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IRAQ: Um Khalid, Iraq "Men here believe they are immune to the (HIV) disease"
IRIN ^ | November 30 2006

Posted on 11/30/2006 6:45:10 AM PST by jmc1969

Um Khalid (not her real name) caught the virus from her husband, who frequently had sexual relations with sex workers. After discovering his disease, he left his wife with three young children and travelled abroad.

"I am one of the many victims of HIV in Iraq. My husband betrayed me. At least if he had used condoms with the prostitute, I would not be sick today. This is a common problem in Iraq because men here believe they are immune to the disease. I worry for the hundreds of young men who think like this and will be the next victims of the prostitutes who contaminate my country.

"Since my husband left me, I support my three children by myself. My health is getting worse every day, especially because the only centre in Iraq for AIDS treatment is lacking some medicines and I cannot afford the rest [available in the private sector].

"I don't worry if I die because it will be my destiny. But I just think about my children who will become orphans without anyone to take care of them. My [extended] family has abandoned us, saying that my disease could be passed on to other family members and [they believe] my children are sick for sure.

(Excerpt) Read more at alertnet.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aids; iraq

1 posted on 11/30/2006 6:45:11 AM PST by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969
"Pleasure marriages" are allowed by the Koran...the inman always gets a cut...
2 posted on 11/30/2006 6:47:38 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: jmc1969

Funny, so does most of the male population in San Francisco.


3 posted on 11/30/2006 6:48:43 AM PST by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna)
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To: jmc1969
I hate to rain on the MSM's propaganda but this article is... in my opinion... TOTAL BS!!!
If HIV is running rampant in Iraq it's not because men are frequenting female prostitutes. It's because they have no problems sodomizing little boys.
4 posted on 11/30/2006 6:49:47 AM PST by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn.)
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To: 2banana

No surprise here , didn't the epidemic in Russia start with Afghan and African based troops returning home. I'm a firm believer in mandatory pre-marital testing but in this case there really isn't a point to it.


5 posted on 11/30/2006 6:51:03 AM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: jmc1969

I can see Clinton wishing he could convert to Islam.


6 posted on 11/30/2006 6:54:01 AM PST by Always Right
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To: jmc1969
Moslems with AIDS . . .

Yet another supply of suicide bombers.

7 posted on 11/30/2006 7:02:02 AM PST by blues_guitarist (I'm black so I can say it! . . . LOL!! . . . Hey Kool-aid!!!! . . . As in the days of Noah!)
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To: blues_guitarist

Ohmigosh, you are so right. It's the modern version of tossing plague-ridden bodies over the castle walls. I was thinking more of -- just another way to thin the jihadist population.


8 posted on 11/30/2006 7:08:26 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: jmc1969

Sympathy level: 0


9 posted on 11/30/2006 7:19:17 AM PST by rageaholic
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To: blues_guitarist; bboop

Some of the palestinian suicide bombers have had AIDS and Hep C, and those injured in the blasts have contracted the diseases due to being penetrated by bone fragments. Charming.


10 posted on 11/30/2006 7:20:53 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: 2banana

It does happen but it is not common for men to catch AIDS from women.


11 posted on 11/30/2006 7:21:12 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: rageaholic
Sympathy level: 0

You are a beautiful human being.

12 posted on 11/30/2006 7:22:34 AM PST by Wormwood (Self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly - Ronald Reagan)
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To: rageaholic
Sympathy level: 0

This woman has HIV through no fault of her own, and you have zero sympathy? You're an a****le

13 posted on 11/30/2006 7:26:16 AM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

You are KIDDING? But of course. Amazing -- I have followed the ME pretty closely for some time, but I have never read that in the MSM. They must not KNOW it, else surely they would publish it in the news. So the readers could know the Truth. Wouldn't you think?// roll eyes//


14 posted on 11/30/2006 2:40:13 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: jmc1969

Since female to male HIV transmission is rare, the prostitutes are probably male.


15 posted on 11/30/2006 4:28:22 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: rageaholic

Why is this a bad thing? Let them continue to live with the belief that Men are immune. Consider it a long term fight in the war against terror (AKA the war against islamists). If we cannot kill the enemy directly, let them rot from the inside within the next 15 - 20 years. Of course, I don't wan't them around that long, but if that's the ONLY functional way to win, so be it.


16 posted on 12/06/2006 5:17:31 PM PST by John Frum
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