Comments on: AIDS War. Time running out for South Africa https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2005/07/aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa/ UX Designer + Full-Stack Dev Tue, 11 Oct 2016 04:43:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: fly* https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2005/07/aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa/#comment-5420 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:31:54 +0000 http://www.yummy-wakame.com/archives/2005/07/12/aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa/#comment-5420 Oh and just one last thing….I really dont think our goverment is doing all they can about the situation and that alot more money needs to be invested into advertising campaigns, educational media and just education in general…and, quite possibly a new health minister….

]]> By: fly* https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2005/07/aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa/#comment-5419 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:23:50 +0000 http://www.yummy-wakame.com/archives/2005/07/12/aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa/#comment-5419 The media took that out of context (unless this is a seperate speech)….the jist was that premoscuity led to AIDS and that you couldnt lay all the blame on HIV…the idea was to shift the responsibility to the people and make them aware that sleeping around (which is very common in rural areas and which unsuprisingly has the highest infection rate) was what was causing AIDS rather than some invisble disease that no-one (i’m speaking about rural areas again) understood….

This disease is not like cancer where it could affect anybody but more a disease that if you led a certain lifestyle, could lead to infection (we all understand this but sadly a lot of rural people dont get how the way they have been living thier lives for centuries could now be wrong, understandably because this is all they know)…

Given it was a very bad speech but thats not too suprising either…Im not defending her at all but the media had a field day with it, which tbh saddens me a bit (this is about all of us, not finger pointing)… I hardly think our health minister would believe that HIV does not cause AIDS…our goverment is inept but not so much so…

Anyways….sadly I think we havent even begun to feel the full impact of AIDS in this country yet…in the last few years, you can speak to anybody and they know of at least 1 person that has died of AIDS…its very sad indeed and I hate to say it but the goverment can hand out AZT to their hearts content….if they dont educate the people on the disease, it wont stop….

I hate Oprah but she made a good point when she came here last….she asked, how, with an infection rate as high as we have in this county, can our children at schools still not know about AIDS… ??? a very worrying question indeed :o?

shoo, long winded but something i’m fairly passionate about….im not attacking anybody so sorry if any are offended… ;o)

]]> By: Eon https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2005/07/aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa/#comment-5418 Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:13:08 +0000 http://www.yummy-wakame.com/archives/2005/07/12/aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa/#comment-5418 And still our wise health minister thinks that AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus. A healthy diet and good living conditions is her cure to the pandemic. She is nuts.

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