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"The belief that raping a baby (or a virgin, often interpreted as very young children due to presumed virginity) can cure HIV/AIDS is known as the virgin cleansing myth (or virgin cure myth). This is a dangerous, widespread superstition that emerged prominently in the late 1990s and early 2000s in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly South Africa, amid the severe HIV/AIDS epidemic."