Voting Question: Is international aid effective?

A lot of talk has been going on about poverty relief and many countries and charities have been donating heaps of $ to Third World countries. Yet they don't seem to be improving much, especially sub-Saharan Africa. Is international aid really effective? What can be done to make it more effective?  more

Resolved Question: Question for Catholics:?

What do you think of the Catholic Church trying to eliminate condom use in Sub Saharan Africa because condoms are “sinful”?(As the saying goes: “AIDS is bad, but condoms are evil”) Is this a moral thing to do? Since the Pope is “infallible” does that mean he is right about this too?  more

Resolved Question: Is HIV/AIDS really a black man's disease?

I just read in a local newspaper that researchers in London and Washington have confirmed (however, independently) that a gene called "DARC"- Duffy Antigen Receptor for Chemokines accounts for millions of extra cases in sub-saharan Africa claiming prevalence in Countries like Nigeria and Mauritania. If this is true, is it not possible that pharmaceutical companies dealing in malaria drugs wickedly introduced this virus into the drugs knowing well that malaria is a common disease in Africa? How come they are reluctant to fight it rigorously? Why is it that no clear-cut source of the virus has been identified? Is not possible to appeal to the detector of the virus to please reveal details. Is it an attempt to wipe out black race? I am touched...  more

Resolved Question: Will you tell me what you think of my essay? On Africa?

Surely the world is quick to judge. At all times we are ready to point the blame at someone else. We are ready to say it wasn't me, and we are ready to make excuses. With our biggest concerns being ourselves and our favorite word being I, we don't know what is happening outside of our country. We don't know about Africa, and many of us don't care. We don't care that millions of people die every year of aids, and we don't care about the hurt of this forgotten continent. And why don't we care? Maybe it's because we're too busy dealing with our own drama, or maybe because we know nothing about it. I think it's time to start caring and to open those eyes of ours that have been closed for way too long. Where someone lives shouldn't determine whether they live. And it doesn't have to, if we all just start caring. With organizations out there like Invisible children, World vision, Compassion International, Food for the Hungry, and many more it is very easy to take part in this battle against war, famine, aids, poverty, forgotten ness and so much more. Whether you have money to sponsor a child, time to volunteer or just the drive to educate yourself on the world around you and share it with others, there is something everyone can do to help. Time is running out and every minute a child is dying. My goal and dream is to go to Africa one day hopefully soon. Until that opportunity comes I will not quit praying and dreaming that one day I will be there. If another another racist, judgmental comment be made about Africa, and most importantly I will not loose hope. As Bono once said, "God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives and God is with us if we are with them.” If you can, just pray for every child in Africa. Everyday 3,000 people, just like you and me, die from malaria. A disease carried my misquotes that can't be cured. Pray, pray and pray some more. I cannot thank God more for my home, family, food, running water, my friends, and everything else we have. Think about it. If I didn't have the passion and faith to do this, I wouldn't. But I do. 17 million people in Africa have died of AIDS At least 25 million people in Africa are HIV-positive 12 million children who have lost their parents to AIDS face a precarious future. It is estimated that the African economy loses more than $12 billion USD a year because of malaria. Almost half of all Africans live on less than $1 (USD) a day --- the number of people living in poverty grew from 220,000,000 in 1990 to 300,000,000 in 1998. Estimated 24,500,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS. It has almost 90% of the world's fatal Malaria cases About 30% of children .. --> in Sub-Saharan Africa -->die or are disabled due to acute respiratory infections -- 60% are caused by air pollution. One in six African children dies before the age of five. Most of these deaths could be prevented. Only 57% of African children are enrolled in primary education, and one in three of those does not complete school. On average an American uses 170 gallons of water each day! Africa has what America needs, and America has what Africa needs. Africa needs help. Yes, they need food, water, money, medicine clothing, and shelter, but most importantly they need help with how to gain all those things by themselves. War, disease and famine have struck them and they need help on how to be able to acquire all these things on their own. Food drops, a check, and donated clothing will help, and are very important. But, in order for Africa to be able to stand on its own two feet, we need to teach and help them. Africans struggle to stay alive each day, they need resources Americans have too much of. America has many materialistic problems, and a constant need for more. If Americans would lend a hand to Africa, they would quickly learn how to live each day with being thankful for what they have. They would learn how to be happy with nothing and thankful for everything. The God in America is the same God as in Africa.  more

Resolved Question: What do you think of my speech..?

Did you know that more people died of AIDS in Africa from 1999-2000 than in all the wars on the continent? Did you also know that more than 800 million people live in Africa, almost three times the amount of people in the Untied States and still of all the money that is invested globally in foreign enterprise, Africa receives less than one half of 1 per cent? Sub-Saharan Africa is affected most by HIV and AIDS than any other place in the world. 32.8 million people were infected with this desease and about 80% of African deaths due to AIDS happened just in that region. Adult pravelence rates are rising rapidly. No one thought that Swaziland could be so heavily affected by AIDS that 33.4% of adults are infected. That’s just adults. More and more children are getting the disease too. Recent studies show that 20% of Africa’s children will die before the age of five. i'm not finished but thats all i have  more

Resolved Question: Aids in Africa?

