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Angelgirl
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@Abu, YES I WILL!!! simple and short. "Remember you said "in love" this means am already going out with this person, before i find out, am in love, so i will not leave, rather will help out the best i can, we are all going to die some day, most of us dont know when, so lets live the best out of the time we have. 
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Areafada
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hello all pls enjoy this joke that a friend sent to me
OBJ, Atiku and Soludo are flying on the presidential jet. OBJ looks down and says: "I can throw down a N1,000 note and make one person happy. ATK says to him "I can throw down two N500 notes and make two people happy.Soludo laughs at them and says: "I can throw down five N200 notes and make five people happy. The pilot looks at the co-pilot and tells him: "such arrogant people! I can throw three of them off the plane and make 180 million people happy!!!!!! |
coolapostle
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On 2006-06-02 12:49:30, Angelgirl wrote:
before i find out, am in love, so i will not leave, rather will help out the best i can, we are all going to die some day,
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You are first Nija babe that I have ever heard say that! My sister, I think your Dad will disown you. 
@Mamba Someone just told me the fee for LBS MBA and I nearly fainted. Shebi na there you de? U carry o...
@all Any comments on PNF's favourite dude Fani-Kayode's Ministerial nomination? And please, no cussing
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pxthomas
Joined: May 14, 2006
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@Abu... what's up? another gprs blackout? let's move to page 411. PNF guys whither?
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london-uk
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Hi all, I'm not Nigerian, but have been reading parts of this thread with great interest. I have noted the concern regarding HIV/AIDS. There have been some quite interesting developments following the UN summit. There are positive developments (as noted in the below article.).
There have however also been dire predictions made by other organisations, that cases of infection could reach 100 million within a relatively short period of time.
"After days of intense talks, government envoys at a UN AIDs summit agreed Friday to try to reverse the pandemic by 2010, with a near tripling of current moneys and the inclusion of high risk drug users, homosexuals and sex workers for prevention and treatment, according to a top UN official on Friday.
In a related development, France, Brazil and Chile announced a plan to raise up to 2 billion dollars a year for the global fight by new taxes on airline tickets, sports and pharmaceutical companies. The money would be used to purchase anti-AIDS drugs.
"We are setting a new direction," said UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson, who steered the 191-nation assembly to establish the controversial Human Rights Council in March - and said the experience helped him negotiate the political declaration on HIV/AIDS.
Although some of the nearly 1,000 non-governmental organizations that participated were dissatisfied, UN officials said the groups played a key role in influencing some of the decisions and provided a "new dynamic."
ActionAid International, for example, one of the highest profile groups, said it was "outraged" that specific vulnerable groups like intravenous drug users, sex workers and homosexuals were not mentioned in the declaration.
But Peter Piot, the director of UNAIDS, said the declaration, which mentions "vulnerable groups" without going into specifics, included those groups by providing for UN money to be used to purchase sterile hypodermic needles for drug users, and to include homosexuals and sexworkers as recipients of help.
The final declaration was to be issued later Friday at the close of the three-day conference.
Eliasson and Piot said that "difficult" financial commitments had been made - to increase the average annual spending from an average of 7.2 billion dollars a year to 23 billion dollars a year by 2008 in order to reverse the disease by 2010.
Next week marks the 25 years since the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that leads to AIDS was identified. During those years, more than 25 million peopled have died, and another 40 million people have become infected by the virus.
Unlike most other diseases that have provoked physical immunity in the general population after some time, AIDS has confounded the historic pattern and also eluded the search for a vaccination, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, this week in a telephone interview. The only effective means to control it is prevention,
Treatment is expensive and despite increasing acceptance of generic production in developing countries of high price drugs, the costs are beyond the reach of many poor countries that are worst affected.
The European Union said it favours making use of "the largest possible scale" of flexibilities allowed by an international convention on intellectual properties, and asked that anti-retroviral treatment not be taxed under trade agreements.
The Austrian minister for social security and consumer protection, Ursula Haubner, speaking on behalf of the EU, said anti-retroviral treatment and other paediatric measures should be rapidly expanded if the infection trend is not broken.
"We have obligations to make efforts to mitigate the enormous social and economic impact of the pandemic," Haubner said.
She said the EU and its member states have contributed "considerably" in the global fight against AIDS, and formally recognized last year that AIDS has become a "problem."
The world's giant pharmaceutical companies have been reluctant to share patents to produce some treatment drugs, but some of them have allowed countries like India to manufacture generic drugs before the patents expire.
Piot said the document, to be issued later Friday at the close of the three-day conference, will brand AIDS an "unprecedented human catastrophe."
