I was browsing through Newsweek's vigorous expose on AIDS at 25...and I found it interesting that the black experience in America mirrors ours... (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12663345/)

Im sure everyone of us on this board has lost a loved one to complications due to the disease or knows of a sad AIDS story. Any thoughts?

I guess shame is entrenched in the Bahamian demographic...to change things we have to begin to talk about it...why is AIDS still at crisis state in this country...why shame is still associated with the disease to the point that we dont even want to talk about it (as is the case) its that numbing a topic.

The reality is that young girls are very naive and they are nothing but prey to older men b/c they probably want that daddy love an affection (and the twenty dollars too)...I hate to vilify the bisexual or down low brother are whoever...their behavior has been around from biblical times...its not just them and its very irreponsible for us to just place the onus on married DL men...its a bigger problem and only serves to blame the victim and then beat him...a double wammy...do you think DL behaviour is the reason why Africa is ravished or is it lack of education and awareness?

but I wish the MOH would be on the streetcorners panhandleing condoms and AIDS literature in the pockets of poverty all over the Bahamas as those are the places where folks are most affected...the man made AIDS is going nowhere for a minute (because AZT is making money for those pharmaceutical firms) so we need to deal with this before our population rate is looking something scary like life expectancy being 39 years as is the case of Botswana we must be vigilant.

"The epidemiology of AIDS in the Bahamas"

but these are some others areas that deserve special attention
1. sweethearting
2. construction workers and civl servants (police officers) working and migrating all over the Bahamas...it would be interesting to compare the AIDS rate of Harbour Island in 2000 and in 2006 and we should be shocked! maybe even Exuma
3.Kids (unknowingly) born with it being sexual active
4. tourist and "visitors in our presence"
5. the bisexual man

any others?

for a snapshot of AIDS from eleuthera, my best friend was diagnosed as hiv+ in 1989, and passed away in 2002.

no azt cocktails around here whatsoever for the longest whiles, other than what we smuggled in courtesy of doctors without borders. (chile, we told immigration in advance when the drugs would arrive, and told them that if they wanted to arrest us at the airport, we would hold a press conference decrying the lack of medical resources being distributed throughout the out islands :). they left us alone).

we've been living with AIDS for a long time here ... there was an AIDS research clinic in bottom harbour (whale point area) from the early 90s forward, funded by the canadians. mind you, the hush hush about the subject didn't subside until a few years back, when a middle class bahamian from a good local family passed away from the disease.

"The epidemiology of AIDS in the Bahamas"
but these are some others areas that deserve special attention
1. sweethearting
2. construction workers and civl servants (police officers) working and migrating all over the Bahamas...it would be interesting to compare the AIDS rate of Harbour Island in 2000 and in 2006 and we should be shocked! maybe even Exuma
3.Kids (unknowingly) born with it being sexual active
4. tourist and "visitors in our presence"
5. the bisexual man
any others?


-Prostitution
-Adolescent (stupid) Sex

It's amazing to me how people are still reckless when it comes to sex dred. I mean it's suprising that in this day and age, some people don;t know the dangers of HIV & AIDS; but whats ALARMING, is the people who know the risks, and still say f@k it....:dgi:

-Prostitution
-Adolescent (stupid) Sex
It's amazing to me how people are still reckless when it comes to sex dred. I mean it's suprising that in this day and age, some people don;t know the dangers of HIV & AIDS; but whats ALARMING, is the people who know the risks, and still say f@k it....:dgi:

that's total ignorance about the disease...the MOH needs to do more door to door "scare um straight" awareness programs. What we are facing now is kids born with it who mothers werent able to get the pre-natal drugs to rid their kids of the disease.and they are kids so they dont understand the disease and what it means for them...my mommy has a friend who has it (man he spread his "joy" around to so many people and he didnt even know he had it im sure) his youngest son and the baby mother have it as well (her and her new baby and her boyfriend who beat her dead bad when he found out the deal)...even my mommy was a little naive she was gonna step out for a minute and leave my little sister home with the boy I said NO! for you to have an AIDS patient child next...lets be honest these are children...who knows "playing house"..."playing doctor" doin freshness...anything couldve happen after I scolded her...then you saw the horror on her face...AIDS is a serious ting...

