The article mentions that women are afraid to take prophylactic treatments, because their husbands/boyfriends will take umbrage. It's not uncommon for men to have multiple sexual partners, and transmission is often accomplished that way.

There's also a fairly pervasive problem with sexual violence. Women tend to bear a lot of the pain.

There's something so morally depraved about punishing someone for insisting on protecting themselves. It really is unspeakably and irredeemably evil in my view to insist someone disregard their boundaries so thoroughly that they leave themself open to a lethal devastating virus just to satisfy someone else's ego in tandem with their nihilistic desire for short-term gratification.