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		By: Warren		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2010/09/06/the-new-yorker-almost-reports-on-uganda/#comment-94842</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Warren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 22:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David - Pretty much the driver of HIV in Africa is transactional sex (e.g., in Kenya, sex for fish among fish traders and fishermen), and sexual networks among straights. The superstitions do drive some of it but the studies I have seen implicate the first two factors much more - the epidemics there are general ones, not localized as here. 



Probably if the comparisons are unfair it is to unfairly compare epidemic types - general vs. localized. However, I think the response to Maazi stands. It seems like hubris to lecture the West on controlling HIV via avoidance of sexual license when same is involved in driving the higher rates in your backyard.



Don&#039;t get me wrong: As as public health policy, I still favor what we have written about - Abstinence, fidelity and condoms for those who will not do the first two. I think the public health terms are delayed debut and partner reduction but you know what I mean.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David &#8211; Pretty much the driver of HIV in Africa is transactional sex (e.g., in Kenya, sex for fish among fish traders and fishermen), and sexual networks among straights. The superstitions do drive some of it but the studies I have seen implicate the first two factors much more &#8211; the epidemics there are general ones, not localized as here. </p>
<p>Probably if the comparisons are unfair it is to unfairly compare epidemic types &#8211; general vs. localized. However, I think the response to Maazi stands. It seems like hubris to lecture the West on controlling HIV via avoidance of sexual license when same is involved in driving the higher rates in your backyard.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong: As as public health policy, I still favor what we have written about &#8211; Abstinence, fidelity and condoms for those who will not do the first two. I think the public health terms are delayed debut and partner reduction but you know what I mean.</p>
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		By: Maazi NCO		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2010/09/06/the-new-yorker-almost-reports-on-uganda/#comment-94651</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maazi NCO]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 21:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;In the US and Europe, about half of all HIV infected persons are gay men. But in Africa where &quot;it&#039;s unheard of&quot;, HIV is spread overwhelmingly by heterosexuality. Africa also has 2/3 of the world&#039;s total HIV infected persons and the nations with the highest per capita infection are all in Africa.&lt;/blockquote&gt;



All the more reason why we need to beat gayism back without compromise in order to prevent a future exponential rise in HIV/AIDS infections from the current 6.4%.



&lt;blockquote&gt;. Africa also has 2/3 of the world&#039;s total HIV infected persons and the nations with the highest per capita infection are all in Africa.&lt;/blockquote&gt;



The ABC (&quot;Abstinence/Be faithful/use Condom&quot;) policy was very effective in reducing AIDS from double to single digits. The &quot;Abstinence&quot; part of the policy played a very strong role in the decline of HIV/AIDS infection rates. This fact is quite inconvenient for western social liberals who initially derided policy for not focusing entirely on condoms since in their hedonistic mindset, humans are beasts incapable of  controlling their sexual desires. Despite doomsday predictions by the hedonists, the ABC policy worked. Today, the hedonists are predicting an epidermic of AIDS unless gayism is decriminalized.  Apparently their propaganda strategy of equating &quot;gay rights&quot; to &quot;human rights&quot; has failed to move Africans by a single inch. I am sure this new Western strategy of linking decriminalization of gayism to lower HIV infection rates will also fail woefully as well.



What the Ugandan health authorities need at this stage is  a bit of innovation to make the ABC policy work better----- better sensitization of the public, better delivery systems for medicines and extending treatment to groups most likely to catch the disease without compromising our penal code on narcotics, prostitution and sex crimes. These authorities remain steadfast in ignoring propaganda backed with dubious data which links acceptance of gayism with lower AIDS rates. Even gay-friendly western nations ban sex deviants from donating their risky blood to hospitals to prevent runaway HIV/AIDS infection rates.



