Posted on 01/31/2019 10:55:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Yaounde - Teenage girls growing up in Lesotho in areas hit by harsh drought and other climate shocks are more likely to drop out of school, start having sex earlier and contract HIV, researchers say.
In a study looking at the link between climate change and HIV infection since antiretroviral (ARV) treatment drugs became widely available in Sub-Saharan Africa, researchers found that severe drought threatens to drive new HIV infections.
In the urban areas of Lesotho researchers looked at, droughts were linked to an almost five-fold increase in the number of girls selling sex and a three-fold increase in those being forced into sexual relations.
Such findings mean climate shocks - which can bring displacement, loss of income and other problems - threaten to undermine progress made in HIV treatment, said Andrea Low, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the International Centre for AIDS Care and Treatment Programmes at Columbia University. “I think the real concern is that we have gained a lot in terms of epidemic control ... but there is always a possibility of losing all those gains if a lot of people are displaced due to climate extremes [and] forced migration.”
People who lose the stability of their communities are more likely to engage in high-risk sex, acquire HIV or discontinue treatment for HIV, the study found. Widespread poverty and exposure to worsening droughts, floods and other climate risks make Africa one of the continents most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, UN disaster officials said.
Low and her colleagues said ways of reducing HIV risk associated with climate shocks include providing easier access to medical care, distributing HIV self-testing kits and offering cash transfers to pay school fees for drought-hit families forced to migrate.
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So now global warming is responsible for the spread of AIDS in Africa?????
Oh noooeee....we’re all gonna die of AIDS. Or something.
Is there anything climate change can’t do?
Give you a tax credit.
I thought they blamed that on Reagan. My how times have changed.
It used to be actors that could do anything. Now it’s agw.
AIDS is spread by BEHAVIOR. End of discussion.
I’ve heard that in some places in Africa, the fees to go to school are beyond the means of desperately poor people. So then men will offer to pay the fees, in exchange for being sexually involved with the teen girls.
This is a distressing cultural problem, over and above the fact that HIV in Africa is largely spread by heterosexual sex.
Teenage girls growing up in Democrat locations in the United States in areas hit by TDS are more likely to drop out of school, start having sex earlier and contract HIV.
They still blame Reagan, I’m sure.
Reagan’s crime against humanity, according to the gay activists, was not doing enough to fight AIDS. The fact that the disease is spread by voluntary risky behavior is ignored. Instead, Reagan should have done more. And he’s labeled as homophobic, etc.
If you want to stop AIDS in Africa, you’re gonna have to ban having sex with monkeys. Good luck with that!
Democrats are lying scum.
What is undermining the war against HIV in Africa: bisexual practices of the men. Gay one day, normal the next. Do not try to deny it.
Climate change, if it exists, is an effect, not a cause, and cannot cause anything.
So now it is not the fault of rampant free sex behavior?
The worst part of this article is the direct contradiction is has with other advocates of climate change. One of the biggest assertions is that climate change is making the world “wetter” as the polar glaciers melt.
So, you can’t whine about the earth getting dryer in some parts while wetter in others, just like you can’t complain about the earth getting warmer over all, yet whine when fiercer than average blizzards hit the US Northeast. Oh, they can try to argue that climate is more extreme now, when have climates not been extreme in certain parts of the world. There has NEVER been a period where they were not extreme in some parts of the world.
“AIDS is spread by BEHAVIOR. End of discussion.”
No no no! Can’t have them feelin guilty! Can’t speak truth. No!
Good grief, when were you born? 1950?
LOL!!!!
School keeps people from having sex???? Someone forgot to tell my middle school.
Ronald Reagan is directly responsible for all of the critical decisions 1983-1986 which led to the unprecedented discovery, development, and deployment of disease stabilizing therapy that means most people with AIDS in the West will die of old age.
The gay hysteria over Reagan (which continues to this day) opens an interesting window to gay psychology, which, if research into gay psychology were still allowed might yield interesting insights.
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