How Would You Approach The Problem Of Persuading Africans To Practice Safe Sex to Avoid HIV?

Name: Oneil McQuick Class: SPC1600 Date: July 17 2005 School: BCC
Task: Ask to do a research paper with the given topic. 

 

::CONTENT::

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS AIDS AND WHAT IS HIV?

SYNOPSIS OF THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA

SYNOPSIS OF THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA AS AGAINST THE REST OF THE WORLD

THEORY TO FACT – “SILENT GENOCIDE”

WHAT HAS BEEN THE ATTEMPT OF INDIVIDUAL OUTREACH TO HELP AFRICANS?

WHY HAS THAT NOT WORKED?

WHAT IS MY PRACTICAL SUGGESTION STILL AND MY REAL SOLUTION?

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY


INTRODUCTION

The notion here posed is one of responsibility for the Africans, who is thought to be more promiscuous with their sexuality than any other people and hence need to be curbed. However, though I must answer the question in my opinions of how to persuade Africans to practice safer sex, I must also introduce that the origins of their problems and curbed thereof, is not necessarily sole responsibility on their part, but is a result of what I call, “The silent genocide,” one of few that has taken place in our near history by higher beings to wipe out a populace for self gains. Already that seems off topic, but it weaves itself in the big picture and why any efforts might still seem futile in the light of safer sex practices.

WHAT IS AIDS AND WHAT IS HIV

AIDS, an acronym that stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. HIV, an acronym that stands for Human Immunodeficiency virus. HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS; and persons with HIV don’t immediately display symptoms of AIDS. HIV “virus infiltrates and destroys CD-4 cells of the immune system, which provide the body's main defense against various infections and may lead to AIDS. HIV belongs to a family of viruses known as ‘retroviruses’; unlike in most other virus families, the genetic material of HIV and its related viruses is RNA, not DNA. HIV infuses its RNA into the DNA of the host's cells, thus preventing them from functioning normally and creating conditions for the further generation of destructive viral bodies. AIDS stands for ‘acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.’ AIDS is a clinical condition characterized by dangerously low levels of disease-fighting cells in a body's immune system and/or diseases that cannot be controlled by a weakened immune system, such as diarrhea, significant weight loss, persistent parasitic infections, pneumonia and a rare form of cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma. HIV is a virus that attacks and suppresses the immune system, whereas AIDS is a condition caused by one or more diseases resulting from weakened immune-system function. Simply put, HIV causes AIDS. HIV transmission can only occur when an infected body fluid is introduced into the bloodstream of an uninfected person, either directly or via mucous membranes (especially in the genital area). Research indicates that there are only four body fluids where the virus concentration is sufficient for transmission to another person: blood, sperm, vaginal secretion and breast milk. The most common way that HIV is transmitted is during sexual contact.” Another twist to this I will not get into, is this quote, “Most Americans have yet to be told about the role of HHV-6A in AIDS and CFS;” which might reveal other stuff along the lines of this essay.

SYNOPSIS OF THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA

Africa has felt the brunt of the HIV AIDS plague. In fact, more than 2.5 million people died of AIDS in Africa in 2002, which is 75 percent of the worldwide toll. By 2003 the world wide toll for people with AIDS were 37 million, but get this, 31 million of those were in Africa alone, according to the United Nations sources; mostly concentrated in what is called, “the AIDS belt,” from then Zaire to Kenya. Some 25 percent of all people 15-49 were infected with HIV in Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia; nearly 20 percent in Zambia; and about 13 percent in the regions most populous country, South Africa. Some 20 – 25 percent of the entire populations of several tropical African countries are infected. Because of this life expectancy has dramatically reduced. For example, life expectancy in 1994 was 60 years in Botswana, however, by 2003 it had greatly reduced to 39 years. Not only that, parents are dying by AIDS so rapidly that the UN project that by 2010 it will be responsible for 20 million African orphans. With this, African countries will see declines of up to ten to twenty percent, making the matter extremely urgent. Even with all this statistics, it is believed that many cases are gone unrecorded, as all Africa is now affected. For instance, “many doctors in Africa…say that AIDS cases are 80 to 90 percent underreported.” Worse of all, the problem is severely affecting the continent’s economy. For instance, many skill workers are dying at a rapid rate to AIDS, soaring medical expenses, soaring funeral payments, constant cost of training replacement workers and other AIDS related problems are severely depreciating the Gross Domestic Product, way of life and emerging unique (African) industries.

