HIV perceptions

Ann, a Kenyan collegue was talking about the 'natural' male circumcision happening in the Kenyan population, among both of Christian and Muslim groups. She described them as religious versus non-religious groups in general. If I understood it well, she considered difference between the Christian and Muslim groups in their sexual behaviour, in the decision of how many partners to have etc... Ann assumes that HIV prevalence among Mulsim men group is much lower than the Christian men group although both are circumcised. Any sexual practice related reason or...? I tried to draw her discussion in the graph.

Laurie Garrett, one of the global health systems leaders, wrote in Foreign Affairs in Jan/Feb issue about how HIV/AIDS related funds are changing the development agendas. It was quite provocative article that the person can agree with her about other public health priorities, like children pneumonia, but at the same time a study in Zimbabwe showed there is three times risk for HV-ve children to die for HIV+ve mothers in compare to their peers who have HIV+ve mothers. Maybe holistic view to the problem would be the best? Summary of Garrett article Thanks to a recent extraordinary rise in public and private giving, today more money is being directed toward the world's poor and sick than ever before. But unless these efforts start tackling public health in general instead of narrow, disease-specific problems -- and unless the brain drain from the developing world can be stopped -- poor countries could be pushed even further into trouble, in yet another tale of well-intended foreign m...