How much money has been spent in Sub-Saharan Africa on the Aids Effort and how many people have been saved? please answer as accurately as possible, and sources are preferred :D  more

Resolved Question: Aids...how many lost?

how many live have been lost due to aids?? since the beginning of time?? or in sub-saharan africa??  more

Resolved Question: aids...lives lost?

how many live have been lost due to aids?? since the beginning of time?? or in sub-saharan africa??  more

Resolved Question: i have heard that most scientists believe that aids was created from african people having sex with monkeys.?

is this true? i know wikipedia cant be trusted but it does talk about how scientists believe that aids came from africa and hes a quote from wikipedia about aids "Most researchers believe that HIV originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century"  more

Voting Question: the largest decline in percentage of global population in history was the...?

A) Black Death in Europe B) global flu pandemic of 1918-1919 C) spread of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa in the 20th century D)spread of syphilis in Renaissance Europe E) epidemics in 16th century Mesoamerica  more

Voting Question: AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Why has AIDS spread so much in this area? What are the ignored and misrepresented reasons? thanks  more

Resolved Question: Aids/HIV is or is not a problem in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Resolved Question: I have to write a paper today about the aids in africa?

what is the actual ampount of people living with aids in africa today. No not sub saharan africa, just africa as a whole. I swear I can't find it. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!  more

Resolved Question: AIDS Vaccine research funding has $854 million, microbicide funding is $217 million. Why the disparity?

I am writing a paper on AIDS microbicides vs vaccines, and one issue I am having a hard time dealing with is the reason behind the huge disparity in funding for the two approaches to controlling the AIDS epidemic. Personally, it seems that a microbicide is more within reach at this time, so it should have more funding to quickly get it in the hands of women, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. However, a vaccine would obviously be the ideal answer. Can you guys help with ideas on why this disparity exists? (almost 4 times more money goes to vaccine research than microbicide research). Who decides, and why did they allocate it this way? Note: a microbicide is not a treatment--it's used to prevent HIV infection AFTER risky treatment. It's worthless once HIV has infected your T cells. @Snout: a few things to point out: the time line makes all the difference: microbicides are farther down the pipeline, so they may come out first. That company will definitely sit on a gold mine. Next, the funding for the alternate paths is not only from commercial or pharmaceutical sources, governments and NGOs are doing this as well, which do not have profit in mind (hopefully).  more

Resolved Question: What can be done to bring sub-Saharan Africa into the mainstream of world focus?

Outside the continent, people living in most countries have a dark, negative image of Africa and Africans. Sorry if it sounds cruel but this 'Africans are subhuman' stereotype is still deeply ingrained in the heart of MANY people. History/Geography lessons in the textbooks of Western schoolchildren portray them as uncivilised barbarians. The very mention of the word Africa conjures up images of poverty, famine, AIDS, civil wars, dictators. This is the main reason why the rest of the world seems to ignore Africa and its people; last two decades we saw the famine in Ethiopia which killed millions, the genocide in Rwanda, the genocide in Eritrea, the savage brutalities seen in the civil wars of Congo and Liberia and also the AIDS time bomb which has made Africa's image even worse. The only time we Westerners care about Africa is when "White" farmers in Zimbabwe are being murdered or South Africa where Whites still form 3.5 million people. @ Ambrose You're somewhat incorrect. Africa has a lot of natural resources including oil. Western countries still need Africa for its natural resources. But the people of Africa simply are a "theme park" whereas it's not true. Countries like Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal have made explosive strides in infrastructure, planned cities and civic institutions. Noone knows the bright side of Africa and that's what hurts me.  more

Resolved Question: need help..BEST ANSWER?

what would the US gain in increasing aid to sub saharan africa?  more

Resolved Question: How many of you disagree with the fact that White European race is behind all inventions on Earth?

Now don't bring me the famous lie Africans building Pyramids (ruling elites of Ancient Egypt were a upper-clas Middle Eastern). Truth is before the White man's arrival sub-Saharan Africa rarely progressed beyond mud huts. Asian countries like China, Japan, Korea and India have the same characteristics as White ones except they rarely invent original...simply know how to improvise upon existing technologies like you have Toyota cars (not denying them a few original ideas like gunpowder, silk, Tea, compass, Arithmetic and Geometry etc.) Now look at White countries. From the ball-point pen to fibre-optic cables; telephone to the Internet; automobiles to jet aeroplanes and now spacecraft; all famous sports such as football, tennis, golf you name it; hearing aid for the deaf to packaged foods in the supermarket -truth is WHITE PEOPLE have brought ALL the change in this world today and will continue to do so in the future. If White race falls, so will civilisation. @ John K and others I did say I'm giving full credit to Asian inventions but they are fewer in comparison to White inventions. That is my point. @ John K You would want to check Black invention myths http://inventors.about.com/od/blackinventors/a/black_myths.htm My source is not a propaganda website but About.com which is as PC as it can get. Try to face facts. Blacks are incapable of invention. It's certainly not in their genes to think originally. Why Africa has thousands of miles of coastline yet they never built a boat until Europeans came on shore.  more

Voting Question: All US Bashers, where is the relief $$ from the rest of the world?

Below is an excerpt from an article on Yahoo news today about US relief efforts in Africa to address the AIDS problem there. This is in light of all the US assistance to nations affected by the tsunami. I often read posts bashing the US for a variety of transgressions. Where are all the bashers now? Where is Europe, Russia, China, Australia South America with relief. Please provide numbers from a respected site. "The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — or PEPFAR for short — focuses on 15 mostly sub-Saharan African nations. Lantos' committee plans to vote this month on a bill to triple spending on it to $50 billion over five years, a sum that AIDS groups say is closer to the needs of meeting the continuing health crisis."  more

Resolved Question: grammatical errors?

