tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post116500799704139733..comments2024-01-02T06:46:03.449-05:00Comments on Nick's Bytes: The Battle Against AIDS: “Death By Diplomacy”Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16939152657551690867noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165990257895552162006-12-13T01:10:00.000-05:002006-12-13T01:10:00.000-05:00Thank you for the information. Your last paragraph...Thank you for the information. Your last paragraph is a frightening to me as AIDS itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165212611544419382006-12-04T01:10:00.000-05:002006-12-04T01:10:00.000-05:00I agree with Boseley’s assessment about the claims...I agree with Boseley’s assessment about the claims of “moral superiority” by U.S. right-wing Christians. They preach abstinence from sex as the answer to Aids in Africa and refuse funds to any family-planning clinics across the world that provide abortions or even counsel women about them. This head-in-the-sand attitude towards abortion leads directly to women's deaths. Every year nearly 20 million unsafe abortions are carried out on desperate women in ill-lit rooms and illegal clinics. You don't stop that happening by refusing to talk about it. But the so called Religious Right refuses. It’s really bad her in Republican controlled Arizona. (But not so bad that should not come and visit me in the desert!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165200591229181282006-12-03T21:49:00.000-05:002006-12-03T21:49:00.000-05:00Australia needs to put AIDS research back in the s...Australia needs to put AIDS research back in the spotlight again. We had huge success in the 80s and 90s with a massive drop of new cases....education is the key.Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15400006028099229571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165165505886691772006-12-03T12:05:00.000-05:002006-12-03T12:05:00.000-05:00Nick...agree with you. It's a silent killer that m...Nick...agree with you. It's a silent killer that most of us prefer to push under the carpet and pretend that it's not there. But no amount of pretensions can wish it away.<BR/> I'm hopeful that there will be a cure to this dreadful disease soon.Vishwahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10212671896677162784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165150656991305922006-12-03T07:57:00.000-05:002006-12-03T07:57:00.000-05:00Hi Nick ~~ Let us pray that a cure will be found f...Hi Nick ~~ Let us pray that a cure will be found for this awful disease.<BR/>Thank you for your comments. Glad you enjoy the jokes. Also thanks for updating my new address.Take care,<BR/>Regards, Merle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165086038729783162006-12-02T14:00:00.000-05:002006-12-02T14:00:00.000-05:00Too many people ignore this horrific disease or de...Too many people ignore this horrific disease or delude themselves into believing it will never happen to them or their loved ones. They choose to believe that spouting their religious rhetoric will protect them and that anyone who gets this dread disease asked for it in some way. That's not the way it is and I thank you for reminding them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165042946966418292006-12-02T02:02:00.000-05:002006-12-02T02:02:00.000-05:00unfortunatly people can't seem to get past their "...unfortunatly people can't seem to get past their "moral superiority"....so many people suffer because others are so blinded. Thanks for sharingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165034771956970412006-12-01T23:46:00.000-05:002006-12-01T23:46:00.000-05:00That is terrible.That is terrible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165034534667950562006-12-01T23:42:00.000-05:002006-12-01T23:42:00.000-05:00Please see http://www.time.com/time/2001/aidsinafr...Please see http://www.time.com/time/2001/aidsinafrica/<BR/><BR/>" Imagine your life this way.<BR/><BR/>You get up in the morning and breakfast with your three kids. One is already doomed to die in infancy. Your husband works 200 miles away, comes home twice a year and sleeps around in between. You risk your life in every act of sexual intercourse. You go to work past a house where a teenager lives alone tending young siblings without any source of income. At another house, the wife was branded a whore when she asked her husband to use a condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets. Over there lies a man desperately sick without access to a doctor or clinic or medicine or food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend who admitted she had the plague and whose neighbors stoned her to death. Your leisure is occupied by the funerals you attend every Saturday. You go to bed fearing adults your age will not live into their 40s. You and your neighbors and your political and popular leaders act as if nothing is happening.<BR/><BR/>Across the southern quadrant of Africa, this nightmare is real. The word not spoken is AIDS, and here at ground zero of humanity's deadliest cataclysm, the ultimate tragedy is that so many people don't know--or don't want to know--what is happening."<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12709723.post-1165016297284159662006-12-01T18:38:00.000-05:002006-12-01T18:38:00.000-05:00Nick, thank you for your blog regarding this dise...Nick, thank you for your blog regarding this disease. It is horrible to watch someone suffer and die from this disease. Truly horrible. Thank you for raising awareness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com