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2005-04-21 Afghanistan/South Asia

India overtakes South Africa in HIV cases

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Posted by Steve White 2005-04-21 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Granted this is off the top of my head, but doesn't India have a population greater than all Africa?

What's the percentage of infected peoples respectively? not how many, just a representative percentage to get the correct picture per demographic.

I recall a politicly incorect saying that due to superstition, distrust of "Western" medicine, and tribal ways, that Africa would be largely unpopulated by 2050.

From this, it seems that India, may solve it's overpopulation problem, as well as Africa.
Just not in a pleasant way.

I suppose it beats war, starvation, or genocide.

But not much.

Posted by Threque Uloluns4886 2005-04-21 12:26:19 AM|| 2005-04-21 12:26:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 India has a population of over a billion, which is indeed larger than the whole of Africa. In contrast, South Africa has less than 50 million people, so it is nowhere near the disaster for India that Africa is facing (Not yet anyway)

Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-04-21 4:48:15 AM|| 2005-04-21 4:48:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 That it is totally preventable is what makes this so sad. One case is to many in that instance.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-21 5:28:04 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-04-21 5:28:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 looks like they have something to trade with China

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-21 5:52:54 PM|| 2005-04-21 5:52:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 South Africa, post-apartheid:
-- 10% of the population has AIDS
-- 30% of the adult female population's been raped
-- 50% of the workforce is unemployed
-- Jo'burg is the most dangerous peacetime city on the planet

Where are all the MSM stories about the utter disaster brought about by the overthrow of white minority rule?

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 5:56:40 PM|| 2005-04-21 5:56:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Okay, that does it - now you've forfeited the RB PC-Winkie Award for 2005. And the Nobel Peace Prize? Pfeh. Forget it. ;-)

Posted by .com 2005-04-21 6:00:33 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:00:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 That does it. Fergit that stuff 'bout peace love 'n' understandin

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 6:02:38 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:02:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lol! There is an alternative RB Award - for truth-tellin - your nomination is secured, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-04-21 6:04:18 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:04:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Funny, isn't it, how South Africa has disappeared from the MSM map? I can't recall a single article in the last year in the NYT or WaPo or the Guardian about So Africa.

Poor South Africans. If only Bush were to pay attention to them, the MSM chihuahua brigade would come a-yappin' in Bush's wake.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 6:07:53 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:07:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Not true...Desmond Tutu still surfaces in the MSM to condemn US actions in various liberation and peacekeeping operations...

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-21 6:12:54 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:12:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Tutu is a special chihuahua - a pathfinder - so he yaps in advance.

Posted by .com 2005-04-21 6:15:12 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:15:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 hee hee! I've seen the little pathfinder Chihuahuas they drop little glowing piles.

Posted by Shipman 2005-04-21 6:25:57 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:25:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 True, Frank. I keep forgetting that the world we inhabit is merely a reflection of the cosmic Struggle Against Bush.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 6:29:49 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:29:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 :-)

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-21 6:31:19 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:31:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Let's see: no MSM correspondents in Afghanistan. None in South Africa. None in Ukraine or Venezuela. Could it be that all the stories to be reported from those places might lend support to the neocons' worldview?

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 6:35:03 PM|| 2005-04-21 6:35:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Lex, the hotel bars in Jo'burg aren't what they used to be. How's a reporter going to get a good story without a good hotel bar?

Posted by Steve White 2005-04-21 7:40:02 PM|| 2005-04-21 7:40:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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