Yesterday's The Times, newspaper had a long article about AIDS in South Africa. Every now and then we hear stories that the fight against AIDS is being won, but the figures tell a different story. On one side of the story was this table below.
HIV PREVALENCE
HIV PREVALENCE BY AGE. 2010
- 30- to 34- year olds: 42.6% (40.4% 2008)
- 35 - 39 year olds: 38.4% (32.4% 2008)
- 40 - 44 year olds 38.4% (23.3% 2008)
- 45 - 49 year olds 28.2% (17.6% 2008, 23.9% 2009)
HIV PREVALENCE IN 2010 BY PROVINCE
- KwaZuluNatal: 39.5%
- Mpumalanga: 35.1%
- Free State: 30.6%
- Eastern Cape: 29.9%
- North West: 29.5%
- Limpopo: 21.9%
- Western Cape: 18.5%
- Northern Cape: 18.4%
- The Umgungundlovu and Ilembe districts in KwaZuluNatal has an HIV prevalence of 42.3% - the worst in the country.
- The Central Karoo District has the lowest HIV prevalence at 8.5%. (The Times, November 30/ 2011. www.timeslive.co.za
This table above starts with 30 year olds, but children as young as 12 - 13 are being infected, not to talk about babies born with it!
Winning the fight against HIV? Pull my other leg!
But sex is one of our human rights, right? It's your right to have sex willy nilly. It's also a natural need, like food and water, and you should treat it as such, hungry, you eat, thirsty, have something to drink, feel like sex, jump into bed with someone, anyone. Some even claim that if you don't have regular sex you might end up with psychological problems, or even get physically ill.
You're definitely considered a nut case if you're not screwing like a rabbit. (excuse my language, but I get really angry when I see what's happening here). All the result of the Humanist attitude, "if it feels right just do it".
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Thursday, 1 December 2011
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Rape
Every Sunday in our church there is time for testimony, prayer request or just sharing.
This morning Philip Steyn, a young farmer who farms about 15km outside town, stood up and told us of a shocking incident that happened on Friday. While he was on his tractor bailing hay, one the Zulu women who lives on his farm came running up to him and asked him to phone for an ambulance. The women's two small daughters were attacked and raped on the way to school. The youngest is six and the oldest nine. The youngest has already been released from hospital but the older one is still in hospital and very badly injured. Philip was very emotional when he told us what happened and asked us to pray for them, especially for the older one who's name is Busi.
So where ever you are pray for Busi. I don't know if one could ever really recover from such an awful trauma.
Rape is a common occurrence in South Africa, the statistics are shocking. I don't know the actual figures but ten's of thousands of women are raped each year in this country. The problem is that with our high HIV/AIDS infection rates, rape can be a death sentence.
There is a common believe, spread by Sangoma's (witch doctors) (yes we still have them here), that sex with a virgin will cure you of AIDS , this could have been the motive for this attack Rape victims are automatically put on a course of ARV's (Anti retrovirals) to try and prevent infection but this does not always help.
Wanted to post a piece about my fishing trip on Wednesday but this weighed too heavily on my heart.
This morning Philip Steyn, a young farmer who farms about 15km outside town, stood up and told us of a shocking incident that happened on Friday. While he was on his tractor bailing hay, one the Zulu women who lives on his farm came running up to him and asked him to phone for an ambulance. The women's two small daughters were attacked and raped on the way to school. The youngest is six and the oldest nine. The youngest has already been released from hospital but the older one is still in hospital and very badly injured. Philip was very emotional when he told us what happened and asked us to pray for them, especially for the older one who's name is Busi.
So where ever you are pray for Busi. I don't know if one could ever really recover from such an awful trauma.
Rape is a common occurrence in South Africa, the statistics are shocking. I don't know the actual figures but ten's of thousands of women are raped each year in this country. The problem is that with our high HIV/AIDS infection rates, rape can be a death sentence.
There is a common believe, spread by Sangoma's (witch doctors) (yes we still have them here), that sex with a virgin will cure you of AIDS , this could have been the motive for this attack Rape victims are automatically put on a course of ARV's (Anti retrovirals) to try and prevent infection but this does not always help.
Wanted to post a piece about my fishing trip on Wednesday but this weighed too heavily on my heart.
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