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So. . I'm 62 pages done and 2 pages left in Africa work. And yet, I cannot motivate myself to finish it, since well. . the paper is on if a book describing the past applies to South Africa and Namibia. Why is this important. Africa has so many more problems facing the future and that is the really more important things i learned
--71% of AIDS victims (24.5 million) are in sub-Saharan africa and yet. . . .
-- the current president of South Africa refused to promote education or treatment stating "Poverty causes AIDS" and the leader of one of the original AIDS nongovernmental organization is trying to spread the message that "sex doesn't spread AIDS, body fluids do"
-- yet people today do not understand the term body fluids since we as history students spent over half of a church service having our explanation that you cannot get AIDS from baptising mutiple children in the same water translated since in rural Namibia they have no access to the rest of the world OR testing facilities
-- it is still a common thought in africa that if you sleep with a virgin you will be cured of AIDS (thus children that manage to be 10% of the HIV negative children born to HIV positive mothers are usually raped and your rapist is usually not prosecuted)
-- even us "educated" students from the US were hesitant to put a band-aid on a small child's bleeding toe and hesitant to make out with a guy from Holland who had been visiting for fear of getting AIDS
these are the serious issues that i learned and that would be productive and humane to address.
--71% of AIDS victims (24.5 million) are in sub-Saharan africa and yet. . . .
-- the current president of South Africa refused to promote education or treatment stating "Poverty causes AIDS" and the leader of one of the original AIDS nongovernmental organization is trying to spread the message that "sex doesn't spread AIDS, body fluids do"
-- yet people today do not understand the term body fluids since we as history students spent over half of a church service having our explanation that you cannot get AIDS from baptising mutiple children in the same water translated since in rural Namibia they have no access to the rest of the world OR testing facilities
-- it is still a common thought in africa that if you sleep with a virgin you will be cured of AIDS (thus children that manage to be 10% of the HIV negative children born to HIV positive mothers are usually raped and your rapist is usually not prosecuted)
-- even us "educated" students from the US were hesitant to put a band-aid on a small child's bleeding toe and hesitant to make out with a guy from Holland who had been visiting for fear of getting AIDS
these are the serious issues that i learned and that would be productive and humane to address.