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Date: | Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:07:53 +0100 |
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This case is indeed a very sad one therefore I am appealing to each and everyone of us to
cautious about the whole case. It is fact that HIV/AIDS is the night mere of the past century
and millenium. I have benn working with this issue over 9 years and have achieved
experience both here nasjonal and international through conference, course and benn a
board member of the European Working Committe from 1994-1999 which is an advising
organ for the European Union on Migrants and Ethnic Minirities and HIV/AIDS.
The reason for writing this piece is we have to be have in the back of our memories the
"Africans HIV/AIDS saga with the The Norwegian Board of Health" were all Africans were
labelled as potensial carriers of the Virus or the Disease. HIV/AIDS is a very sensitive issue
therefore we have to deal with the awakening of enquiryand in a very informative way to
avoid stignatising. blaming and counter balming. I am not condoning in any way that it is right
to infect people whilst you are aware of you Status as a carrier.
My reaction is the title "UNMASKED" and using the word a friend of mine gave me a "TIP". It
could have read "A friend of mine informed me... Can you please confirm. What are you goin
to do with full story? I have been leaving in Scandanavia for almost two decades what the
media is going to write or the authoritie to informed is going to be on stigmatising. If aan
immigrant do commit a crime and been a citizen the headlines always reads A Norwegian,
Swedish, Danish or finish citizen originally from Gambia. The description will always tell you
who that individual is. When ever a forenger maltreat a Citizen they always write he have
been battered to tghe worst. But whaen a native battered a foreigner it is always
ACCORDING TO HIM.
There I am appealin once again to help this poor guy with comfort without justifying or
condoning what he did knowing his status?
Have a nice weekend
saho
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