MGAC Outreach translation instructions + more
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IMPORTANT DETAILS:
- Due date: March 30th (doesn’t mean you have to wait till the last minute).
- Email me to get an easier set of pages as soon as you receive this email.
- This information is available here: http://treatthepeople.com/article/mgac-outreach-translation-instructions-more/ (bookmark this page if you are going to lose the email, but make sure you saved the pdf file to your computer)
- For those of you who want to take a look at the complete manual, it is available here:
MGAC Outreach facilitator’s manual (724 KiB, 112 hits)
Rape of a Nation
The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to the deadliest war in the world today. An estimated 5.4 million people have died since 1998. These deaths are byproducts of a collapsed healthcare system and a devastated economy. Read more
AIDS experts wonder if focus is right
In the two decades since AIDS began sweeping the globe, it has often been labelled as the biggest threat to international health.
But with revised numbers downsizing the pandemic published last year – along with an admission that AIDS peaked in the late 1990s – some AIDS experts are now wondering if it might be wise to shift some of the billions of dollars of AIDS money to basic health problems like clean water, family planning or diarrhea.
“If we look at the data objectively, we are spending too much on AIDS,†said Dr. Malcolm Potts, an AIDS expert at the University of California in Berkeley, who once worked with prostitutes on the front lines of the epidemic in Ghana.
Problems such as malnutrition, pneumonia and malaria kill more children in Africa than AIDS.
View full article @ Globe and Mail
What is HIV | AIDS?
What is AIDS?
AIDS is an acronym that stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
- Acquired means that the virus is contracted from an external source. AIDS is not contagious in the same way that the flu is. It has to be contracted by direct exposure to infected bodily fluids. Sexual intercourse, the sharing of needles, and mother to child transmission during birth are the most common means of contraction.
- Immunodeficiency means that AIDS attacks the immune system. It makes the human body incapable of fighting other diseases, and the thousands of germs that we all encounter in our every-day lives.
- Syndrome means that AIDS presents itself not as a single disease, but rather as a whole set of diseases that attack the person living with AIDS as the immune system weakens.
HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The difference between HIV and AIDS is a subtle one. When a person originally contracts the disease, they are said to be HIV positive. The person is said to have AIDS when the HIV infection has destroyed enough of the immune system that it is no longer able to protect the body from opportunistic infections.