Posts Tagged ‘HIV’

INJECTION!

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Injection is the real-life story of six health care workers falsely accused and jailed by the Libyan regime, the deplorable conditions that all led to their arrest, and the [...]

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Topless virgins vie for Swaziland’s king

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In the Royal Village of Swaziland - More than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to become the King of Swaziland�s 13th wife on Monday in a ceremony which critics say ill befits a country with the world�s highest HIV/AIDS rate.
King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa�s last absolute monarch, arrived dressed in a leopard-skin loincloth to watch the [...]

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HIV/AIDS in the Muslim world

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http://www.aei.org/docLib/20050608_eberstadtNBRreport.pdf (PDF File - 828KB)
This report from the US-based National Bureau of Asian Research takes an unusual look at the HIV/AIDS situation in the Muslim world, highlighting the poor surveillance and inadequate knowledge of the extent of HIV/AIDS.
Excerpt:
What is especially troubling to behold is the reluctance to admit that Muslims engage in exactly those same [...]

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