Are sugar daddies to blame for HIV in Africa?

Messaging about the prevention of HIV transmission is the ultimate act of cross-cultural communication. In our haste to save lives, it can be easy to make blunders.

Recently, a cross-cultural assumption about African sexual practices that was the focus of prevention messaging has been called into question. That assumption has to do with intergenerational sex, and on closer scrutiny we are reminded about how important it is to be modest in the face of cross-cultural communications.  

Read more in my new post at Scientific American guest blogs.