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International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

2/12/2015

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What?! There are slaves working for me? No way!

That was my first reaction when I learned about modern slavery and my involvement. So I calculated how many slaves work for me, my very own Slavery Footprint. The survey asked about my eating habits, my clothes, my gadgets and more. The survey took only 10 minutes even though I refined the results (with the bar on the left side). It revealed the ugly, naked truth: I had 32 slaves working for me. Somewhere, spread over the globe, there were 32 people - men, women, children – peeling my shrimps, digging coltan for my smartphone, harvesting cotton for my clothes. 

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December 02nd, 2015

2/12/2015

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AIDS is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (H.I.V),the H.I.V has multiple sub-groups and mutations, the global pandemic had its origins in the emergence of one specific strain HIV-1 subgroup M  in Léopoldville, Belgian Congo ( now Kinshasa in R.D.C) in the 1920's.

The pandemic strain of HIV-1 is closely related to a virus found in the chimpanzees, which live in the forests of the Central African nations.
Apparently the transmission of this virus was made between man and chimpanzee, and occurred during the late 19th or 20th century, in a time where urbanization and colonization in Equatorial Africa were massive.

So the locals, because they were forced out the rural area by the Europeans, because the Europeans needed resources, were not keen to pursue their agricultural way in the jungle, they turned to non domesticated meat as a way to survive, and the transmission occurred between bush-meat seller and chimpanzees right after those events, because those sellers were most of the time bit by the animals they were hunting and so on there were a blood exchange between the animal and the hunter that allowed the first strain of the virus to expand to our specie.

There is approximately 40 millions of people living with AIDS/HIV in this world, about 4 millions of them are children.
So don't be silly, and protect your willy !

Jacques Merry


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December 01st, 2015

1/12/2015

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Aujourd'hui 1er décembre 2015 journée mondiale de lutte contre le sida maladie qui à tué prés de 25 millions de personnes entre 1986 et 2006(20ans). Pour se protéger du sida, il n'y à pas de secret! Le seul moyen efficace contre ce virus reste le préservatif aussi bien masculin que féminin trop souvent négliger par la jeunesse.Chaque jour, 5000 jeunes âgés de 15 à 24 ans sont infectés par le VIH mais pas seulement la communauté ''gays'' les hétérosexuel également, soit près de deux millions de nouvelles infections enregistrées par an, la plupart dans les pays en développement comme la Chine,la Thaïlande ou encore l'Afrique du sud des pays pauvre pour la plus part d'entre eux qui n'ont pour l'instant aux premier soins contrairement dans les pays les plus ''riche'' ou On dispose aujourd'hui de nombreux traitements contre le Sida Mais malheureusement aucun ne permet de guérir de cette maladie. En quelques années pourtant, la recherche a fait d'immenses progrès. Lorsque le virus entre dans le corps,le système immunitaire commence à être du plus en plus coriace et qui a pour conséquence d'affaiblir la personne et gagné du terrain progressivement.Plus d'un tiers des patients atteints du sida ressent des douleurs. Les causes de ces souffrances sont multiples. Ainsi, l'infection VIH elle-même peut conduire à la douleur, aussi bien que les traitements médicamenteux et les infections secondaires ou opportunistes que peuvent développer les malades du sida. Les malades on le plus souvent les ressenti suivent comme des douleurs abdominales,maux de têtes ect... plusieurs douleurs diverses. Mais qu'elle soit aiguë ou chronique, la douleur n'est pas une fatalité. De nombreux traitements médicamenteux existent ou pas. Il est donc essentiel qu'un dialogue s'installe entre le malade le personnelle médical. En effet, seule une description précise du ressenti du patient peut permettre aux médecins d'établir un diagnostic et ainsi de mettre en place un traitement approprié. Autrement dit le sida ne se guérit pas encore pensez à vous protégez pour épargner cette maladie à vous ainsi qu'a votre entourage.

Lorenzo Lombardi



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