Uganda should look to West Africa to see why their HIV/AIDS levels are very low with infection rates  ranging  from less than 1% to 5% on average. The badly affected Southern Africa region has average HIV/AIDS infection rates of 20%--25%. It is noteworthy that the stridently anti-gay West African countries----- Gambia, Togo, Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal have the following HIV infection rates of 2.4%, 3.2%, 3.0%,  1.9% and 0.8%, respectively. Compare that with gay-friendly South Africa&#039;s 20% infection rate.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>In the US and Europe, about half of all HIV infected persons are gay men. But in Africa where &#8220;it&#8217;s unheard of&#8221;, HIV is spread overwhelmingly by heterosexuality. Africa also has 2/3 of the world&#8217;s total HIV infected persons and the nations with the highest per capita infection are all in Africa.</p></blockquote>
<p>All the more reason why we need to beat gayism back without compromise in order to prevent a future exponential rise in HIV/AIDS infections from the current 6.4%.</p>
<blockquote><p>. Africa also has 2/3 of the world&#8217;s total HIV infected persons and the nations with the highest per capita infection are all in Africa.</p></blockquote>
<p>The ABC (&#8220;Abstinence/Be faithful/use Condom&#8221;) policy was very effective in reducing AIDS from double to single digits. The &#8220;Abstinence&#8221; part of the policy played a very strong role in the decline of HIV/AIDS infection rates. This fact is quite inconvenient for western social liberals who initially derided policy for not focusing entirely on condoms since in their hedonistic mindset, humans are beasts incapable of  controlling their sexual desires. Despite doomsday predictions by the hedonists, the ABC policy worked. Today, the hedonists are predicting an epidermic of AIDS unless gayism is decriminalized.  Apparently their propaganda strategy of equating &#8220;gay rights&#8221; to &#8220;human rights&#8221; has failed to move Africans by a single inch. I am sure this new Western strategy of linking decriminalization of gayism to lower HIV infection rates will also fail woefully as well.</p>
<p>What the Ugandan health authorities need at this stage is  a bit of innovation to make the ABC policy work better&#8212;&#8211; better sensitization of the public, better delivery systems for medicines and extending treatment to groups most likely to catch the disease without compromising our penal code on narcotics, prostitution and sex crimes. These authorities remain steadfast in ignoring propaganda backed with dubious data which links acceptance of gayism with lower AIDS rates. Even gay-friendly western nations ban sex deviants from donating their risky blood to hospitals to prevent runaway HIV/AIDS infection rates.</p>
<p>Uganda should look to West Africa to see why their HIV/AIDS levels are very low with infection rates  ranging  from less than 1% to 5% on average. The badly affected Southern Africa region has average HIV/AIDS infection rates of 20%&#8211;25%. It is noteworthy that the stridently anti-gay West African countries&#8212;&#8211; Gambia, Togo, Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal have the following HIV infection rates of 2.4%, 3.2%, 3.0%,  1.9% and 0.8%, respectively. Compare that with gay-friendly South Africa&#8217;s 20% infection rate.</p>
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		By: Timothy Kincaid		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2010/09/06/the-new-yorker-almost-reports-on-uganda/#comment-94649</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 21:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Uganda should look to West Africa to see why their HIV/AIDS levels are very low with infection rates ranging from less than 1% to 5% on average. &lt;/blockquote&gt;



Or they could just look at the decadent West where all the countries have less that 1%.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Uganda should look to West Africa to see why their HIV/AIDS levels are very low with infection rates ranging from less than 1% to 5% on average. </p></blockquote>
<p>Or they could just look at the decadent West where all the countries have less that 1%.</p>
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		By: Maazi NCO		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2010/09/06/the-new-yorker-almost-reports-on-uganda/#comment-94650</link>

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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;That all people, regardless of their sexual orientation, skin color, national origin, religion or sex should be treated as equals&lt;/blockquote&gt;



I agree with the concept of equality for all people regardless of race, nationality, religion and gender as defined in UN Declaration of Human Rights which explicitly reserves marriage between men and women in article 16 and does not  cover gayism in  anyway. I do not recognize the Western-constructed concept  of  &quot;sexual orientation&quot;, so the idea of  recognizing it  as a &quot;human right&quot; does not even arise. My opinion on this matter is shared by most of Africa&#039;s one billion people. It is shared by most citizens of  nearly 80 nations worldwide. The 2008 UN Declaration on Sexual Orientation &#038; Gender Identity will never gain the support of majority of the world&#039;s 192 nations. So gayism is &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt; certainly not an idea whose time has finally arrived&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. 



&lt;blockquote&gt;you can see those changes happening, even in Africa, despite the increasingly tiresome use of words and phrases like &quot;gayism&quot; and &quot;sexual deviants&quot; by people like Maazi. People who resort to such terms seem somewhat desperate, to me anyway&lt;/blockquote&gt;



If you are hallucinating, then you will definitely see changes in favour of gayism in Africa.



