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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:27:50 +0300
From: Paul Nyandoto
Subject: Vs: Male circumcision is a political scheme to depopulate the Luos
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>>> Jairus K’Onyiego 23.07.08 23:58 >>>

Paul,

This shows you how the unexposed African continue to be duped about situations. Instead of tackling the problem from the root cause, as you have mentioned in your article, some unscrupulous people have resorted to instilling fear and false myth amongst the people.
 
The way I see it is that there are a number of factors contributing to the spread of HIV in communities, and especially those in the region of Nyanza in Kenya. These factors have nothing to do with the circumcision myth. If that myth were to be true then a countries like Swaziland and South Africa would have the lowest rate of HIV cases. Yet those two countries have some of the highest rate of HIV cases. These countries predominately practices circumcision. So why would it be that they have a  large number of HIV cases?
 
1.The number one factor is the Stigmatization of this whole issue.
2.Cultural practices
3. Poverty
4 Lack of education, exposure or whatever you might wonna call it.
 
The single most largest avenue of transmission of HIV is through Sex. Most of the time through multiple sex partners. This then turns the whole issue to point to the fact that the person contracting the Virus through this avenue is promiscuous. Silence then follow because no one wants to be looked at as promiscuous. Therefore those infected already through this avenue do not open up, own up and finally change their ways. They continue silently in their ways and in denial of the whole situation. When finally they die, they will have died of some chest problem, malaria, a toe nail, diarrhea, and any other desease that can come into the illusionist relatives minds, but Aids.
 
Culturally then the “Wife inheritors will be ready “on their Marks” to inherit the deceased’s surviving wife at a whistle blow or the sound of a gun. In most cases these days you will find awhole bunch of guys whom, if put through an elimination process, you can end up with eight rounds. You see all these many young men will be ready to sign their “death warrants” in the name of inheritance because of those four major factors I have mentioned above. And whether they are circumcised or not once they go through this action then you can be assured as Night and Day that they will contract the decease.  Reason being that at the initial stage nobody, or the society did not make concerted efforts to inform the would be inheritor that the inheritee is an aids case, and as such engaging in sex with them is a sure way of catching the Virus.
 
Were the community to be brave enough to tackle this issue like that, then the rate would tremendously go down. The other worrisome factor is played by poverty. It is a well known fact that our Government has long abdicated its obligation of working to provide servic es to the people thereby creating employment opportunities foit is there is no employment for these guys. And as they say An Idle mind is a devils workshop. Since there in nothing to do and no money to indulge in other activities these young men end up finding then selves focused on Sex as a way to redeem their feelings of worthlessness. Sex then becomes a very important preoccupation. Mixed with Culture then the prowess of the African man of “having many women under his grasp rears its ugly head. This problem goes on and on and on.
 
What is the solution then? The answer will be found in making a concerted effort to inform the public, by enlightening them to what HIV Virus is and how it is transmitted, The Government, private sector and the community itself, must come up with ideas of how to create gainful employment that will keep these young people busy, thereby eliminating the idleness
 
Wife inheritance can be practiced, but the participants must be disciplined not to engage in unsafe sex, if at all one partner has been diagnosed with the Virus. All these can be accomplished using the DDC money. How long will MPS continue to blurt incoherent words about myths while in reality all they need to do is the most basic things, i. e. passing information to the public? Many victims might not be able to afford Western medicine, but at least an effort can be made to pass on relevant and right information to them. Many lives will be saved by this information as opposed to screaming myths like Circumcision, Wife inheritance and so on.
 
Thank you and have an informed day.
 
K’Onyiego

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K`Onyiego

Thanks, that is a very good, brave, brilliant and execellent NOTE you have put forward. You should just see that, the NOTE reaches luos down in Nyanza. Basic educators, persons who are really after the development of luos in the ground should have those ideas. Leave alone those exploitors who just want some money to be extracted from donors or people who are after getting money from anything proposed nowadays. Infact the NGO on HIV/AIDS problems have got money  poured into Kenya for now a very long time. You Know k´Onyiego what makes my stomach aches very much is this; despite  all the money NGO have been extracting from donors the best they can come out with is just this stupid CIRCUMCISION. Where the hell are Luos heading to?. Who should we put on the cross for this stupid thinking?, and who are these people putting youths to inherit windows from HIV/AIDS marriages?.. I do know that luos are mostly conservative lots in Kenya, though we sometimes critisise even the USA conservative party but we luos if we do not open our minds and look a head this HIV/AIDS might finish a generation.

Paul Nyandoto

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Date:  Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:32:49 +0300
From:  Paul Nyandoto
Subject:   Vs: Re: Vs: Male circumcision is a political scheme to depopulate the Luos