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[aggreenbean]

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

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[telmarin]

I can't even read the stuff you've learned because it will make me sad. Africa is sad.

I'm glad you posted though. You haven't in a while and I know that you did that for me. Wow I'm so arrogant. I hope you'll still be my friend.

I wonder if you've been reading the posts at all. Because you got all upset about getting my secret screen name and I doubt you are up to speed on Telmarin...

Missing you like crazy and hoping we can hang out and have tons of fun together in the near future.

[kingeck]

I'm in economic development now and that class is crazy. It makes me so sad.

"Poverty causes AIDS" : Stupid officials, it's the other way around. AIDS causes poverty. The degeneration of a healthy labor force prevents growth. No one wants to hire people with HIV/AIDS because after they die, you'll have to find them a replacement. So, people with HIV/AIDS never advance since their bosses don't want to invest in a dying man. However, the clinch of the problem is that a crazy percentage of sub-Saharan Africans have AIDS so the economy is stagnant. Life expectancy is actually dropping in sub-Saharan Africa which is the only place in the world where that is true! There is a lot of hope in Africa still because of cases like Angola which have done fabulously but sustaining their growth is so hard because they need to actively combat disease, war, and famine.

[aggreenbean]

yea, it really is an entirely sucky situation that it seems won't be resolved any time soon and all suggestions will just end up making the situation worse. and even if they can get the medicine the medicine requires food in the stomach which involves solving a whole 'nother crisis. was it my imagination or did we have a guy at BU talk about how he did HIV studies that proved to industries that they would save money by investing in medicine and treatment for their workers? cause that's the only positive news i'd heard about africa's situation in a while.

[kingeck]

It's not your imagination. I don't know if he actually succeeded in proving that employers should educate/treat their employees about HIV/AIDS, but at least he was trying. And he was doing that in South Africa.