How has Africa been affected by AIDS and how are Africans dealing with this crisis.?

Question

Information. Links. As much as you can get.

10 points to the person who can give 2 pages of info. lol

Answer 1

go to these sites as i am typing them in. www.aids. com www.aidsinafrica. org www.aidsworldwide. com

Answer 2

I have been in southern Africa twice in 2 years. Wow...what can you say about it? The African greeting now is something like "hey, you keep weight on pretty good", or "you got it yet" or something like that. Honestly, I can't figure out how this disease is being spread. I spent some time in Botswana which is a rural country with really decent people and they have one of the highest rates anywhere: 40%!!! They are not throwing orgies every night so I cannot figure out how it is being spread. But I got the sense that people have developed a very grim outlook on life. They all sense they are going to die from it.

Answer 3

my answer is going to be short and sweet some parts of africa have the aids epidemic to a monsterous degree and they dont have any self control and no real information about it so it goes undiscovered but on the other hand why worry about africa unless you live their because if you think about it its spreading very fast in america and other countries to so the best way not to get it is to stay abstain from sex till married

Answer 4

Every epidemic disease is now renamed 'AIDS' under the Bangui Definition.

Mortalities (non natural) in S.A. remain at the same 2.2% P.A. that they were BEFORE AIDS. Either every other disease in the region vanished overnight or 'AIDS' is simply the old diseases with a new name. You decide.

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In Africa, the continent supposedly being decimated by
HIV, HIV tests are rarely ever done, so there the idea
that all patients with AIDS are infected with HIV is
based entirely on supposition.

At a WHO conference in the Central African Republic in 1985, U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) introduced the "Bangui Definition" of AIDS in Africa.

The CDC officials later explained, "The definition was reached by consensus, based mostly on the delegates' experience in treating AIDS patients. It has proven a useful tool in determining the extent of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, especially in areas where no testing is available.

It's major components were prolonged fevers (for a month or more), weight loss of 10% or greater, and prolonged diarrhea..."(McCormick, 1996). Where AIDS is diagnosed clinically, large numbers of AIDS patients test negative for HIV. As no HIV testing is required in Africa we have no idea how many AIDS cases there are HIV positive (De ####, 1991; Gilks, 1991; Widy-Wirski, 1988).

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Other conditions common in underprivileged and
impoverished communities that are known to cause false
positive results are tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis and leprosy (Burke, 1993; Challakeree, 1993; Johnson, 1998; Kashala, 1994; MacKenzie,1992; Meyer, 1987). In fact, these are the primary health threats in Africa; several million cases of tuberculosis and malaria are reported in Africa each year - more than all the AIDS cases reported in Africa since 1982 (WHO, 1998)*.

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POPULATION WITH RESPECT TO 'AIDS'


Uganda will be a desert in two year – we were told 15 years ago. "At least 30 percent of the entire adult population of Central Africa is infected with the AIDS virus," a doctor tells a U.S. newspaper. A high Ugandan official says that within two years his nation will "be a desert." ABC News Nightline declares that within 12 years "50 million Africans may have died of AIDS."

Actually, those statements and predictions were all made between 1986 and 1988. Yet since 1985, Central Africa's population has increased over 70 percent while Uganda's has nearly doubled. Japan, conversely, has close to no AIDS cases yet its population growth has essentially stopped.

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MOST AFRICANS 'WITH AIDS' test negative.

Africans test negative.

227 patients with “AIDS”: 59% test HIV-negative (Lancet
340, p971, 1992)

122 patients with “AIDS”: 69% test HIV-negative (Am.
Rev. Resp. Diseases 147, p958, 1993)

913 patients with “AIDS”: 71% test HIV-negative
(J. AIDS 7:8, p876, 1994)

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Sex And HIV: Behaviour-Change Trial Shows No Link
The East African (Nairobi)

March 17, 2003

Posted to the web March 19, 2003

By Paul Redfern, Special Correspondent Nairobi

A UK funded trial aimed at reducing the spread of Aids in Uganda by modifying sexual behaviour appears to have had little discernible effect.


The trial, carried out on around 15,000 people in the Masaka region, involved distributing condoms, treating around 12,000 victims of sexually transmitted diseases and counselling.

However, while the trial led to a marked change in sexual behavioural patterns, with the proportion reporting causal sexual partners falling from around 35 per cent to 15 per cent, there was no noticeable fall in the number of new cases of HIV infection, although there was a significant reduction in sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhoea.

The trial results, which were reported in the British medical journal The Lancet, have already aroused some controversy.

The team leader of the trial, Dr Anatoli Kamalai, acknowledged that there was "no measurable reduction" in HIV incidence with "no hint of even a small effect."

http://allafrica.com/stories/200303190482.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200303190482.html

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How AIDS in Africa Was Overstated
Reliance on Data From Urban Prenatal Clinics Skewed Early Projections
By Craig Timberg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, April 6, 2006; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040502517.html

KIGALI, Rwanda -- Researchers said nearly two decades ago that this tiny country was part of an AIDS Belt stretching across the midsection of Africa, a place so infected with a new, incurable disease that, in the hardest-hit places, one in three working-age adults were already doomed to die of it.

But AIDS deaths on the predicted scale never arrived here, government health officials say. A new national study illustrates why: The rate of HIV infection among Rwandans ages 15 to 49 is 3 percent, according to the study, enough to qualify as a major health problem but not nearly the national catastrophe once predicted.

cont... (link above)

Answer 5

Plan active dates with all your hubby, such as bowling or golfing, instead of dinner and a movie.

Answer 6

Walk between stores that will be in close proximity (don't drive).

Answer 7

When obtaining your kids from school, get rid of the car and greet them using a hug instead of waiting in the car curbside.

Answer 8

Visit a store instead of shopping on the net.

Answer 9

Do a few biceps curls every time you pick up shopping bags.

Answer 10

Make friends with another person on another floor; visit the woman often.