The Kenyan government is battling the spread of the HIV virus with a nationwide campaign, but infections remain rampant: In 2018, 46,000 people tested positive, including 8,000 children under 15 years old.Sad news for a Friday...
With 1.6 million Kenyans living with AIDS, the eastern African country is the third most affected nation in the world.
Transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from mother to child is still common and extremely difficult to contain, mainly in the capital Nairobi's low-income neighbourhoods, and babies are often infected during breastfeeding.
“Education, education, education for the young people is key on prevention of HIV to the children once they get pregnant,” says Faith Kungu, a nutritionist at the Lea Toto clinic in Nairobi.
Despite free healthcare, 4,000 minors died of HIV-related causes in 2018. An HIV positive status is still a taboo and can lead to exclusion from society. Some women opt out of taking medicine to avoid suspicion.
Friday, December 06, 2019
HIV still a big problem
Was surprised to read on France 24 that the HIV transmission and death problem in Kenya is still so big:
The effect of the HIV virus cannot be very sizeable. The best such a virus could do is have a minor load on the immune system. The cells it gloms onto only last about six weeks. The virus is not genetically sophisticated enough to do much harm. To poison someone with a pathogen requires some sort of sophistication in the manufacture of toxins. So for example it takes a very sophisticated bacteria to make botulism toxin.
ReplyDeleteThe AIDS debacle is a case of the oligarchy attempting extreme cruelty in population control. Its another of many modern rebellions against the scientific method.