Film: Sowing Seeds of Hunger
Questions
Number of People with HIV
90% of the population is involved in Agriculture
80% of Zambia is involved in subsistence farming
distrupting Subsistence farming is not a little thing
20% in some areas have HIV
Life Expentacy is now below 50
Approx. 15 children orphaned every day
30 Mi in SSA
Frequency of Deaths
Every 4-5 minutes
Where
Southern Africa
Connection with Agricultural production
7Mi farmers have died of AIDS
Connection
AIDS
20km to closest health clinic
200km to closest witch doctor
Means that orphan-led households are common in Southern Africa
they dont have the agricultural knowledge to produce food consistently
agri knowledge is kept in community trust usually
but we need to tell them now
20 million orphans by the end of this decade
Poverty
No food because of Subsistence farming
no ARV drugs, too poor
No asprin, how do we give them ARVs?
Virus spreads due to migrations by the poor
labor migration
Infant Mortality / Poverty Rate
Hunger
destroys protection against HIV
HIV proceeds faster
if people have proper nutrition, the ARVs will work
without food, ARVs won't work very well anyway
Food security is prevention
Prevents resorting to prostitution
Food is the first medicine for AIDS
But giving lots of food aid will destroy the 20% of the population that works on surplus agriculture
destroy the price of crops
which doesnt hurt subsistence farmers
which does hurt surplus farmers
Connection
Gender Equity
Women have no control over who has sex with them
South Africa has highest incidence of rape
No control over Intergenerational sex
No control to say "wear a condom"
Women are the agricultural backbone
and the largest group of HIV infected people
Gladys and her fellow widows
Women cannot inherit property
Sexual cleansing: break bond btw widow and dead husband's spirit
When a man dies, the relatives take his widows things
Human beings are savage.
Took their plow
Took their land
Geopolitical
Barnabas and Mary
Northern Zambia
11 y old Winston and his orphaned friends do the farming
Had to sell everything to pay for drugs
Barnabas once grew enough food to support 10 neighbors
Geopolitical Directly
AIDS is not a fully medical problem
AIDS is geopolitical
for example, prostitutes need money now, not condoms
Droughts drive people to desperate circumstances
The disease hasn't changed, but the access!!! to medicine and food is different in Africa
Film: Sowing Seeds of Hunger
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