Exploit - use, make use of, develop, make the most of, take advantage of, etc. Depending on ones outlook the word could be perceived as negative or positive.
Your negative response says more about your disposition than the women of Gambia or I for that matter, as it is your intention to make this a war of personalities.
The information was in response to an article on the front page of this web site regarding another HIV resistant sub-group. The descendents of Europe's plague survivors.
It was also posted to further reinforce my comment on the choice made by diaspora Africans, especially those of the bourgoeis class in the US, to alienate themselves from the so-called less fortunate members of our shared ethnicity; and why we (descendents of enslaved Africans) will always be dependent on the generosity of a few descendents of the enslavers and subject to the biases of the wider majority of the same.
As is the case of the San's knowledge of the Hoodia plant in South Africa's Kalahari desert, commercialization and mass production of their age old secret will belong to the Europeans. Along with the wealth to be generated from its exploitation. An AIDS vaccine will be soon. However newer and more effective treatments will probably be the first results of this latest exploitation, and although Africans are disproportionately affected by the scourge of AIDS they will be relegated to their usual status of consumers, while the wealth generated will belong to the European.
The lessons of the lower class will continue to be lost on the members of the bourgeois class; along with the secrets of our collective ancestors, yet to be mined. So it is they (the lower class and indigent) who are not content to wait around for acceptance nor do they care very much for the approval of big brother. Their desperation has lead them to that place of ultimate freedom. The more difficult lessons of humanity have yet to be comprehended by either class but I'll bet that the former will emerge the wiser.