SYNOPSIS OF THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA AS AGAINST THE REST OF THE WORLD

In Nov 28 2001, which might still be the case today, “the number of HIV infections in Eastern Europe is rising faster than anywhere else in the world.”  During that time more than 75,000 were reported infected in Russia, a 15-fold increase in just three years. "HIV is spreading rapidly throughout the entire Eastern European region - a quarter of a million new cases only this year," said Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). That might sound startling, but at the same time Africa reported 3.4 million new infections and 2.3 million deaths and more than 30% of pregnant women are HIV-positive. Therefore, though other countries are now feeling the epidemic with immense proportions, it is with relativity to other areas and things separate from Africa, and can never come close to the statistic Africa outputs; making Africa incomparable in this AIDS pandemic.

And note that India and China, most populous of nations, don't have such an epidemic to proportions of Africa - yet they are just as promiscuous or even worst, seeing their uncontrollable breeding - each country of 1 billion a piece. And they are not allegedly more responsible in their sexuality either, especially Indians (as poor as Africans), who bath in a polluted river with feasts passing by and knowing the consequences of such actions, with some dying from this "holy" bath. Mexico city is the largest urban area on earth (27 million people densely concentrated) with the majority in slums, in the said tropics as middle Africa, yet no such epidemic. Hence, what has taken place seems deliberate, as we will explore in the next paragraph or section.

THEORY TO FACT – “SILENT GENOCIDE!”

Unknown to many and might even seems Ludicrous, this AIDS epidemic could be a well-orchestrated event at the African people. Before you laugh me to scorn, please read on. Firstly, it’s not the first such things were done. For example, Spanish Conquistador Cortes marched into Mexico City in the late Aztec Empire, he couldn’t win the battle, then later we hear they died of small pox, and then he returned and crushed the remainders. Even where he’s from, the first Spanish base, Cuba, biological weapons of disease was used to kill off the natives. Brinkley noted, “the native population quickly declined from approximately 1 million to 500.” Only today we hear of biological weapons and warfare, but the fallen angels of these super societies have been using it all along. And probably why you have the AIDS epidemic in Africa, with possible sentiments as these, “we can’t Apartheid you, so we will wipe you out with disease and no one will know, but think it’s coincidental as we did when we conquered the South America in colonial days.” If it weren’t for President Clinton, I heard, admitting and apologizing for agents ‘infecting black men with VD’s in America’ I would think this overtly Ludicrous. Darn elitist pigs need to be wiped out themselves! Notice also that Northern Mexico in history, according to Brinkley, was spared such epidemic with the contact of Spanish. Right! Totally Ludicrous, it is because in that area they wanted them alive. Why? I don’t know, duh, but it seems it was the first place the Spanish, through Onate, got encomiendas – the right to exact tribute and labor from the natives on large tracts of land. In other words, they taxed the people and coerce them into labour. They also did something else there (Santa Fe), intermarry regularly, yet Brinkley says they were spared the epidemic because contact was “less intimate.” Clear biological weapons were used because the people outnumbered them and their technologies failed. This theory also proves correct with what later, in colonial times, became known as inoculation or infecting of small amounts of small pox for immunity, according to Brinkley. They knew how to infect animals and humans with a disease. INJUSTICE!