Can anyone check for grammatical errors and clear organized sentences (do they make sense?) many thanks. 1) The region in the globe referred to as, "the epicenter of HIV/Aids" is Sub Saharan Africa. 2) The proportion of households affected by HIV/Aids officially headed by children is about in five. 3) 38 percent of the children working in mimes in the Republic of Tanzania, have been made orphans from HIV/Aids. 4) As part of the conflict between rebel groups and the government, 460 schools were burnt down in Aceh Indonesia. 5) Africa and Asia are two global realms to have the highest number of children involved in conflict as combatants. 6) An estimation of 20 million children have been made homeless in the last decade, due to conflict and human rights violations. 7) During the conflicts in the 1990's, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, and Rwanda created a policy to forcible have women and teens bear children by rape. 8) There are about 700 million children suffering from two or more deprivations, according to the university's criteria. 9) Presently 180 million children are involved in the worst forms of child labor. 10) Each year an estimated 2 million children (mostly girls) are trafficked into the commercial sex industry. my punctuations sucks  more

Resolved Question: Why do most people who live in the Sub-Saharan Africa have Aids/HIV?

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Resolved Question: what are the downsides for the US gov't to give money for aids in sub saharan africa?

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Resolved Question: AIDS Campaign at High School?

Okay, I'm reposting this question because apparently a lot of people didn't understand what I meant. The AIDS campaign is specifically to raise awarness about AIDS in countires facing the affects of poverty- like Sub Saharan Africa. It is not to tell high school kids not to have sex because they can get HIV. It is to raise awarness that every 13 seconds someone dies becasue of HIV/AIDS, and the money raised will go towards educating people, and providing medical assistence to those who are already HIV positive. Please, guys, this is supposed to be a great thing. I'm doing it through the Red Cross. So, my question is: What are some good ideas for the campaign that would get high school kids involved and raising money? Thanks!  more

Resolved Question: Any debaters! Please help me on my negative affirmative for hiv/aids in africa?

Im a negative speaker and i have to explain the hiv aids epidemic is NOT exaggerated in sub saharan Africa. Please help!  more

Resolved Question: SHOULD OTHER COUNTRIES HELP AFRICA with the HIV/AIDS TREAMENTS?

Most people are not treated for HIV-AIDS because they cannot afford expensive drug therapy. Should other countries and/or pharmaceutical companies make an effort to provide low-cost drug treatments in sub-Saharan Africa?  more

Resolved Question: America, despite being wealthy, drops four places to 12th. Human Development Index, From Economist.com, Nov 27

ICELAND gives its citizens the best chance of a prosperous and fulfilled life according to the UN's annual human development index. This ranks 177 countries on measures of health, wealth and education. Icelanders' longevity has allowed the country to overhaul Norway and claim first place this year. America, despite being wealthy, drops four places to 12th. The bottom 24 countries are in sub-Saharan Africa. Violence, poor governance and HIV/AIDS are mainly to blame. Iraq and Afghanistan do not produce enough data to be included. http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10200995&fsrc=nwl  more

Resolved Question: Please explain how the U.S. doesn't even make it in the top TEN countries in which to live??

Excerpt from yahoo: Iceland has overtaken Norway as the world's most desirable country to live in, according to an annual U.N. table published on Tuesday that again puts AIDS-afflicted sub-Saharan African states at the bottom. Rich free-market countries dominate the top places, with Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada and Ireland the first five but the United States slipping to 12th place from eighth last year in the U.N. Human Development Index. But the index, blending 2005 figures for life expectancy, educational levels and real per capita income, finds that all 22 countries falling into its "low human development" category are in sub-Saharan Africa, with Sierra Leone last. ************************************ Yes, I can see how national health care is really awful- the first five countries all have and seem to be doing quite well in every way... With all our resources, there is NO EXCUSE for us not to be Numero Uno!  more

Resolved Question: The Left Exaggerated AIDS (Global Warming, Anybody?)?

