Paper 3 · Population and Labour
Illiteracy raises the risk of HIV infection in a population because people who cannot read
Ahave to travel much further to reach a clinic than people who have been to school do
Bare refused treatment at the clinics that hand out written prescriptions
Care more likely to be employed in the mining and farming industries
Dcannot understand health messages explaining how the virus is spread and prevented
Explanation: Prevention depends on knowing how transmission happens and how it can be avoided, and most of that information is carried in print. Someone who cannot read posters, pamphlets or newspapers, and who never had sex education at school, is left without the knowledge on which prevention rests.
Derived from ZIMSEC Economics 4050/3 Paper 3, June 2023, Q1