De Blij and Muller also noted, “The confrontation between Hispanic and native cultures spelled disaster for the Amerindians…the concentration of Amerindians into newly built towns” (Geography: Realm, Regions and Concepts). Sounds familiar? The same exact thing happened in South Africa – “white coats” wanted the land, sent out the blacks (and some black coats) “into newly built towns,” which was called apartheid. The Spanish eventually wipe out the Amerindian with disease (biological weapons) because like Apartheid, they wouldn’t put up with it, as seen in a few rebellions. It was first catastrophically used when Cortez went to Tenochitlan, Aztec prime city, and failed to conquer them, even with armies made up of other Amerindian tribes (division tactics). Later we here they were wiped out by small pox, then the Spanish ravished the city (1519-1521) – resulting in a catastrophic decline in the population, up to 90%. The disease was most used here because of its defense, great opposition and great city and last one too; to the point that not one Aztec is *^alive today in Mexico, and there remain 19 indigenous people – Mayans number 714,000. Notice that Cortez used other Amerindians in his attack on Tenochitlan, are they immune? It’s too obvious! The same thing was planned for Africa, silent genocide. In 1970, South Africa was so-called independent, but ruled by the white minority, along with the last set of colonies residing in South of Africa of all of Africa, the rest of Africa had become independent (“Colonization and Decolonization,” ibid). South Africa eventually became independent in 1994. But look, the last colonial strong hold of South Africa was 1970’s, they lost; but lost on the forefront, because in the background they had a plan – biological weapons, which the world wouldn’t know of, so in 1980’s AIDS was discovered; and though it is said to originate with homosexual men in California, it found its way in Africa at that period and spread more there than California, U.S.A and the rest of the world. If in gays, it is said to spread through homosexuality, which the Africans weren’t at the time – good culture lock – and even death was a solution of such, even away from Christianized societies. The excuse of blood transfusion might be used, but extremely poor excuse given the epidemic in Africa. The people were simply deliberately infected. Genocide was attempted.

All look to the five gay cases in 1981 in L.A. as the start, then link it back to Africa’s Epidemic, this and other schemes might be cover-ups as to its origins for silent genocide. But it began in middle Africa and nothing climatic, environmental or geographic suggest its breeding, origins or sustenance. It was possibly “created” in a lab for this purpose. It was simply launched there to wipe out the populace in the 1970’s when only South of Africa was left colonized and the Muslims controlled the North. That’s why one source said, “during 1970’s Africa was afflicted b yet another malady that appears to have started in equatorial forest, became an epidemic and grew into a pandemic: AIDS” (ibid).

All in all, its proper name today is Biological Weapons. Used against the Indians (Small Pox), probably the early Europeans (Black Death) and now the Africans (AIDS). As one person puts it, “biology accomplished what ruthlessness could not have achieved in so short a time: diseases introduced by the Spaniards…decimated millions of Amerindians” (ibid).

Nothing is particular unique to the tropical middle Africa that is conducive to the disease spreading, it’s not a climatic, regional, environmental or atmospheric disease. Neither is middle Africa more promiscuous, have more sex workers, more homosexuals or any another demographics we cede to the spread of the disease. In fact, other parts of the world rank higher in these categories. Neither is having “dry sex” the cause of the proliferation, as absurd as that sounds and its survival only among the ‘ancients’. But the epidemic there was just planned to wipe them out. In fact, unlike other areas of the world, “women and girls make up a disproportionate 57 percent of Africa's...people diagnosed as HIV positive;” in some areas up to 76 percent and they are at higher risk to getting the disease. In other words, a disease like AIDS would be even more effective in a silent genocide if the women are more infected, because the children would be born to it and born to soon die; a constant replication of the disease until all are extinct.

Take the example of the McQuickterian Theory Fact Chart below:

McQuickterian Theory Facts:

Satan, chief Devil, control the then elitist pigs of the south beyond McQuick’s line 2 and in another time, possible show that he controls the murderous sect of Muslims above McQuick’s line 1 (started their religion in the 1st attempted “suckery” [the term explained in the “Student Manifesto”] at a possible third seed of God’s redemptive process; too complicated to stop and explain now.)

Theory 1: Knowing from the time of Muhammad (600 A.D) of the third seed, would possible know of the ethnicity** of the mediator and hence would attempt reducing that race dramatically, even extinction; though this seem far-fetched to us. However, other things hampered this, example, uncontrollable “white coats” and others with slavery. Nonetheless… Hence, this plague in Africa should be called “The Black Death” and not the former Bubonic plague that tried to destroy the first West* and landing of the Eagle. And, what was attempted at the first Mediator (Moses) through Pharaoh and the second (Jesus) through Herod was attempted with a possible the third mediator.

