None of this means we can't win. This is a real life situation, and you just hang in there and do the next smart thing.Think the Aids epidemic is over? Far from it – it could be getting worse
The Guardian [UK], Sarah Boseley in Durban [South Africa], 31 July 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-...s-epidemic-getting-worse-drug-resistance-cost
Global development is supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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' . . . “Treatment was first used for people who were very ill and dying – and they lived. Now we talk about people who appear well and look well and you are asking them to medicalise themselves, to go to this government clinic where you have to queue up all day and you see other people you know there.” . . . '
' . . . also because resistance is spreading to the basic three-drug combination available in Africa for as little as $100 a year. . . '
' . . . A study covering Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique found 30% of people on second-line treatment, which costs at least $300, were resistant. The lowest cost of a third-line drug regime – or salvage therapy – in Africa is $1,859 a person annually. . . '
' . . . “A lot of countries are not doing routine viral load monitoring in the first place. They are moving towards it . . . "'
' . . . A third of girls said a girl does not have the right to ask a boy to stop kissing her. A quarter of the boys said they had “sexually forced” someone. . . '
' . . . Research is showing that Shuga [media campaign] does have an impact on young people’s behaviour. “Where we see behaviour change work really well is when the audience see their own lives reflected in the storylines,” says Georgia Arnold, executive director of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, . . . '
Regarding that 25% of teenage males who say they have sexually forced someone, I think this is a roughly comparable number to the United States. And I think the way to respond to the situation is to get the 75% who don't do this to speak up much more confidently and say they do not grudgingly admire this asshole-ish behavior or anything of the sort. To say, in fact, that the 25% are disrespecting someone's sister, someone's daughter, someone's friend.
Perhaps helped by some memes such as, My strength is not for hurting.
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Not crazy about the fact that this aspect of The Guardian is financed in part by the Gates Foundation. Maybe there's not enough of a readership for international news otherwise, and that's a shame.
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