COLONIALISM THEORY
Origin of HIV and AIDS
When and where the HIV virus first emerged is probably going to remain a mystery for many years to come while several theories have been put forward .there is no condusive single agreement on the origin of HIV and AIDS... Some of the mostly acknowledged theories about the origin of HIV and AIDS are the following
1mysterious theory
2religious theory
3colonialism theory
4contaminated needle theory
Colonialism theory
These theory was first proposed in the year 2000 by Jim Moore an american specialist in primate behaviours who published his findings in journal AIDS research and human retrovious
During the late 19th and 20th centuries much of Africa was ruled by colonial forces
In area French equatorial Africa and belgin Congo colonial rule was particularly harsh and many Africans were forced into the labour camps where sanitation was pure ,food was scare and physical demand were extreme
These factor alone would have been sufficient to create poor health in anyone so siv could easily have infiltrated the labour force and taken advantages of their wekeaned immune system to become HIV
One final factors Moore uses to support his theory ,is the fact that the labour and camps were set up around the time that HIV was first beleive to have passed into the humans - the earlier parts of 20th centuries
ABDI
When and where the HIV virus first emerged is probably going to remain a mystery for many years to come while several theories have been put forward .there is no condusive single agreement on the origin of HIV and AIDS... Some of the mostly acknowledged theories about the origin of HIV and AIDS are the following
1mysterious theory
2religious theory
3colonialism theory
4contaminated needle theory
Colonialism theory
These theory was first proposed in the year 2000 by Jim Moore an american specialist in primate behaviours who published his findings in journal AIDS research and human retrovious
During the late 19th and 20th centuries much of Africa was ruled by colonial forces
In area French equatorial Africa and belgin Congo colonial rule was particularly harsh and many Africans were forced into the labour camps where sanitation was pure ,food was scare and physical demand were extreme
These factor alone would have been sufficient to create poor health in anyone so siv could easily have infiltrated the labour force and taken advantages of their wekeaned immune system to become HIV
One final factors Moore uses to support his theory ,is the fact that the labour and camps were set up around the time that HIV was first beleive to have passed into the humans - the earlier parts of 20th centuries
ABDI
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ReplyDeleteSince the origin Of hiv/Aids is not clear.let us not dwell in knowing the origin but instead get to know the protective measures to reduce the spread of the disease. By Naomi.
ReplyDeleteSo many theories will come up as years go by and rapid growth of infected but , should that be our focus?No
DeleteLet's just abstain
Its deadly!
The above comment by Helen
DeleteAs per the increase of HIV and AIDs victims lets major on the possible way to cub and lets not bother knowing the origin
ReplyDeleteas per the daily increase of HIV victims lets major on knowing the possible way of helping them and bothering knowing the origin
ReplyDeleteI think this issue of Africans being harshly treated and get infected by HIV/AIDS through poor sanitation during the colonial period is just a believe.
ReplyDeleteWe should not dwell more on the origin we should try and look for a cure of this mysterious disease and it will help alot of people
ReplyDeleteWe should not dwell more on the origin we should try and look for a cure of this mysterious disease and it will help alot of people
ReplyDeleteAs far as HIV/AIDS is concerned we should rather look for the cure to minimize the number of deaths .
ReplyDeletepeople have different opinions on how HIV/AIDS came about but i think that we should focus on how to help people who are affected and we should not trust our partner blindly and we should GO for screening once every month because their is a lot of cheating partners lately
ReplyDeleteWe should dwell more on how to help the victims to find currently for Hiv
ReplyDeleteThe gorvnment should find more ways on how to help this people who are living with Hiv to find cure
ReplyDeleteBy faiza
Aids research is based on fraudulent studies
ReplyDeleteThat can't be reproduced. "Fact"
Aids virus comes from apes/ monkeys.
It's generally accepted that Hiv mutated from the Sir virus found in monkeys
Without 'the scramble for Africa', it's hard to see how HIV could have made it out of southeastern Cameroon to eventually kill tens of millions of people. Even a delay might have caused the killer strain of HIV to die a lonely death deep in the forest
ReplyDeleteI think people,government, researchers and others should put more efforts on the cure of the aids rather than finding the origin which will probably take ages.
ReplyDeleteI think the origin of hiv will never be known, so lets focus on how to cure this deadly disease,
ReplyDeleteCurrently we must find solution,prevention and cure for this deadly disease and where it originaly came from by Ian Wanjohi
ReplyDeleteWe should not dwell more on the origin,we should rather look for strategies to prevent this deadly disease.
ReplyDeleteAs far as HIV/AIDs is concerned and on also how it started people should mostly dwell on how to get the cure and reduce the number of people getting infected by it which will only be posible by ensure they get tested
ReplyDeleteAs the origin of HIV/AIDS is complicated, we should focuse on the preventive measures for one to keep in order to be
ReplyDeletesave from Aids.For those who are affected should get medicine and the government and the society take care of them and encourage them on how to handle their life's situation by Christine.