Above McQuick’s line 1, the Muslim dominate from the early A.D.’s, non-Africans pressing down from the middle east to conquer North Africa. Below McQuick’s line 2 the last colonial strong hold (1970) of whites press up with apartheid, relocating the blacks north. This forces the indigenous Africans in the middle. Apartheid falling out was long seen and Christianity took a foothold between McQuick’s lines 1 and 2. This led to the inevitable, genocide. The world had developed and this might prove difficult, especially with the “eagle” coming to the aid of the weak. So biological weapons was used and guised, lot less complicated as in the case of the Amerindians. McQuickterian Theory Fact, is that a silent genocide was or is attempted, whereby the motives can only be explained in Judeo-Christianity and hence many geographers and scientists have sell themselves short of the full meaning of their field of study. To make this theory also a fact is that between McQuick’s line 1 and 2, one source noted, “the worst hit countries were equatorial Africa in what is called the AIDS belt” (Geography: Realms, Region and Concepts, 11th edition, page 272)

Theory 2: To prevent true Christendom from spreading and continue the Constantinian plot of pseudo Christianity. Muslims crush non-Rome churches in the North pressing down the area of McQuick’s line 1 and elitist pigs from the south press upward with Catholicism (and Anglicanism) and apartheid. Many of the great Apostolic defenders were based in North Africa.

Theory 3: Satan hates people and need the land for various purposes, as with South America in the 1400’s. So the need arise to get rid of them, probably for the richness of the land, so purely economic. But that is still far from the big picture, because South America was economic but he really tried to go before the new denominational oasis America would become, the epitome of the first West ideology; hence, why you have the strong Catholicism (Constantine church) in South America. Plus numerous other reasons.

Asterisk (*) in theory 1 denotes, West is a reference of a new society away from the former ancient domains of the Middle East/Africa and far southern Europe to a Westward domain where true Apostolic Christianity might thrive again minus the Constantine false corrupt takeover of the church; and hammering out truth with error and hence diluting the faith of its potency yet give rigor of religiosity that such adherents are persuaded of it. So New lands were formed in the Upper west that might give rise to an Oasis of Christian adherents; which would be administered by God’s hand and usher in the last great push. Christianity is vital to the earth and shapes its histories and everything else, being the salt of the earth is an understatement for you see that the major plagues of history surrounds it and almost all things in earthly life. From the chief Devil fell, the bible said that the kingdom of God suffereth violence, means it has continued since then and now. This is especially most vibrant if there is a third seed, which would be birthed out of the west as well or an area of denominational freedom; not that all denomination preach the correct thing, but that Christianity is not held down by a priestly order to which satan is the head – stifling truth, a possible third seed and the saving of all human kind. So a disease is said to start from a place called Constantine in North Africa in the 1300’s traveled Northwards and wiped out 1/3 of Europe. Notice where it came from, Constantilope, a message from Constantine (satan or a chief of his) himself, ‘No such thing is going to be allowed’. One source noted, "The impact upon the future of England was greater than upon any other European country." (Cartwright, 1991). Why? England was one of most adamant to break away from Constantine’s catholic church – one of the original red, white and blue. However, this was overcame and also, Europe was not that West but breed it, that is, America; all careful maneuvered if explanation was possible. But it is still hard to see, when you first can’t see the beings behind these things. Firstly, we attribute such plagues to things like a Rat Flea, when the beings behind these plagues don’t even have to use such things directly. Job immediately became leprous when God moved his hands and Satan touched him, Job didn’t have time to meddle with someone who is leprous of touch something unclean. How did he become ill with leprosy all of a sudden? Nothing explainable. Again, take this verse, "So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people..." (2Sam 24:15-16). The people were immediately dying by some unknown disease and not knowing why or who, but David saw the angel doing it by the simple stretch of his hands. We need some David in our nations after reading this, and see the evil angel satan at work and like David, repent and pray to the Lord (Yah). With this, it also becomes easy to see that healing can also immediately take place as easy as a plague can. Notice also that a targeted epidemic was planned with the “Black Death” but it spread into a pandemic, reaching Asia.

