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Amanpour: World fails to save Africa's AIDS orphans
CNN ^ | 7-17-2006 | Christiane Amanpour

Posted on 07/17/2006 9:32:55 PM PDT by lainie

Africa's HIV-infected children also ignored

By Christiane Amanpour CNN Monday, July 17, 2006; Posted: 9:14 p.m. EDT (01:14 GMT)

Editor's note: CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour traveled to Kenya as part of a special documentary, "Where Have All the Parents Gone?," which looks at the millions of AIDS orphans now living on their own.

ISIOLA, Kenya (CNN) -- AIDS invaded our consciousness 25 years ago. A whole generation around the world has now grown up knowing only a world with AIDS.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; aids; amanpour; warslut
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To: lainie
israel and Lebanon (and the nonsovereign Palestine) are fighting. How is this supposed to be a World War?

When many countries from around the world start fighting on a large scale, then there could be a world war.

21 posted on 07/17/2006 11:51:30 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( http://www.answersingenesis.org)
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To: river rat
While foreign control of many African countries could be considered, people are neither yellow nor white. Most people (except for rare mutations) are a mix of yellowish, reddish (from blood vessels near the skin surface) brown.

Nordics tend to be a light brown, central Africans a dark brown.

22 posted on 07/17/2006 11:55:19 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( http://www.answersingenesis.org)
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To: Scarchin
This idea has been circulated a lot. While the concept could be factual, there also could be an aids epidemic in Africa.

Those who have frequently been to many countries in the continent would probably know more if there is an actually aids epidemic.

23 posted on 07/17/2006 11:58:23 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( http://www.answersingenesis.org)
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To: Minette

By many accounts, the BBC is more liberal than CNN (though both are liberal, one just more than the other).


24 posted on 07/17/2006 11:59:16 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( http://www.answersingenesis.org)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

They are but sometimes I preferred the more understated manner of the British. For example, I don't think Anderson Cooper and his theatrics would fit the BBC image. (I lost whatever respect I might have had for him while watching him freak out over a barge sitting in the Mississippi during his Hurricane Katrina coverage in my hometown of Baton Rouge.)

I liked the interviewers on the BBC also - sometimes the anchors on CNN ask the most asinine questions. So it was a choice between liberal bias and slightly more liberal bias with a bit more intelligence.


25 posted on 07/18/2006 12:33:24 AM PDT by Minette
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu; Scarchin
AIDS Hype In Africa? No HIV Test Required, Disease Defined Differently Than In U.S.
26 posted on 07/18/2006 2:47:54 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Jedidah
It would not hurt even one of us to contribute toward helping those poor children.

US sends out billions in foreign aid money.
Most of us are tax payers.
I'd say most of us have given more than our fair share. What's the rest of the world doing about the problem?

27 posted on 07/18/2006 4:39:50 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: lainie

Maybe the supplier of the Tainted Blood should step up to the plate here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889385/posts
Tainted blood deals raise international furor


28 posted on 07/18/2006 4:48:55 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: lainie

Africa should try helping itself. It is like a welfare continent. And as long as the rest of the world feeds it they will not do for themselves.


29 posted on 07/18/2006 4:49:57 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: lainie

I thought Bill Gates had bought all of the world's AIDS victims. Perhaps I misread the story.


30 posted on 07/18/2006 4:53:24 AM PDT by csvset ("It was like the hand of G_d slapping down and smashing everything." ~ JDAM strikes Taliban)
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To: lainie
World fails to save Africa's AIDS orphans

She's got her timing wrong. They're supposed to broadcast it between Thanksgiving and Christmas in order to maximize donations.

Speaking of Christmas, a derivative of Scrooge's comment comes to mind. Let them die, and decrease the surplus population.

31 posted on 07/18/2006 4:56:13 AM PDT by neutrino (Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.(173))
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To: ga medic
These children haven't done anything to deserve this life they have. It is very sad to see so many suffering.


While this is true, "the world" will not allow for the only solution that would solve the problem. Since we can not apply the only solution that will solve this, what is there to do?

Africa has an over abundance of resources, there is no logical reason why it can not support those that live there. The illogical reason is that the leadership of many countries are nothing more then corrupt bullies.

The solution would be for the west to re-enter Africa, eliminate "the bullies" and restore order. But "the world" will not allow that. What "the world" wants is to tax you and me to send more money to the bullies, which as we have seen solves nothing.

So again, what is it you expect from us?

Sympathy, you got it. I feel bad for those that are suffering.

Now what? Money? NO! Money is not the solution.

So what is it you would like to see us do?

32 posted on 07/18/2006 4:58:57 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I am not asking you to do anything. Maybe with more awareness there will be more solutions. Articles like this are meant to create awareness and they serve a good purpose. It isn't always about taking your money. Personally, I can't do anything but pray for these poor children.


33 posted on 07/18/2006 7:57:40 AM PDT by ga medic
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To: Jedidah

Thank you. It is threads like this that make me believe I don't belong at FR at all. I find it hard to believe that so many can read the story, without feeling anything at all for these children. I don't know which is more sad, kids with no parents or people with no feelings.


34 posted on 07/18/2006 8:04:13 AM PDT by ga medic
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To: Scarchin

I correspond regularly with a sister in Uganda. She is in a medical mission and will be celebrating her 50th year of service in Uganda. She tells me that 1 of every 5 people there has HIV or AIDS. I believe her. I don't know where you got that information. I would tend to not believe it.


35 posted on 07/18/2006 8:07:05 AM PDT by ga medic
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Maybe so, but it doesn't make the children responsible for the situation they are in. They are suffering, through no fault of their own. I often wonder how different my life would have been, if I had been born to a poor family in Africa instead of in the US. I was very lucky to be born here, but I certainly didn't do anything to deserve it. The bottom line is that I was lucky and these children weren't.


36 posted on 07/18/2006 8:12:41 AM PDT by ga medic
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To: ga medic

Fair enough.


37 posted on 07/18/2006 8:17:30 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: CIB-173RDABN
So what is it you would like to see us do?

You could support one of several missions that are feeding, clothing, sheltering, and administering medical help to the orphans.

38 posted on 07/18/2006 8:19:18 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: ga medic

You didn't refute my point. If they expand the definition of AIDS then of course she gets a lot of cases.


39 posted on 07/18/2006 8:20:41 AM PDT by Scarchin (+)
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To: Scarchin

I don't know what you mean by expand the definition. The people she treats are the ones who are sick. They don't have the resources to give the drugs to all that just test positive. I would like to know what expansion you are talking about and your source of the information. You might be right, but it doesn't match what I read and hear about the African situation.


40 posted on 07/18/2006 8:25:41 AM PDT by ga medic
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