As I watched I got sadder and sadder, totally missed what was going on. Made the ending all the sweeter once I realized.

Sad stuff. =(

>> ^RadHazG:

As I watched I got sadder and sadder, totally missed what was going on. Made the ending all the sweeter once I realized.


Wait, so it is in reverse right? Then it shouldn't be dark or sad at all, it is actually quite uplifting once you get it!

^ yeah i was about to say. did they just starve her for 90 days?

but nooooow it makes sense.

Most excellent sift.

Anything that makes me cry and fills me with hope deserves to be labled *quality.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by oxdottir.

Poignant

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>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

^ yeah i was about to say. did they just starve her for 90 days?
but nooooow it makes sense.


Instead you realized they fed her for 90 days.

moving stuff.

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Prayer works better than medical science. It really does. Really.

good add, but the important thing is weather she got good or bad aids?

Thanks.
Nice to see quality stuff like this in the top 15, the sift shouldn't be all about cats and chicks in bikinis.

Really wonderful clip... very uplifting.

AIDS is extremely preventable. All you need is some sexual restraint and to insist your partner wear a rubber. I have no sympathy unless a person acquired the virus by rape.

It doesn't help that condoms are extremely available in all urban centers and that some of the drugs we give them are ground up and smoked.

I may be wrong but shouldn't this be * timeshift?

No dude happy stuff. *promote

>> ^Asmo:

Sad stuff. =(

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That was fucking brilliant.

>> ^Pprt:

AIDS is extremely preventable. All you need is some sexual restraint and to insist your partner wear a rubber. I have no sympathy unless a person acquired the virus by rape.
It doesn't help that condoms are extremely available in all urban centers and that some of the drugs we give them are ground up and smoked.


If you're talking about a person living in a first world country with all the information available to them them maybe you have a point. If you're talking about an African person who may come from a country who's government tells them eating garlic and lemon skins can protect them from aids then you have no point. The lady in this video could have been doing exactly what she thought was right, what she'd been advised to do, and caught aids.

This doesn't make her a bad person. We all rely on authority to tell us what is right or wrong. I know that condoms will protect me from STDs, but I've never actually done the experiments and studies to prove this myself. I'm relying on authority to tell me this. I'm just lucky enough to live in a society where that info is pretty accurate. This lady has neither the ways nor the means to conduct these studies, so she's probably had to rely on what she's told.

The fact that we know how easy it is to prevent the spread of aids should make us realise how bad things are in some countries. It shouldn't make us make stupid uninformed statements damning an innocent dying woman.

>> ^Pprt:

AIDS is extremely preventable. All you need is some sexual restraint and to insist your partner wear a rubber. I have no sympathy unless a person acquired the virus by rape.
It doesn't help that condoms are extremely available in all urban centers and that some of the drugs we give them are ground up and smoked.


AIDS is extremely somewhat preventable. All you need is some sexual restraint education and to insist your partner wear a rubber, access to condoms and reliable blood screening in hospitals. I have no sympathy unless a person acquired the virus by rape. with those who suffer from this disease, as even those who caught it through consensual sex have to suffer its effects.
It doesn't help that condoms are extremely available in all urban centers the developed world, but seldom in rural Africa. and that Regrettably some of the drugs we give that charities donate (and drug companies sell) to them developing nations are ground up and smoked due to poor education on the correct methods to administer the medication.

Clever. I paused this midway as I didn't fancy seeing the worst of it but the comments sorted me out.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Super Clever. A better hook than an M. Night Shyamalan movie.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOA! I just got it! Wow...

>> ^Pprt:

AIDS is extremely preventable. All you need is some sexual restraint and to insist your partner wear a rubber. I have no sympathy unless a person acquired the virus by rape.
It doesn't help that condoms are extremely available in all urban centers and that some of the drugs we give them are ground up and smoked.


Oh look, there he is. Why am I not surprised that you popped up to make a comment? Pretty much guaranteed to have something negative to say if a video has anything to do with different race or culture.

Freedom of speech and all that bollocks, yeah yeah yeah. I really wish you'd take your fascism and go fuck yourself with it. Can't believe you haven't been dealt with by now.

I think pprt's forgetting the fact that if you were to score with a hot chick, you'd perhaps contemplate going without a rubber.

Duhhhhhhhhh

>> ^Entropy001:

I think pprt's forgetting the fact that if you were to score with a hot chick, you'd perhaps contemplate going without a rubber.
Duhhhhhhhhh

And if said hot chick had any sense, she'd not let you anywhere near her unless you wore a rubber.

Oh the comfort of repeating conditioned sentences! How I miss those days... being knowledgeable about something simply required rehashing what a newscaster spewed or repeating what your college professor chanted incessantly.

I didn't think this was actually necessary, but apparently doing the requisite research on a particular subject is far too taxing for most people. Don't sweat it though, it's certainly not an insular problem on the Sift, although I would expect more from people who own computers and have at least some level of comfort with the internet... but I suppose it's simply a matter of intellectual due diligence.

I have watched dozens of documentaries and read countless reports and articles on the subject of AIDS in Africa and would like to present the case of Swaziland.

This kingdom is ravaged by AIDS with nearly a quarter of the population and nearly half of 25-35 year olds already infected by HIV. Swaziland has also benefited from health programs that are exemplary on the African continent.

I will refer here to an extensive survey performed by major agencies (WHO, UNICEF etc) involved in preventing the spread of the virus. It can be viewed at http://www.safaids.net/files/Swaziland%20Demographic%20and%20Health%20Survey%202006-2007.pdf

Because I doubt most would actually take the time to read it, I will cite the portions which are relevant to the arguments I made, and which refute claims that Africans are victims of "misinformation" or that the preventative framework does not exists.

Knowledge of the existence of AIDS (male and female, all age groups), page 24
97.83%

Knowledge that abstaining from intercourse is a preventative measure (all age groups), page 25
88.90%

Knowledge that someone infected does not always display symptoms (all persons aged 15-49), page 27
95.9%

The cost of a condom is about 4 cents in Swaziland, and in the 15 minutes it took me to get the above figures I learned that at least 100 million is poured into the country every year by various nations and aid agencies. If only five percent of that is used to purchase condoms we're looking at
125,000,000 units, which I will concede is not nearly enough for the levels of promiscuity seen in Africa. However, I suspect the investment in male contraceptives is a far greater figure.

I recall a video that made the top 15 here not too long ago about a young boy who made a football by using a condom... the comments lauded his ingenuity and completely ignored the misuse of what should be a valuable commodity. Talk about hypocrisy...