Hi,
I am relaxing after shifting to DC. Surprisingly this Memmonite hostel is very home like - nothing is under lock and key though suggested donation mentioned alongside food items and the internet. So am using their TV - saw Oprah's show for the first time.
Surprisingly it was on an issue quite on my radar since the Nigerian near MIT mentioned that Black men esp coming out of jails in US after 5 yeras are all carrying HIV virus.
This show was all about how the govt has declared an EMERGENCY about HIV explosion in Univ campuses - and how it is spreading from Gay black men to bisexual white men and to white women in suburbs thereon. Guys in good univs were shown - apparently quite fit and fine --but carrying AIDS virus. One guy - got it 15 years ago --seemed fine and confident --running AIDS Black Inst. - Mr Smith ---- gave all these explanations.
Another 68 year old white woman was there who got it after her divorce and at age 50 from a dear old long time friend. Black young girls in US get it 3 times more than white ones -- becos there seems to be a craze to have boyfriends or a "relationship" anyhow. A trend increasing in India too -- with metro girls becoming increasingly "liberated" http://people.indiatimes.com/xfiles/1164123.cms
In Africa also girls are twice more likely to get AIDS than boys --becos even at school teachers seduce them - as mentioend at every seminar I attended -at Harvard, Stanford or Washington Univ. My classmate who was a Peace Corps volunteer narrated how his Principal at a Camaroon school made a girl pregnant and laughed when my firned unknowingly said that expoloitation is rife in the country and must be checked . later my firned found out the truth. Some girls approached his home to get better grades - a common practice there as in most of Sub-Saharan Africa . Some ofcourse do it for money as well.
I wonder why evangelists of the West --do not utilize their excellent resources to help improve the ethics of theose who have converted to their faith --in Africa etc -- like the good facilities like this Mennonite Hostel in DC. Rather than claculating their balancesheet and Profit and Loss Account -- by counting the number of new converts in Asia and Africa [The Bible's history chapter showed that warriors (one guy killed 300 at one blow!!) are worshipped in Christianity also.]
In India also it seems the BPO couiples will lead the AIDS explosion -since it seems the brothels have become safer- only 28,000 cases this year down from 300,000 last year -as per AIDS body of India.
Any views?
Umesh
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