- Hi Jeff,
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- My brother was driving up through Zambia a year or so
ago. As you go further up in Africa, AIDS just gets worse and worse. Even
in Zimbabwe just north of us, AIDS is slaughtering the people there. I
used to do some work for a medical laboratory that did quality control
on Laboratory testing. It is a fact that blood supplies for transfusions
in Zimbabwe is not truly safe. They could easily give people blood transfusions
of blood which actually is HIV+. It is even worse elsewhere.
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- Anyhow, AIDS spread down through Africa along routes
used by truck drivers. The truck drivers (all black), make use of prostitutes
on their long trips. In this way AIDS spread along major transportation
routes to the South African coast. Durban, for example, is an AIDS haven
because of this.
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- My brother was travelling up in Zambia into Malawi. He
drove through a village which could have housed about 300 people. This
village straddled the road. My brother noticed that there was no movement
or signs of life. So, he stopped his truck and walked through this village.
There was no one there. Further down the road he happened upon some blacks
and asked them what was wrong at the village. They told him the village
had housed about 300 prostitutes. These women serviced the truck drivers.
They told him that all the women had gotten AIDS and died of it.
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- In Botswana, they say 1 out of 7 (by conservative estimates)
have AIDS.
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- Here in South Africa, it is much worse. The conservative
estimates state: 1 of 5 are infected. However, tests in various hospitals
and clinics have shown anything from 40% and higher have AIDS. It may actually
be more. Some places are a lot worse.
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- An interesting fact which could indicate how bad it truly
is, is that last year, for the first time EVER, the AIDS infection rate
slowed down in South Africa. Doctors were saying this is because AIDS has
reached a certain saturation point and there are not that many uninfected
people left who can catch it.
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- My guess would be that this must surely indicate we have
crossed the 50% mark or something very close to it.
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