It contains strong commitment by governments to demand more government accountability in implementing AIDS programmes - a key demand by ActionAID.
The tax plan by France, Brazil and Chile would take in up to 2 billion dollars a year to buy AIDS treatment drugs drugs. Details have not been made public, but 14 countries have joined the plan.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday's agreement amounted to a "wonderful day for the poor, sick and vulnerable."
"From this year forward, I pledge that our spending on HIV and other communicable diseases will increase to at least 100 million euros per year," Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told the UN General Assembly.
A dozen heads of state and more than 50 government ministers attended the meeting, though the US refused entry visas to the health ministers of Iran and Cuba.
US First Lady Laura Bush renewed her government's five-year commitment to spend 15 billion dollars, starting in 2003, to combat AIDS in 120 countries. The programme, known as the Emergency Plan, has provided treatment to 560,000 people, the US says.
"With increasing contributions each year, the American people are on track to meet or exceed this commitment," she said.
In Thailand, where about 500,000 people have died of AIDS and an equal number are infected with HIV, Deputy Prime Minister Suchai Chareonratanakul said the country is determined to provide universal access to treatment, care and support for high-risk people.
Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem reported that the epidemic has killed more than 10,000 Vietnamese and more than 310,000 others are infected.
"The challenges facing us, first and foremost, include access to preventive services," Khiem said.
By J.T. Nguyen, Dpa
© 2006 DPA
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pxthomas
Joined: May 14, 2006
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From: DELTA STATE, NIGERIA
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@london_uk... thanks for your contribution. |
coolapostle
Joined: Oct 15, 2004
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A low weekend @ PNF I see...
Maybe it was my Fani-Kayode comment..... 
I spent this weekend watchin my Arnold Schwarzenegger collection: Terminator 1,2,3 and Commando. Two more to go: True Lies and Eraser. I was also feelig bad about my life... how things are not going "as hoped"... blah-blah-blah. Hope you guys had a nice weekend.
@London I never see a link between the big grammar of the UN Agencies and the situation on the ground here in Nigeria. Maybe its those grants that our Government now says it is providing. I also don't know of any discrimination against sex-workers and druggies here. But free ARV's are not available yet.
I am very happy about the shift to "Zip up" in the campaign here in Nigeria. The condom campaign was just nonsense. I remember Gold Circle condom was sponsoring all those "Awareness" campaigns on HIV/AIDS in the NYSC camps. The flyers were just Gold Circle condoms advertorials. So even though they taugh about Abstience, they were really pusing their condoms. Then they will distribute free condoms and Guys will be happy. Condoms encourage indiscipline. I prefer the Zip-up. "You got no biz doing it kiddo!"
The story also seem to suggest that with enoguh money, HIV/AIDS can be wiped out. I wonder if that is possible. As long as people continue to jump from partner to partner like dogs, the problem will remain. We got to work on our minds first.
But, the biggest surprise for me is HOW COME NIGERIA'S PREVALENCE RATE IS STILL SO LOW. I still suspect our Government cooks these figures.
So, what else is up for discussion this week?
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ambyzown
Joined: May 11, 2005
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Hi all, GPRS returned to my location over the night, so I'm back online.
@Angel: how far?
@London_uk: That all looks good on paper, its the implementation that poses the greatest challenge. But I'm glad that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is finally getting the attention it deserves.
@Coola: Things not going as planned? what "things" may this be? I tot u'd be happy now that u can watch DVD's in bed |
Angelgirl
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Amby i will check out the Gprs tonight.
Coola i think the next topic of discussion should be NITEL's Strike, its affecting our dial up business here, and we have also been experiencing poor interconnectivity among the PTO's, since they connect through nitel.
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ambyzown
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I'm sorry to ask this, I'm so out of tune. Why is NITEL on strike? Its high time the PTO's got wiser and routed their interconnection thru Glo. NITEL is so unreliable. |
Demmy
Joined: Oct 02, 2004
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@coola just take some time off and relax, me too lost my wallet cnotaining all my I.Ds over d wkend
@all, where's AYA? |
Demmy
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@london-uk, welcome to PNF, that was a lovely contribution bout HIV/AIDS. You sound so much like one involved with organisations monitorin the MDG's like Millennium Campaign. |
Angelgirl
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Guess what everyone today's date is 666!!! |
Angelgirl
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Amby Nitel is on strike because govt is owing them 4 months salary, check yesterday and today's papers for more info |
coolapostle
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I saw on the front page of The Sun yesterday that Katung had won Big Brother Nigeria. Anyone has the full gist? ... lets's hear from anyone who kept up with the show.
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