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A trial version of an HIV vaccine will be launced in South Africa the BBC reports.
Three thousand HIV negative men and women who are sexually active will be immunised in the four-year study. An international team of researchers, led by experts from the US, will oversee the trial of the vaccine, created by the drug company Merck…The test vaccine has already been through trials for safety and immune response in the Americas, Africa and Australia. It does not contain live HIV, so cannot cause infection, but does contain copies of three HIV genes. The hope is that exposure to these genes prompts an immune response in the body so that cells containing HIV virus would be recognised and destroyed. [Read more…]
This is great progress but I just have one question. Wouldn’t the effectiveness of the vaccine need to be tested by having the participants come in contact with the virus? We don’t want that. The article informs us that “everyone will receive advice on how to practise safe sex.” But do they really want everyone to practice safe sex, because if no one gets infected how do you test the vaccine? Things that make you go hmm?
This is what I’m talking about…another example of real hip-hop. This is HOT!!!!!
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House of Rainbow, part of the Universal Fellowhip of the Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), opened last month and is the first church in Nigeria to accommodate homosexuals. Other African Metropolitan Community Church congregations are located in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa. Read more about House of Rainbow at Behind the Mask.
Today I was reading the magazine, Lamaze Parents. In the “President’s Letter” section of the mag, Raymond De Vries, PhD pointed out the distinction between the phrases women use when they are going to give birth. He “studied maternity care in the Netherlands where one-third of women give birth at home.
There I learned that while we who speak English say, “I am having a baby,” in Dutch the expression is, “I am getting a baby.”…When we “have” a baby, we are inclined to arrange the experience to suit our needs. But when we “get” a baby, both the baby and the birth are gifts we are given. Like all gifts, they offer us the chance to be surprised, to be thankful, and to learn a little bit more about who we are.
I found this entire passage relevant to a growing trend in our society–that of scheduled c-sections for non-medical reasons. I’m all for a woman’s right to choose, but I don’t understand why so many women are choosing this option. I don’t think people understand that this is major surgery, and with this surgery comes a longer recuperation time.
I love the idea of saying For me, it is more appropriate to say, “I am getting a baby” rather than “I am having a baby.” Even though this can be a stressful and challenging time in a woman’s life, “getting” a baby is a precious gift; an experience that no man can ever have, and not even all women can, or will, have. The article only mentioned these two examples but I would love to hear from women (or men) of other cultures about how one would say this in their respective language.
There’s a post on Mwandani’s blog that deals with Africans in India. Unfortunately I don’t understand Kiswahili well so I wasn’t able to read the post. But I clicked on the picture in the post which took me to the BBC News site where there are pictures of India’s African communities. You can also go here to listen to African Perspective to learn more about India’s African descendants.
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