The origin might remain a mystery the same as the cure but people should learn how to handle HIV and how to leave with it.Edward
ReplyDeleteThe origin of HIV has been a subject for scientist research and debate since the virus was identified in the 1980s. by Ian Wanjohi
ReplyDeleteThe origin of HIV remains a mystery since everyday we hear new stories like how it was a disease amongst monkeys... None of this evidence we get holds pure truth and are slightly exaggerated... Till we find substantial evidence all stories are dismissed as myths
ReplyDeleteKaisy
The origin or either the start of the HIV is still remaining a mystery as days goes by. Now becouse its real that HIV exists, the best way is to take the muasures to prevent the spread of the virus amongest individuals
ReplyDeleteIf it might be possible to trace the exact origin of HIV. I think it would be much more easier to research and come up with more advanced ways of preventing, cure or even "cure" of this chronic disease.
ReplyDeleteI mean "treatment" where their is second "cure".
ReplyDeleteThe origin or either the start of the HIV is still remaining a mystery as days goes by. Now becouse its real that HIV exists, the best way is to take the muasures to prevent the spread of the virus amongest individuals
ReplyDeleteBy Victor
I think the origin should be a forgotten story,now that the virus is allover the world we should now find the cure of this virus
ReplyDeleteThere are different myths and misconceptions on the origin of HIV AIDS and if we keep on looking at the origins we will continue getting confused as what we should focus on mostly is how we will try to find a better cure since it's said that there is no cure for HIV AIDS but there are drugs prescribed to control them. By; Samia
ReplyDeleteThe truth is HIV is already there and it is spreading rapidly especially in this generation where people have become so careless with their sexual actions. The prevention for youths is to abstain and use of condoms if you really have to.
ReplyDeleteSince the disease is already there it is good we concentrate on how we can overcome and prevent it is spread though it has no cure
ReplyDeleteLet us have less concern on knowing the origin of HIV since it is not known but have forcus the preventions of it as it is real and exists.
ReplyDeleteThe origin of hiv is not yet clear hence remains a mistery but mostly believed to have originated during the scramble and petition ''war''....by Immaculate
ReplyDeleteWe should concentrate on the origin of HIV instead we should focus on prevention and cure of it.
ReplyDeleteTo add on that Moore believed that many laborers would have been inoculated with unsterile needles against diseases like smallpox to keep them alive and working and many camps employed proustites to keep the workers happy creating possibility for transmission.
ReplyDeleteadding to mister moore research an international research team led by Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama developed an elaborate project that involved searching for the simian virus in chimp feces collected across a vast swath of southern Cameroon.To find a strain of the simian virus that was, on a genetic level, essentially indistinguishable from the most lethal form of HIV, the research team set up 10 stations across the region. Two of the stations were in the particularly remote southeastern corner of the nation, as far as possible from major population centers.
ReplyDeleteIt was in these two stations where they discovered samples of the simian virus that was almost a perfect match for the HIV-1 group M that eventually killed tens of millions of humans.
This discovery, published in the journal Science in 2006, intensified the quest for a birth date for the virus. Again, genetic research offered the key clues victor mutua
It is true that fact that Africans during colonial period faced forced labour ,scare food and poor health care this weakened their immune system...... By Rahma
ReplyDeleteColonialism is the practice by which apowerful country directly controls less powerful countries and uses their resources to increase it own power and wealth.by Zahara
ReplyDeleteThe origin will remain a mistery but i tend to think it a punishment from God for ruining His blue print ie one man one women.
ReplyDeleteOver the past years the emergence of the disease has remained unknown for the longest time , different theories coming up trying to explain its source.
ReplyDeleteLet focus on prevention
Hellen
Origin of HIV disease comes with beliefs and theories from scientists ,it ones killed scientists who tried to get the cure.even now it still does kills if proper medication is not taken. Let's help in preventing and teaching ways on how to avoid the virus.
ReplyDeleteWe should now concentrate on the cure of HIV the origin is now a past so as to provide a cure to the people living with it
ReplyDeleteA new book implicates colonial practices in the early spread of HIV and argues that HIV would never have become a global pandemic without the mobility, urbanization, medical campaigns and prostitution introduced to central Africa by Europeans.
ReplyDeleteWe should also try to find the origin of HIV/AIDS so as to find a way to eradicate and cure it.
ReplyDeleteThank you "author abdi" goe your timely assistance it has helped me to push forward my believe and little knowledge about these theory (colonialism "
ReplyDeleteGoverment should go a head to employ quality doctors to do more research on the cure of hiv and aids
ReplyDeleteHIV has no clear origin so we need to focus more on ways of prevention and treatment of the infected.
ReplyDeleteBecause are not aware about the origin of HIV it is good to focus on how to cure the HIV rather than knowing the theory and so on.BY FAITH
ReplyDeleteMany people have different ideas on how hiv was discovered but I think it's a high time we focus on the preventive measures so to control the rapid spread of hiv
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