The Left Exaggerated AIDS (Global Warming, Anybody?) From the Washington Post Foreign Service today, a new report to show UN overestimated AIDS epidemic. Now, why would they do that? Why would the UN overestimate the AIDS epidemic? Can anybody say money? Same reason Ted Danson overestimated the death of the oceans. Can anybody ask the same question about global warming? Why would the UN be overestimating the destruction from global warming? "The United Nations' top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement. AIDS remains a devastating public health crisis in the most heavily affected areas of sub-Saharan Africa. But the far-reaching revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers who disputed the U.N. portrayal of an ever-expanding global epidemic." Just take the AIDS epidemic outta here and put global warming in it and you've got an identical story in about ten years. "The latest estimates, due to be released publicly Tuesday, put the number of annual new HIV infections at 2.5 million, a cut of more than 40 percent from last year's estimate, documents show. ... Having millions fewer people with a lethal contagious disease is good news..." However, as is the case with the Drive-By Media, there is always a "however" after the good news. "Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS." Oooh, okay, so they did it strategically. They were smart. They lied on purpose to get our attention, to make sure we knew just how rotten it was going to be, and to make sure that governments around the world and individuals threw money at AIDS programs all over the world, administered by the United Nations. Can anybody say, global warming overestimated? Same bunch of people. In fact, this last line, last paragraph, I never thought that I would see this in the Washington Post: "Beyond Africa, AIDS is more likely to be concentrated among high-risk groups, such as users of injectable drugs, sex workers and gay men. More precise measurements of infection rates should allow for better targeting of prevention measures, researchers say." I don't want to rehash a bunch of history, but I'm sure you all remember back in the eighties when Ronaldus Magnus was president and the AIDS epidemic was spreading because Reagan didn't care, and he had never uttered the word, and if we weren't careful this was going to spread to the heterosexual population in a geometric fashion and it was going to be devastating. So then we started teaching kids how to use condoms, you know, using bananas and cucumbers in school. The condom craze started because it was going to spread to the heterosexual community and so forth. There was never any evidence that it was spreading to the heterosexual community, not sexually anyway, and if you said that, then you were guilty of a hate crime and profiling and discrimination, and all of that. Now, remember what is fundamentally involved in all this: science. Science told us it was going to spread; it was going to spread to the heterosexual community. Science told us it was going to spread at geometric rates. It was a consensus of scientists. Scientists, scientists, scientists told us that this was all going to be one of the most devastating things around the world. It was time to cough up money for education, and condoms, and cucumbers and all that, and we had rock stars like Bono establish philanthropic careers on the basis of all this, all based on science. I think I read the other day -- correct me if I'm wrong down the road -- but I think somebody's discovered the original case of AIDS in this country was brought in by a Haitian immigrant; is that right? In the fifties? Whatever, it wasn't the eighties. Reagan had nothing to do with it. The left politicizes virtually everything. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111900978_pf.html http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071120082258.pmvwp8f9&show_article=1 http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071120/D8T14OD80.html  more

Resolved Question: Don't you hate teachers who know nothing. My History teacher says there are no Christians in African???

Also divided African in three parts North Africa Sahara Desert Sub-Saharan African... I wanted to say North African and the Sahara Desert are the same. And that western African is Sub-Saharan African and that his sub-saharan african was actually Southern African. I didn't want to sound like a nerd or anything.... How can someone be so stupid though. Hes a cool teacher, shows a little, lot of bias towards the football players but just is stupid. Its not just these things though many others too. Like the monkey theory on Aids is that people had sex wih monkeys not about how they ate them and drank the blood, no but they had sex with them, monkeys.  more

Resolved Question: Can somebody please tell me what this means?

Okay, I know this is in the wrong section but no one answers anything in homework help I just checked so I'm answering it here so I can atleast get an Idea. I have to write a speech about why we shouldn't substantially increase public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa. I found a source that said foreign aid props up corrupt dictators. What makes a dictator corrupt? and What does 'prop up' mean? Can someone please tell me? I'm only taking answers the evening of November 12th so anyone seeing this after that date doesn't need to answer. Thanks a bunch.  more

Resolved Question: Does anyone have any information to counter this:"The US should aid sub-saharan Africa."?

I don't want any opinions. I need professional articles/ opinions. Also, Please don't post if you are just going to say We should help Africa. This is for debate and I am negative. Any info saying how we should not help Africa will be helpful. If you know any sites that will be very nice. anythings showing that money has been wasted there or that tries in the past were failures or anything at all. please post  more

Resolved Question: Are AIDS and child soldiers in Sub-Saharan Africa related?

AIDS and Child Soldiers are growing epidemics in the nations of Sub-saharan Africa, but are they related? If you believe so, could you find some evidence via Internet to prove this?  more

Resolved Question: I really hope the "good governance" prize is what is going to spark off the much needed change in many..

.. African countries. It is said that money rules. Maybe it can buy morals for those whose morals don't come naturally (and these are not only in Africa but everywhere). So before some African rulers begin thinking of pocketing millions in a local currency they will be working towards winning, or competing amongst themselves inorder to win the five million dollar "good governance" prize. I really really really hope this will be the case. Don't you - for a change?! See below. Chissano Awarded African Leadership Prize By Tendai Maphosa London 22 October 2007 Former Mozambique President Joachim Chissano is the first recipient of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African leadership. Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan made the announcement in London. Tendai Maphosa has this report from there for VOA. Joachim Chissano becomes the first former African leader to be awarded the $5 million Mo Ibrahim Foundation's Prize for Achievement in African leadership. The prize recognizes an African leader who was freely elected, and stepped down at the end of his or her constitutional term over the past three years. Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan chaired the selection committee. He praised Mr. Chissano, citing economic progress, infrastructure development and the tackling of HIV/AIDS during his presidency. But Mr. Annan said it was for his role in leading Mozambique from conflict to democracy that Mr. Chissano made his most outstanding contribution. "It is a measure of the change that has taken place, that national and regional elections have been contested in a generally peaceful manner by both sides in the bitter civil war," he said. "This remarkable reconciliation between opponents provides a shining example to the rest of the world, and it is testament to both his strength of character and his leadership. " Mr. Chissano fought in his country's war of independence against the Portuguese. At independence in 1975, he became foreign minister. He took over his country's leadership when President Samora Machel died in a plane crash in 1986. Mr. Chissano is credited with negotiating an end to the country's 16-year civil war in 1992. The opposition participated in democratic elections two years later. The award, the largest philanthropic prize in the world, is the brainchild of Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born mobile-phone entrepreneur, who now lives in London. He hopes it will encourage better governance in Africa. Mr. Chissano will receive $5 million over 10 years, and $200,000 annually thereafter. An additional $200,000 a year will be given to the winner's public interest activities and good causes. Critics of the prize argue that leaders should not be rewarded for doing what they are chosen to do anyway. Selection committee member Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala disagrees. "Africa has had quite a bad rap internationally, in terms of being seen as a continent that does not have good enough leaders," said Okonjo-Iweala. "So, this is one way to show the outside world that we do indeed have men and women, who can step up to the plate and exhibit the kind of leadership that makes all of us proud." The Mo Ibrahim Foundation also published its first Index of African Governance last month. The index ranks 48 sub-Saharan countries against an index of governance indicators. Mauritius topped that list while Somalia was last.  more

Resolved Question: How can the US government aid public health assitance to sub Saharan Africa?

