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Sida : ce que j'ai vu en Afrique, par Bill Gates
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AIDS: what I saw in Africa, by Bill Gates
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AIDS: what I saw in Africa, by Bill Gates
Le Monde
26/06/2008

Récemment, at the time of the visit of a private clinic in Africa, my Melinda wife and me saw the poignant photograph of a fore-mentioned patient Jean, suffering of the AIDS, very thin and frail.

We looked at this photograph when a smiling man entered the private clinic to greet us. We spent one minute to realize that this person was Jean, quite alive and in good health, thanks to new effective drugs to treat the AIDS.

Jean is not an isolated case. According to a new report/ratio, the number of people according to a treatment against the AIDS has doubled for one year in the countries in the process of development. This result is due, mainly, with the generosity of the countries of G8 and France, which allocated 925 million euros at the Bottoms total to fight the AIDS, tuberculosis and the malaria.

If each one among us could personally meet an African whose life was saved by a treatment against the AIDS, I think that we all would be very proud of what was achieved and would incite our governments to continue this combat. However, to treat the disease represents only part of the solution. For the future good of Africa, we must more make to avoid the dissemination of this disease, in particular near the women.

The pitiless figures of the AIDS show the importance of the prevention. Thus, in 2006, whereas a patient was treated, six other people were infected. Without reduction of the number of infections, it will be impossible to answer the request growing for treatments.

Some are skeptics as for the possibility of changing the behaviors which increase the risks of contamination by the AIDS. I put whoever at the challenge statement that with the workers of the sex which we met in Africa lasting our voyages: they insist that their customers use a condom with each sexual relation.

Years of research proved that educational programs on the AIDS, the use of condoms and clean needles, as of the tests of tracking of the HIV can be very effective to prevent the dissemination of it. A report, which will be published the next month by the Total HIV Prevention Working Group, estimates that a significant development of the prevention would enable us to reduce two thirds the number of infections during one decade.

It is shocking that if few people - even among those presenting an extremely high risk - have access to these means of prevention which can save lives. In the world, the majority of the provided education for children do not receive any education on the risks of the AIDS. In Africa, only an adult on ten A access to a test of tracking of the virus and a pregnant woman on ten profits from inexpensive treatments, however able to protect the new-born babies from an infection.

Consequently, one of our priorities must be to better manage the prevention of the disease near the women and the girls, that particularly in Africa. Biologically, the women are likely twice more to be infected by the AIDS that the men. Even the married women have few possibilities of making sure of honesty of their partner or of knowing if it uses a condom.

However a woman should not be dependent on her husband to save her own life. I hope, in this respect, that science and technology will give to the women new means of prevention against the HIV. Promising research programs are in hand in the field of the microbicides: gel which the women could use to prevent the transmission of the AIDS. In the same way, of the drugs used for the treatment of the HIV could also be useful for the prevention of the AIDS. Of course, the development of a vaccine against the AIDS could constitute the most significant progress.

In addition to the development of new methods of prevention, we must also worry us more fundamental problems which increase the risks of AIDS in the women and the girls, in particular sexual and social violence, as well as the economic inequalities. We cannot forget the importance of the tracking of the HIV, crucial both for the treatment the prevention. The World Health Organization (WHO) should be congratulated to have enacted, the week spent, of the new directives in order to increase the access to tracking appreciably.

Fortunately - thanks to the great efforts of France and other countries -, to fight the AIDS in Africa east one of the priorities of G8, at the time of the top of this week. The donor countries should seize this occasion, in order to allocate additional resources with programs of effective prevention and treatment, while stressing the search for new means of prevention.

To control the AIDS and, one day, to eliminate it are the priority of the Foundation Spoil. We will not stop as much as this disease will not be éradiquée. And we hope that the most powerful nations of the world will not stop either.

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Bill Gates is a copresident of the Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates.

June 30, 2008 | 4:35 AM Comments  0 comments

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Saudi Arabia: Social support for AIDS patients
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Saudi Arabia: Social support for AIDS patients
Saudi Gazette
24/06/2008

JEDDAH - AIDS patients generally get a raw deal when it comes to receiving cooperation from the society or for that matter, equal employment opportunities.

Their complaints are usually met with deaf ears, unless, they say, the government starts a campaign to change the society's outlook towards them.

Sami Mohammed Badawood, Director of Health Affairs Department in Makkah, has established new AIDS clinics and a psychological and social program to assist AIDS patients here on Monday.

"We should boost the confidence levels of AIDS patients and accept their existence in the society," said Badawood.

He said AIDS patients are the neglected lot in the society who enjoy no rights in any sector, including education and employment. The program aims to teach medical staff in private and government hospitals to deal with such cases with compassion.

"The program will also update on the latest in its treatment, international developments and research.

The program also envisages interaction with the patient's family on how best to deal with the society's ignorance," Badawood said.

"The number of AIDS clinics in the Kingdom has risen to eight.

They are operational in Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam, Jizan, Madinah, Al-Jouf, Najran and Al-Hufuf," Abdulrahman Al-Sahafi, Public Relations Manager in Makkah Health Affairs, said.

Badawood said many people remain under various fallacies about AIDS and avoid touching patients thinking the disease is contagious. He said the course would help dispel any such misconceptions.

By Diana Al-Jassem
© The Saudi Gazette 2008

June 26, 2008 | 10:46 AM Comments  0 comments

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Quote of the Day
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed"

Carl Gustav Jung


June 25, 2008 | 5:08 AM Comments  0 comments

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KELLY Rowland has agreed to be tested for HIV.
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KELLY GETS TESTED FOR HIV
SINGER AGREES TO BE TESTED IN AID OF THE STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATIONPosted: Thursday 19 Jun 2008


KELLY Rowland has agreed to be tested for HIV.

The singer agreed to the testing in Nairobi today in aid of the Staying Alive foundation which raises awareness of AIDS.

Kelly has been in Africa all week, visiting projects, as part of her commitment to the MTV AIDS awareness charity.

She said: "If more young people would take the simple step of getting tested for HIV as soon as it appears that they are at risk, then it would help to reduce the spread of HIV infection.

"HIV tests in Kenya and Tanzania are free and take just a few minutes to do.

"Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to HIV infection, and it is important for everyone to know their HIV status."

An estimated 22.5 million Africans are currently HIV positive and an estimated 1.6 million died from the disease last year.

For more information log on to Staying Alive Foundation.

http://www.ok.co.uk/worldinaction/view/1460/Kelly-gets-tested-for-HIV/