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The number of new reported cases in 2007 and 2008 was 109 and 118, respectively. The Republican HIV/AIDS Prevention Center estimates, however, that the number of people with HIV/AIDS in Armenia could be as high as 2,800.
“Real World, Real People” NGO head Hovhannes Madoyan estimates that the number of officially reported cases has increased in the recent period because people leaving for migrant work in Russia are now required to pass a medical test for HIV/AIDS.
“HIV/AIDS treatment is available in Armenia, but its availability for high-risk groups is not provided. I don’t think the motto ‘Availability for all’, by which the world will be guided in the coming year can be translated into action in Armenia,” says Madoyan.
(Prostitutes, intravenous drug users, homosexuals, are traditionally considered to be HIV/AIDS risk groups.)

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She said at least 70,000 of the city’s 500,000 residents are considered to be in a high-risk group for the disease.
Sri
said in the past, the red-light district had been concentrated in one
area. But, she said, new prostitution centers had recently sprouted up
across a broad area, such as a burgeoning red light district in the
northern part of the city, known as Jalak Alley in Gilingan.
Sri
said prostitution was rife across the city, with many places using
legitimate businesses as a front. She said many massage parlors,
billiard halls and brothels operating in private homes had cropped up.
Sri said the decentralized sex trade was far more difficult for
authorities to monitor and was a barrier for the city’s efforts, such
as ensuring condoms are readily available, to fight the spread of
HIV/AIDS.

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A: I was in one play that did run forever. I was in “Noises Off” that ran for a year.
Q: Favorite stage to perform on?
A: I love the Marines Memorial on Sutter Street. I thought it should have been named the Maureen’s Memorial Theatre. I was in “Noises Off” there, “Pygmalion,” “Dinner at Eight.”
Q: Growing up, what did you want to be?
A: I was on my way to being an attorney. I saw how much my friends who were going to law school argued, and I’m already a pretty argumentative person, so I thought maybe I’d better not develop that part of my personality.
Q: First film role?
A: I was a prostitute in a Louis Malle film. I told my mom, and there was a pause, and she said, “Could you ask for another part?”

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… In Jakarta, more than 200 female demonstrators urged the government to close down brothels and ban condoms, which they said encouraged ‘free sex and unhealthy behavior.’ One banner read, ‘Prostitutes, drug users and homosexuals are the agents of immorality,’ ” the report read.
The demonstrators also demanded that programs providing free condoms for male and female prostitutes be ended.
Let’s try to look at this from a logical point of view — Jakarta is becoming a modern metropolis, and more and more people of the younger generation are independent and free-spirited and don’t follow the same traditions or rules as their parents. In other words, sex before marriage is becoming more common, and this development seems to be a natural one and unlikely to stop.
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Also, prostitution is one of the oldest industries in the world. Close down one brothel, and another will open a week later. I don’t support prostitution, but depriving sex workers of free condoms would just put them at higher risk of infection.

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But HAART is not a vaccine. And not everyone has access to it yet. In fact, 60 per cent of the people in the world who need treatment for the disease are not getting it. Consequently, an estimated 5,500 people are still dying from it every day around the world. You can do the yearly math.
South Africa is facing an AIDS crisis in which nearly six million people are infected.
“We were in South Africa for the Cape Town conference [on AIDS] last summer,” Dr. Montaner told me. “Every day, the newspaper had a story about 30 per cent of doctors being infected with HIV, 30 per cent of nurses, 30 per cent of teachers. It means their whole infrastructure is crumbling. It means society as a whole becomes fragile.” The impact the disease can have on a family unit is devastating. It often leads to even worse poverty. Children have to leave school to try and support their parents. Often, such children turn to prostitution. The consequences are often lethal.

