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- Matthew 10:8 :: New American
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1 “But mark this: There
will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their
parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather
than lovers of God—
5 having a form of
godliness but denying its
power. Have nothing to do with them.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all
kinds of evil desires,
7 always
learning but never able
to acknowledge the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses,
so also these men oppose the
truth--men of
depraved minds, who, as far as
the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those
men, their folly
will be clear to everyone.”
- 2 Timothy 3:1-9 ::
New International Version (NIV)
6 As
he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
- Hebrews 5:6 :: King James
Version (KJV)
Therefore, I say:
Know your
enemy and know yourself;
in a hundred
battles, you will never be defeated.
When you
are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,
your chances of
winning or losing are equal.
If ignorant both of your
enemy and of yourself,
you are sure to be defeated in every battle.
-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 500bc
There are two ends not to
be served by a wanderer. What are these two? The pursuit of desires and of the pleasure which springs from desire,
which is base, common, leading to rebirth, ignoble, and unprofitable; and the pursuit of pain and
hardship, which is grievous, ignoble, and unprofitable.
- The Blessed One, Lord Buddha
6 For how can I endure to
see the evil that shall come unto
my people?
or how can I endure to see the destruction of my
kindred?
- Esther 8:6 :: King James Version (KJV)
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Jane. (
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AIDS In
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Sangli villagers in seclusion, thanks to AIDS
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AIDS creating a land of orphans
U.N. agency details the crisis in
BY RENA SINGER
For the Star-Ledger
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- AIDS took Tholakele Myeni's mother, father and sister. It took her dreams, forcing her to drop out of school to care for her younger siblings. And, last year, it took her life.
Before she died, Myeni asked a visitor to her three-room cinder block home
on a dry hilltop in rural
"There is no money for school, no money for food, no money for so many things," said Myeni, who was 26 at the time. "There are so many children at home. For everything they look at me."
The
victims of AIDS in
No children have suffered as much
from the disease as African children, according to a report released yesterday
by the United Nations Children's Fund. Of the 40 million people in the world
with AIDS, 27 million live in
"As staggering as the
numbers already are, the orphan crisis in
sub-Saharan
Seven years from now, the number
of orphans in
Relatives
will care for the vast majority of these children. Increasingly, the
UNICEF report says, the relatives -- overwhelmed by
poverty or disease -- leave the children to fend for themselves.
The six surviving Myeni children turned to an uncle who lives nearby. He gives them what he can after providing for his own three children. Some days they get three meals, some days they eat only rice.
"There are so many orphans around," said P.M. Nhkonipho, a brother of the six children's mother. "It is kids looking after other kids. It traumatizes us all."
Orphaned
children are less likely to attend school, more likely to experience hunger and
malnutrition and other illnesses. They are filling the continent's brothels,
sweatshops and street corners.
"They
are the most vulnerable," Carol Bellamy, UNICEF's executive
director, said yesterday. "They are the most
exploited."
The report predicts that conditions here are likely to get far worse, even if intervention is immediate.
Schoolteachers
and students across the continent are dying. In
"It is so pathetic,"
said Simon Ntsele, a deputy principal of a primary
school in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal, where one in
three pregnant women has been found to have the virus that causes AIDS. "This cripples the children's development -- and
that of our country."
Many
African countries have no national policy to address the needs of orphaned
children. The UNICEF report calls on African governments, churches and
charities to take immediate action to support orphans and the people who care
for them. It suggests eliminating school fees,
raising awareness of AIDS, and simplifying social services to give orphaned
children access to the health and justice system.
The governments' seeming reluctance to address the crisis "reflects a lingering unease about HIV/AIDS itself; many policy-makers hesitate to take actions against a disease so closely associated with private sexual behavior," the UNICEF report declares.
Nowhere is this more apparent
than in
The World Health Organization has
pledged to provide medicine to 3 million HIV-positive people by 2005.
