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Africa really needs to be the target rollout for these vaccines if and when they materialize.

by paulydavis 5y ago

qrbLPHiKpiux 5y ago
Why didn’t education work there? I’m just asking.
- tremon 5y ago
  Why do you immediately conclude it hasn't? Far more likely are these factors: - education reaches only a small part of the population - condoms are unavailable - condoms are too expensive
  - mkr-hn 5y ago
    Don't forget well-justified suspicion of westerners based on horrible and not too distant history.
- spiritplumber 5y ago
  Because it got drowned out by misinformation.
- africanboy 5y ago
  same reason why education has not prevented covid-19 from spreading.
- deleted 5y ago
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- dang 5y ago
  If you continue to post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, we will have to ban you. You've been doing it a lot, and it's not what this site is for. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this. Actually your account appears to be using HN primarily for political/ideological battle. We ban that sort of account, so please don't.
mxcrossb 5y ago
> The Swazi population faces major health issues: HIV/AIDS and (to a lesser extent) tuberculosis are widespread.It is estimated that 26% of the adult population is HIV-positive. As of 2018, Eswatini has the 12th-lowest life expectancy in the world, at 58 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini It seems countries like this could benefit massively from an effective vaccine
est31 5y ago
> Africa really needs to be the target rollout for these vaccines if and when they materialize. I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Africa is the most affected continent of the HIV pandemic. > Although the continent is home to about 15.2 percent of the world's population, more than two-thirds of the total infected worldwide – some 35 million people – were Africans, of whom 15 million have already died. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounted for an estimated 69 percent of all people living with HIV and 70 percent of all AIDS deaths in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa

Africa really needs to be the target rollout for these vaccines if and when they materialize.

qrbLPHiKpiux 5y ago

Why didn’t education work there? I’m just asking.

tremon 5y ago
Why do you immediately conclude it hasn't? Far more likely are these factors: - education reaches only a small part of the population - condoms are unavailable - condoms are too expensive
- mkr-hn 5y ago
  Don't forget well-justified suspicion of westerners based on horrible and not too distant history.
spiritplumber 5y ago
Because it got drowned out by misinformation.
africanboy 5y ago
same reason why education has not prevented covid-19 from spreading.
deleted 5y ago
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dang 5y ago
If you continue to post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, we will have to ban you. You've been doing it a lot, and it's not what this site is for. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this. Actually your account appears to be using HN primarily for political/ideological battle. We ban that sort of account, so please don't.

mxcrossb 5y ago

> The Swazi population faces major health issues: HIV/AIDS and (to a lesser extent) tuberculosis are widespread.It is estimated that 26% of the adult population is HIV-positive. As of 2018, Eswatini has the 12th-lowest life expectancy in the world, at 58 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini It seems countries like this could benefit massively from an effective vaccine

est31 5y ago

> Africa really needs to be the target rollout for these vaccines if and when they materialize. I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Africa is the most affected continent of the HIV pandemic. > Although the continent is home to about 15.2 percent of the world's population, more than two-thirds of the total infected worldwide – some 35 million people – were Africans, of whom 15 million have already died. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounted for an estimated 69 percent of all people living with HIV and 70 percent of all AIDS deaths in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa