PESHAWAR: Some 320 children and adolescents died every day from AIDS-related causes in 2018, says UNICEF's annual statistical update on children, HIV and AIDS, released ahead of the World AIDS Day.

Low access to antiretroviral treatment, in addition to limited prevention efforts, is a leading cause for these deaths, with only 54 per cent of children aged 0-14 living with HIV in 2018 – or 790,000 children – receiving lifesaving antiretroviral therapy.

So, over three hundred kids never got to experience life to the fullest last year. It makes me ask the question: what if I had offered some of them their first and only sexual experience. (I know, I know, I know. Society would shit its pants.) But, I'm asking for a philosophical discussion.

Consent? (Moot: She or He would welcome it even though they would not know what it was. They would trust their lover.)

Legal issues? (Moot: what "they" don't know, won't hurt them ... society, I mean.)

Ethics, then?