What is a systematic way for the US federal government to increase public health assistance to sub Saharan Africa? I'm just looking for possible some ideas.  more

Resolved Question: Does anyone know where i can get debate information thats already cut?

The topic for policy debate this year or resolution is to increase aid in sub saharan africa. i need to know if anyone knows where i can get evidence for free to little money. Preferibly already cut but its not a must. Aff, Neg, DA. Anything. If you could help i would greatly apprecciate it thanks. :-)  more

Resolved Question: Why Do We Sterilize Dogs & Cats, But Not People?

Pets are sterilized because the population is overgrown & out of control. Likewise, the population of humans is growing to be more than earth can sustain. Why don't we set about sterilizing humans? Perhaps, beginning with the third-world? Perhaps, sub-saharan Africa? Their quality of life will be nonexistant and they will probably die young anyway of AIDS or malnutrition, wouldn't it be better if they were just never born? Discuss.  more

Resolved Question: What is the benefit to the US to provide meds to HIV/AIDS patients in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Since "cash is king", what is the economic benefit to the US to provide AIDS drugs and eliminate the debt to Sub-Saharan African countries. This is for a research paper, so please cite your source. FYI I'm not the one who needs an economic benefit to save people's lives. If I had the resources, I'd give everyone what they needed. Unfortunately, Americans, especially politicians worship money and wouldn't save their own grandmothers without seeing the economic benefit. If we want to get people on board to do as much good as possible, we have to appeal to money-worshippers, not just humanitarians. It may seem like a heartless question, but we live in a society where primary decision-makers are heartless people. Why else would we spend $10M on a toilet to go up in space while people in our own backyard are going to bed hungry? So please, save your self-righteousness for someone who needs it.  more

Resolved Question: Doing a assignment for Debate class. Need a good website displaying information on aids in africa.?

I need a website with information on aids in Sub-Saharan Africa can anyone help?  more

Resolved Question: Need information about "Steaven Lewis Foundation".?

It is a foundation that funds HIV/AIDS activities in sub-saharan Africa.  more

Resolved Question: Putin; "sick people cannot defend a nation; so whay are you ignoring the obvious"????????

(07-28) 04:00 PDT St. Petersburg, Russia -- Russia is on the brink of an AIDS catastrophe, experts say, that could lead to infection rates rarely seen outside sub-Saharan Africa. And the government is doing next to nothing to avert the disaster. The nation of 146 million people has the fastest growing epidemic of HIV infection in the world, the United Nations AIDS program reported last month, with a particularly dramatic rise among heterosexuals practicing unsafe sex. If the infection continues to grow at its current rate, more than 5 million Russians could have HIV by 2007, said Vadim Pokrovsky, Russia's top AIDS researcher and director of the Moscow-based Center for AIDS Prevention and Treatment. But the government devotes a mere $5 million to HIV treatment annually - a sum that Pokrovsky and other health experts say is laughably small - compared with more than $5 billion spent by the United States. He says $65 million is needed immediately for programs to prevent and treat HIV. But it is not only the government that is guilty of inaction. On the subject of AIDS, the whole country is in denial  more

Resolved Question: get information on specific models for promoting hygiene and sanitation & integrating hygiene into HIV/AIDS?

The point is how to enhance the capacity (skills, promtoional materials & information) of those involved in hygiene education, home care for PLWAs and sanitation marketing in rural areas in sub saharan Africa.  more

Resolved Question: why doesnt Africa take responsibility for itself?

Why dosent Africa take resposiblity for itself and why do they keep on expecting the rest of the world to look after them and support them, Every African government is usesless and corrupt and the African governments do nothing to help there people and while these African governments live in lives of luxury with their big mansions and bmws and mercedes cars there own people are starving dying and living in poverty. When Africa was under white European rule it was wealthy stable and successful and now that the white Europeans are no longer in power Africa has detoriated and has become a complete basketcase which is totally incapable of looking after itself. Particuarly Sub Saharan Africa the blacks have completely ruined the countries and now they are starving and dying of aids and other deseases and they brought it on themselves because under white rule they were all feed and looked after. now that they have kicked out the whites they ironically still expect whites to look after them which is very hypercritical of the blacks. The rest of the world should stop helping Africa and should make Africa look after and support itself and if the Africans can't look afterthemselves then that's too bad. To fruit salad, yes blacks can not run countries, just take a look at every country which is under black rule and you will find that those countries are a failure and they are rife with poverty crime violence and corruption. There is not any country in the world under black rule that is first world, sure there are black countries which are quite civilised and stable but it's only because those countries have whites and Asians which are the backbone of those countries economies and civilisations. To the poster that said that Africa has alot less natural resources then Europe that is a big load of rubbish, Africa is the most naturally resourcefully rich continent in the world, it has diamonds gold oil silver copper nickel iron ore timber gas uranium suger coffee rice bannanas ivory etc, thats why there are also so many wars and conflicts in Africa which are fought over natural resources such as diamonds and oil. No other continent in the world not even Europe has as much natural resources as Africa, with Africa being the most naturally resourcefully rich continent in the world it should be the wealthiest continet in the world but instead is the poorest continet in the world due to the corruption and incompetency of the native African people which are incapable of creating and maintaining succesful civilised countries. To NUNU you are way wrong when you say that the European colonists left the African countries in debt, that has never been the case, every African country that has ben under white rule was succesful civilised and stable and now that the whites are no longer in power and the power has been given to the blacks the blacks have completely ruined the countries. Just take a look at what has now happened to Rhodesia which is now Zimbabwe, it was once a breadbasket and now it's a complete basketcase and a total failure and the people are starving all thanks to the brutal black tyrant Robert Mugabe. Also take a look at Ethiopia and Liberia, those countries were never colonised by Europeans and both of those countries are in complete turmoil and they have always been the poorest and most backwards countries in Africa. Especially Liberia which has been completely destroyed and left in ruins by over a decade of civil war.  more

