very good Dr jaiteh. my friend is very concern about misinformation and cover-ups. the link you sent is also very informative. i hope folks are aware of the dangers in our societies due to lack of facts. i will try to get some of her work publish here in the G-L. we need all the facts we can get. HIV is a danger.
--- On Thu, 28/8/08, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: TH HIV cover-up in the gambia
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, 28 August, 2008, 2:29 PM
Suntou,
I sent this link around last month. It reports on the 2005/2006 UNICEF
Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS). I must say the authors are
among the few good men/women in The Gambia's civil service. While it may
not address the central theme of your message it does present an insight
into state of our women and children's health including attitudes and
knowledge about HIV/AIDS.
Bytheway, under-reporting of culturally/economically or politically
sensitive issues during surveys and census is not a new phenomenon. Even
in America, you hear things like the Bradley Effect in election polls.
Many pollsters and statisticians are aware of this and have device ways
to compensate its impact.
http://www.childinfo.org/mics/mics3/archives/gambia/survey0/data/Reports/MICS3_Gambia_FinalReport_2006_Eng.pdf
Malanding
SUNTOU TOURAY wrote:
> fellow folks here. a friend of mine involve in some goodwill work in our
country sent me an email about two weeks ago. i couldn't help but alert
brothers and sisters that, there is a worry that our country's HIV situation
is under reported and some form of cover-up is happening out there. my friend is
not a Gambian but has been going to the Gambia for donkey years, she is
well-grounded in matter likes this. the reason for contacting me was initially
to inform me about an Islamic website, she is not a Muslim but interested in
matters of health. i hope our good news paper editors can do a good job of
investigating this case. also if any fellow is working for MRC, please tip off
our papers to expose the mess.
>
> here is the email.
>
> Hi, a website I find interesting - are you aware of it?
> http://www.islamicmedicine.org/views.htm#cir
>
> There is some good reading on HIV, but it is under circumcision. It is
simply medical reading even for an accountant!
>
> Last weekend I was with a Gambian lady who is visiting for UK two months.
She has a female doctor friend in MRC. There conversation went something like
this "you see those people lined up there, they are HIV/AIDS patients
waiting for their medication, when they die they are registered as dying from
Malaria. They don't want the family to know so we just put it down as
malaria," I just knew this was happening and have never trusted the given
percentage figures of HIV/AIDS. I have written vastly about stigma in Africa
& can understand it from that point of view. But...
>
> For years I have gone deep into websites attempting to find the flaw that
tells me the truth about HIV in The Gambia - but you truly cannot get past
estimated figures & mostly dated 2003.
>
> I see that Yaya has shifted his powers to infertility treatment, only
speaking of women. Has no-one told him that men suffer from infertility also
and in some African countries the male has a higher percentage of infertility
than women. I have spent many interesting hours this week sifting thru websites
on infertility.
>
> Teenagers & young couples are crying out for truthful information
about there 'bodies & life' who is going to speak out to them
truthfully to alleviate this frustration?
> These partially educated people who are mostly unemployed are like
timebombs waiting to go off! Instead they have to listen to a tyrant spilling
out untruths to the uneducated and fearful about his supernatural powers - when
all he has been doing is using the same plant for all diseases.
>
> I know he is a good herbalist and has been since about twenty years old. I
have no problem at all with herbal medicine.
> Well, I was only meaning to highlight the above website to you but
unfortunately went a little further, apologies.
> Have a good weekend with the beautiful family.
>
> Kindest regards,
>
>
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