Double Asterisk (**) in theory 1 denotes, Another fact, 20% of Brazil’s 178 million people live in squalid conditions worst than Africa and Asia combined, in the Northeast region, near tropics, yet no AIDS epidemic as Africa. Though something called “The Boy” (El Nino, “Donde esta el nino?”) plagued them with drought where some go hungry and sleep wherever; another “act of sovereignty” beyond their control. This is the area where blacks in South America are concentrated, while many are sent back with a paid bus fare if they venture to the south, most affluent area; yet when medical complexes, tourism and others come to Salvador in the North East, they work and prosper. All this take place when Brazil leads the world in Coffee and Orange Juice production/Export and second in Soya Bean and the world’s leading exporter of Tobacco, plus has the world’s largest deposit of Iron ore. It would seem that wherever the Africans escape the silent genocide they are severely beleaguered by causes that are uncanny; except in the U.S, thank God for the “eagle” and though ironical, slavery – for the dispersing of the race in the west.

Though God uses plagues on people for his purpose, especially those of overt hedonistic traits, historical and spiritual analysis will show that this is purely a work of the inherent evils previously mentioned. Nevertheless, God is sovereign and can stop or allow at will anything that takes place in human history, hence the verse, “shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?” (Amos 3:6). This includes AIDS (affectionately called for its fight against sexual immorality), Wars, a 3rd of the earth dying, a 3rd of regular drinking water undrinkable and many more astonishing things. What you should fear is not biological death, “fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matt 10:28); that is, God (Yah). AIDS, created for a silent genocide, became a world pandemic; “more than 60 million people worldwide have become infected, including 28 million who have already died. The majority of those newly infected today are under the age of 25. If current trends persist, by 2020 AIDS could claim up to 100 million lives worldwide, putting it on track to be the worst epidemic in human history.”

WHAT HAS BEEN THE INDIVIDUAL OUTREACH OF HELPING AFRICANS

There have been several strategies and helps to the pandemic in Africa. For instance, Medications; funding; Christian outreach hospitals, clinics and counseling; awareness and others. It is said one of the best short-term strategy is to alter the attitude and public behavior by condom distribution as extensively as possible. One such strategy was “Ambush Theater,” where actors would go on the streets looking normal and re-enacting scenes that are pro condom use. Example, “A circle forms around the unfolding drama in which a husband is accusing his wife of having an affair with one of her colleagues, with whom he saw her leaving the train. Egged on by a friend, the husband yells he knows that this is true because last night she asked him to use a condom” and it went on. On the other hand, the country of Uganda undertook a campaign that is said to have considerable results. That is, it slowed the spread of AIDS dispersal through a vigorous advertising campaign on billboards, in newspapers, and on radio and television – preaching abstinence. Another thing that is done, might be unique to the region and best described by the following article:

Past anti-AIDS efforts in Africa have centered around distributing condoms and preaching the benefits of abstinence and safe sex. But the efforts in Uganda, long a leader in AIDS prevention, highlight the current thinking on how to best tackle the epidemic:

"Boosting women's economic opportunities and social power," says the annual UN AIDS report, "should be seen as part and parcel of potentially successful and sustainable AIDS strategies."

Out of sub-Sahara's HIV-positive young people, 76 percent are female, according to the report. Africa's adult women, meanwhile, are 1.3 times more likely to get the disease than adult men. And overall, women and girls make up a disproportionate 57 percent of Africa's ... people diagnosed as HIV positive.

These numbers are increasingly cited as reason to change longstanding gender inequalities and cultural practices. A bill in Uganda's parliament, for instance, would address a host of customs - from polygamy to marital rape to bride price. Bride price is the widely practiced custom of men paying the wife's family before the wedding. Women's advocates say it often allows women to be treated as property. It can be used to give legitimacy, for instance, to a man forcing his wife to have sex. If a wife dies, men can argue that the money paid to the woman's family is transferable - and demand to marry her sister. Sometimes men want a refund so they can afford to marry again. All of these practices can spread AIDS.

Uganda's proposed law would make bride price optional, nontransferable, and nonrefundable. But such practices have long been a key part of traditional societies [including today's societies that are not as affected with AIDS as Africa, e.g. Islam]. (Dec 17 2004, Christian Science Monitor)

Another innovation, somewhat unorthodox and risky because of the medium of use, is the Internet. Nigeria’s “NGOs, seeking new partners to the anti-Aids campaign, recently introduced an Internet chat forum as they begin to use the new information technology to examine all issues concerning the dreaded disease. Omololu Falobi, coordinator of the Nigeria-Aids Forum, told IPS, ‘Electronic mail networking is an innovative, effective way of reaching the public with prevention information and empowerment of the citizenry with the appropriate knowledge and skills to act to stop AIDS.’ Although Internet connections are low and costs are high in Nigeria, journalist-activist Falobi asserted that the Internet can still be a "cheap, immediate and effective medium for networking...With such internet-based forums, we can and have broken the silence surrounding AIDS in our communities, but especially in the corridors of powers."

