MR. BAD GUY (ENGLISH VERSION)

OOOH, IT'S BLISS

Tarek took charge of arranging the Africa expedition. It was something very complex that required quite a long time and help from the foundation staff who from the very beginning started to coordinate and choose one of the many places in which they were working.

The chosen country was Mozambique, more specifically one of its 11 regions, Inhambane, in the south of the country.

It wasn't the country of sub-saharan Africa with the highest rates of AIDS but it was very singular. Being surrounded by higher rates AIDS countries, there were high level infections in migratory borders. From the last of the country's war with the return of the refugees from near countries, there was a meaningful increasing. In Mozanbique, therefore, the sickness's development was later than the others.

That estate was regarded quite fragile with obvious structural challenges when it came to providing basic services. Its long war ruined great part of its health-care facilities with serious dificulties in the population's living conditions and health.

At the end of the war there was a redevelopment of the disaster but in the small villages there was still poorly transport and communications facilities. Besides, there was a very low literacy level and most of the population by superstitions turned to the traditional medicine.

From the peace treatments in the nineties there was an opening-up of the country to the foreign aid and now it could regard as a "lab" to starting of different international cooperation programms. There were serious limitations of the public sector on the health field, there was a proliferation of the non-governmental organizations in recent years.

Mozambique nowadays had increasingly high AIDS rates. And there was a great percentage of AIDS gap in the same country. In the north the prevalence of the illness was 9% and nevertheless in the south it was calculated up to a 20%.

Around 60% of the population with HIV was feminine, even three times bigger than the masculine rate. A quite revealing piece of information.

One of Enzo and Tarek's greatest worries apart the children was the gay community, one of the most vulnerable on AIDS. In Mozambique they were aware of the way the gays lived. In that country there were no harassment. But in Swaziland, the place where they were going to visit afterwards, things were slightly different, as practically all across the african continent.

The homosexuality was still ilegal in 70 countries across the world, 33 in Africa. Mauritania, Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia had death penalty and in Swaziland with other countries like Namibia or Zimbabwe, had their own rules with up to 8 years in prison just because you are gay.

These people suffered the illness doubly. Very often they hadn't any access to the treatment owed to lack of resources and the fear to being judging or arrested, so they didn't ask for medical assistance, therefore the infection cases increased.

They found out how unfair was life for people with their same sexual orientation. They, just for being born in United Kingdom, could getting married and having children and were protected by the laws and in Swaziland they restricted their freedom of sexual choices to the point of putting them into jail.

The most important thing was always getting better the prevention. The trouble was not only the lack of drugs but also the poor operating health system in the country.

Although years back the prevention had been the key part, now had been relaxed. It was less a matter of information and more a blindness for to be wedded to their own behaviour. They had been struggling so much in the prevention on campaings in educational field like a key tool to fight against the sickness. Despite their efforts, the prevention programms didn't reach to most of the schools in the country.