More like indentured servitude, but sure. We are forced to contribute to social security/medicare so we should be able to have those benefits in exchange. Heck, I have to pay unemployment insurance on myself and it would be virtually impossible for me to ever collect unemployment off myself short of a history channel doomsday scenario in which there would be nobody left to pay me my unemployment.
Give Iran big supplies of condoms to be passed out free to its citizens. If they choose not to use them and practice unsafe sexual activity, then they are responsible for its consequences. It's a well known fact that gay men have no problem with meeting several guys and having unsafe sex without considering the consequences for their actions.
AIDS Crusader Mathilde Krim Dies at Age 91...
Prominent AIDS Crusader Mathilde Krim Dies at Age 91
January 16, 2018 — Mathilde Krim, a prominent AIDS researcher who galvanized worldwide support in the early fight against the deadly disease, has died. She was 91.
See also:Krim was founding chairman of The Foundation for AIDS Research, or amfAR. The nonprofit says she died at her home in King's Point, New York, on Monday. amfAR Chief Executive Officer Kevin Robert Frost says in a statement "so many people alive today literally owe their lives" to her.
amfAR Founding Chairman Dr. Mathilde Krim attends amfAR's annual New York Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York
Krim was a geneticist with experience in cancer research when AIDS first surfaced in the early 1980s. Over the next several decades, she mobilized a vast army of celebrities and others to help raise money and to lessen the disease's stigma. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S.
https://www.voanews.com/a/prominent-...s/4211270.html
Scientists: Conflict in Ukraine Escalated Spread of HIV
January 15, 2018 — Fighting in Ukraine that erupted in 2014 escalated the spread of HIV throughout the country as millions of infected people were uprooted by violence, a study published Monday found.
Conflict-affected areas such as Donetsk and Luhansk, two large cities in the east of Ukraine, were the main exporters of the HIV virus to other parts of the country such as Kyiv and Odessa, the report found. Ukraine has among the highest HIV rates in Europe, with an estimated 220,000 infected in a country of about 45 million. An international team of scientists led by Oxford University and Public Health England analyzed viral migration patterns and found a correlation between the war-related movement of 1.7 million people and the spread of HIV. "The war changed a lot of things in Ukraine and the HIV epidemic is one of them," said lead author Tetyana Vasylyeva of Oxford University's Zoology department. "When we conducted our analysis, we were able to show that the viral spread from the East to the rest of the country had been intensified after the war."
A doctor takes an AIDS/HIV blood test in a mobile laboratory in Odessa, Ukraine
The HIV epidemic has shifted from being associated with drug injections in the 1990s to most new infections now being spread by sexual transmission, Vasylyeva told Reuters. Half of HIV-infected people in Ukraine are unaware of their infection status and around 40 percent of newly diagnosed people are in the later stages of the disease, she added. Almost 37 million people worldwide have the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. Since the first cases of HIV were reported more than 35 years ago, 35 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses, according to the United Nations AIDS program (UNAIDS), which is seeking to end the public health threat by 2030, in line with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. A Russia-backed insurgency erupted in Ukraine's industrialized east in 2014 and the bloodshed has continued despite a cease-fire deal brokered by Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine.
More than 10,000 people have been killed in the conflict, with casualties reported on a near-daily basis. Russia denies accusations from Ukraine and NATO that it supports the rebels with troops and weapons. The health study also found an alarmingly high resistance, compared to the rest of Europe, to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) a common treatment for HIV, said senior author and medical virologist, Gkikas Magiorkinis. "It's a worrying development and the policymakers should be alerted because it's going to be very, very difficult to use it [PrEP] in the near future in Ukraine," Magiorkinis told Reuters. Ukraine must scale-up interventions to prevent further transmissions of HIV, and seek international support to prevent a new public health tragedy, he said.
https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-co...y/4209467.html
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Where HIV is most prevalent...
Eastern, Southern Africa Most Affected by HIV Epidemic
July 21, 2018 — A report by UNAIDS, "Miles to go—closing gaps, breaking barriers, righting injustices", warns that the global response to HIV is at a critical point. Eastern and southern Africa remain the regions most affected by the HIV epidemic, accounting for 45 percent of the world's HIV infections and 53 percent of people with HIV globally.
An estimated 800,000 people in eastern and southern Africa acquired HIV in 2017, and an estimated 380,000 people died of AIDS-related illness, the report indicated. Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania accounted for more than half of the new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS-related illness in the region last year. The survey also indicated that there was discrimination against HIV positive persons in healthcare settings, especially towards key populations. Key populations include men who have sex with men, drugs users, transgender persons and sex workers, considered to be most at risk at contracting HIV.
There are nearly 1 million sex workers estimated to need services in the region. "For us it is important in fact we do have within NASCOP, a key population program, mainly targeting the key populations, the female sex workers, men who have sex with men and injecting drug users," said Dr. Kigen Barmasai, the director at Kenya's National Aids and STI Control Program, NASCOP "One, we know that this contributes to 33 percent of new infections in Kenya, from this key populations, of course the prevalence varies, we have prevalence from 29 percent in female sex workers to 18 percent among the injected drug users. So as a program we are working on this and we are spearheading the HIV prevention, treatment and care efforts to reverse the epidemic. For the last ten years we have been working on that."
Patients with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV wear masks while awaiting consultation at a clinic in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, South Africa.
More than half of the people surveyed who inject drugs said they avoided health-care services, citing discrimination or fear of law enforcement authorities. In Kenya homosexuality is illegal and being found guilty can lead to a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. Sex work is also illegal in Kenya. "The criminal nature of Key populations, and the acts of Key populations that make people shy away from accessing health care and even organizing, coming together so that they can organize," said Grace Kamau, chairperson of the Key population consortium in Kenya. "The main thing is the criminal nature. People fear to be arrested" The report said about two-thirds of all people living with HIV in the region were accessing antiretroviral therapy in 2017.
Kamau attributes the successes in reaching large numbers of Key populations in Kenya to availability of HIV resources made possible by donor funding, but she says more people are yet to be reached. "One of the things we have in Kenya is private clinics that are donor funded," said Kamau. "That is where the sex workers feel comfortable and that is where they access their services. And that is what has made the number to go high." The report indicates that there were 19.6 million people living with HIV in eastern and southern Africa at the end of 2017. Out of this number 81% were aware of their HIV status, an increase from 77% in 2016. West and central Africa continues to lag behind as statistics indicated AIDS-related deaths have fallen by only 24% in western and central Africa, compared to a 42% decline in eastern and southern Africa. Nigeria has more than half of the HIV burden in the region and there has been little progress in reducing new HIV infections there in recent years.
https://www.voanews.com/a/eastern-so...c/4492409.html
Can unsuspecting tourists get HIV from dining on human flesh, as has been known to be snuck into restaurant menus in Africa?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...e-9123693.html
waltky (07-21-2018)
I would retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some $#@! with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing.
John Rocker quotes82 up, 17 down
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"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"----Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales
waltky (07-21-2018)
waltky (07-21-2018)
yeah, let's a spend billions of your dollars so figoots can bareback with abandon.
...oh...and so worthless drug addicts can continue to be worthless burdens forever..
...and by yeah, I mean no.
Put on a condom...and get clean.
Just is Just
waltky (07-21-2018)