-Caveat Lector-
Yes Jenny, Amadius also known as Nate Fischer had intended the remarks
for me, for I sent information out with regard to homosexual/lesbians -
in particular the homosexuals who want to invade the boy scouts flying
their "Gay Pride" flag.
Seems Amadius, the Lord of Flies the name he uses on his web site -
seems he over does it when someone objects to cub scouts being made
fodder for perverts.
Items I sent re rape of women by men infected with HIV/AIDS - or kids
being taught garbage in schools on how to become queer - it seems that
Gay Pride seems to think parents and grandparents will permit their
contamination of our children? So boy they go right afther those
little cub scouts - to young to understand what is gong on.
Let Gay Pride form their own "boy scouts" but evidently they are looking
for new fresh bood to pollute.
Bi sexuals now spread AIDS and HIV to women who then have childre with
AIDS....who protects the chidren?
Saba
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Thursday, 2 December, 1999, 17:48 GMT
South African rape victims fight HIV
Charlene Smith campaigns on behalf of rape victims in South Africa
By Clive Myrie in Johannesburg
Earlier this year Charlene Smith was put through an ordeal difficult for
anyone to comprehend.
She was raped at knifepoint in her own home. She took me through the
events of that fateful day, 1 April: "I returned home after a business
meeting at around 8.30pm.
"The dogs on the porch seemed all right and there was no suggestion
anything was wrong."
I not only had to cope with the rape - with the violation of my body -
but also with the possibility that the man had infected me with HIV
Charlene Smith "I unlocked the door and walked in to find all the lights
on and a leather jacket that's usually hanging in the wardrobe on the
floor of the living room.
" I still didn't think there was anything wrong. I just assumed my son
was home. But when I checked his room he wasn't there.
"I then went to the bathroom. I flushed the toilet and turned around to
find a man standing in the doorway holding a knife.
"I screamed and he told me to be quiet. He used masking tape to tie me
up, my hands and legs, then he raped me."
50,000 rapes a year
Charlene Smith now campaigns on behalf of women who have been raped -
many of whom now carry the virus which causes Aids:
"I not only had to cope with the rape - with the violation of my body -
but also with the possibility that the man had infected me with HIV.
"He told me he would use a condom - he didn't."
Ms Smith herself must still wait for several months before she knows for
certain whether she has become infected.
Official figures suggest every year around 50,000 women are raped in
South Africa.
But some pressure groups believe the real number is much higher, because
most attacks go unreported.
And with every rape, the risk of HIV infection increases.
Scientists like Professor Barry Shoub of the National Institute of
Biology are now looking closely at the strain of the virus, sub-type C,
which is most prevalent in South Africa.
He hopes to find out whether it is more aggressive than other forms of
HIV and can be passed on more easily: "We need to characterise it,
trying to work out the correlates of immunity - in other words, what
factors in the host will protect against HIV in specific reference to
sub-type C - and then ultimately to find a vaccine."
To the person I raped...I'm asking for forgiveness
Bengali waka Bhaya, rapist Recently South Africa declared a special day
to promote non-violence against women.
Scores of convicted rapists gathered at the Zonderwater maximum security
prison north-west of Johannesburg, to apologise to some of their victims
and their families.
Saying sorry isn't enough
Convicted rapist Bengali waka Bhaya addressed a group of women who had
been raped, saying what he had done was "ugly".
"To the person I raped", he said, "I'm asking for forgiveness."
For a rapist - albeit a remorseful one - foregiveness may be an
impossible thing to ask a woman who has been infected with HIV.
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