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| GMCarter 2006-12-06, 9:27 pm |
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6197074.stm
HIV 'afflicting global workforce'
HIV/Aids is having a crippling effect on the workforce of many
countries, a report by the International Labour Organization for World
Aids Day says.
The ILO said HIV/Aids killed almost 3.5 million people of working age
in 2005.
South Africa, among the worst-affected nations, has announced a plan
aiming to halve the infection rate by 2011 and to boost the use of
antiretrovirals.
In a speech to mark World Aids Day, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
urged more frank and open discussion of HIV/Aids.
All politicians had to consider themselves personally accountable for
stopping the spread of the disease, Mr Annan said, as did every
individual.
"It requires every one of us to help bring Aids out of the shadows and
spread the message that silence is death," he said.
Graph of HIV/Aids infection rates worldwide
South Africa's government has in the past been accused of not doing
enough to fight the HIV/Aids pandemic.
More than five million South Africans are infected with the virus.
Zulu dancers perform on World Aids Day in Nelspruit, South Africa
HIV/Aids is costing 1.3m jobs a year, many in sub-Saharan Africa
The announcement by Deputy-President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of a
five-year action plan was expected to mark a significant change in
policy.
However, the BBC's Southern Africa correspondent Peter Biles says
Friday's launch was downgraded from a fully-fledged plan to a
framework document.
Many details of the new policy have still to be spelt out, he says.
South Africa's former policy, which emphasised diet over the use of
antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, was widely criticised.
The health minister responsible, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, is reported
currently to be on sick leave and has played little part in recent
developments, our correspondent adds.
'Breathtaking' challenge
Figures recently released by the UN reveal that in terms of numbers,
India is now facing the most severe HIV/Aids burden of any country in
the world, with 5.7 million people infected.
Former US President Bill Clinton said in a BBC interview that India
was the new epicentre of global infection.
He described the challenge to control the spread of the virus in India
as "breathtaking".
Elsewhere, countries are marking World Aids Day with a series of
events, including:
* The broadcast of radio and television messages in 25 countries
across Africa aimed at preventing the spread of the disease among
young people
* A march by Indonesian activists through the streets of the
capital, Jakarta, demanding an end to the stigma attached to HIV/Aids
* A plan by activists in Thailand to create the world's "longest
condom chain", a ribbon of 25,000 condoms stretching through a Bangkok
park
* An announcement by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
for an extra US$170m (£83m) to help its Asia-Pacific neighbours tackle
the HIV/Aids epidemic
In its report, the ILO calls for sustained action worldwide to improve
access to AVR treatments to cut mortality rates.
Without this, it estimates that the cumulative loss to the global
workforce from the virus could rise to 45 million by 2010 and almost
double again by 2020.
ILO estimates that more than 36 million people of working age are now
living with the virus, the vast majority in sub-Saharan Africa.
This has had a damaging effect on the availability of labour in the
worst-affected countries and has stunted economic growth.
The ILO conducted research into the impact of the virus on 43
countries with some of the highest rates of infection in the world.
More than 70% of these countries were in sub-Saharan Africa.
Based on its findings, it has estimated that 1.3 million new jobs have
been lost every year between 1992 and 2004 because of the virus.
This, in turn, reduced annual economic growth by an average of 0.5%
over the period and 0.7% for sub-Saharan countries.
"HIV/Aids is adding an enormous burden to countries struggling to
emerge from poverty," said Odile Frank, one of the report's authors.
"We need more employment opportunities for people with HIV/Aids and an
end to discrimination against people with the virus to help them to
secure work."
Treatment imperative
More than two million children around the world are now living with
Aids while those aged 15-24 account for half of new infections.
The ILO said many children were forced to seek employment because they
were living in extreme poverty, while their parents had either died
from Aids or were too sick to work.
Other children found themselves working in unregulated industries such
as the sex trade which exposed them to being infected.
The ILO said increased access to ARV treatments could significantly
reduce the impact on the global workforce.
"The prospect of averting between one-fifth and one-quarter of
potential new losses to the labour force should serve as a powerful
incentive to target the workplace as a major entry point to achieve
universal access to ARVs," the report concluded.
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"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
> South Africa's former policy, which emphasised diet over the use of
> antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, was widely criticised.
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No doubt if you ask the infected if they could go back in
time and relive the events in their lives knowing what they
do now, abstinence would be elected over infection.
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| GMCarter 2006-12-06, 9:27 pm |
| On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 08:43:56 -0600, " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net>
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>"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>No doubt if you ask the infected if they could go back in
>time and relive the events in their lives knowing what they
>do now, abstinence would be elected over infection.
Or safer sex practices. No doubt smokers who develop lung cancer or
emphysema would go back in time...or people who ate too much and
developed cardiovascular disease or diabetes--or those who were born
and realized they had to die after all.
