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1: Why do we still have HIV/AIDS Infection after so many Years?
Posted by Colette M Jacques on 01/10/09 08:23 PM
could it be that we let ourselves be driven by some kind of manipulation from the beginning and now it becomes too much to control. tell me what you think and we will try to bring some light.

Colette M Jacques

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2: Re: Why do we still have HIV/AIDS Infection after so many Years? (response to 1)
Posted by Ogova Ondego on 04/13/09 07:11 AM
Am sure you are not looking for 'around-the-bush' answer like this. But that is perhaps the best way to proceed. The response is taken from ArtMatters.Info (www.artmatters.info/), the website I publish (details here: http://artmatters.info/?p=1072):

Over the past 20 years, an increasing portion of development aid funds has been dedicated to preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa by focusing on ‘dangerous’ and ‘harmful’ practices such as unprotected sex, widow inheritance, and female genital mutilation. But the spread of HIV/AIDS has not dropped. German academic Rose Marie Beck argues that the reason for this is the wide gap between local and western explanations about the scourge. Unless local knowledge is incorporated in this campaign, it will continue to fail despite the expensive popular culture media—posters, flyers, films, videos, comics, radio, television and plays—employed.

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3: Re: Why do we still have HIV/AIDS Infection after so many Years? (response to 1)
Posted by Rut Gomez Sobrino on 07/02/09 01:14 PM
In my view there are many crucial issues related to the continuation of AIDS in the world.

On one hand, there have been relevant resources destined to educate and to stop the transmission of the disease, but still scientific research has found a lot of difficulties to get support.

Artists, foundations, international organizations, governments have allocated economic resources to fight AIDS/HIV but scientific research to know more about AIDS is following another fight to get funds and support. The same happen with other diseases like malaria.

On the other hand, the gap that developing countries suffer requires a committed analysis from the international community. In developed nations AIDS is now a chronic disease thanks to the development of modern medicaments which do not cure the illness but stop it at a certain point. But in developing countries AIDS is still the main reason of death since those medicaments are not distributed at a fair price.

Many times they are incredibly much more expensive than in richer nations and at point the dissemination of generics has been one of the fairest decisions that developing nations such as Brazil has taken. But even this step, to give low price medicines to nations suffering from AIDS, has been discussed and criticized by certain elements, particularly pharmaceutical multinationals.

So I would say there are some problems regarding proper management of funds and lack of scientific research but the main issue is the gap in developing nations, as in other matters.

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4: Re: Why do we still have HIV/AIDS Infection after so many Years? (response to 1)
Posted by Abhijit Dasgupta on 09/05/09 12:50 AM
The mass is still not aware. The communication plans are too city-centric - urban. No one really targets the less educated mass living in the rural areas. Even in cities, students are not fully aware of the threat of HIV.
Please see the link here - it will tell you a story from Kolkata in India.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OzwXmSCvo

For more details - please visit REACHOUT in www.sukritifoundation.org

I shall be too happy to receive your comments.
Abhijit Das Gupta
Secretary
Kolkata Sukriti Foundation

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