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Crystal_Abongta
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[Poll] Chatting HIV/AIDS with Abongta
November 4, 2002 - 11:17 AM
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The fact is HIV/AIDS is dealling away with too many youths than anybody can ever be happy about. The driving question now is Should youths discuss HIV/AIDS issues on a daily basis?
Must Youths know all about HIV?
It's Important for them to know all about HIV/AIDS
(5 votes for 45.45%)
They need just the basics that can help them
(5 votes for 45.45%)
I don't care about HIV let alone AIDS
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The Future lies in knowing all that is to be known
(1 votes for 9.09%)
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November 8, 2002 - 09:33 AM
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yeah...i think people, especially youth, should be aware of the HIV/AIDS. The problem is increasing worldwide, especially in underdaveloped countires, and something should to make the people aware of the increasing problem. Media should be used affectively along with conducting seminars in underdeveloped areas. This neds alot of money and I think that no Organisation is willing to carry out the process. The awareness spread through media, such as Television and newspaper is not as much affective as conducting seminars in underdeveloped(in some of African and Asian countries) regions because many of the remote regions cannot log on to television or get newspapers. The Social organisations should take steps to ensure that the probles is tackled in a proper and effective way. I think, some Social Organisations should form an alliance and collect funds.
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Re: Chatting HIV/AIDS with Abongta
November 9, 2002 - 09:49 AM
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actually, i think emphasizing it will make the whole idea of hiv/aids make them reflect more on ways of preventing. it's as real as they are so pls don't stop the emphasis. we're to continue cos of the love we have for them afterall, they the future of world.let's strive more to be heard.
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November 10, 2002 - 01:23 AM
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Hi! Apart from the fact that it is important to sensitise the underdeveloped countries and rural areas, it is also important to take into account the fact that most of the people in these regions are not ready to discuss AIDS as a problem that needs to be tackled head on. It is a proven study that in most of these countries, a large number of AIDS cases are due to unsafe sex. Given the social structure of rural and underdeveloped areas, it is not possible to discuss AIDS as people consider it a taboo. IT is necessary to find ways of putting the information across to people effectively. It is necessary that people should be willing to listen to the information available and the preventive measures available. Only if the people are aware of the dangers of AIDS can we expect them to make the correct choices in terms of preventive safety measures against AIDS. looking forward to your comments..
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November 10, 2002 - 03:59 AM
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aditi, I agree with you. Talking about taboo is actually taking us back to some of the cultural and traditional believes of the concerned communities. Sexuality issues are actually a taboo subject to many an African community. That’s why I said those organizations carrying out projects in the third world need to break these barriers. They need to go meet the people in their communities and together make them realize they are slaves to their traditions. It is only by breaking these traditional bottle necks that we can get any closer to imparting behavioral changes in the target groups.
People can only listen to prevention messages if they are comfortable enough to listen and being comfortable means that the massages presented need to tie somehow with their believes. Therefore we have to make them modify their traditional stereotypes then they would be better placed to change their sexual attitudes.
For example a tradition that allows the inheritance of widows by a brother of the dead husband need first of all to see the dangers of inheriting a dead man’s wife vis à vis HIV/AIDS before they would get to understand or change such an outdated aspect in their traditional setup.
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November 10, 2002 - 11:04 AM
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Happy with the response of the last two speakers. Its true much is still to be done. Really development organisations and other social organisations are not making the emphasis where they are due. We need to turn our attention to the rural world especially in Africa. Millions of young people living in the remote and rural areas don’t listen to the radio, read newspapers or listen to AIDS educators. They don’t even have the mains of ensuring three square meals a day let alone think of owning radio and TV set. There is already over-sensitisation in the urban towns; development organisations need to turn their attention now to these rural areas. They should fund the activities of these community organisations that work in the rural areas. We can only win the challenging war against this deadly disease by meeting the needs of the infected people and those at risk or getting infected not by inventing horrible war machineries and dreaming of ways to attack Iraq.
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i agree with you
November 10, 2002 - 11:57 AM
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Hi! I completely agree with everything you have to say here. But the problem we are trying to discuss i.e. that of cultural sterotypes is one involving very complex solutions. I don't know if it is possible to implement such complex solutions which involve changing the mindset of people and the thinking process which has involved over generations. More thoughts will follow..
keep the discussion on..
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November 11, 2002 - 07:37 AM
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Hello,
I understand your views very clearly,In education, the first law is “Know Thy Self” early teachers, as Socrates knew this fundamentally law. Any effective HIV/AIDS program has to recognize that habits die- hard. We want automatic results most of the times. This could be helpful but I am afraid not in every field. Convincing somebody to change a particular behavior or lifestyle means giving enough time allocation and being committed. It can only take persistence and absolute commitment to get good results.
Changing traditional mindsets with respect to HIV/AIDS means that for example, we don’t hastily tell youths to use Condoms if they can't abstain from primarital sex. What do you expect them to do especially with the hormones running wild in their systems? The HIV/AIDS problem in Africa moves hand-in-glove with poverty. HIV/AIDS programs that seek to modify traditional mindsets should be integrated with poverty alleviation strategies. For example most prostitutes in Africa say they do it because they have no other way to earn a living (The truth about this claim isn't the point now). If organizations really want to curb prostitution in these regions, then they need to propose other activities that would yield them income and stop the desperate victims from prostituting by making them self-reliant. Prostitution as a reminder is one of the principal vents to sexual transmissions of HIV.
