Word: hiv
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...Mozambique only recently has had an economic resurgence, since the country had been pretty devastated by civil war. There's an alarming AIDS rate - something like three or four out of 10 people have HIV or AIDS. You can't help but being affected when you're in those locations and seeing that stuff face to face. It wears on you emotionally. In America, we can just continue living our lives and go through our daily routines and ignore stuff like that - but when you're there on location and in those situations, it really affects you. What...
...goes too far. On “Compton,” which has a funky vibe courtesy of will.i.am, he raps, “Look at all the hate I see, I’m sick / You can’t get rid of me, I’m HIV.” It’s difficult to understand why he would say something like that when his rap icon, Eazy-E from N.W.A., whose likeness The Game had tattooed on his right forearm, died from complications from AIDS...
...wall of silence in the Arab media also hinders efforts to spread awareness about AIDS. Even though the rate of growth in HIV infection in the Arab world is second only to Eastern Europe, most people in the Arab world are barely aware that the disease exists in their society. Amr Moussa, the Secretary General of the Arab League, warned the conference that failure to respond aggressively to the threat of AIDS will reverse economic and development and will cost the region 35% of GDP in the next 25 years...
...Even among those aware of the disease, the challenge for AIDS activists is to disabuse people of the conspiracy theory that HIV is coming to the region from the outside. "The reality everyone should know is that AIDS in the region is with us and that we are infecting our own people," says Moalla. But she's not optimistic about how soon people in the Arab world will accept the reality and begin to take responsibility for protecting themselves against infection...
...Still, the Cairo conference represents a major step towards breaking the taboos that help HIV to spread unchecked. Regional UNDP director Amat al-Alim al-Soswa, addressing the event, expressed her satisfaction that the topic of AIDS is now discussed at Friday prayers and in Sunday sermons, because the clergy were an indispensable ally in the fight against the disease. By removing the shame of those living with HIV, she said, the religious leaders "went beyond a narrow and contemptuous attitude toward one embodying true magnanimity in knowledge, understanding and innovation...