&lt;blockquote&gt;People who resort to such terms seem somewhat desperate, to me anyway&lt;/blockquote&gt;



Deparate? Ha, ha, ha,ha. Why should I be desperate? It is the Euro-American gay lobbyists who are so desperate to push the Gay Agenda in Africa that they are dishing out thousands of dollars to useless proxy NGOs across the continent  who are trying to sell a product  that is fundamentally unsellable to the African people. Many clever Africans are setting up more and more NGOs to harvest a windfall from desperate Europeans and Americans who cannot wait for the Thailand-style exotic sex tourism that they dream will come from legalization of gayism.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>That all people, regardless of their sexual orientation, skin color, national origin, religion or sex should be treated as equals</p></blockquote>
<p>I agree with the concept of equality for all people regardless of race, nationality, religion and gender as defined in UN Declaration of Human Rights which explicitly reserves marriage between men and women in article 16 and does not  cover gayism in  anyway. I do not recognize the Western-constructed concept  of  &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221;, so the idea of  recognizing it  as a &#8220;human right&#8221; does not even arise. My opinion on this matter is shared by most of Africa&#8217;s one billion people. It is shared by most citizens of  nearly 80 nations worldwide. The 2008 UN Declaration on Sexual Orientation &#038; Gender Identity will never gain the support of majority of the world&#8217;s 192 nations. So gayism is <b><i> certainly not an idea whose time has finally arrived</i></b>. </p>
<blockquote><p>you can see those changes happening, even in Africa, despite the increasingly tiresome use of words and phrases like &#8220;gayism&#8221; and &#8220;sexual deviants&#8221; by people like Maazi. People who resort to such terms seem somewhat desperate, to me anyway</p></blockquote>
<p>If you are hallucinating, then you will definitely see changes in favour of gayism in Africa.</p>
<blockquote><p>People who resort to such terms seem somewhat desperate, to me anyway</p></blockquote>
<p>Deparate? Ha, ha, ha,ha. Why should I be desperate? It is the Euro-American gay lobbyists who are so desperate to push the Gay Agenda in Africa that they are dishing out thousands of dollars to useless proxy NGOs across the continent  who are trying to sell a product  that is fundamentally unsellable to the African people. Many clever Africans are setting up more and more NGOs to harvest a windfall from desperate Europeans and Americans who cannot wait for the Thailand-style exotic sex tourism that they dream will come from legalization of gayism.</p>
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		By: Jayhuck		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2010/09/06/the-new-yorker-almost-reports-on-uganda/#comment-90023</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jayhuck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 19:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maazi and others like him, even in this country, are railing against forces of change that they see as bad but cannot stop - they may slow things a bit, but in the end they will fail.  That all people, regardless of their sexual orientation, skin color, national origin, religion or sex should be treated as equals is an idea whose time has finally arrived -  you can see those changes happening, even in Africa, despite the increasingly tiresome use of words and phrases like &quot;gayism&quot; and &quot;sexual deviants&quot; by people like Maazi.  People who resort to such terms seem somewhat desperate, to me anyway]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maazi and others like him, even in this country, are railing against forces of change that they see as bad but cannot stop &#8211; they may slow things a bit, but in the end they will fail.  That all people, regardless of their sexual orientation, skin color, national origin, religion or sex should be treated as equals is an idea whose time has finally arrived &#8211;  you can see those changes happening, even in Africa, despite the increasingly tiresome use of words and phrases like &#8220;gayism&#8221; and &#8220;sexual deviants&#8221; by people like Maazi.  People who resort to such terms seem somewhat desperate, to me anyway</p>
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		By: Timothy Kincaid		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2010/09/06/the-new-yorker-almost-reports-on-uganda/#comment-90028</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Timothy Kincaid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 19:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Irvine should abandon that dangerous lifestyle that will make him 10000000 times more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than individuals that don&#039;t engage in debased sexual behaviour. &lt;/blockquote&gt;



That&#039;s a most peculiar statement.



In the US and Europe, about half of all HIV infected persons are gay men.  But in Africa where &quot;it&#039;s unheard of&quot;, HIV is spread overwhelmingly by heterosexuality.  Africa also has 2/3 of the world&#039;s total HIV infected persons and the nations with the highest per capita infection are all in Africa.



Some countries - Uganda included - have made inroads towards reducing infection rates, but the rates are still miles above those in the decadent West (6.4% in Uganda as opposed to about 0.4% in the US) and there are currently fears that Uganda&#039;s shift to &quot;abstinence only&quot; as a prevention tool is leading to an increase again.



