Posts Tagged ‘HIV’

120109 – AIDS in Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, History, News, Politics, War on 30 November 2009 tagged Afghanistan Conflict Monitor, AIDS, Catherine Todd, CNN, Colonel General Khodaidad, Columbia University, December 01, drugs, Health Ministry, HIV, HIV/AIDS, IRIN, Kabul, narcotics, Rawa, Spero News, Syringes, taliban, United Nations, World Aids Day with Comments

Though Afghanistan is considered to have one of the lowest prevalences of AIDS cases in the world, the mass availability of drugs and misinformation regarding the disease leaves the nation at the brink of an epidemic.
As of November 2009, in the preceding nine months in Afghanistan, more than 50 people have been found HIV positive. [...]

Beautiful Decay : Afghanistan on Brink of AIDS Epidemic Among Rising Drug Use

In Afghanistan, Film, Iran, News, Politics on 14 September 2009 tagged AIDS, Ali Santouri, CNN, Dariush Mehrjui, drug abuse, drug trade, drugs, epidemic, Heroin, HIV, Iran, Kabul, narcotics, Opium, Santouri, Tehran, The Music Man, United Nations with Comments

This description of the drug use in Kabul reminds me of the scenes in Dariush Mehrjui’s 2007 film Santouri, in which, Ali the music man has fallen deep into the throes of heroin addiction.
The scenes depicted a man so out of touch with reality and completely unaware of his surroundings as he is wandering the [...]

Video and Transcript of Barack Hussein Obama’s Speech at NAACP Centennial

In Crime, Hip Hop, History, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, TV, citizenship, fame, religion, sports on 17 July 2009 tagged African-American, AIDS, Al Sharpton, Barack Hussein Obama, Bard High School Early College, Brown v. Board of Education, Cape Coast Castle, Charles Hamilton Houston, Civil Rights Act, Comptroller Bill Thompson, Evers College Preparatory School, Fortune 500, Freedom Rides, Geoffrey Canada, Ghana, Greyhound, Harlem Children's Zone, HIV, Jim Crow, LeBron James, Lil Wayne, Linda Brown, Little Rock Nine, Malia Obama, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Michelle Obama, Mose Wright, MSNBC, NAACP, NAACP Centennial, Newt Gingrich, Niagra Movement, Race to the Top Fund, Sasha Obama, Thurgood Marshall, Video, Voting Rights Act, W.E.B. DuBois, White House Office on Urban Affairs with Comments

Speaking in New York City at the NAACP’s centennial, Barack Hussein Obama gave an honest and politically daring speech about the obstacles that are set in the path of African-Americans in the United States of America. Obama did not shy away from inherited, internal discrimination such as: unemployment, lack of proper health care access, and [...]

Obama Disarming ‘the three Gs’ of Culture War?

In History, Iran, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, War, religion on 13 April 2009 tagged and gays, Barack Obama, Calvin University, corwin smidt, Culture War, Digg, Glenn Beck, God, Guardian, guns, hegemony, HIV, Michele Bachmann, Rick Warren, Rush Limbaugh, Shaun Bowler, Steven Thraser, The Three Gs with Comments

Obviously the current financial crisis in America puts less of a premium on many of these issues, but Obama’s presidency is still in its infancy and hegemony is a very deeply seeded in a population:
For decades, the “three Gs” have been a defining feature of the American political landscape. Guns, God and gays have [...]