The highest chance for a child to die (in Africa, but in any general bad circumstance considering health-care, hygiene etc.) is around/before birth and in the first 3 to 4 years of life.
And still..then what? O_o They hardly use anticonception anyway, so they won't really find it hard to keep trying.
The children who survive (and especially the girls) will be there (with mostly one or two specifically 'chosen' to do this either volunteerily or forced upon by the parents) to care for the parents.
edit: ooh just read the post before your last post Jr (why double post anyway? confused me /o\)
And well..yeah, the most dangerous man is a man who has nothing to lose, and that's probably the motive of that guy who infected the women.
One other relative thing to this is another proof of the huge aids + religion/superstition problem in africa: There's a certain rumour/superstition in some areas on that continent which makes them believe having sex with a virgin will cure the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (just acting cool for the last part ;p):x The rumour also tells people who are stupid enough to believe in it, that the younger the virgin is, the better of an effect it well have.
A few weeks ago a few african men raped a 6-month old baby girl.
Religion is a very big problem yes, everywhere, in every relevant area you can imagine. Religion is almost a synonim (do english people use this word and did i spell it right) to conservative or even reactionairy (same as before ;p) 'progress' (altho the word hardly fits, but is correct), meaning that Religion just..err..well sux

And stands in the way of any progression (actual..err..progressive progression

meaning improving the situation at hand x_X).
As Karl Marx said (bah..hate socialism but he's right on things about religion

), religion is opium for the people.
There's no other cause for religion than keeping people from thinking for themselves and controlling the stupid mass (a 'mass' of people is always stupid and will obey if you put it right

and have charisma. Look at hitler (in a negative way) or pretty much every rebel leader and politician (depends on the cause at hand

)). And the very cause of the philosophy (where discussion actually *was* a core part, instead of trying to get a static answer to any of life's questions and forcing it onto a mass of people who would like nothing else but be guided because of laziness and the simple fact of being naive stupid fucks ^^;) --> Religion flux in human's history is simply because there is and will always be a small amount of people who want power and leadership and will use the sheer stupidity of the masses to do this, to keep them silent, and make them work for the religion/country/whatever under whatever social-economic circumstances, just with the hope that they will once be in the kingdom of god, or heaven, or whatever form of enlightment in either way (not talking about nirvana, or whatever enlightened state based on an eastern religion, coz it's based on an entirely different principal).
Err..rant rant rant..whatever =\ gtg get me some lenses at the opticien -.-
*can't stick with one topic anyway*
