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Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 4:34 am
http://www.trust.org/item/20130910131526...9g17t20w13
Quote:NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenya is making great strides in tackling HIV/AIDS, with a fall in the HIV positive population and a surge in the number of people getting tested and receiving treatment, according to a government survey released on Tuesday.
Kenya has the fourth largest HIV positive population in the world, after South Africa, Nigeria and India. But the number of Kenyans living with the disease fell from 1.4 million to 1.2 million between 2007 and 2012, the 2012 Kenya Aids Indicator Survey revealed on Tuesday.
The prevalence of HIV among adults dropped from 7.2 to 5.6 percent in the same period.
“We’ve made huge progress in Kenya both in reducing the number of new infections and getting people living with HIV on treatment,” Maya Harper, the United Nations AIDS country director, said at the launch of the report. “Testing, knowledge of status, male circumcision in Nyanza, access to treatment – I think those have been great leaps forward in Kenya in the last five years.”
keep it up, guys!
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RE: Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 6:23 am
Did you say Kenya?
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RE: Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 7:03 am
Good news, but male circumcision against a virus infection..? Yeah, I don't buy it.
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RE: Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 8:57 am
(September 17, 2013 at 4:34 am)pocaracas Wrote: keep it up, guys!
Arguably the heart of the issue.
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RE: Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 9:25 am
Well as long as the new pope doesn't go down there and tell them that condoms cause AIDS, they'll be in good shape. They should probably also educate people that raping virgins doesn't cure HIV, either.
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RE: Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 10:44 am
Condoms would work better than circumcision or as the Catholic Church would insist abstinence.
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RE: Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 2:02 pm
(September 17, 2013 at 7:03 am)Kayenneh Wrote: Good news, but male circumcision against a virus infection..? Yeah, I don't buy it.
Yeah... I found that extremely strange, too...
Maybe it works on the same level as with the jews... diminished pleasure from intercourse leading to less intercourse with multiple partners, leading to less infections...?
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RE: Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 5:07 pm
(September 17, 2013 at 2:02 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (September 17, 2013 at 7:03 am)Kayenneh Wrote: Good news, but male circumcision against a virus infection..? Yeah, I don't buy it.
Yeah... I found that extremely strange, too...
Maybe it works on the same level as with the jews... diminished pleasure from intercourse leading to less intercourse with multiple partners, leading to less infections...?
I have a jolly good time without a turtleneck, so I doubt that, Pocaracas.
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RE: Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Kenya: "We have made huge leaps in the fight against AIDS, from now we have minimized the number of males who cut the tips off of the condoms by 2%"
*Crowd goes wild*
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RE: Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS
September 17, 2013 at 5:51 pm
(September 17, 2013 at 5:07 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote: (September 17, 2013 at 2:02 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Yeah... I found that extremely strange, too...
Maybe it works on the same level as with the jews... diminished pleasure from intercourse leading to less intercourse with multiple partners, leading to less infections...?
I have a jolly good time without a turtleneck, so I doubt that, Pocaracas.
Maybe it's not as jolly as I do with my turtleneck...  Now scale that to an entire country...
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