World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day.
5 people die every minute. 8000 people die every day.
Yes, still.
There are over 38 million people living with AIDS right now.
Whether or not you think you need to, get tested.
Whether or not it “feels” like a personal issue.
Willful ignorance is not a viable excuse.
a 100% preventable disease.
oh I get it…. it’s a JewSchool post because the graphic is in Hebrew!
Just keep your dick in your pants and you won’t die.
you know what my favorite phenomena is? orthodox jews who wander from website to website being obnoxious. a kiddush hashem if there ever was one.
A kiddush Hashem, you mean like assuming an Israeli soldier is guilty of harassing a Palestinian violinist by words of the reporter?
oh, right, because i’ve never watched a group of soldiers pound shots and sing songs about killing arabs. oh wait, yeah i have.
and because i’ve never seen israeli soldiers express sheer indifference and even contempt as they destroy the lives of entire palestinian families. oh wait, yes i have.
clearly, i allow the media to shape my view of the situation, as opposed to my own experience. that i would believe for a minute that israeli soldiers would be capable of such things clearly illustrates my ignorance and my left-wing bias.
jackass.
But when actual events are reported to occur one side is often chosen here, regardless of facts.
Being capable of something doesn’t mean it’s likely. But that’s a way-off tangent that can addressed per-topic in the comments. I’ve been good at ignoring them for a while.
So is how does AIDS relate to anything Jewish?
“But when actual events are reported to occur one side is often chosen here, regardless of facts.”
Really? Did you even READ what I wrote in my post about the violinist? Why don’t you go back and read it again.
As for what AIDS has to do with being Jewish — it doesn’t specifically, but it is an awful disease which effects everyone, including Jews. In fact, Israel itself has a AIDS problem all its own, JPost reporting yesterday that about 4,300 are infected with HIV.
Here’s information on AIDS from a Jewish perpsective from URJ.
Here’s an article entitled “The Jewish Response to AIDS” by Ruth Messinger about World AIDS Day last year from The Jewish Week.
Here’s an article about Ofra Haza, the famed Israeli singer who died of AIDS in February 2000.
Here’s an article about the UN choosing Israel to be the official World AIDS campaigner.
Here is the website of the Jerusalem AIDS project.
Here is an article from the UJC about AIDS and Judaism.
Here are more articles in that vein from the Jewish GLBT Archives.
Here is amfAR’s website — the leading AIDS research organization founded by a Jewish woman, named Mathilde Krim.
And finally, here is the conspiracy theory that we (the Jewish people) invented AIDS to kill black people. God, everyone knows it was the US government… ;P
okay,
I get it. The same way Israeli soldiers can be taught to stop harrassing Arabs is the same way AIDS can be prevented as well: keep the mouth/zipper closed.
Granted, I don’t believe in closing my heart/eyes to the plight of others, I also don’t remember when Jews adopted and started condoning the trait of promiscuousness.
Mob and Danya,
more people die of cancer each year, but I’ve never seen any commemoration of the WHO world cancer day or such a strong defense of it. Should we commemorate a disease that we can prevent, or should we keep spending more and more on research when that same money could be spent more effectively in prevention, education, and the total eradication of the disease at it’s root.
http://tinyurl.com/3slbn
okay,
I get it. The same way Israeli soldiers can be taught to stop harrassing Arabs is the same way AIDS can be prevented as well: keep the mouth/zipper closed.
Granted, I don’t believe in closing my heart/eyes to the plight of others, I also don’t remember when Jews adopted and started condoning the trait of promiscuousness.
Mob and Danya,
more people die of cancer each year, but I’ve never seen any commemoration of the WHO world cancer day or such a strong defense of it. Should we commemorate a disease that we can prevent, or should we keep spending more and more on research when that same money could be spent more effectively in prevention, education, and the total eradication of the disease at it’s root.
http://tinyurl.com/3slbn
Maybe you should include your AIDS links in the post.
I read your “facts” about the violinist. Poor soul. I don’t feel bad, even he didn’t play on his own. What a fucking crime to stop Palestinians on their way into Israel, inspect their belongings and ask them questions…
lessee, wha’d i say in this post? the idf denies it. the violinist says they’re lying. oh boy, did i twist shit to fit an agenda.
velvel, consider yourself in digital cherum. i got better things to do than talk to walls.
One of my first AIDS patients was a 60ish, nice, Jewish woman who got it from her nice Jewish husband, who got if from a blood transfusion after he had bypass surgery. Pseudo-morality will not put an end to this virus. However, by discovering a cure for it, we will have discovered a cure for all cancers…
One of my dying AIDS patients was a nice, 60ish, Jewish woman who got it from her nice, Jewish husband, who got it from a blood transfusion after bypass surgery. It is a malignant virus, not a pseudo-morality ‘issue’. Finding a cure for AIDS would necessarily cure all other forms of cancer.
One of my first AIDS patients was a nice, Jewish woman in her 60s, who got it from her husband, who got if from a blood transfusion after bypass surgery. This is a virus, not a pseudo-morality issue. Any cure for AIDS, would necessarily be a cure for all cancers.
Could we have the actual percentage of AIDS cases caused by non-culpable events such as transfusions, rather than an anecdote involving two people?
“Any cure for AIDS, would necessarily be a cure for all cancers.”
Call the CDC and tell them the news. Highly doubtful. But what if the reverse were true? How about we cancel all AIDS funding and put it into cancer research? No? Didn’t think so.
Call the CDC, for what? They’re the people who say we only have one mad cow in the US. They’re the people who fired the physicians that were sent to Belle Glade, Fla., to find out why so many people there were getting sick with the AIDS virus (their research showed that the folks there had similar living conditions to those living in sub-Saharan Africa). Condoms and celibacy are both much less expensive than sanitation and health care infrastructure.
‘Non-culpable events’? Do AIDS babies fall into this category, or are they sinful byproducts?
Whatever the merits , or lack thereof, of the CDC, they don’t make claims like “Any cure for AIDS, would necessarily be a cure for all cancers.”
“Condoms and celibacy are both much less expensive than sanitation and health care infrastructure.”
So? Until you’re willing to pony up the trillions of dollars it would take to upgrade the sanitation and health care in places like Africa, condoms seem to be a good idea. (How does sanitation prevent AIDS? And even state-of-the art health care doesn’t prevent AIDS.)
“‘Non-culpable events’? Do AIDS babies fall into this category, or are they sinful byproducts?”
Neither, of course. AIDS babies are culpable for having chosen to be born to AIDS mothers.
Did you ever get the feeling that the entire world, except for you, just doesn’t get it? I’ll bet you have.