In fact, it would be more truthful to say that people should abandon the &quot;Ugandan lifestyle&quot; as it clearly is more dangerous.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Irvine should abandon that dangerous lifestyle that will make him 10000000 times more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than individuals that don&#8217;t engage in debased sexual behaviour. </p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a most peculiar statement.</p>
<p>In the US and Europe, about half of all HIV infected persons are gay men.  But in Africa where &#8220;it&#8217;s unheard of&#8221;, HIV is spread overwhelmingly by heterosexuality.  Africa also has 2/3 of the world&#8217;s total HIV infected persons and the nations with the highest per capita infection are all in Africa.</p>
<p>Some countries &#8211; Uganda included &#8211; have made inroads towards reducing infection rates, but the rates are still miles above those in the decadent West (6.4% in Uganda as opposed to about 0.4% in the US) and there are currently fears that Uganda&#8217;s shift to &#8220;abstinence only&#8221; as a prevention tool is leading to an increase again.</p>
<p>In fact, it would be more truthful to say that people should abandon the &#8220;Ugandan lifestyle&#8221; as it clearly is more dangerous.</p>
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		By: Maazi NCO		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2010/09/06/the-new-yorker-almost-reports-on-uganda/#comment-90029</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maazi NCO]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 19:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;What Irvine has done is taboo and shameful. It&#039;s unheard of in our African culture,&quot; Mahachi is reported as saying&lt;/blockquote&gt;.



While bluntly refusing to go into the particulars of the Zimbabwean story, I can say the quote by Irvine&#039;s father is 100% correct and justified. Irvine should abandon that dangerous lifestyle that will make him 10000000 times more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than individuals that don&#039;t engage in debased sexual behaviour. He should shun pseudo-scientific propaganda about gayism being &quot;in-born&quot; or &quot;genetic&quot; and make peace with his family. If he cannot do that, he should kiss his African identity good bye and emigrate to San Francisco, where he will enjoy the &quot;right&quot; to live a destructive hedonistic sexual lifestyle. Lets hope that while in San Francisco, he doesn&#039;t end up in a laboratory of  the Centre for Disease and Control as a specimen for checking the spread of HIV/AIDS in the United States.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>What Irvine has done is taboo and shameful. It&#8217;s unheard of in our African culture,&#8221; Mahachi is reported as saying</p></blockquote>
<p>.</p>
<p>While bluntly refusing to go into the particulars of the Zimbabwean story, I can say the quote by Irvine&#8217;s father is 100% correct and justified. Irvine should abandon that dangerous lifestyle that will make him 10000000 times more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than individuals that don&#8217;t engage in debased sexual behaviour. He should shun pseudo-scientific propaganda about gayism being &#8220;in-born&#8221; or &#8220;genetic&#8221; and make peace with his family. If he cannot do that, he should kiss his African identity good bye and emigrate to San Francisco, where he will enjoy the &#8220;right&#8221; to live a destructive hedonistic sexual lifestyle. Lets hope that while in San Francisco, he doesn&#8217;t end up in a laboratory of  the Centre for Disease and Control as a specimen for checking the spread of HIV/AIDS in the United States.</p>
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		By: Mary		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;Maazi and others like him, even in this country, are railing against forces of change that they see as bad but cannot stop&lt;/blockquote&gt;



Maazi is only speaking his mind on what he thinks is right.  What will prevail - only time will tell.  And that is a long time.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Maazi and others like him, even in this country, are railing against forces of change that they see as bad but cannot stop</p></blockquote>
<p>Maazi is only speaking his mind on what he thinks is right.  What will prevail &#8211; only time will tell.  And that is a long time.</p>
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		By: Anne		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The whole article bothered me with it&#039;s &quot;gee, they aren&#039;t so bad&quot; attitude. And that paragraph on Uganda - well, you said it all. That he didn&#039;t mention the bill is still being considered is shoddy work.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The whole article bothered me with it&#8217;s &#8220;gee, they aren&#8217;t so bad&#8221; attitude. And that paragraph on Uganda &#8211; well, you said it all. That he didn&#8217;t mention the bill is still being considered is shoddy work.</p>
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		By: ken		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ken]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;It&#039;s unheard of in our African culture,&quot; Mahachi is reported as saying.&lt;/blockquote&gt;



I suspect it is &quot;unheard of&quot; because any time someone tries to bring it up this is a typical reaction.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s unheard of in our African culture,&#8221; Mahachi is reported as saying.</p></blockquote>
<p>I suspect it is &#8220;unheard of&#8221; because any time someone tries to bring it up this is a typical reaction.</p>
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