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2005-06-03 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by Steve White 2005-06-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ifn em un sayz stop. yalls beter stop!

Posted by muck4doo 2005-06-03 00:07|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-06-03 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL

Thanks for the chuckle, muck...

Posted by badanov 2005-06-03 00:15|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-06-03 00:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I just read an article about Swaziland having 40% AIDS infection rate. Can a society survive a 40% rate of AIDS cases? Have Africans doomed themselves?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-03 00:21|| 2005-06-03 00:21|| Front Page Top

#4 answer: yes - there will be massive depopulation of Africa, while the American president who's devotd the most actual resources and attention to the problem, Geo. W. Bush, will undoubtedly be the problem, not the solution. Welcome home, Alice

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-03 00:27|| 2005-06-03 00:27|| Front Page Top

#5 IINM South Africa's infection rate is now ~25% of the population. Given the MSM's obsession with reporting mistakes and failures in Iraq, where are all the articles describing the "miserable failure" that is post-apartheid S Africa?

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-06-03 01:43|| 2005-06-03 01:43|| Front Page Top

#6 The reality is that AIDS is a lifestyle disease and any attempt to reduce transmission by antiviral drugs needs to take into account their effect on lifestyle as this article illustrates. In fact its worse because treatments that prolong life of infected persons means they have longer to infect others. The brutal reality is they condem millions more to HIV infection and AIDS. More treatment = faster spread.

Posted by phil_b 2005-06-03 02:16|| 2005-06-03 02:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Not a concern in South Africa, where the gov't views Western anti-AIDs medications with the same horror as the Mullahs view the polio vaccine further north.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-03 07:06|| 2005-06-03 07:06|| Front Page Top

#8 I see the opportunity for group as well as individual categories in the Darwin Awards. It is sad for the individuals involved, but reflects incredible stupidity. Portions of our gay community are equally obtuse.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-06-03 07:26|| 2005-06-03 07:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Bravo, Mrs. D. Well said. It is sad that these entire communities may be doomed to be Darwin Award candidates.

Posted by BA">BA 2005-06-03 08:12|| 2005-06-03 08:12|| Front Page Top

#10 UN calls for ~~lots and lots and lots of money~~ action to halt Aids

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-03 08:25|| 2005-06-03 08:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Must be impacting their food-for-nookie program. Nonthing else can get Kofi's attention. Genocide, wholesale torture and murder doesn't so why should the welfare of millions of AIDS victims turn Kofi's head?

Look for a conference in S. Africa soon....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-06-03 08:49|| 2005-06-03 08:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Wow. Against AIDS. There's a bold stand.

Tell me, Mr. Kofi, what are your thoughts on ice cream?

Posted by eLarson 2005-06-03 09:25|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-06-03 09:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Wow. Against AIDS. There's a bold stand.

Tell me, Mr. Kofi, what are your thoughts on ice cream?

LOL ... I also hear that he's anti-car-accident and pro-park! ;-D

Posted by ExtremeModerate">ExtremeModerate 2005-06-03 10:47|| http://www.mwgames.com]">[http://www.mwgames.com] 2005-06-03 10:47|| Front Page Top

#14 where are all the articles describing the "miserable failure" that is post-apartheid S Africa?

More like the miserable failure that is Mbeki, if you ask me. Under Mandela, despite his miserable foreign policy prediliction, SA was doing relatively well economically, and had made the change to majority rule surprisingly peacefully, despite a major crime problem. AFAIK the economic growth continues, as does the crime problem (if it hasnt actually intensified) Democracy still seems to be alive and well - but unfortunately thousands of South Africans will not be, cause of the AIDS policy. OTOH, South Africans have protested against the misguided AIDS policy, and theyre all still free - something you wouldnt find too many other places on the continent.

Mbekis incompetence on AIDS is more likely to take the ANC down than to take post Apartheid SA down, I think.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-03 10:54|| 2005-06-03 10:54|| Front Page Top

#15 Yeah, S. Africa has some crazy dude in charge of their health system that preaches herbal remedies for aids and discourages people from using antiretroviral drugs. Probably because he stole all the money we sent them for the drugs and blew it on hookers and booze.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-03 11:00|| 2005-06-03 11:00|| Front Page Top

#16 CIA world factbook on SA economy:

"South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world; and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region. However, growth has not been strong enough to lower South Africa's high unemployment rate; and daunting economic problems remain from the apartheid era, especially poverty and lack of economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups. South African economic policy is fiscally conservative, but pragmatic, focusing on targeting inflation and liberalizing trade as means to increase job growth and household income. "

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-03 11:03|| 2005-06-03 11:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Maybe if the UN peacekeepers would stop forcing themselves on all the underage girls, the infection rate might not be so bad.

Posted by Mike 2005-06-03 11:07|| 2005-06-03 11:07|| Front Page Top

#18 LH, you're describing the legacy of the afrikaners. The stats you omit include
-- ~50% unemployment
-- around one-third of South African women have been raped
-- Jo'burg is the most dangerous peacetime city on the planet

That's a pretty astonishing record of colossal failure across the board. SA today is a good example of the core African problem: brutal, kleptocratic, unbelievably incompetent regimes. Time for regime change, not debt forgiveness.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-06-03 13:16|| 2005-06-03 13:16|| Front Page Top

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