SEX IN THE WORLD'S BIGGEST MOSLEM COUNTRY

Gates in Indonesia.

The biggest Moslem country in the world is full of AIDS.

Indonesia, which includes Bali, has an AIDS epidemic.

Indonesia's sex trade "is booming (and widely tolerated) all over Indonesia."

"There isn’t a bus terminal in the country that doesn't have prostitutes", said one official.

Safe sex? Indonesia would rather its sex workers got Aids

Red-light district of Surabaya, Indonesia. Photo: Quentin Jones. Website for this image

Australian women travel to Indonesia for sex with boys.

Rich Saudis travel to Indonesia for sex with girls...

  

Rizki (right) is a prostitute in a shantytown in Bekasi, an extension of Jakarta. (Kemal Jufri/Global Fund)

Rizki is among 250 women who work in bars serving factory workers and truck drivers in this shantytown.

Ten percent of the women here are HIV positive.

Safe sex? Indonesia would rather its sex workers got Aids

Dhafik Rizki has a two year old daughter called Merrijane, seen above. (Kemal Jufri/Global Fund)

The child is HIV positive.

Her mother died of Aids in 2011. 

Safe sex? Indonesia would rather its sex workers got Aids

Rizki left her village four years ago when her marriage broke up.

Rizki now works in a bar in a shantytown in Bekasi, which is home to companies like Converse and Samsung.

Rizki earns around $50 a week, enough to pay her rent and her pimp.


Website for this image A customer leaves one of Indonesia's love shacks. (Peter Gelling/GlobalPost)

A Swiss charity called the Global Fund provides free condoms to people like Rizki.

But most Indonesian men won't use condoms.

And the mad Islamists, financed by Saudi Arabia, are opposed to condoms.

Only 10% of men who visit prostitutes use condoms.

Most Indonesian Moslems are not Islamists and mainstream Muslim groups support the Government's anti-Aids campaign.


Dying of AIDS in Jakarta. Website for this image

But there is a cover-up of the extent of prostitution in Indonesia.

And the average Indonesian with AIDS is unlikely to have their condition diagnosed, unless they can afford to go to a top hospital.

Doctors at an HIV clinic in Bandung say that married women are increasingly testing positive at a rate that is rising more quickly than for prostitutes.

"Housewives are being infected by their partners," says Dr Nirmala Kesumah the head of the clinic.

The Global Fund has more than 100 babies and children registered at the clinic aged 1 to 14. 

Safe sex? Indonesia would rather its sex workers got Aids


AIDS patient. Website for this image

Why are so many people dying of TB in Indonesia?

Indonesia has a lot of AIDS, and that leads to TB.

Indonesia's AIDS epidemic could wreck "the big economic, political and social gains it has made in recent years."

(Indonesia's AIDS Crisis - The Diplomat)

Indonesia's government spends very little on health care and its government hospitals have been described as dirty and corrupt.

Indonesia has a thriving trade in sex and drugs, reportedly protected by the police and military.


Indonesia

According to an article entitled: HIV infection in Indonesia - AIDS:

"Indonesia is witnessing one of the most rapidly growing HIV epidemics in Asia."

"Among risk groups, rates have been reported up to 50%.

"Uptake of HIV testing is low, and many patients are only tested when they have advanced HIV infection or AIDS.


Indonesia

"All adult patients at a referral hospital who underwent cerebrospinal fluid examination for suspected meningitis were examined for HIV. (13 November 2009 - HIV infection in Indonesia - AIDS)

"Among 185 patients who mostly presented with subacute meningitis, 60% were male and the median age was 30 years."

"HIV infection was present in 25% of the patients; almost two-thirds were newly confirmed, and all presented with severe immunosuppression (median CD4 cell count 13/μl, range 2-98).

"One-third of HIV-infected patients had cryptococcal meningitis whereas two-thirds suffered from tuberculosis.

