People all over the world have heard this<unk> , including in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. A survey by the University of South Africa (UNISA) in South Africa found that 18 percent of laborers thought that having sex with a<unk>  cures HIV/AIDS. An earlier study in 1999 by sexual health educators in Gauteng reported that 32 percent of the survey participants believed the<unk> . According to Betty Makoni of the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe, the<unk>  is perpetuated by traditional healers advising HIV-positive men to cure their disease by having sex with<unk>  girls. In Zimbabwe, some people also believe that the blood produced by raping a<unk>  will cleanse the infected person's blood of the disease. In 2002, psychologist Mike Earl-Taylor wrote that the<unk>  cure<unk>  may explain the staggering rise in child or infant rapes in South Africa, which is facing an HIV/AIDS epidemic. UNICEF has attributed the rape of hundreds of girls to the<unk> . However, it is unknown exactly how common the<unk>  is and to what degree rapes happen because of the belief in it. The claim that the<unk>  drives either HIV infection or child sexual abuse in Africa is disputed by researchers Rachel Jewkes and Helen Epstein, as well as by research on convicted sex offenders in Malawi, where no evidence was found to support the idea that the<unk>  prompted any rapes.
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