help them get past it.

The men rape young child or virgin in hope to cure themselves, not realizing that they are spreading it further. Theron feels that it is the lack of proper knowledge about AIDS and superstitions of people which is resulting in such shocking behaviour.

It is the culture that is superstitious according to Charlize and is the reason for many AIDS cases in South Africa.

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