"After 1 month, 41% of patients had died."

HIDDEN EPIDEMIC IN INDONESIA

AIDS patient. Website for this image

Why are so many people dying of TB in Indonesia?

Indonesia has a lot of AIDS, and that leads to TB.

Indonesia's AIDS epidemic could wreck "the big economic, political and social gains it has made in recent years."

(Indonesia's AIDS Crisis - The Diplomat)

Indonesia's government spends very little on health care and its government hospitals have been described as dirty and corrupt.

Indonesia has a thriving trade in sex and drugs, reportedly protected by the police and military.

Indonesia

According to an article entitled: HIV infection in Indonesia - AIDS:

"Indonesia is witnessing one of the most rapidly growing HIV epidemics in Asia."

"Among risk groups, rates have been reported up to 50%.

"Uptake of HIV testing is low, and many patients are only tested when they have advanced HIV infection or AIDS.

Indonesia

"All adult patients at a referral hospital who underwent cerebrospinal fluid examination for suspected meningitis were examined for HIV. (13 November 2009 - HIV infection in Indonesia - AIDS)

"Among 185 patients who mostly presented with subacute meningitis, 60% were male and the median age was 30 years."

"HIV infection was present in 25% of the patients; almost two-thirds were newly confirmed, and all presented with severe immunosuppression (median CD4 cell count 13/μl, range 2-98).

"One-third of HIV-infected patients had cryptococcal meningitis whereas two-thirds suffered from tuberculosis.

"After 1 month, 41% of patients had died."

SPREAD OF 'INCURABLE' TB

Spot the TB victim

TB exists in one in three people in the world.

It lies dormant in most of these people.

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087273/India-reports-cases-killer-TB-strain-resistant-available-drugs.html#ixzz1jhFGbyNE)

A killer TB strain 'resistant to all available drugs' is spreading.

It has hit rich countries and poor countries.

'Untreatable TB' arrives in Britain

In 2003, two Italian women died from incurable TB.

In 2009, in Florida, a teenager was diagnosed as having drug-resistant TB.

The teenager was successfully treated for a year and a half with experimental high doses of medicines not usually used for TB, costing about $500,000.

Spot the TB victim.

We believe that untreatable TB is very widespread, having come across very many cases in South East Asia.

Experts believe there are many undocumented cases

A hospital recently tested a dozen medicines on a group of TB patients but none of the medicines worked.

A TB expert at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said certain patients do appear to be totally resistant to all available drugs.

TB is an airborne disease, mainly spread through close contact; beware of coughing and sneezing on planes.

TB is not as contagious as flu.

Leprosy is related to TB.

'Incurable' TB usually results from poor people getting poor medical treatment.

Very many patients stop taking their medicines before they are fully cured.

Ordinary TB is easily cured by taking a cocktail of expensive antibiotics for six to twelve months.

However, several things can go wrong:

1. Many of the medicines are fakes, some produced by gangs in China.

2. Many patients stop taking the medicines after a few weeks, when they begin to feel better.

3. Many patients run out of money for the medicines.

If the treatment is interrupted, the TB bacteria battle back and mutate into a stronger strain that can no longer be killed.

Their father died of TB

The World Health Organisation estimates that TB kills roughly two million people a year, but, the WHO fails to mention that very many cases in the Third World go unreported.

A person with TB may infect an average of 10 to 15 others each year.

An estimated 20 per cent of the world's drug-resistant cases are found in India.

But, in many other countries, drug-resistant cases often go unreported.

An Expert in India reported of three deceased TB patients: 'These three patients had received erratic, unsupervised second-line drugs, added individually and often in incorrect doses, from multiple private practitioners.'

The expert criticised the testing and treatment methods of the Indian government's TB program, which he says forces patients to turn to private doctors.

Government TB programs are a joke in many third world countries.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087273/India-reports-cases-killer-TB-strain-resistant-available-drugs.html#ixzz1jhFGbyNE

Now Totally Drug Resistant TB?