Currently, it is estimated that only 50,000 HIV-positive Africans -- most of them
with good jobs and health insurance -- have access to anti-retroviral drugs. The medicines have turned
AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic condition in
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AIDS Becoming Youth
Epidemic
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"Giving young
people this information is safe, it doesn't lead to promiscuous behavior, as
some people say. On the contrary, it empowers young people...and may save their
lives as well."
Thoraya Obaid,
U.N. Population Fund
(AP) Young people are increasingly responsible for the
spread of HIV/AIDS around the world because of poverty and a severe lack of
information and prevention services, the United
Nations said Wednesday.
Every
14 seconds a person aged between 15 and 24 is infected with the virus. They now account for half all new cases of the disease, the U.N.
Population Fund said in its annual State of the World's Population report.
"We
will have a global catastrophe if we ignore young people and ignore their
needs," said Thoraya Obaid, the agency's executive director, told a news
conference in
The "Making 1
Billion Count" report cautions that there is now the biggest generation of
adolescents in history — 1.2 billion of the world's 6.3 billion population are
between 10 and 19 — and many are
facing deadly diseases, unwanted pregnancy and poverty.
HIV/AIDS
has emerged as one of the greatest threats. As well as the high infection rate among young
people, the epidemic has so orphaned 13 million children under the age of 15, the report said.
If
those trends continue, the next generation of adults will face greater poverty
and stunted economic progress, the report said.
The
report estimates the economic benefit of a single averted HIV/AIDS infection is $34,600 for
a poor country — and the social benefits are even greater.
It called for more
investment in youth-friendly services, family planning and education programs
to help young people with reproductive health issues.
"This is a
huge opportunity. It is a one-time opportunity that will not occur again,"
said Alex Marshall, an author of the population report.
Poverty
is a factor in the spread of HIV, the report said, because some poor girls exchange sex for money for
school fees or to help their families, placing them at risk of infection.
Discussing
sexual behavior is taboo in many countries, so many young people do
not know how to protect themselves. In
Obaid said she didn't believe educating youngsters
about safe sex would make them more sexually active.
"I would like
to stress that giving young people this information is safe, it doesn't lead to promiscuous behavior, as some people say," she said. "On the contrary, it empowers
young people to take positive action in their lives and may save their lives as
well."
Obaid said the U.N. agency's core message was
"ABC" — Abstaining from sexual activity, Being faithful to one partner and the correct use of Condoms.
In sub-Saharan
The
rate of new infections is growing rapidly in countries like
There is a
continued risk of HIV concentrated among the poor and vulnerable in countries
like
The U.N. report
also said poverty, early marriage,
unwanted pregnancy and homelessness were major issues facing the world's
adolescents. Half are poor and a quarter live in extreme poverty on less than a dollar a day.
Among
the poorest and least-educated populations, early marriage of girls and
expectations of early childbearing persist, contributing to high maternal
mortality and reducing girls' chances for education.
The report backs up
these conclusions with harsh statistics.
Teenage mothers are
twice as likely to die in childbirth as women in their 20s; girls under 16 are
five times more likely to die than women in their 20s, and 14 million young
mothers aged 15-19 give birth each year. About 5 million girls between 15 and
19 undergo unsafe abortion every year, the report said.
"Studies show
that money spent to delay births to adolescents and
prevent HIV infections is repaid many times over in direct savings and indirect
economic gains," the report said.
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'Destruction'
AIDS Crisis May
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Quote
"This
war has caused more casualties than any other war."
Health and Human
Services Secretary Tommy Thompson
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Former South
African President Nelson Mandela is hugged by U2 lead singer Bono at the Nelson
Mandela AIDS Benefit Concert in
An unidentified
baby is fed at a home for HIV/AIDS and abandoned children on World Aids Day in
(CBS/AP) Tens of
thousands of AIDS activists and health workers rallied worldwide on Monday to
mark World AIDS Day and officials announced new initiatives and millions of
dollars in new funding to combat the disease that has infected 40 million
people, and kills more than 8,000 sufferers everyday.