Playing the blame game accomplishes nothing except perhaps to make you
think you are somehow superior? A laughable notion.
George M. Carter
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"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
> " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net>
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> Or safer sex practices. No doubt smokers who develop lung cancer or
> emphysema would go back in time...or people who ate too much and
> developed cardiovascular disease or diabetes--or those who were born
> and realized they had to die after all.
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> Playing the blame game accomplishes nothing except perhaps to make you
> think you are somehow superior? A laughable notion.
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That is precisely what you are doing, playing the blame-game.
And you are quite correct in that smokers would now like to
opt-out of smoking. However this isn't about smokers and
the choices they made.
I see no article here about people who smoked now wanting those
who did not, to come and spend millions to save them from
that decision.
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| GMCarter 2006-12-06, 9:27 pm |
| On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:21:14 -0600, " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net>
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>That is precisely what you are doing, playing the blame-game.
An unsupported statement that is inchoate.
The problems clarified in the article are about how HIV/AIDS is
devastating the workforce.
This means that there is a public interest in treating individuals
living with HIV and prevention programs that are comprehensive and
vigorous to reduce further spread.
In the context of cultures that fear discussing sex or that embrace
the worst of fundamentalist religious views or--the type of despicable
intolerance you routinely display, then these are areas that must be
addressed.
George M. Carter
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"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> The problems clarified in the article are about how HIV/AIDS is
> devastating the workforce.
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Indeed. Perhaps they need boxwood to solve the problem.
This isn't about aids devastating the work-place.
This is about a whine for the un-infected to bail their
XXX out with money, more money.........more money than that.
This is another excuse for the leaders to stuff their pockets
with the cash of other nations.
For 20+ years money and aid has poured into Africa.
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"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6197074.stm
> HIV 'afflicting global workforce'
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> HIV/Aids is having a crippling effect on the workforce of many
> countries, a report by the International Labour Organization for World
> Aids Day says.
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> The ILO said HIV/Aids killed almost 3.5 million people of working age
> in 2005.
Interesting how Carter chooses its articles ... here the implication
that "working age" actually translates to niggers who actually
work is quite hilarious indeed!
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"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 08:43:56 -0600, " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net>
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> Or safer sex practices. No doubt smokers ...
Smokers have nothing to do with the fact that
"safer" sex remains a meaningless and ever-changing
term for people who can't afford to pay for condoms
and won't think before they XXXX themselves to death...
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" Death" <Death@yourdoor.net> wrote in message
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> "GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> That is precisely what you are doing, playing the blame-game.
Ah, yes indeed ... The Carter Manifesto!
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"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:21:14 -0600, " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net>
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> The problems clarified in the article are about how HIV/AIDS is
> devastating the workforce.
NO!!! - it said nothing about the "workforce" - it was about
"working age" people who people like Carter actually
believe are working. They aren't and Carter isn't - they
are all niggers in their own special way!
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> This means that there is a public interest in treating individuals
> living with HIV and prevention programs that are comprehensive and
> vigorous to reduce further spread.
How racist of you to believe that "public interest" has anything
to do with saving infected niggers and faggots!
lol!
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" Death" <Death@yourdoor.net> wrote in message
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> "GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Indeed. Perhaps they need boxwood to solve the problem.
LOL!!!! Oh, God, I peed my pants laughing!!!
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| GMCarter 2006-12-06, 9:27 pm |
| On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:59:54 -0600, " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net>
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>"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>Indeed. Perhaps they need boxwood to solve the problem.
Some people I know have been using it with some success along with
other interventions when there is little else available.
It's one potentially useful approach that should have had better
clinical evaluation. But hardly the only intervention.
But then--what do you care? You are simply living in the stew of hate
you call your dismal life.
George M. Carter
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| GMCarter 2006-12-06, 9:27 pm |
| On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:28:23 -0500, "Life" <Life@life.com> wrote:
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>"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>NO!!! - it said nothing about the "workforce" - it was about
>"working age" people who people like Carter actually
>believe are working. They aren't and Carter isn't - they
>are all niggers in their own special way!
Geez, Frod. You really have lost it. And incontinence as well.
I'm sorry for you, dear.
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| GMCarter 2006-12-06, 9:27 pm |
| On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:22:53 -0500, "Life" <Life@life.com> wrote:
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>"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>Smokers have nothing to do with the fact that
>"safer" sex remains a meaningless and ever-changing
>term for people who can't afford to pay for condoms
>and won't think before they XXXX themselves to death...
But condoms are increasingly available in many countries.
Safer sex is not an "ever-changing" term.
Heavens, dear. Twisting on the spit of your own delusions again!
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