that ARVs comment is very unfortunate. though it probably looks worse just standing on its own like that. I’m sure that professor was making a valid point, but he/she shouldn’t have made that statement cause now it’s only that bit that will make its way around.

i’m assuming that he/she was saying that hiv/aids looks less threatening/deadly if a person is on ARVs – leading to some people thinking that life with hiv/aids isn’t that bad.

but at the end of the day, it’s still a statement we could do without.

Top 5!Now off to read!

There ia a surprising amount of disinformation pedalled by the western media about HIV/AIDS. An old mate of mine runs a blog de-bunking bad science and a couple of weeks ago he picked up a story printed in Harpers that claimed:

AIDS is actually a “chemical syndrome, caused by accumulated toxins from heavy drug use,” “many cases of AIDS are the consequence of heavy drug use, both recreational (poppers, cocaine, methamphetamines, etc.) and medical (AZT, etc.)”; “HIV is a harmless passenger virus that infects a small percentage of the population and is spread primarily from mother to child, though at a relatively low rate”; “75 percent of AIDS cases in the West can be attributed to drug toxicity. If toxic AIDS therapies were discontinued…thousands of lives could be saved virtually overnight.”

I know… that bares reading a couple of times…

You can read more at badscience.net.

I watched that ARV comment and almost threw something at the TV. Then of course, I realized it was my only TV and I would suffer immeasurably if I broke it. In fact, thanks to the inane rubbish that Kenyan news usually is, I’ve had to put my TV in a cage.

Anyway, like I always say, lets have a Kenyan MP bonfire.

@Davehat
Is that true? Goodness, how saddening!!

“…..have proven that even if they had only one leg they still would have nothing to stand on. …..” hey M might u be a Long John Silver fan?

yeah man,Kenya only. Navumilia kuwa mke…:((

It is saddening how things always turn in Kenya. Such a shame

LOL @ Naikuru

LOL times 2 @ the drinking problem

India.Arie…. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Hayaa… he’s back! I thought michuki’s goons had gotten to you!

The “learned” prof must have consulted with the S.Africans who think HIV/AIDS ain’t the real deal… well, I figure let them (S.Africans) keep at their tabia mbaya & in 15 years we can annex SA & its mineral wealth! As is there are so many Kenyans huko! BTW, I think we are persona(s) non grata those sides!

Remember how zuma figured a hot shower after sex will wash off th HIV virus?? Perhaps his comeuppance is he ends up with HIV but unlike the poor folk, zuma can afford a lifetime of ARVs.

Most of our MPs are Mlevi Pumbavus… what can I say???

Careful… just to make kibz look good they might just name, create, rezone, demarcate or insist on a Naikuru! Of course, it would have a new “Lodge” for another 300 Million.

Love the pic of the day. Enjoy your week :-)

@mUtumia

MSAMBA WEWE…LITERALLY!!!!!!!

M,
There is a town called Naikuru…. ask any of my classmates in primo!! Just like we had a lesson called C. ara E. !! ( I remember having a long discussion with my mom about why she was wrong to call it CRE) And BTW this was not a shags primo but one in the heart of Nai. after all , NAirobi, Naivasha , Naikuru, Nainyuki……

I made a bet with myself that the politicians would change sides on the constitution debate before elections were called….. well lets just say that I needed any lame justification for these new shoes, and for once my m.p.s delivered !
Personally I think we need to figure out a new name for what these guys are peddling, because whatever it is, it ain’t tribalism.

LOL@that toon… definitely a lesson in there somewhere!!! forwarding..

@gracelet – LOL, sounds pretty much like the ‘up-market’ shule where I went – where we put our mixture of ingredients in a C-hay-hesso-hesso-he-hara-O-herro-he …

as for Naikuru, am sure all my uncles’d agree with Kibs – it exists!!

Who needs soaps when we have our good old MPs…

I have to give you props (major props at that!) for the Mzalendo website. Execellent info site AND! advocacy tool. I’m impressed. A lot.

Well done M and Ms. Ory

I think the comment on ARVs wasquite sad if it was understood teh way it was .Nevertheless there is a point to note in the message .As we speak there is a current epidemic of reinfection from previously infected people on ARVs .Hence the need to watch HIV patients who are on ARVS . The attitude is that once they take the drugs and look ok it is ok to maintain a ‘normal’ sex life throwing caution to the wind and this is a real upcoming public health issue .
Watch out too the press tend to misquote people alot .I watched the clip on KTN and teh Prof declined to comment , because I presume she was misquoted , if I was her , i would sue KTN .
Because indeed she was quoted out of context !