Altogether they have been several outreach programs to HIV/AIDS, yet neither an individual nor a combination of the efforts has achieve results worth overtly being over joyous. Nevertheless, the effort must go on.

WHY HAS THAT NOT WORKED

Medications that combat AIDS are too high and private drug companies wont make the products affordable for Africans. Internet exploits can only reach a few, mainly the well-to-doers, which make up a smaller percent of the population. Campaigns are good and if funded can work well, but not all countries can afford these campaigns, especially with depleting GDP with the AIDS fatality and medical debt. Empowering the women economically and socially don’t make them responsible sexually, for the same women in the west are of the most empowered and also some of the most promiscuous.

“Church” ban on condom use has also hindered its distribution, for it is still fornication, a sin worse than aids; plus it increases promiscuity, and with the allege 10% margin of error you’re bound to get caught one time. Therefore, though statistic claim it prevent AIDS 90%, it is not welcomed by the “church.” Another thing that makes it not welcome is the culture or mindset of the populace, which the “Ambush Theater” tried to correct, but even in their performances they are mocked. What is this cultural set? Time magazine puts it quite candid, “At another house, the wife was branded a whore when she asked her husband to use a condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets.” Though if you think of it, most men dislike the use of condoms, as one said, “it’s like eating the candy with the wrapper.” With all this said and done, one source got to the reality of the matter, “researchers Sanny Chen and Norman Hearst noted that, ‘In many sub-Saharan African countries, high HIV transmission rates have continued despite high rates of condom use.’ In fact, they continued, “No clear examples have emerged yet of a country that has turned back a generalized epidemic primarily by means of condom distribution.”

WHAT IS MY PRACTICAL SUGGESTION STILL AND MY REAL SOLUTION

My practical solutions are some of the same solutions mentioned in the battle against AIDS in Africa, in fact, everything possible has been tried. Not only being a Christian, but the most astute solutions comes from the bible, but since the dissolving of the physical Kingdom of Jewry to the present Kingdom of Christ, the benefits are most often individual. That is, “as for me and my house” or as for me I will take this stands. For it to become nationally or globally beneficial, then such biblical solutions must become mainstream education to the masses, then reinforced by cell leaders or preachers. Solutions such as Abstinence, as the bible records, “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication” (1 Thess, 4:3); this can only be thoroughly successful with the help of God’s spirit and hence, one must become born again. God’s design, the way things best fits, is that a man and woman from birth should abstain from sex all there lives and then leave their parents’ house to get married and have sex for the first time. That works best and no AIDS “on its own” can fight that. However, even if that were tried, our societal loose values, T.V, Media and all influence would defeat the purpose and seem to steer us away from that godly design; hence those must also be taken care of with an “Apostolic” Christian Awakening. Notice how a similar trend in Africa seems to be working well.

“A focus on abstinence is seeing a resurgence…A growing number of Ugandan groups - led by religious leaders and the first lady - are hoping to steer teens away from early sex. It's spawning what one local paper dubbed the "virginity craze." A recent event hosted by first lady Janet Museveni showcased 600 "virgins" who've pledged abstinence. The effort in this highly religious nation is partly a backlash against recent marketing efforts to boost condom use.

The trouble with advocating condoms more aggressively than abstinence or faithfulness is that "many people who fail to abstain eventually fail to use a condom," says Luboga Samuel, a professor at Makerere University's medical school in Kampala and chairman of the Uganda Youth Forum. The group encourages teens to take abstinence pledges, seek counseling if they're being pressured to have sex, and choose supportive friends” (Dec 17, 2004; Christian Science Monitor).

This campaign has fostered the biggest HIV infection drop in world history. The occurrence rate of HIV in 1991 was 15%. Admirably, it had dropped to 5% in 2001. The drop was even more remarkable among pregnant women 21.2% of expecting mothers tested positive for HIV in 1991. The number had plunged to 6.2% in 2000.

