Dumping our rubbish in Africa

[marshlander]

I'd not thought of the ex-gay sadists in quite this light ...

All too often, ineffective or dangerous remedies, no longer saleable in the West, are exported to Africa. The notion that homosexuality can be 'cured' is just one example.

Drug dumping – when unreliable, useless or dangerous pharmaceutical products are donated to countries in the South – can make bad situations worse. For instance, during emergency relief operations, “Expired drugs (at the time of their arrival) and drugs close to expiry still comprise a large proportion of donations from non-governmental organisations, corporations, pharmaceutical industries and associations,” as pointed out in a World Health Organization (WHO) Bulletin in 2008 by Cristina P. Pinheiro.

Treatments now seldom used in the West may continue to be common in poorer countries. For instance, medicines effective against HIV but with dangerous, sometimes deadly, side-effects continued to be widely used in Africa years after they stopped being routinely administered to North American and European patients. Even when there are some benefits, it is questionable whether treatments no longer acceptable in the West should be regarded as good enough for people in other parts of the world.

Methods aimed at 'curing' homosexuality, which failed badly in the West, are now being peddled in Africa and elsewhere. And the discredited theories behind these methods are being used to try to justify harsh repression, for instance in Uganda, where parliament may pass a law inflicting life imprisonment on gays and lesbians, and jailing heterosexuals such as clergy, who do not inform on members of their congregations.

The debate over 'curing' gay and lesbian sexuality is sometimes portrayed as a source of tension between the 'liberal' West and the more socially conservative South. But much of the treatment of LGBT people in Europe and North America over the past eighty years or so has been far from liberal. It did however, become clear through bitter experience that attempts to change orientation were unlikely to succeed. Sooner or later, many of the Ugandans and others in the South who are keen to import such 'treatments' will find they do more harm than good. However, it is hard to estimate how many more people, both LGBT and heterosexual, will have had their lives wrecked.

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[marshlander]

I hadn't really considered this before, but it makes sense as a distraction for the desperate, despotic and demonic :frown:
David Ambroz: The Other African Genocide - How the American Right Taught Africa to Hate Gays by Example

[marshlander]

For anyone in the UK who can get Channel 4, this documentary starts in fifteen minutes

Dispatches: Africa's Last Taboo
Film-maker Sorious Samura investigates the increasing persecution faced by gay people in Africa, where two thirds of countries retain laws against homosexuality. He discovers shocking levels of prejudice driven by governments, religious organisations and communities, and finds out how Aids is spreading at an alarming rate due to a lack of sex education and healthcare
Category Documentary
Director Robin Barnwell
Producer Robin Barnwell
Channel 4 8:00pm-9:00pm (1 hour ) Mon 12 Jul

[Daniel6]

This reminds me of the movie I watched a few years ago "Constant Gardener".

Many African countries are poor and led by puppets who are supported by rich government from the West or US but how many people outside Africa care about it?

I just found out recently that statistics on HIV/AIDS in Africa is grossly distorted misrepresented just like what WHO did during the swine flu incident. WHO is just the tool of drug companies to experiment, make money and market their drugs, etc.

If you go through this document, you will find out that diagnosis of HIV/AIDS in Africa is completely different from in the West and that African people are diagnosed HIV positive even without a blood test (by WHO's guidelines)!!!

People Africa are not dying of HIV, they are dying of poverty. Despite that, funds to relieve the African countries are targeted to campaigns to distribute condoms, vaccines, antibiotic drugs, harmful antiviral HIV drugs. It is so ridiculous to think that is the solution to African problem. It's like a doctor telling his patients: take this drugs and you'll be relieved from AIDS without food or drink.

[marshlander]

Oh, this just gets better and better. As if beautiful Zimbabwe didn't have enough problems already the horrible Pat Robertson has decided to take an interest. If ever there were could be a reason for the US government to consider recalling a passport, Mr Robertson's behaviour must be high on the list. :mad::mad:

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