Resolved Question: Democratic Debate Part 3 Few errors, lots of dreaming.?

Democratic Debate Part 3 June 29, 2007 Few errors, lots of dreaming. Summary We caught a few candidates off base at the third debate among Democratic contenders for the 2008 presidential nomination: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson claimed one in five of "the African people" are infected with HIV/AIDS. That's not even close. The actual rate of infection for sub-Saharan Africa is 5.8 percent. Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich claimed that "our tax dollars right now are being spent overwhelmingly on war and military buildup." In fact, all defense spending amounts to just 23.6 percent of the budget, or about half what is spent on Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs. Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel claimed that 70 percent of prison inmates are African Americans. Actually, the figure is 40 percent  more

Resolved Question: What is the purpose of $30 billion to fight AIDS in Africa ? when he already committed $10 bil 3 yrs ago?

ROME- President Bush, denounced by tens of thousands of anti-American protesters on the streets of Rome, defended his humanitarian record on Saturday to Pope Benedict XVI, who expressed concern about "the worrisome situation in Iraq." The president went to the Vatican for his first meeting with the pope, who has lamented the "continual slaughter" in Iraq and concluded that "nothing positive comes from Iraq?" Highly unpopular in Italy and across Europe, the president made a point about U.S. efforts to fight disease and poverty in Africa. Bush recalled that he had asked Congress to double the commitment for fighting AIDS in Africa, from $15 billion to $30 billion. Does the $$ ever reach these countries? In other words, what overall Afircan organization receives US monies to fight AIDS? SOMEBODY has the funds already committed and yet, AIDS is increasing,(mainly clustered in Sub Saharan Africa), (Also interesting - No AIDS cases in Muslim countries in Africa)  more

Resolved Question: epidemiology of HIV-AIDS infection in Africa?

need detailed overview of HIV-AIDS infection in sub-saharan Africa.figures;infected,mortality,projections for coming year.Risk groups,available treatment,theories of how the disease got there etc  more

Resolved Question: Do you think that we should provide more federal AID to Sub-Saharan Africa? Why or why not?

Sorry, no caps in "aid". I was just talking to someone about AIDS in Africa, so, maybe that's where that came from. lol Wow, I'm totally out of it this morning.  more

Resolved Question: Do you think that we should increase public heath aid to Sub-Saharan Africa. Why or why not?

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Resolved Question: Middle east & Africa.....questions that need answers.?

Africa 1. Why would Nelson Mandela be considered a Rain Maker? 2. Explain the 3 reasons Europe Imperialized Africa? 3. Describe the trade triangle during the Slave Trade era? 4. How does the environment inhibit the development of Africa? 5. Describe 3 ways in which AIDS affects Sub-Saharan Africa? 6. How did the Berlin Conference effect Africa's development? 7. Describe Apartheid and its lasting effects on Africa? 8. Explain Genocide as it relates to a conflict in Africa? Middle East 1. How has the physical environment and its location helped the Middle East develop a successful economy. 2. Describe all the ways in which Judaism, Christianity and Islam are similar. 3. Define and Describe the 5 Pillars of Islam. 4. In your opinion, who is more to blame for the recent conflict and lack of peace in Israel today? Justify answer with specific details. if ya'll cant give me the answers, could ya'll at least tell me where i could find them all. internet...etc.  more

Resolved Question: United States government should increase public health to Sub-Saharan Africa?

for what reasons do you think that, besides HIV/AIDS any input would be great!  more

Resolved Question: The Origin of Aids....Please someone tell me if it's true!?

