condoms collect
Collecting condoms can look odd for some. The question most of the people ask is : “how can you be sure that people over there will use them” adding “and recycle them for some other use ?” if they’ve just started hearing about sustainable development and eco-tourism.
My frst idea was to bring them over Chad as the whole sub-saharan area is fighting against HIV. We can get so many for free here why not over there, right now i’ve got already 139 items. And i’ll give them to specific organisations dealing with AIDS and its prevention. UNAIDS is one them. They’ll be able to spread the condoms where it is the most useful (hotels, military camp, borders…).
Now will it be Chad ? i’m not sure yet, i should know in a week time, after my letter of grievance’s consequence. Otherwise It will be Nepalese who’ll benefit from my luggages content.
unaids.org:
The first AIDS case in Nepal was reported in 1988. Until the late 1990s, Nepal was classified as having a low-level epidemic. However, since 1997, HIV infection has been increasing alarmingly among injecting drug users and female sex workers. By March 2004, 715 AIDS cases and 191 deaths have been reported in Nepal, with a male female ratio of 2.4:1. By December 2003 an estimated number of 40,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in the country with a national adult prevalence of approximately by 0.3%. Nepal is currently classified as a country experiencing concentrated epidemic, particularly among injecting drug users female sex workers. HIV prevalence among female sex workers increased from 0.7% in 1992 to 17% in 2002. Among IDUs, HIV prevalence reached 50% in 2002. Trends show that in the western and mid-western sentinel sites, HIV among STD patients has been showing a steady increase from less than 1% in 1992 to 3% in 2001. In the eastern and central regions, however, the prevalence among STD patients remains less than 0.5%. Several vulnerability factors exist that can likely worsen the epidemic. These include: high rate of male migration, prostitution, poverty, low socio-economic status of women, and illicit drug trafficking. Additionally, a large numbers of young Nepalese girls are recruited as sex workers to Indian cities, and large numbers of young Nepalese males working in India frequent female sex workers there and within Nepal. Thus, in addition to the increasing number of HIV infections occurring among persons with high HIV-risk behaviours in Nepal, there are also increasing numbers of Nepalese female sex workers and young male Nepalese workers who have bee infected with HIV in India, and who have or will be returning to Nepal.
http://www.unaids.org/en/Regions_Countries/Countries/nepal.asp for more