"People living
with HIV are entitled to a future," said UNAIDS director Peter Piot in a statement.
The World Health
Organization and UNAIDS promised cheaper drugs, simpler treatment regimens and
more money as part of a major campaign launched Monday in Nairobi to provide 3
million HIV-infected people with the latest drugs available by the end of 2005,
an effort that will cost $5.5 billion.
WHO also certified
a new, innovative generic drug for use in treating HIV.
The tablet combines three essential anti-retroviral drugs into one pill that is
taken twice a day.
The pills are
manufactured by two India-based generic drug makers and cost patients only $270
a year. But any export to countries that recognize patents held by major drug
manufacturers is a violation of trade rules. In order to legally import the
drugs, countries must suspend the rights of the patent holders.
More than 40
million people are infected with HIV and 3 million have died in 2003, according
to UNAIDS. WHO estimates more than 5 million HIV patients need anti-retroviral
drugs, but fewer than 400,000 currently have access to them.
Anti-retroviral
drugs allow HIV patients to live a relatively normal life by preventing them
from developing full-blown AIDS. While the drugs improve patients' health, they
remain infected and can transmit the disease.
WHO and UNAIDS
promised to promote international agreements to streamline treatment programs.
"In two short
decades, HIV/AIDS has become the premier disease of mass destruction," Dr.
Jack Chow, the assistant director-general of WHO, said. "The death odometer is spinning at 8,000 lives
a day and accelerating."
Medecins sans Frontieres,
an aid agency which has led efforts to simplify HIV treatment, welcomed the WHO
announcement, but said funding will be critical to the initiative's success.
"The
treatment has to be free, if the treatment is not free they will not meet their
goals," Dr. Morten Rostrup, president of group's international council, said.
Around the world
Monday:
Thousands of
activists joined marches and a large rally in downtown
In
Former South African President Nelson
Mandela urged the world to fight the stigma
associated with HIV, saying it was stopping
people from going for testing and treatment. "Many will die because of feeling less than
human," he said.
The Indian government
announced plans to spend $44 million to provide free anti-retroviral drugs to
100,000 AIDS patients..
In
The British government said it
will double its funding to UNAIDS next year to $10.2
million.
Botswana's President Festus Mogae said people must take responsibility for utilizing
the free anti-retroviral therapy, HIV testing and the prevention of mother to
child transmission services that are available.
In
In war-divided
In
Thailand, whose unabashed promotion of condom use for safe sex helped turn the
tide in the battle against AIDS, has drawn the line at putting condom vending
machines in universities.
In the
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Chinese officials
and the United Nations warn that 10 million people could be infected by 2020
without more effective prevention.
(AP) The number of
AIDS patients in
“There are about a
million individuals in
Ho was in Beijing
to promote an AIDS summit Monday that will include a speech by former President
Clinton and wide-ranging discussions — including topics that are traditionally
taboo in China, such as care programs among gays and media coverage of AIDS.
It will also
feature the personal account of a
doctor from central
The problem of HIV and
AIDS “is obviously a health crisis,” Ho said. “When it's a problem of that
magnitude it has to be a great concern to the leadership and, I think, to the
general public.”
But
According to the
government's Xinhua News Agency, Gao said
Gao added that
New HIV infections
in
HIV
in
Ho was one of the
researchers who pioneered using a “cocktail” of drugs to treat AIDS, which
changed the disease from a quick death sentence to a sometimes manageable
chronic illness. He was named Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1996 for his
work.
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CHIANG MAI,
(Photo: CBS/AP)
Nearly 1 in 60 people in
(AP) A doctor from
Dr. Baz Mohammad Shirzad's statement underscored a lack of awareness in many parts of Asia — even among health professionals — that experts say is still undermining the global war on AIDS, 15 years after the first World AIDS Day galvanized the planet.
