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Climate change, hunger and HIV are a triple threat to vulnerable African women
The Hill ^ | 02/13/2024 | ANDREA LOW

Posted on 02/13/2024 10:43:59 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

“I have no other way out,” said Inês, a mother of four in the Mutauanha Piloto neighborhood of Nampula, Mozambique, who was interviewed by a member of my team. “I have children to support, I have to take risks.”

Every year, Inês cultivates a small crop of tomatoes and onions to sell, and every year, it gets harder to produce enough. So she turned to sex work in exchange for food. In 2007, she learned she was HIV-positive.

I have been working in the field of HIV care and research for over 20 years as an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist, and I’ve heard many similar stories of women endangering their health to cope with food insecurity against the backdrop of climate change.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: african; climatechange; hunger; treat
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What about the governments in these African countries Andrea? Did you think about that???
1 posted on 02/13/2024 10:43:59 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Exactly. And let’s not forget hardcore Marxism, lawlessness that allows militias to take what they want and corruption on a massive scale too.


2 posted on 02/13/2024 10:46:18 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA


3 posted on 02/13/2024 10:48:01 AM PST by TomServo
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What makes this my fault?


4 posted on 02/13/2024 10:48:17 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill of Crap


5 posted on 02/13/2024 10:54:46 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wait, I thought the movie “The Woman King” depicted the TRUE virtue of African women being anything but vulnerable? Which is it?


6 posted on 02/13/2024 10:55:52 AM PST by Salvavida
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To: Seruzawa
*** What makes this my fault? ***

Are you white?

7 posted on 02/13/2024 10:57:23 AM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Right Brother

Ha! However the USA never had colonies in Africa. These grifters need to go after England, France, Germany and especially Belgium.


8 posted on 02/13/2024 11:02:48 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Biggest threat to African women are African men.

This holds true EVERYWHERE especially in US urban cities.


9 posted on 02/13/2024 11:03:57 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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Climate change, hunger and HIV are a triple threat to vulnerable African women

Sure "climate change" is a bigger threat than lack of clean water to African women. Okay

10 posted on 02/13/2024 11:04:57 AM PST by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I see. Global warming made her become a ho. She had no choice. It all makes sense now.


11 posted on 02/13/2024 11:15:54 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (VOTE BIDEN 2024! Too senile to stand trial but good enough to run the country!)
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Her way out would have been to wait to marry to have four children.

Of course she may have been abandoned or widowed but I see no mention of Dad(s). Of course she can’t support four kids by herself, subsistence farming.

Poor kids.


12 posted on 02/13/2024 11:17:52 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

Well, when those four kids magically appeared from thin air, what else could she do?


13 posted on 02/13/2024 11:19:19 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Seruzawa

Or in this case, Portugal. Don’t know if they pay though.


14 posted on 02/13/2024 11:19:38 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Communists never, never leave any stone unturned when controlling or expanding their power over the peasants...


15 posted on 02/13/2024 11:22:10 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I grew up in the 50s and 60s. We were bombarded by UNICEF ads - “only a dime a day will save a child.” Billions of dollars later and what do we have? More people, more grinding poverty, Islam, and hopelessness.

I read an article few years ago that postulated that aid to Africa is the absolute worst thing we can do. It causes lots more births and ultimately a lot more misery and starvation. It was brutally honest and seemed cold, but was probably right.


16 posted on 02/13/2024 11:43:54 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re slipping! They forgot to mention “white rage”


17 posted on 02/13/2024 11:47:06 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I wish I could remember the title but there was a book written that tracked aid to Africa since WW2 ended. It might have been written 10 years ago. Almost all aid is stolen by African govts. The conclusion was that over a trillion dollars have been sent to Africa and every bit of it is wasted. Achieved absolutely nothing.


18 posted on 02/13/2024 11:49:42 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Also all aid through NGOs is wasted. Most NGO “aid” is used to pay NGO staff. The only aid organizations that actually help people there are Church missions providing medical care, etc. UNICEF and CARE, etc are scams.


19 posted on 02/13/2024 11:54:12 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I live in Africa. The local city graveyard has filled up the last few years after the Covid vaccines came out. That is what is killing the population off these days.

20 posted on 02/13/2024 12:38:17 PM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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