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Thayay: Malaysia(gold medal)
ukraine(silver)
russia(bronze)
isreal
pakistan
iran
china
korea...............britain are less racist with malaysia winning gold medal

onila: that's a new demon they have 2 battle, they will try and fight it, give them time

Uganda used to have the highest aids rate in Africa but look @ them now=progress

while south Africa dey carry the cup @ the moment

onila: still no difference

a country where more than half of the population has aids @ present

the only country that has done well in fighting aids is Uganda

Botswana still shi;t!

onila: their aids rate spoilt the show for them

so Ghana all the way

Botswana's 'Stunning Achievement' Against AIDS
The southern African nation of Botswana has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world. Nearly 25 percent of all adults in the country are infected with the virus. Only the nearby kingdom of Swaziland has a higher rate.

But Botswana is also remarkable for its response to the epidemic. It has one of the most comprehensive and effective HIV treatment programs in Africa. Transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their fetuses and newborn babies has been brought down to just 4 percent.

A decade ago, Botswana was facing a national crisis as AIDS appeared on the verge of decimating the country's adult population. Now, Botswana provides free, life-saving AIDS drugs to almost all of its citizens who need them.

From Funerals Every Weekend

In the dusty village of Kachikau, near Botswana's northern border with Namibia, the chief of the village, Kgosi Mmualefhe, says the national government has gained control of what was a raging epidemic.

Mmualefhe says there used to be AIDS funerals almost every weekend.

"Nowadays, ever since the drugs were brought in here, the situation is getting better and better and better," he says.

The burden of AIDS in villages like this one wasn't just the deaths and the funerals, but the large number of people who were extremely sick.

"Most of the people who were very, very down, now they're starting to pick up and being able to assist themselves," Mmualefhe says. "Some who couldn't even walk, now they're even walking around the village."

And this is happening across the country.

Pioneering The Battle Against AIDS

Part of the reason Botswana's HIV treatment program has been effective is that the country moved relatively quickly to address the epidemic.

In 2002, Botswana became the first nation in Africa to launch a program to try to provide access to HIV drug treatment nationwide. Now, roughly 95 percent of Botswana citizens who need the medications are on them.

From the beginning of the epidemic, there's been tremendous leadership on the part of the government of Botswana to address the epidemic head on.

- Kathleen Toomey, head of the CDC's office in Botswana

Kathleen Toomey, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention office in Botswana, says this was a remarkable achievement.

"From the beginning of the epidemic, there's been tremendous leadership on the part of the government of Botswana to address the epidemic head on," she says.

That leadership started with Festus Mogae, who became president in 1998. Mogae made tackling HIV one of the top priorities of his administration. While in neighboring South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki was questioning whether HIV causes AIDS, Mogae allocated money and resources toward fighting the epidemic.

In the early days of Mogae's administration, roughly 40 percent of babies born to HIV-positive mothers also ended up infected with the virus.

Toomey, at the CDC, says the government set out to stop this.

"They aggressively addressed that through the treatment of mothers, treatment of babies, and brought the rates of mother-to-child transmission down to rates that we see in the industrialized world," she says. "Stunning achievement."

A Treatment Program That's Saving Lives

Botswana has had advantages in addressing HIV that many other countries haven't.

It's a small nation of only 2 million people. It's richer than most in Africa because of large diamond deposits.
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It also got help from international donors and research institutions. The U.S. government was involved through both the CDC and PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which was launched by President George W. Bush.

But over the course of the epidemic, Botswana has steadily increased its own spending on HIV. The Botswana government now spends more on health care per capita than any other country in Africa.

Farmer Johane Setlhare started taking the drugs in 2007.

"I would have been dead nowadays if I hadn't taken the treatment," Setlhare says.

Just two years after going on the drugs, Setlhare built a new house for himself with his own hands.

"I was surprised seeing myself going on top of the roof of the house and making some bricks for the house," he says.

Setlhare gets his anti-AIDS drugs every month from the public health clinic in the center of the village. He credits the Botswana government AIDS treatment program with giving him back his strength and his life.

SmoothCrim: Ghana is superior to Nigeria and Ethiopia together!!

onila: ethiopia probably has one of the lowest literacy ratez in Africa says alot about the future of this country

Sierra Leone 40.9


Guinea 39.5


Ethiopia 35.9

Sierra Leone 35.1%



Chad 33.6


Burkina Faso 28.7


Niger 28.7


South Sudan 27.0


Mali 26.2


Somalia 24.0

onila: boko haram is political, dumbass!

the same as mend

PhysicsQED: Yeah, Nigeria's military is probably nothing special, but if Ethiopia couldn't defeat Eritrea, then how much better is their modern army really? They were strong in the past, but now. . .not so much.

onila: yea I really like the kenyan flag! especially the south African zulu shield. .i thot it was a south African thingy

onila: 'LMAO! before the Ethiopians kicked me out of their group [b] after calling me west African baboon and wide nose nigga [/b], chei I don suffer!

when i fired them and call them confused poor refugee niggaz, malnourished land etc. .poor look at what some ethio told me

"Aren't you from that poor country Ethiopia?!?!
Not just Poor, but also the Only African nation Never colonized, First African's to win gold in the olympics, The African nation with its own written Alphabet,The country that practiced Christianity before Europeans and accepted Islam before the Middle East! The country with the flag colors that everyone rocks without even knowing what it means (green, yellow, red)! The country that is the origin of the coffee you sip, The country with so much culture and spirituality that you can't even comprehend! Yes!!! I am from that BEAUTIFUL country and Proud of it!!!!!!"

these pple are really living in past glory! ethiopia is nothing but a dump @ the moment
I HATE ETHIOPIANS, racists!

The Malagasy ethnic group forms over 90% of Madagascar's population and is divided into eighteen ethnic sub-groups. Recent DNA research revealed that the genetic makeup of the average Malagasy person constitutes an approximately equal blend of Austronesian and East African genes, although the genetics of some communities show a predominance of Austronesian or African origins or some Arab, Indian or European ancestry. Austronesian origins are most predominant among the Merina of the central highlands, who form the largest Malagasy ethnic sub-group at approximately 26% of the population, while certain communities among the coastal peoples (collectively called côtiers) have relatively stronger African origins

The number of ethnic groups of Madagascar has long been a point of contention and debate. The island of Madagascar is predominantly populated by people broadly classified as belonging to the broader Malagasy ethnic identity. This group is further sub-divided into 18 or more ethnic groups, although divisions are commonly based more on cultural or political factors than actual physiological distinctions. In addition, communities of Indians and Arabs have long been established on the island and have assimilated into local communities to varying degrees, in some places having long since become identified "Malagasy" ethnic groups, and in others maintaining distinct identities and cultural separation. More recent arrivals include Europeans and Chinese immigrants.

PhysicsQED: I wonder why it is that some African and non-African people seem so interested in portraying any group from or near the African continent that is perceived as having some kind of "racially blended" look about them as automatically "beautiful," even when it's glaringly obvious from any and all actual pictures found in the thread or elsewhere online that the majority of the people are just average looking, like every other human population on earth. This phenomenon is currently manifesting itself in the culture section where a whole thread has been devoted to a particular Fulani subgroup, but the thread is very scant on information on the actual culture of this group and is instead focusing heavily on their facial features. I think some people have been subtly visually brainwashed.

SmoothCrim: They are Asian and have nothing to do with Africans

naijarican: That's Willow Smith

naijarican: https://gifsforum.com/images/gif/you%20mad/grand/u_mad_gif.gif

Eboski: Our God isn't sleepin