In a small step to reduce the ignorance ahead of World AIDS Day 2003 on Monday, U.N. and Thai officials brought 11 doctors and field workers here from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and East Timor — the kind of areas of recent conflict that experts say are particularly vulnerable to the virus.
They attended a 12-day seminar to
learn how
"
Nearly 1 in 60 people in
By 2002, the number was down to 23,676.
Mandatory one-minute AIDS prevention ads were broadcast hourly on TV and radio and free boxes of condoms were distributed to prostitutes. In several communities, Buddhist monks taught villagers about condom use and how the disease is spread.
The monks also preach acceptance of AIDS sufferers and temples host support groups. One temple runs a hospice, and many specialize in preparing herbal medicine that alleviates symptoms.
Some of the players in Thailand's success story — field workers, nurses, monks and people living with AIDS participated in the seminar in the northern city of Chiang Mai that included lectures on AIDS orphans, homosexuality, prostitution and religious response.
They visited an AIDS orphanage and villages where people living with HIV are accepted in their communities.
Afghanistan, a country of 22 million people, officially has only 15 HIV cases. Its authorities allow for a maximum of 300, but with no monitoring system in place, this number is impossible to verify.
UNAIDS, the U.N. agency that coordinates the fight, says infection rates in Afghanistan are "likely to be low," but sees several risk factors, including neighboring countries with high-risk behavior, doctors unfamiliar with the symptoms, and the reluctance of the infected to come forward.
"We have never seen a person with HIV/AIDS because they're all hidden," said Dr. Shafiqullah Shahim of the HIV/AIDS Control Department, an Afghan government body set up in July.
"Unfortunately, HIV/AIDS is not a priority of the Ministry of Health."
Shahim estimated that about 10 percent of the population in the capital, Kabul, knows about HIV, and perhaps none in the countryside.
The department's first priority is to ensure the blood supply is safe, Shamim said. Blood banks in only 11 of the country's 32 provinces have HIV testing facilities.
The department is in contact with ministries of education and religion to seek their help in raising awareness.
Another hurdle is
UNAIDS warns that high unemployment and poverty in
But another doctor, Mohammad Zarif Nayebkhill, the provincial public health director in Logar province, insisted, "it will not be a problem in Afghanistan, because Afghanistan is a Muslim country ... There are no sex workers."
Still, he acknowledged that the virus could have been carried by many of the 2.5 million Afghan refugees who have returned to the country since the fall of the Taliban regime two years ago.
"Maybe people from other
countries —
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New Delhi, Dec 1 (UNI) Despite more than three lakh
people being infected with HIV/AIDS during the past one year in India and international organisations taking up
initiative to provide prevention and treatment programmes,
the lot of people suffering from the dreaded
disease was deplorable with most of them being left to die in miserable
conditions.
The recent case of a woman in Kammam
district of Andhra Pradesh who was left to die in deplorable and inhuman
condition had brought the plight of such victims in the country to the fore.
The incident had forced the National Commission for Women to take up the matter
and issue directions so that such incidents were not repeated in future.
Similar was the situation of two kids in Kerala who were forced to leave their schools as parents of
the other kids objected to their education in the same school. After much
persuasion and appeals at the highest level, the two children were again
readmitted to the same school.
A village in Haryana
being banned by a community once a case of HIV/AIDS came to light a few years
back and people canceling marriage with residents of that village are still
fresh in the minds of people infected with the dreaded virus.
''Once the diagnosis of a HIV positive person
is done, it appears that this is the end. Nothing can be done. Then starts a
constant struggle as people discriminate due to lack of awareness about the
disease, there was absolute lack of medical facilities for such patients,'' said Anandi Yuvraj
of AIDS Alliance.
''Once a person is identified as HIV/AIDS
patient not only his family and community abandon him but he is forced to quit
his job.
