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Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:17Ah, finally. I stayed up until 6:30 or 6:45 typing up my Anthro paper, finished as much as I could, turned out the lights, slipped out of my jeans, and collapsed for the next hour and a half, until 8:20. At which time I hurriedly stripped out of my old clothes, changed into new clothes, shoved my feet into my shoes, grabbed my hoodie, my keys, my wallet, and my backpack, and headed out the door.
Once on campus, I made a beeline to Intermezzo for the buying of coffee--Hazelnut coffee with Irish Cream and French Vanilla creamer, plus some milk and two packets of sugar. I started drinking as soon as I finished stirring, was drinking as I paid for it, drank while walking to CB's computer lab, and guzzled the remaining four ounces of liquid before plopping my ass down at a computer terminal to edit and print my paper.
From there, to Anthro itself, where we took a few brief notes on applied anthro, and then we watched a movie about a Canadian man's struggle to fund HIV/AIDS research and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Here are a few of the facts that stood out to me about The Value of Life: HIV/AIDS Revisited in Africa:
[*]Six thousand five hundred (6,500) people DIE EVERY DAY in Africa of HIV/AIDS or AIDS-related illnesses (typically TB or a similar infection, after HIV/AIDS destroys their immune system)
[*]In RWANDA, five hundred thousand (500,000) people have HIV/AIDS
[*]Of the five hundred thousand (500,000) infected people, only seventy-five thousand (75,000) will receive treatment, either because they cannot afford the Anti RetroVirals (ARVs) or because their government refuses to acknowledge that HIV/AIDS is a problem.
[*]In 2003, there were eleven million (11,000,000) orphans in Rwanda. This number is expected to more than double to twenty-four million (24,000,000) in 2010.
[*]In SOUTH AFRICA, five million (5,000,000) people have HIV/AIDS.
[*]Six hundred (600) people DIE EVERY DAY from HIV/AIDS or HIV/AIDS related illnesses.
[*]For years, President Umbeki refused to acknowledge the existence of a link between HIV, AIDS, and the appalling death toll in his country. As a result of this refusal, he denied the right to distribute ARVs to humanitarian groups. For two years (from 2001 to 2003), the United Nations did NOTHING to stop this atrocity.
[*]Two hundred fifty (250) children are born with HIV every day, because their mothers cannot afford the drugs that prevent the transmission of the disease from their body to that of their unborn child.
[*]There is one (1) death from HIV/AIDS or HIV/AIDS related diseases every minute (60 seconds).
[*]In KENYA, seven hundred (700) people DIE EVERY DAY from HIV/AIDS or HIV/AIDS related illnesses.
[*]There are two million, two hundred thousand (2,200,000) orphans in Kenya.
[*]Until 2002, the government denied that HIV/AIDS was a problem.
[*]Eighty percent (80%) of the population is HIV positive.
[*]In UGANDA, the infection rate has been reduced from twenty percent (20%) to six percent (6%)
[*]In the 1980s, the president of Uganda recognized the threat of HIV/AIDS and brought the problem to public attention, leading to the improvement in the number of HIV/AIDS victims in the country.
[*]There are two million, two hundred thousand (2,200,000) orphans in Uganda, out of a total of twenty-five million (25,000,000) people in the country.
[*]Of all the HIV/AIDS humanitarian aid money raised by the UNITED STATES, two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000) is mandated for abstinence education. Not medicine, which is proven to save lives and improve the quality of life of those suffering from HIV/AIDS. ABSTINENCE EDUCATION gets TWO BILLION DOLLARS ($2,000,000,000) instead of MEDICINE and RESEARCH.
On a brighter note, as of posting time at 8:16 pm EST, my SGA is 95% complete.
Once on campus, I made a beeline to Intermezzo for the buying of coffee--Hazelnut coffee with Irish Cream and French Vanilla creamer, plus some milk and two packets of sugar. I started drinking as soon as I finished stirring, was drinking as I paid for it, drank while walking to CB's computer lab, and guzzled the remaining four ounces of liquid before plopping my ass down at a computer terminal to edit and print my paper.
From there, to Anthro itself, where we took a few brief notes on applied anthro, and then we watched a movie about a Canadian man's struggle to fund HIV/AIDS research and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Here are a few of the facts that stood out to me about The Value of Life: HIV/AIDS Revisited in Africa:
[*]Six thousand five hundred (6,500) people DIE EVERY DAY in Africa of HIV/AIDS or AIDS-related illnesses (typically TB or a similar infection, after HIV/AIDS destroys their immune system)
[*]In RWANDA, five hundred thousand (500,000) people have HIV/AIDS
[*]Of the five hundred thousand (500,000) infected people, only seventy-five thousand (75,000) will receive treatment, either because they cannot afford the Anti RetroVirals (ARVs) or because their government refuses to acknowledge that HIV/AIDS is a problem.
[*]In 2003, there were eleven million (11,000,000) orphans in Rwanda. This number is expected to more than double to twenty-four million (24,000,000) in 2010.
[*]In SOUTH AFRICA, five million (5,000,000) people have HIV/AIDS.
[*]Six hundred (600) people DIE EVERY DAY from HIV/AIDS or HIV/AIDS related illnesses.
[*]For years, President Umbeki refused to acknowledge the existence of a link between HIV, AIDS, and the appalling death toll in his country. As a result of this refusal, he denied the right to distribute ARVs to humanitarian groups. For two years (from 2001 to 2003), the United Nations did NOTHING to stop this atrocity.
[*]Two hundred fifty (250) children are born with HIV every day, because their mothers cannot afford the drugs that prevent the transmission of the disease from their body to that of their unborn child.
[*]There is one (1) death from HIV/AIDS or HIV/AIDS related diseases every minute (60 seconds).
[*]In KENYA, seven hundred (700) people DIE EVERY DAY from HIV/AIDS or HIV/AIDS related illnesses.
[*]There are two million, two hundred thousand (2,200,000) orphans in Kenya.
[*]Until 2002, the government denied that HIV/AIDS was a problem.
[*]Eighty percent (80%) of the population is HIV positive.
[*]In UGANDA, the infection rate has been reduced from twenty percent (20%) to six percent (6%)
[*]In the 1980s, the president of Uganda recognized the threat of HIV/AIDS and brought the problem to public attention, leading to the improvement in the number of HIV/AIDS victims in the country.
[*]There are two million, two hundred thousand (2,200,000) orphans in Uganda, out of a total of twenty-five million (25,000,000) people in the country.
[*]Of all the HIV/AIDS humanitarian aid money raised by the UNITED STATES, two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000) is mandated for abstinence education. Not medicine, which is proven to save lives and improve the quality of life of those suffering from HIV/AIDS. ABSTINENCE EDUCATION gets TWO BILLION DOLLARS ($2,000,000,000) instead of MEDICINE and RESEARCH.
On a brighter note, as of posting time at 8:16 pm EST, my SGA is 95% complete.
