AIDS in AFRICA

In honor of AIDS DAY DECEMBER 1


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Before AIDS was an epidemic it was mentioned by one of the apostles of the Church at in 1987.

"I speak next on an item of great delicacy. I pondered much over whether it should be discussed in the leadership meeting last night or whether it should be discussed in this general priesthood meeting. I concluded that the subject is of such widespread concern and that some knowledge about it is had so generally, even by boys and girls of the deacons’ age, that I might properly treat it here. I do so with sensitivity for the nature of the subject.

There is a plague of fearsome dimensions moving across the world. Public health officials are greatly concerned, and everyone else should be.

The Surgeon General of the United States has forecast an AIDS death toll of 170,000 Americans in just four years. The situation is even more serious in some other areas of the world.

AIDS is a commonly fatal malady caused primarily from sexually transmitted disease and secondarily from drug abuse. Unfortunately, as in any epidemic, innocent people also become victims.

We, with others, hope that discoveries will make possible both prevention and healing from this dread affliction. But regardless of such discoveries, the observance of one clearly understandable and divinely given rule would do more than all else to check this epidemic. That is chastity before marriage and total fidelity after marriage."

Aids in now known and accepted world wide as being an epidemic, especially in AFRICA.  That is why when the apostles talk they are talking not just to members, to the everyone. They are not just speaking to America, they are speaking to the world. 

What did Gordan B. Hinkley say in 1987? Chasity before marriage and total fidelity after marriage. Simple. It wasn't use a condom. 

How does the world deal with the epidemic?
1. Get TESTed. Don't worry about the stigma that you will have once you tested positive.
2. DONATE MONEY. It cost 6.5 million to help combat AIDS, TB and Malaria in 2009. 

What they don not mention, because maybe it is too late. Don't have sex. And if you do, make it your wife! We are just at the clean up costs now, becaus the storm has already hit. But, education young women is one of the biggest things and the order of helping them is:

1. Teach Chasity
From there it would end. But if not: 
2. Get tested
3. Hope people donate money so you can get help.

Here is the other problem: Women do not have a say: Men are not Faithful:

In some societies, women have few rights within sexual relationships and the family. Often men make the majority of decisions, such as whom they will marry and whether they will have more than one sexual partner. This power imbalance means that it can be more difficult for women to protect themselves from getting infected with HIV. For example, a woman may not be able to insist on the use of a condom if her husband is the one who makes the decisions.

Marriage does not always protect a woman from becoming infected with HIV. Many new infections occur within marriage or long-term relationships as a result of unfaithful partners. In a number of societies, a man having more than one sexual partner is seen as the norm.

“Ladies just because you are married doesn’t mean anything. I actually thought that I was safe and I was sick”