Most of the time doctors are afraid to provide
treatment to such patients. Many a time HIV/AIDS patients are forced to leave
their residence as the landlord do not want them to have them as tenants,'' Mr Purshottam Mulloli of the JACK India, an NGO working in the field of
HIV/AIDS, told UNI.
The incidents of denial of treatment to HIV/AIDS
patients are rampant with doctors hesitating to take up these cases. The
gravity of the situation could be gauged from the fact that the National Human Rights Commission's intervention
was required to make an AIDS patient treatment available at a
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SANGLI: Villagers in
A widow, the woman is not allowed to draw
water from the village well and no villager dares visit her. Even her in-laws
do not allow her to set foot in their house.
When her husband, a truck driver, died, his
possessions were dumped in an unused well. The women of the village tell her
healthy five-year-old daughter that she will die next.
For a quick reality check on World AIDS Day, one
needs only to travel to
Not a single
village in the district, which shares a highway with Karnataka, is spared from
the impact of the disease. The villagers don't really know what the disease is
but think it safer to stay away from the afflicted and their family.
A decade after Sangli
turned up as a dot on the global AIDS map, it has come
a close second to Mumbai in AIDS deaths.
Today, widows have been left homeless even if
they are healthy, parents landless, orphans with no
playmates, and girls are pulled out of school.
Some men marry even if they have only weeks
left to live. "It's
considered inauspicious to die a bachelor. So dying men are married off to their nieces. The girls may become widows in five days or two years, but that
doesn't matter to the community," says a social worker in rural Sangli who's trying to draw these girls into counselling.
"If my grand-daughters cough, our neighbours say they have AIDS and they should not play with
other children," says Shobha. Her
daughter, in her 20s, was sent home after her husband tested positive for AIDS.
Their children have tested negative, but nobody would let them enter their
house. "The village says my whole family is
infected," Shobha adds.
A UNICEF study on Sangli
published last year says: "Children
of HIV/AIDS victims are often pelted with stones, beaten up and sometimes
boycotted by other children...No one comes forward to marry girls from families
of the afflicted."
In Chabukswarwadi, a girl
was withdrawn from Std VI after her mother died of
AIDS. The girl's grandmother says she can afford to send only one child to
school. Her brother is HIV-positive but is in Std II. "I have no friends," says the girl.
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UNITED
NATIONS, Nov. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Senior officials of
the United Nations system, preparing for World AIDS day on Monday, warned
Friday that the continuing spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its high cost in
social and financial resources are threatening the viability of UN programs to
help poor countries.
"The
stark reality we face today is that all development goals,including those set for the Education for All
program, are threatened by HIV/AIDS," said UN Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Koichiro
Matsuura.
"Prevention is the chief weapon in the spread of AIDS," he said."This is why UNESCO places such emphasis on
accelerated and culturally-appropriate preventive education programs that target
in-school and out-of-school young people."
Global
collaboration was necessary if substantial progress in combating the disease
was to be made over the next 20 years, he said.
"Our
humanity is being challenged by the most devastating epidemic in recent
history," Matsuura said. "History will judge uson
our response to it."
In an
essay on HIV/AIDS among refugees, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers noted that recent studies show that in some
AIDS-stricken countries, "refugees have lower HIV prevalence rates than
the surrounding populations that host them."
The
studies recommend that those refugees who are infected should be included in
the host countries' efforts to fight AIDS, he said, because excluding them,
when they interact daily with their hosts, is "nonsensical in a public
health sense."
Part of
the responsibility for including refugees in national programs rests with the
donor community, he said.
"Over the last two years, UNHCR and its partners have worked with
refugees to improve programs for refugees. However, our fundsare limited," Lubbers said. Enditem
(Reference: UN programs
threatened by spread of HIV/AIDS, say UN officials. (
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“Thou belongest
to That Which Is
Undying, and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art
eternal, and not merely
of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot be killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped,
in thy heart, as I waited,
sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee, as in all men, that comes and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search in Secret
Amen