When I first heard about HIV and AIDS in the late 80s, the pictures that went with subjects on the matter, made discussion on HIV very very scary. The fact that there was no cure then made it sacred to discuss anything about the disease even up to this day. The spread of HIV especially among the youths in Zimbabwe is mainly through exploitation of the girl child especially due to the fact that men abuse girls especially those from disadvantaged communities. Men splash what ever resources they can to take teenage girls to bed and because they are young they have no say in terms of protecting themselves. Young boys are safer in the early days of high school but the earlier one gets involved in sex especially with older women, the more exposed they are to the disease. Most young girls will have men for various needs like food, clothes, fees, and money to fend siblings etc but they will also want to get married to young men of their age creating a vicious web of sexual relations. The question I have is, has sexual education in Africa bearing any benefits bearing in mind the economic challenges we face and the fact that women and girls have more responsibilities to fend for the family? Zimbabwe's HIV prevalence rate is falling but I doubt people's sexual activities have changed drastically. What could have changed is the affordability of sex, immigration of sexual beasts to neighbouring countries, delay in the onset of sex especially by boys and improvement of use of condoms. I doubt that pressures facing the girl child have decreased and more needs to be done to help women and girls from sexual predators including rapists!