However, solution one is the backbone but since the epidemic has reached this far, to incorporate solution one more practically, there has to be widespread testing before marriage, which is solution two. “Abstained” couples courting shouldn’t get tested before marriage and consequentially before engagement in sexual activities. The marriage of the two “Abstainee” will either continue if none is found to have the disease or discontinue if one has it. The one who has it is barred from marriage for life and further sexual activities. Though, the last solution might help him or her; and marrying of two infected person is not encouraged either!

Incidents of infected needles are rare and can be closely monitored to zero incidents in hospitals/clinics and the same numeral, with education, if Africans “do” drugs with needles.

Notice I bold “on its own” in the solution one, that is because solution one takes care of the problem in a normal case. But if you have read this essay in its entirety you’ll see that Africa, famed origin of the pandemic, is not a normal case. Seeing that I pointed out that the epidemic was deliberate, solution one will prove futile, as the inherent evils will find many ways to infect the “innocent” Africans. Hence, the final solution is to call on our creator, only he can take care of the intelligent Nemesis behind this plague and only he can clean up the damage that has already been done. History records him healing thousands of people in one go. The famed “snake on a stick” medical sign is one such event where he healed many of sickness (Num 21:9). Is God dead that he cannot hear, even the cries of those in governmental positions, like Janet Museveni, or the founding fathers who held public prayer meetings in the white house? Hence, the best solution is prayer – pray the AIDS onslaught out and pray healings for those infected. If prayer weren’t an overtly proven tool I wouldn’t even mention it. Why is God hands not moving in large clusters as of old, though it can? Pride. That’s why the verse said, “If my…will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I…heal their land” (2 Ch 7:14).

To those interested, you not only say words of requests, but also believe even without seeing right there and then, that those words or requests are instantaneously had. Hence, “believe that you receive it and you shall have it” (Mark 11:24). Why is it so hard to believe that a few words can be so impacting, when people see and believe in the abominable real magicians who say a few words and wonderful things happen? Words are powerful when backed by a spirit; it is most powerful when backed by God’s spirit. This is fully realized if one becomes righteous or saved, solidifying the fact that states, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16).

No apologies if this essay seems to have turn out like a sermon, I tried to make it as scholarly as possible with the McQuickterian Chart; but the fact is that only fools are left in the dark, and purposely so, of the ongoing heaven earth intricate relations in our lives, explained in Judeo-Christianity. And for those Fallen Ones of you interested, and somehow like the people you governor (not necessary liking humanity as a “man” another “man” for now, but more so like how humans like pets or the attachment I had with my childhood teddy bear) hear this:

The fallen angels who ruled the Aztecs and Mayans crumbled before the greater being of satan and his regime. Why you, who are in governmental powers in Africa and the rest of the world, think you can withstand satan without God? Like the Mayans and Aztecs, if God doesn’t intervene, and why would he seeing your fallenness (even self-deification as with the Mayan/Aztec fallen angel gods who also accepted human sacrifice), then your people and nation will have to succumb to him and/or crumble. Let the people call on the true God, of Judo-Christianity, Yahoshua (Jesus); and prematurely, you yourself clean up your act.

CONCLUSION

I don’t know about you but I have learnt a great deal from this essay (doing the research) and I hope the solutions, at least the last one, is put into practice.

*^ denotes that another argument used for the drastic reduction of the Amerindians is that they crumbled under hard work on the plantations. Totally nonsensical because as told me often, “hard work never kill anybody.” This is also a poor excuse because Mexico had plantations and haciendas and little to no black slavery was there, yet they did the hard work and lived. Black slaves were just more viable than Amerindians for several reasons – 1) not in a domain they know; 2) No questions asked or negotiation needed they were bought from Africa and immediate properties; among many other reasons.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books:

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Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation. McGraw Hill. 1221 Avenue of the Americas, NY, 10020.

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Illustrations:

De Blij and Muller. Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts. “Colonization and Decolonization, 1885-2004.” John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ.

McQuick, Oneil. McQuickterian Theory Fact. Compose in July 2005 while at BCC. Can be use freely and widely as pleased without editing, but all rights are reserved.

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