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THE SPREAD OF VIRTUALLY UNTREATABLE DISEASE

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In 2009, the USA had a case of highly drug resistant TB. (First case of extremely drug-resistant TB in U.S.)

The Obama Administration is cutting funding for the Global Fund to fight Tuberculosis and Malaria

In 2008, a man in his 30s was in isolation at a hospital in Glasgow.

He had a virtually untreatable strain of tuberculosis. (Hospital confirms first UK case of extreme drug-resistant TB.)

If you have TB, the drugs that you can be given are:

isoniazid

rifampicin

fluoroquinolone

amikacin

kanamycin

or capreomycin.

There are now strains of TB that are not killed by any of these drugs.

One reason is that poor people cannot afford to take their drugs for the whole of the 6 months to 1 year that is required.

The drugs to treat TB can cost many hundreds of dollars.

Another reason is that many of the TB drugs in Third World countries are fakes.

There is "a real risk that resistant TB could spread globally out of control." (Drug-resistant TB spreading globally, warns WHO.)



American and UK scientists have developed a new class of antibiotic that tricks tuberculosis bacteria into 'suicidal self-poisoning'. (Scientists develop new antibiotic to fight TB )

Will poor people have access to new drugs?

Will fake drugs continue to circulate?

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'Untreatable TB' arrives in Britain

Photo of Glasgow by Finlay McWalter http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wfm_glasgow_cityhall.jpg

"Doctors have diagnosed what is believed to be the first ever case in Britain of a virtually untreatable strain of tuberculosis.

"A man... is in isolation at a hospital in Scotland and being treated with a range of antibiotics to control the disease.

"But he has been diagnosed with the XDR-TB strain, which kills half of those infected and is extremely resistant to drugs used to fight more common forms of the infection." - 'Untreatable TB' arrives in Britain

THE TB THREAT TO AMERICA AND EUROPE

Americans and Europeans should be deeply worried about TB.

At least a third of the world's population is infected with the TB bug, with at least 8.9 million developing TB each year.

The World health Organisation carried out a survey of TB in 79 countries. They found TB drug resistance in virtually every one of these countries.

In Kazakhstan, for example, 14.2% of new cases were of multidrug resistant TB. (BBC NEWS Health Drug resistant TB 'more severe')

Drug resistant TB develops when patients fail to complete a full course of treatment, usually because of a lack of money.

TB patients often have to take an 'expensive' cocktail of drugs for a year.

The big drug companies have spent very little money on developing TB drugs, partly because TB is mainly a disease found among poor people in poor countries.

In some poor countries, the governments have no idea how many poor people have TB.

In Indonesia, for example, many poor people cannot afford either diagnosis or treatment.

A person with drug resistant TB may live for several years before they die.

International Monetary Fund programs in countries such as Indonesia have typically reduced the availability of cheap medical care. (Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis)

What is the answer?

The USA and Europe should be spending many, many billions on trying to wipe out TB in poor countries.

Countries such as China, India, Indonesia and Russia have to spend much, much more on the health of the poor.

A poor person with TB should be able to get free treatment.

This helps Americans and Europeans by reducing the risk to their health.

World: 'Virtually Untreatable' Form Of TB Emerges - RADIO FREE ...





http://www.healthlink.org.uk/pubs/tb-treatment.html

According to the World Health Organization (WHO):

1. Around eight million people develop TB each year.

2. Treatment reaches only about a quarter of these people.

3. Approximately 1.8 million people die each year from TB.

According to http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c4520514-1fb1-11da-853a-00000e2511c8.html :

The sums committed to the United Nations-backed Global Fund to fight TB are still substantially short of the $7.1bn target it set to scale up treatment and prevention activities during 2006-07.

Drug resistant TB - WHO report documents spread of MDRTB and the even more resistant XDR-TB in Arica and Eastern Europe

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