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The slumping New York Giants placed linebacker Antonio Pierce on injured reserve with a bulging disk in his neck, ending the season for one of their defensive leaders. Pierce has missed two games since being ruled out indefinitely after an MRI exam Nov. 20 revealed the bulging disk. Pierce, 31, in his ninth NFL season and fifth with the Giants, has 55 tackles, one sack and one forced fumble in nine games this season. Pierce played 15 games last season after appearing in all 16 games in each of the previous two seasons. He has led the Giants in tackles for the past three seasons and missed only four regular-season games since leaving the Washington Redskins to join the Giants.
Panthers
Carolina Pro Bowl middle linebacker Jon Beason was arrested and charged with punching a man at a strip club. Beason was booked on a misdemeanor assault charge yesterday afternoon — while his teammates were watching film of their loss to the New York Jets a day earlier — and released on a written promise to appear in court.

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Access AIDS Network is a not-for-profit organization that has been providing support in the Sudbury area now for 20 years. It provides support to people living with HIV and AIDS, including marginalized populations such as people who live on the street. It provides educational services to workplaces, schools, and institutions and assists with the deductible cost of HIV and AIDS medications.
The network also provides a food bank, youth support, and support for the lesbian, gay, and trans-gendered groups which are at particularly high risk due to deceased familial and social support.
The Access AIDS Network has a website at www.accessaidsnetwork.com. It is currently being redeveloped, but when complete will provide information on the network’s services.
One Woman’s Story
The speaker at the Access AIDS Network breakfast was raised in a dysfunctional home where substance abuse as well as physical abuse (directed at her mother) was common. When she was in her teens, her father sexually abused her. To escape her home life, she turned to drugs and alcohol, and later to crime and prostitution to fund her habits.

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Quite early, writing in the 1950s, Franz Fanon, in The Wretched of the Earth, had sounded the alarm about the treachery latent in the ‘national bourgeoisie’ poised to step into the shoes of the white colonials and settlers in Africa. About this underdeveloped bourgeoisie, he writes, “its mission has nothing to do with transforming the nation; it consists, prosaically,  of being the transmission line between the nation and a capitalism, rampant though camouflaged, which today puts on the mask of neocolonialism.”
“Because it is bereft of ideas,” Fanon writes, “because it lives to itself and cuts itself off from the people, undermined by its hereditary incapacity to think in terms of all the problems of the nation as seen from point of view of the whole of that nation, the national middle class will have nothing better to do than to take on the role of manager for Western enterprise, and it will in practice set up its country as the brothel of Europe.” Although Fanon was not writing about Pakistan, no truer words – nothing more prescient – could have been written about the brown Sahibs who have managed US-Zionist interests in Pakistan.

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Higham presents startling evidence that the AIDS virus may have existed prior to 1981, when the virus first had been reported in the media. The mysterious death of a British soldier in 1959 may have been the first AIDS casualty, according to the Panache Report site. The soldier’s blood was frozen for laboratory storage. Years later when scientists analyzed that frozen blood sample, it tested positive for HIV.
In the 1960’s, according to the Panache Report site, a black male prostitute, from in St. Louis, died of mysterious ailments, the doctors were baffled and decided to store his blood and organs. Years later, the organs and blood tested positive for HIV. For further research, see the book, Howard Hughes, The Secret Life, by Charles Higham. You also can browse the book at that Google Book site.

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Another barrier is the anti-prostitution pledge –
a requirement that organizations receiving U.S. funds publicly state their opposition to prostitution in order to continue their work fighting HIV/AIDS. The Department of Justice in July temporarily withdrew its appeal of a court injunction prohibiting enforcement of the pledge – a welcome action that should be accompanied by clear guidelines upholding the free speech rights of organizations.
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The global community through the U.N. and other forums clearly speaks out against laws and policies that further stigma and violate rights of people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS Family planning and gender considerations are integral aspects of the program guidance PEPFAR managers send to and use in the field. The Global Health Initiative is robustly funded and has clear mandates on RH-HIV integration. Congress and the Obama Administration permanently put to rest the Anti-Prostitution pledge and Global Gag Rule.

See the full article from “RH Reality Check (blog)”

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