Not to belabor the point I am making, I am saying that changing traditional believes which existing communities have build for years is not going to be a days job. It needs exceptional commitment and persistent. Treating those you want to change with love and care not by castigating them or outrightly condemning their tradition. This could spur up mental revolts that would prove counter productive to the results you want. Programs designed for behavioral changes need to involve the target population in the formulation and thinking process.
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November 20, 2002 - 01:14 AM
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Paul is a friend I know who is not ready to get infected by HIV and is not ready to stay clear of his insatiable desire for girls. It’s taken me so long to make him realize that illicit and rampant sexual encounters with different women is really what is going to guarantee his getting infected soon.
He tells me he only just realizes himself in a girl’s bed the next morning when actually he went drinking without any intension of getting into any sexual deal.
But as an HIV/AIDS educator, I believe that youths need to overcome that desire for sexual pleasures and chose more informed options that would not place them in a position of getting infected with the HIV. I put forth the question then, what is the links between alcohol and getting infected with HIV? What is the better life style for Paul to adopt? What are your opinions to this?
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Community education is the answer
October 3, 2003 - 08:24 AM
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Well actually the chain continues.
It’s really interconnected. If we start off the debate with alcohol, we soon get to irresponsible behavior, then to illicit sex and onto Sexually transmitted diseases as well as HIV/AIDS.
Even after all the mobilization going on around the world, with all the over emphasis in Africa, the HIV wave seems to keep on widening the front. It is crossing national and international boundaries unnoticed; it’s bringing untold suffering to all classes of society.
At the center of it all, we find poverty and taboo as the catalyst. Poverty in Africa is fanning the spread of this monstrous disease. Sexuality being a taboo subject in many African communities makes the darkness; ignorance and mystery surround the HIV to hang on.
HIV/AIDS education needs to target these indicators, it needs to be integrated into the daily life realities of the target groups. People need to breath and eat HIV/AIDS education for their consciences and habits to change with regards to its danger. If habits to die-hard as it is said then more has to be done in this domain. Life Skills is the answere. Life Skills trainning needs to be integrated into HIV/AIDS education. We should not look without for what is within.
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Some more?
December 14, 2005 - 08:55 AM
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Its been a while and I just wanted to know, any other views on this?
Time has changed and I quess ideas too
Gracias
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December 14, 2005 - 10:35 AM
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When you have finally come to the anwer to these questions please let me know?I firmly believe that when we have the gutts to talk to our children on SEX then we have the remedy!When we are able to come up with Behavior change and communication as the new and ideal Intervention then i believe that we will be able to have the anwers >i dont have to say much but that there are some numerous projects dealing with youths that are even BEST PRACTICES BUT TELL YOU WHAT theydont have the core issue at hand.I have Uneversity students who are the cream of the country who trell me they dont have time ti wear condoms because the girl is alrteady on heta and the condoms will waste their time,moreso you dont eat a sweet or bananas with the wrapping!I have teeens telling me theyt want to have sex at the age of 12 so/You come up with the anwers and i will be able to respond once more.Otherewise i am happy you raised this issue!
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Re: Chatting HIV/AIDS with Abongta
December 18, 2005 - 05:26 AM
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Ok this is from my perspective: People should DEFINITELY be aware of HIV/AIDS and the very real dangers of it. As has been pointed out below, the trend for NOT using condoms (ie unsafe sex) and traditional attitudes will take some overcoming. This virus is a real problem in our world today. It has reached pandemic levels (is that the right word?) and thus something must be done...so...education, awareness...ultimately we have to change people's behaviour so safe sex becomes 'de rigeur', the norm...even abstinence, although with hormones as they are it's entirely unrealistic...as for HOW to do this I'm not sure though!
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Re: Chatting HIV/AIDS with Abongta
December 23, 2005 - 04:02 AM
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Please also feel free to check out TakingITGlobal's Featured Theme on HIV/AIDS or the UN Joint AIDS programme for more ideas on what you can do.
www.takingitglobal.org/themes/hivaids
www.unaids.org
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Re: [Poll] Chatting HIV/AIDS with Abongta
October 17, 2006 - 11:30 AM
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Another World AIDS day is around the Conner, we've been talking AIDS for a while now but what are the realities? The prevalence seems to be on the increase, many more youths are getting infected despite sensitization so what do we do now? Has enough research been carried out to understand what push youths especially in Sub-Saharan Africa to engage in sex and end up infected? The "sugar daddy" syndrome is getting into the wild especially as many more African economies are dwindling. Most African governments seem swallowed up by debt relief than fighting the disease.
Just this week, an Accountant in a provincial AIDS control committee is said to have embezzled 10 million FCFA that’s an equivalent of 20 thousand USD. This is money destined to fight the pandemy in that part of the country and it ends up in an individual's pocket. He is about now languishing in jail while the virus keeps on widening the front.
This is just a suggestion that many more factors seem to stiffly efforts around the globe to fight the disease so what do we do now? There is probably the need to revise strategies and adopt new approaches. Any ideas as to this orientation?
Gracias!!!
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