I guess shame is entrenched in the Bahamian demographic...to change things we have to begin to talk about it...why is AIDS still at crisis state in this country...why shame is still associated with the disease to the point that we dont even want to talk about it (as is the case) its that numbing a topic.
The reality is that young girls are very naive and they are nothing but prey to older men b/c they probably want that daddy love an affection (and the twenty dollars too)...I hate to vilify the bisexual or down low brother are whoever...their behavior has been around from biblical times...its not just them and its very irreponsible for us to just place the onus on married DL men...its a bigger problem and only serves to blame the victim and then beat him...a double wammy...do you think DL behaviour is the reason why Africa is ravished or is it lack of education and awareness?
but I wish the MOH would be on the streetcorners panhandleing condoms and AIDS literature in the pockets of poverty all over the Bahamas as those are the places where folks are most affected...the man made AIDS is going nowhere for a minute (because AZT is making money for those pharmaceutical firms) so we need to deal with this before our population rate is looking something scary like life expectancy being 39 years as is the case of Botswana we must be vigilant.
"The epidemiology of AIDS in the Bahamas"
but these are some others areas that deserve special attention
1. sweethearting
2. construction workers and civl servants (police officers) working and migrating all over the Bahamas...it would be interesting to compare the AIDS rate of Harbour Island in 2000 and in 2006 and we should be shocked! maybe even Exuma
3.Kids (unknowingly) born with it being sexual active
4. tourist and "visitors in our presence"
5. the bisexual man
any others?

Bisexual women
anyone in contact with anothers body fluids.

Education is the best hope..

that's total ignorance about the disease...the MOH needs to do more door to door "scare um straight" awareness programs. What we are facing now is kids born with it who mothers werent able to get the pre-natal drugs to rid their kids of the disease.and they are kids so they dont understand the disease and what it means for them...my mommy has a friend who has it (man he spread his "joy" around to so many people and he didnt even know he had it im sure) his youngest son and the baby mother have it as well (her and her new baby and her boyfriend who beat her dead bad when he found out the deal)...even my mommy was a little naive she was gonna step out for a minute and leave my little sister home with the boy I said NO! for you to have an AIDS patient child next...lets be honest these are children...who knows "playing house"..."playing doctor" doin freshness...anything couldve happen after I scolded her...then you saw the horror on her face...AIDS is a serious ting...


All have to be educated most especially the young on how to protect them selves, How it is good to say no.

Years ago I used to get condoms through/from the AIDS Secretariat and take them out to the club and put them in the bathrooms bar and hand them out. They gave me less and less till finally they did not give me any. I gave them to anyone no questions asked.
Something like that needs to be done again along with workshops that will not discriminate sexuality str8 or glbt.

not all AIDS is because of slutty behaviour. count in heroin use as well.

AIDS is something else. I read an article last month about them finding a preventative pill that is very close to coming to the market. when a cure is found it is going to be so sad to think of everyone who did before the cure.

it kills me to hear of people havin unprotected sex, during the past 12 months i had 3 friends that experienced unplanned pregnancies. my point is they didnt use protection so instead of becoming pregnant they could have converted to a positive status.

all i hope is for everyone to be safe

tell me if you see similarites between us and them?

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2346857&page=1&CMP=OTC-


FYI:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aids/

tell me if you see similarites between us and them?
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2346857&page=1&CMP=OTC-
FYI:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aids/


I watched this two nights ago...and my heart pounded.
I was shocked to see something with true sense and compassion on the television..
I was riveted, and I hope they re-broadcast it again.

That reporter dug into Jesse.....I really liked that.
:tup: