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She said at least 70,000 of the city’s 500,000 residents are considered to be in a high-risk group for the disease.
Sri
said in the past, the red-light district had been concentrated in one
area. But, she said, new prostitution centers had recently sprouted up
across a broad area, such as a burgeoning red light district in the
northern part of the city, known as Jalak Alley in Gilingan.
Sri
said prostitution was rife across the city, with many places using
legitimate businesses as a front. She said many massage parlors,
billiard halls and brothels operating in private homes had cropped up.
Sri said the decentralized sex trade was far more difficult for
authorities to monitor and was a barrier for the city’s efforts, such
as ensuring condoms are readily available, to fight the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
The data were contained in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update, which revealed that HIV played a significant factor in deaths to women during childbirth. Using South African data, about 50,000 maternal deaths were associated with HIV in 2008.
‘Aids isolation must end … half of all maternal deaths in Botswana and South Africa are due to HIV,’ said Sidibe.
The report said the face of the Aids epidemic was changing and that prevention efforts were not keeping pace with the shift. Daniel Halperin, an Aids expert at Harvard University, said it was good news the rate of new infections was dropping and that access to Aids drugs was helping to cut the death rate.
Earlier this year, the UN announced there are now 4million people on lifesaving Aids drugs worldwide, a 10-fold increase in five years. HIV transmission in Asia in the past was mainly through prostitution and injecting drug use, but now, it is increasingly affecting heterosexual couples.
… Sex workers are highly vulnerable to HIV-AIDS. It’s our responsibility to create awareness about it among sex workers and provide necessary medical services to those who are already infected by HIV-AIDS,” Helen, who heads the Swati Mahila Sangha, a sex workers’ collective in Bangalore, told IANS Monday on the eve of World AIDS Day.
“Today we have 7,500 members and our organisation has worked with around 16,000 sex workers across the city. Apart from creating awareness about HIV-AIDS among sex workers, we are also trying to fight the social stigma attached to sex workers and to HIV-AIDS,” she said.
Karnataka has around 245,000 HIV infected people.
Soumya, another HIV-AIDS activist who is a transgender and a sex worker, is also trying to create awareness among sexual minorities about HIV-AIDS through Samara, an organisation for sexual minorities.
… The fence will only be 4 feet high,” Ramsey said.
“The lower 2 feet will be solid wood, but the higher part is open grid, so people are free to pick from the trees the peaches and apples and blueberries and raspberries, and eat freely.”
Despite the fence and the gate, which will close at 5 p.m., the park’s current users won’t be fenced out, Ramsey said.
Two spots outside the fence in Union Plaza park will be set aside for residents to continue to enjoy their games. Permanent tables and bench seats will be installed on corner plazas at 34th and Peralta streets and Haven and 34th streets. To address neighbors’ concerns, both corners will be lighted at night to discourage illicit behavior such as loitering, drug dealing and prostitution.
Beige. I Think I’ll Paint the Streets Beige.
Fri., Nov. 27 2009 @ 7:30AM
After years of waiting, San Francisco can finally tell its roadway-focused version of the world’s most played-out dirty joke.
(Ergo: The difference between girlfriends ["Ooohh!
'T STOP!
'T STOP!"], prostitutes [a passive "Oh baby baby. Don't stop.], and wives: ["Beige. I think I'll paint the ceiling beige."])
To wit: The difference between ignorant San Francisco drivers during the past decade’s local bike-commuting boom (”Aarrrgh! GET YOUR BIKE OFF ROAD!”), during the past two years’ cycling Perestroika (”Hmmm! I guess I could go around her.”), and this week, when a judge finally lifted an injunction prohibiting new bike lanes: (”Beige! They’re painting the street beige.)
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch ruled Wednesday that the city can implement street improvements to ease bicycle commuting that had been blocked for more than three years, as long as the changes can be easily undone.
… The fence will only be 4 feet high,” Ramsey said.
“The lower 2 feet will be solid wood, but the higher part is open grid, so people are free to pick from the trees the peaches and apples and blueberries and raspberries, and eat freely.”
Despite the fence and the gate, which will close at 5 p.m., the park’s current users won’t be fenced out, Ramsey said.
Two spots outside the fence in Union Plaza park will be set aside for residents to continue to enjoy their games. Permanent tables and bench seats will be installed on corner plazas at 34th and Peralta streets and Haven and 34th streets. To address neighbors’ concerns, both corners will be lighted at night to discourage illicit behavior such as loitering, drug dealing and prostitution.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, the U.S. district attorney for Northern California, John McNab, a Republican holdover from the previous administration, created a firestorm in Washington, D.C. When his boss, Attorney General James McReynolds, granted a trial postponement upon the request of the elder Caminetti, McNab resigned and told the press that corruption and political pull had a hand in the decision, according to David J. Langum, author of “Crossing the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act.” Republicans in Congress and behind the printing presses rallied to McNab’s side, especially C.K. McClatchy, editor of the Sacramento Bee, who also had blown the whistle to authorities.
Ultimately, Caminetti got 18 months and Diggs got 2½ years for “white slave trafficking.” They appealed the sentence and got as far as the Supreme Court, arguing that the Mann Act applied only to prostitution, not affairs of heart — or at least mere immorality. By that time, McReynolds was a justice on the Supreme Court, where he unwittingly laid the groundwork for Roe v. Wade. Understandably, he had to excuse himself from Diggs’ and Caminetti’s case.
… When you can’t give money, you can give more of yourself,” said Flores, 37.
Flores volunteered with his church, Lakeside Church in Folsom. In the past year, business has been so bad that he’s traded an office suite for a home office. Though he’s able to stay afloat, he’s had to pull back on his donations to his church.
“It’s been hard to donate back, but I realized I can step up by delivering tools and my hands,” he said.
Jerry Taylor, a 56-year-old San Francisco chef, said his struggles have given him an even bigger heart for his neighbors. Taylor lost his job a year ago after a drug addiction relapse. He managed to live at a Tenderloin strip club until it closed three months ago, forcing him onto the street.
Today, most gay men in NSW still use condoms most of the time, most injecting drug users still use sterile injecting equipment, and not one case of HIV transmission from a sex worker has ever been recorded in NSW.
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Same Sh*t Different Hole
written by William B , November 26, 2009
“While medical advances were starting to help improve the quality of life for many people with HIV, we were still operating in crisis mode as more and more of our loved ones became targets of a cruel adversary.” Mr. Parkhill, why are you not in crisis mode today, because that’s what you have on your hands, or didn;t you notice? Look around you! Are you saying HIV is no longer a problem because of the meds, because if you are then you are so, so wrong and should consider tendering your resignation immediately. “Today, most gay men in NSW still use condoms most of the time” is a near word perfec …
See the full article from “SX”
Another of the reports findings pointed to the positive impact of integrating prevention and treatment programmes with other health and social welfare services.
AIDS isolation must end, said Mr. Sidibé. Half of all maternal deaths in Botswana and South Africa are due to HIV. This tells us that we must work for a unified health approach bringing maternal and child health and HIV programmes as well as tuberculosis programmes together to work to achieve their common goal.
The report also warns that prevention programmes must keep pace with changes in the epidemic. For example, it said that programmes should take into account shifts in the spread of the disease in parts of Asia where the epidemic once characterized by transmission through sex work and injecting drug use is now increasingly affecting heterosexual couples.
