Doubts About Male Circumcision and the HIV Industry's View of African Epidemics
Posted by: Simon Collery
Arusha :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-27 05:13:44 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Even the title, 'Not a Surgical Vaccine', flatly contradicts the claims of circumcision enthusiasts; the term 'surgical vaccine' is rejected for being entirely unscientific. But it's in good company with many of their other claims. Authors Robert Darby and Robert...
Sex Workers Face Sexual and Non-Sexual HIV Risks
Posted by: Simon Collery
Arusha :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-27 05:15:01 -0700 | humanitarian-news
A survey into HIV/AIDS among female sex workers (FSW), injecting drug users (IDU) and men who have sex with men (MSM) in Lebanon has found that prevalence was 3.7% among MSM but that no members of the other two groups...
Pandemic HIV: Not as Perfect a Storm as we Have Been Led to Believe
Posted by: Simon Collery
Arusha :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-27 05:16:09 -0700 | humanitarian-news
In his review of Jacques Pepin's 'The Origins of AIDS', Peter Piot (Science 334 (6063):1642-1643, 2011) claims to have been "fascinated by the sometimes devastating consequences of medical injections" since the mid 1970s, following the Ebola virus outbreak in the...
The world's newest snake on the stairs threatening-looking yellow and black clouds of green eyes and ...
Posted by: anonymous
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2012-09-26 23:40:43 -0700 | lifestyle-news
The world's newest snake on the stairs threatening-looking yellow and black clouds of green eyes and spiky horns. It is named after a 7-year-old girl. The Horned Viper Matilda was discovered in a small piece of southwestern Tanzania two years...
Branding Duesberg is Easy But Refutation Seems to Elude HIV Industry
Posted by: Simon Collery
Arusha :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-27 05:23:17 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Nature notes the publication of Peter Duesberg's controversial article in an Italian journal, where it is claimed that there is no proof that HIV causes AIDS. The article was previously published and then withdrawn, but the publishers, Elsevier, still make...
KATE BUSH - "50 Words for Snow"
Posted by: amagda
Kate :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-28 01:49:11 -0700 | arts-culture-news
KATE BUSH was once a prominent pop escapist, perhaps even on not presented any album to be so introverted. One thing remains unchanged - still not recorded any low disc. Kate Bush has no intention of racing with the realities...
AgriSol in Tanzania: Land-Grabbing or Outright Theft?
Posted by: Simon Collery
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-26 19:48:41 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Tanzanians and other Africans seem to be worrying a lot about reductions in foreign aid and what conditions will need to be met in order to receive whatever is available. But they don't seem to be paying much attention to...
HIV Risk from Blood Transfusions and Tattoos
Posted by: Simon Collery
Arusha :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-26 19:53:17 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Further to a recent report that parents of 23 thalassemic children who were thought to have been infected with HIV through contaminated blood transfusions were calling for an investigation, it appears their demands are being met, at least in part....
Why Are Westerners So In Love With Circumcision For Africans?
Posted by: Simon Collery
Arusha :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-26 19:55:45 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Daniel J Ncayiyana, the editor of the South African Medical Journal, presents a rarely heard view in a professional medical journal: he is critical of mass male circumcision campaigns that make claims to reduce HIV transmission, by widely varying amounts....
Walter Rodney, The Dar es Salaam School and the Current Situation - IndepthAfrica
Posted by: AfricanNewsLive1
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2012-05-05 15:18:48 -0700 | your-story
Walter Rodney made a significant contribution to the African academy, the Pan-African revolution, and human emancipation. This was fully demonstrated in his activist commitment to the cause of the liberation of the people of Africa and those of African descent...
IT EXPERT IN KARATU DISTRICT, ARUSHA REGION TANZANIA
Posted by: hilonga
Karatu :: Tanzania | updated 2012-01-19 16:49:41 -0800 | technology-news
Since it started to be a district, Karatu district hasnt have an IT expert who can design and work with creativity. A graduate comes to help the society of Karatu by providing services like creating blogs, websites, managing personal computers,...
What the US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Doesn't Say
Posted by: Simon Collery
Arusha :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-27 05:34:43 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PCSBI) has just published a report commissioned as a result of the 'discovery' of the Guatemala syphilis experiment in the 1940s, which involved infecting unsuspecting people with syphilis and other diseases...
Treatment As Prevention: Dream or Nightmare?
Posted by: Simon Collery
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-26 20:06:03 -0700 | humanitarian-news
In the light of current enthusiasm for 'treatment as prevention (or 'is' prevention or some other permutation)', it's sobering to read an article from the US entitled 'Only 28% of HIV patients have condition under control'. The idea of treatment...
Neglected Tropical Diseases: Neglected for a Reason
Posted by: Simon Collery
Arusha :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-26 20:07:10 -0700 | humanitarian-news
It's good to hear calls for 'neglected tropical diseases' to be addressed, rather than taking the sort of vertical (single disease at a time) approach that is favored by big institutions and by countries who allocate large amounts of money...
Gay Footballs: Obama and Cameron Aiming to Destabilize African Development Sectors?
Posted by: Simon Collery
Arusha :: Tanzania | updated 2012-07-26 20:08:13 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The COP17 climate talks are taking place at the moment in Durban, presumably to create the illusion that the climate industry sees Africa as having a part in the negotiations. Natural resources continue to be plundered from any country unlucky...
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