Posted on 06/29/2005 9:38:56 AM PDT by quidnunc
On a cold December evening in the southern Iranian city of Kerman, the stars blazed overhead as a father took his son’s life. Enraged, and with an ax in hand, the head of a prominent Iranian family chopped his child to pieces for bringing shame upon his relatives. The son’s crime? Contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In a country where, in some parts, nearly 60 percent of HIV–positive citizens take their own lives within the first year of their diagnosis, the 23–year–old son faced little chance of acceptance, even from his family.
That tragic story is just one of the many being told as the deadly contagion unfolds across the massive Islamic expanse, from Morocco to the Philippines. In the years immediately ahead, the AIDS pandemic will exact a grim toll on a number of vulnerable populations with volatile polities — places unlikely to cope with the significant social stresses and economic burdens that AIDS can cause.
Officially, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates the total HIV population of North Africa, the Middle East, and predominantly Muslim Asia at nearly 1 million people today. At the end of 2003, UNAIDS estimated that up to 420,000 people in Mali, 180,000 in Indonesia, 150,000 in Pakistan, and 61,000 in Iran had HIV/AIDS. Those numbers, however, are severely understated. UNAIDS figures depend upon surveillance data; thus a lack of information can be taken as a lack of infection. UNAIDS data on the number of people living with HIV/AIDS are completely missing for Afghanistan, Turkey, and Somalia, all countries with large at–risk populations. …
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Just wait until Viagra hits the market there.
Just wait till you see the effects here.
Religion of piece.
hmmmm
That's one way to eradicate contagion.
ping
"How are they getting HIV/AIDs?"
Monkey stew with falafels?
I would think that chopping someone with HIV into pieces with an axe would have to be considered a high risk behavior in and of itself.
Very unhappy culture.
I think Islam needs to spend a little
less time lecturing others and a bit
more time working on itself.
Goats?
wow, That's one way to stop its spread.
"I would think that chopping someone with HIV into pieces with an axe would have to be considered a high risk behavior in and of itself."
Bet they hadn't thought of that.
Should we send them some Tyvek suits?
I don't know how these people think they are going to rule the world. When they are not killing other people they are killing their own.
Hint: I doubt it was a woman the young man was looking at.
imagine the fate of the poor women and children who contract AIDS from some straying husband, or abusive relative.
How do they separate the men from the boys in Saudi Arabia?
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