The Manmade Origin Of AIDS By Paris and Dr. Kwame Nantambu Yes, you read it correctly. AIDS is manmade. Here you will read, explicitly, that the US government funded the creation of this virus that would "lead to yet another method of massive killing of large populations" and "be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease." Yes, there is most definitely a war going on, and it is much scarier than you probably ever imagined. Read on: The Development of the AIDS virus was funded in 1969 through funds obtained by the United States Defense Department via House Bill 15090. The Bill, which called for the US Defense Department to receive $10 million dollars to research, test and develop the virus, was reviewed in Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives during the ninety-first Congress in review of the Defense Appropriations for 1970. Copies of the full text of the Bill are not available in any public library and are impossible to locate online, although many other Bills are. Part Five of H.R. 15090 was entitled RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, sponsored by the Department of the Army, the Advanced Research Project Agency (now DARPA), and Defense Research and Engineering. The Feasibility program and laboratories were to have been completed by 1974 - 1975 and the virus between 1974 - 1979. The World Health Organization (WHO) started to inject AIDS - laced smallpox vaccine (Vaccina) into Africans in 1977. Over 2000 young white male homosexuals were injected with laced Hepatitis B vaccine in 1978 through the Centers for Disease Control and the New York Blood Center. The development of the virus apparently had a dual purpose: (1) As a political/ethnic weapon to be used against black individuals and (2) one of the programmed efforts at de-population. For the record it must be stated emphatically that the origin of AIDS has absolutely nothing to do with the green monkey, African people nor the Haitians. The stark reality is that, according to The Strecker Memorandum (1983): -AIDS is a man-made disease -AIDS is not a homosexual disease -AIDS is not a venereal disease -AIDS can be carried by mosquitoes -Condoms will reduce the chances of, but not prevent AIDS -There are at least six different AIDS viruses in the world 1 AIDS represents the most potent medical weapon in the armory of Europeans to annihilate, decimate and castrate African, Hispanic and Asian peoples under the rubric of European supremacy. Why and How was AIDS Created? The AIDS virus was created 'as a political/ethnic weapon to be used mainly against Blacks. 2 "AIDS is biological warfare at its Euro-supremacist zenith," according to Malcolm Turner in his book AIDS is Biological Warfare: A Warning to African People. "AIDS is not an act of God against homosexuals; it did not appear out of thin air and it did not come from Africa. It was designed to kill people of color and a review of the statistics show that this is exactly what is happening...it is the creation of a sick, demented white racist power structure... 3 The creation and subsequent deployment of the AIDS virus by the World Health Organization was not just a diabolical scientific exercise that got out of hand. It was a cold-blood successful attempt to create a killer virus which was then used in a successful experiment in Africa. 4 The creation of AIDS "was not an accident?. It was deliberate. 5 AIDS is nothing less than genocide by white racists against the rest of humanity. 6 The Real Origin of AIDS The AIDS virus was created by the United States government at Fort Dietrich in Maryland, a biological warfare laboratory in building number A550 in the P4 lab. The sum of US $10m was requested by the Defense Department to build the lab under the House of Representatives Bill number H.R. 15090 in the 91st Congress in 1970. 7 Dr. Theodore Strecker writes, "The US National Cancer institute, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, manufactured the AIDS virus in their laboratories at Fort Detrich, Maryland. They combined two deadly retroviruses, the Bovine Leukemia Virus and the Visna Virus, and injected them into human tissue cultures. The result was the AIDS virus, the first human retrovirus known to man and now believed to be 100 percent fatal to those infected. 8 Dr. Strecker further contends that AIDS couldn't have engineered itself, and reiterates that it was produced in a laboratory by virologists. "The World Health Organization (WHO) called for scientists to work with these deadly agents and attempt to make a hybrid virus that would be deadly to humans. An attempt was made to see if viruses could in fact exert selective effects on immune function. The possibility was looked into that the immune response to the virus itself would be impaired if the infecting virus damaged, more or less selectively, the cell responding to the virus? 9 The AIDS epidemic was triggered by the mass vaccination campaign which eradicated smallpox. 10 In fact, the WHO itself has studied "new scientific evidence suggesting that immunization with the smallpox vaccine Vaccinia, awakened the unsuspected, dormant human immuno defense virus infection (HIV). 11 Pearce Wright, an advisor to the WHO, writes, "I thought it was just a coincidence until we studied the latest findings about the reactions which can be caused by Vaccinia. Now I believe the smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation to the explosion of AIDS?. 12 The fact of the matter is that the WHO concluded that "in the relation to the immune response, a number of useful experimental approaches can be visualized?. 13 As a result, "they suggested that a way to do this would be to put their new killer virus (AIDS) into a vaccination program, sit back and observe the results. 14 The WHO used smallpox vaccine as their vicious vehicle to spread the AIDS virus and the geographic areas chosen were Uganda and other African countries, Haiti, Brazil and Japan. The present "AIDS epidemic coincides with these geographical areas. 15 As an addendum, "there is also substantial evidence" to show that a confidential source in the WHO has revealed that there is "a strong correlation between the proportion of people in different central African countries who consented to the smallpox vaccine program and the proportion of those now infected with AIDS. 16 The stark reality is that "the AIDS virus must be a man-made, bio-engineered virus. 17 Hence, it's no great surprise that the WHO, in true Euro-supremacist modus operandi, "started to inject AIDS-laced smallpox vaccine (Vaccina) into over 100 million Africans (as part of its global non-European population reduction program) in 1977. 18 Dr. Theodore A. Strecker further writes, "If the African green monkey could transmit AIDS to humans, the present known amount of infection in Africa makes it statistically impossible for a single episode, such as a monkey biting someone, to have brought this epidemic to this point. The doubling time of the number of people infected, about every 14 months, when correlated with the first known case, and the present known number of cases, prove beyond a doubt that a large number of people had to have been infected at the same time. Starting in 1972 with the first case from our mythical monkey and doubling the number infected from that single source every 14 months you get only a few thousand cases. From 1972 to 1987 is 15 years or 180 months. If it takes 14 months to double the number of cases, then there would have been 13 doublings, 1 then 2, then 4, then 8, etc. In 15 years, from a single source of infection there would be about 8,000 cases in Africa, not 75 million AIDS infected people. We are approaching World War II mortality statistics here without a shot being fired. 