Whatever was being done before doesn't seem to have been working.Quote:
Originally Posted by Escape_Driver
Whatever was being done before doesn't seem to have been working.Quote:
Originally Posted by Escape_Driver
CultureQuote:
Originally Posted by meatwad
1. Tillage (tilled land)
2. The training or or refining of the intellectual or behavioral faculities
3. Care given to the growth and developement of plants and animals
4. The propagation of bacteria, as for scientific use
5. Civilization
Oooooooh. Rainbooooows. Oh, I like those, those are cool.
Ain't no such thing as a free lunch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Escape_Driver
Three paths to a solution:
1: Find a cure - Not sodding likely, we haven't managed to cure a virus yet, the immune system has to do that.
2: Prevent infection - The most likely solution. Condoms can help and vaccines are being worked on. This approach relies heavily on sex education that hasn't worked in the past ten years. As cruel as it sounds, the problem with Africans not integrating scientific facts in their approach to AIDS and HIV will eventually solve itself. The educated will live and breed, the uneducated will die.
3: Speed it up - Bad sci-fi crap. Make it kill faster, so carriers can't transmit it.
I think you can tell where I place my bets. I think we should be spending the majority of the money earmarked for the subject on education and a vaccine. Sorry for the poor bastards that already have it, but they have a death sentence anyways, and there isn't a whole helluva lot we are likely to be able to do about it for quite a while. I look at Africa as a continent of triage, we need to spend our money and time where it will do the most good.
techs is that you ? https://forums.windrivers.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by Escape_Driver
did ya'll change your name ?
Driver why dont you get your government to match the amount that Bush has promised then decide to use it all on condoms.
Oh wait. How much was it that Canada promised?
No he's not me. If he had been me he would have posted this link:Quote:
Originally Posted by GrandDad
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...pulation_fund/
Which shows the Bushies are still advocating:
"US officials emphasized abstinence as an important way to combat AIDS"
And we all know how well abstinence is working here in the US.
Nothing is working. That's the point of this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by techs
I definitely agree with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by meatwad
How do you explain abstinence to a husband and wife?
I thought they were the only people you didn't need to explain it to.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
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Closed husband/wife relationships aren't contributing to the AIDS epidemic.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
Errrr - anal sex is considered by many in Africa as a 'normal' method of contraception ! Also visiting a prostitute when the 'moons up' or during pregnanacy are widely accepted - add that to total ignorance & ...Quote:
Originally Posted by jaeger
Also without stupid 'copyright' laws the Africans could manufacture all the anti-retroviral drugs they needed to stop or at least slow the process by ensuring pregnant women get them routinely ..Aids in Africa
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..The dispensary here is keeping its own supply of Nevirapine. I'm bringing it in to give it to them. We have to have good security because this is going to be popular stuff. You give the Nevirapine to women in labour, and then three drops are given to the baby after birth, and that's it! One tablet for the mother, three drops for the baby, end of story! You can save half the babies that would have been born with HIV..
Jaeger, it is not often that you are totally wrong, but this is one occasion that I shall bookmark.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaeger