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Women and girls constitute a growing proportion of those who are HIV positive or living with AIDS, especially in Africa. Various social, economic and cultural realities make women and girls particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection. The Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) is a pan-Africanist organisation which works in AIDS prevention through various educational programmes targeted at women. The SWAA uses local networks to get its message across, and realises the importance of involving men in the fight against AIDS in Africa. (SAJIA/DÜI)

An analysis of the largest such sample yet assembled, this article surveys the biographies of 1,581 men & women involved in Nazi genocide. The quantitative study of these perpetrators suggests that they resemble "Real Nazis" more than they do "Ordinary Germans." Most of the Sudeten Germans, the women, & the foreign ethnic-Germans who were recruited only after the Wehrmacht "liberated" their countries did seem relatively "ordinary." But among the remaining 90% of the sample, two-thirds were long-term Nazis, a third had been prewar extremists, & "careers" in violence were common. Perpetrators came disproportionately from "core Nazi constituencies." The more committed Nazis were of higher rank & longer experience -- bringing the pressures of hierarchy & comradeship to bear on newer recruits. Previous scholars have shown how the Nazi movement was "radicalized" into genocide; biographies of its participants illustrate the social processes, institutional cultures, & power relations involved. 8 Tables, 1 Map, 127 References. Adapted from the source document.