19 The fact of the matter is that under the current European global policy of annihilating people of color, "AIDS is expected to kill more people and orphan more children than all the wars of the 20th century combined. 20 The Global Impact of AIDS The spread of the AIDS virus is omnipresent among African peoples and people of color. AIDS is without any doubt, the largest epidemic in human history. The global magnitude of the impact of AIDS is such that as of June 2001, "more than 70 percent of the people with the virus that causes AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region in the world. 21 AIDS has transformed Africa into a "killing field. 22 In fifteen years, "AIDS has killed 11 million Africans, more than 80 percent of the world's AIDS deaths. 23 AIDS "has struck some 36 million people, 25.3 million of them in Africa, and orphaned 13 million children. 24 According to the United Nations in 1998, there are 5,500 AIDS-related funerals every day in Africa. 25 In Zimbabwe alone, 1,200 die each week from AIDS. As of February 2001, there are 5.8 million AIDS cases in South/Southeast Asia, 1.4 million in Latin America, and 640,000 in East Asia. In fact, in June 1991, it was reported that "by the end of this decade, Asia will be the epicenter of the worldwide AIDS epidemic, host to the fastest-growing AIDS population in the world. 26 As of February 2000, the Caribbean has as high as 700,000 people infected with AIDS, thus making the region "the second largest incidence in the world after Africa. 27 In the case of the United States, African-Americans account for about 11 percent of the national population but 57 percent of the AIDS cases. In 1999, African-Americans and Hispanics accounted for almost 70 percent of new HIV infections. However, strangely enough, death rates in Europe of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS have fallen 84 percent since 1985. 28 The reality is that two-thirds of the people in the world infected with AIDS today are in sub-Saharan Africa, but only about 2 percent are in Western Europe. That is no accident. It is genocide. The sole purpose of this heinous man-made virus is to reduce the global population of African peoples and people of color through AIDS decimation, annihilation and castration, by any and all means necessary. AIDS represents a medical intifadah declared against African people and people of color. The Tuskegee Experiment A relevant comparison analysis is the Tuskegee Experiment that was conducted by the U.S. government on innocent and unsuspecting African-American males from 1932-1972. In 1932, the United States Public Health Services solicited and recruited about 400 African-American males as guinea pigs in "one of the most notorious medical experiments ever" on the study of the effects of syphilis in Macon County, Alabama. 29 These subjects never gave informed consent for their participation in the study. "The Black men were never told they had syphilis nor were they told their disease could endanger their families. 30 In the fall of 1932, handbills were posted and circulated at several church gatherings in the poor county, where even the one black doctor served only those who could afford to pay. The ads promised "special treatment" for men with "bad blood," which, to local folks, could mean anything from VD to anemia to indigestion. Eager to take advantage of any kind of medical care that was free, men signed up in droves. Sadly, even when a penicillin treatment cure for syphilis became available in the 1940s, the men in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment "were not allowed to receive the antibiotic. 31 By U.S. government decree "other doctors in Macon County were forbidden to treat any of the men in the study. 32 These Black men were sharecroppers with no formal education. "Many had never seen a doctor, much less been treated by one. Anything white people asked them to do, they did. 33 The U.S. has stated that "the purpose of the study was to record the destructive effects of untreated syphilis and to follow closely the medical progress of the group until each man died. 34 However, according to Martin P. Levine, the experiment was easily justified by physicians and scientists because "it was widely believed that Black racial inferiority made them a notoriously syphilis-soaked race. 35 These physicians and scientists were convinced that: "(The) smaller brains (of these Black men) lacked mechanisms for controlling sexual desire, causing them to be highly promiscuous. They matured early and consequently were more sexually active, and the Black man's enormous penis with its long foreskin was prone to venereal infections. These physiological differences meant that disease must affect the races differently. 36 Conclusion In sum, the U.S. government-sponsored Tuskegee Experiment is germ-biological warfare committed on its own citizens for 40 years. It must be noted, however, that in 1974, a US Civil Rights attorney won a $10m settlement from the government for the Tuskegee victims and their heirs, and another $2.1m payment was received in 1976. On May 16, 1997, then-President Bill Clinton issued an official public apology on behalf of the U.S. government to the victims of the Tuskegee experiment. 37 So you see, the notion of waging biological warfare on so-called undesirable populations is not a foreign one to the US Government. This is it's legacy - the greatest homicidal and genocidal killing machine in the history of civilization. AS POSTED BY DAMON. Each one reach and teach one........NATION note to all :- I HAVE NOT MADE UP MY MIND! I just read this and was like wut the hell, where did this come from. I don't know what to think but honestly you really can't put nyfin past politics can you? Lol to the American Haters comment. :')  more

Resolved Question: How might one affect change for the people and countries ravaged by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Sheriff's department aids in arrest after murder in Stillmore Saturday

With the aid of canine tracking dogs and Sheriff Bell and Deputy Kersey of Candler County Sheriff's Department, the suspect, Kevin Shane Sutton, 36, of Stillmore, was captured in the Metter area near I-16 around 6 a.m. Sunday morning. The alleged murder weapon was also located in the Metter area.
Sutton was charged with murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He is currently being held in Emanuel County Jail without bond. The case remains under investigation.
“I was very pleased with my staff on the quick response and hard work by Chief Deputy Joel Beecher, Investigators Stuart Fagler and Ashley Riner, and all of my deputies working on this case," said Sheriff Stephens in the press release. more