AIDS cuts longevity to medieval levels (Africa)

UPI ^ | 7-15-04 | Ed Susman

[Calvin Locke]

...and other means in which HIV can more readily enter the bloodstream during sex.

I was listening to the BBC Africa call-in show last fall,iirc. One of the tribes/countries sex practices is to use dry
herbs for lubrication.

VOA/Africa has a medical-call in show too.

[nothingnew]

Maggot Sanger would be proud.

This scourge is going to run it's course, regardless of how much money is thrown at it.

Keep your pants zipped and your powder dry.

FMCDH(BITS)

[thedilg]

(Maybe if every human being had a tattoo above his or her butt that said "EXIT ONLY" AIDS would still be confined to the monkeys.)

Reminds me of a story about Natiional Review. They were having a meeting about their next issue. What would they propose relative the recent AIDS outbreak. After many rejects they came up with their proposal. A tattoo on the derriere in old English script a la Dante's Inferno. "All hope is lost, Oh ye who enters here."

Godspeed, The Dilg

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

NOW PAY ATTENTION FOLKS : these articles are designed to soften you up so you will feeeeeeeeeeel Compassssssssssion
so as to make the leftist demand we pay billions to the world to fight aids when abstinence works better than money !

[Indy Pendance]

It's working, give me a monkey.

[sweneop]

are you just making stuff up?

[sweneop]

yes we wouldnt want any compassion. if i think about all those dying black people, then i wont enjoy my big mac.

[Age of Reason]

Those were two questions.

[AUH2OY2K]

Bush has promised Africa 15 billion dollars of American workers' money to help combat Aids. Would rather he spent a thousand bucks on fliers that said, "Please attempt to exhibit some self-control"

[RavenATB]

That is precious...thanks for the laugh!

[Calvin Locke]

Bush has promised Africa 15 billion dollars

Not to be picky, but I believe that includes the Caribbean, too.

[Tall_Texan]

And you joined just to say that? I'm impressed!

Read again the part about those who can't control their urges. Obviously, if I meant ALL homosexuals, I would have said ALL homosexuals. But I didn't.

Call me nuts if you wish (won't be the first time), imply I'm a Nazi if you wish (liberals do that all the time), but when there is a disease epidemic, the BEST thing to do for the public at large is to isolate the infected so they don't spread their disease. We don't treat the diseased like it's a civil right.

Since the disease has a long incubation period, those who persist in risky behavior ought to be isolated from the rest of the society. Straights too. I wouldn't mind tossing Bill Clinton in with them even though they are probably not his type.

Welcome to FR!

[neverdem]

have you ever heard/read any analysiss's'sees (punctutation is a bitch with them words what got's ss'ss) that suggest the incidence of HIV in the African continent is significantly overestimated?

Thoughts?

My most common experience is to read comments like Thabo Mbeki(sp?), the President or PM of South Africa, saying that folks are not dying from HIV/AIDS, or that Africans are really dying from other circumstances that TASMANIANRED made on this thread. The main argument about overestimation in the latter case was that laboratory diagnosis of HIV by blood, or other specimen, test wasn't confirmed, and other primary diagnoses were not ruled out, e.g. malaria, other parasites, TB and malnutrition.

[Pearls Before Swine]

just wondering, but do you think this was why monogamy was invented? doubles your life span?

That's a side effect.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!