The African Problem

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Re: The African Problem

@underthedome

Well the facts fly in the face of OG and MV’s analysis of the situation. MV, you fail to grasp what I have been saying and think that I’m saying the solution is to drop condoms in jungles which i’ve never supported in doing. Education and talking openly about AIDS and how it is spread, how it can be prevented, and providing prevention methods (that means more than just condoms) is the solution and the fact is results show that.

http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/october02_index.php?l=4

That’s great progress UTD. So 28 million will die of AIDS instead of 30 million. Your own citation indicates one of the problems with the “education solution” is lack of infrastructure. You can’t educate everyone on the African continent without the political, educational, transportation, health, etc. infrastructures in place. You can’t educate everyone while the Hutus are commiting genocide against the Tutsis and vice versa. You can’t educate everyone when the death rate from hunger caused by drought and poverty is so appalling. You can’t educate everyone when the government is nothing more than the the latest guy to command the most troops.

This thread is not just about AIDS. It is about all of Africa and all of the problems the people have on the continent that looks as if it has been forsaken by God.

As to AIDS, tell me how it is remotely possible to educate everyone about safe sex and condom use without fixing a whole bunch of things that need fixing before you can even think about educating people. While a generation of babies and children are dieing from malnutrition, hunger, poverty, genocidal warfare, etc., you want to talk to their parents about using condoms? Will the Tutsis declare a recess from their slaughter of Hutus so you can tell both sides about condoms while singing Kumbaya around a campfire?