HIV/AIDS

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Iozzio
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Transcendent Experience ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter examines how sex figures in the HIV/AIDS pandemic and how the pandemic may be understood in the light of God’s extravagance and hope for the future. Sex is one of those gifts that human beings have received at the hands of a God of extravagance: a God of infinite possibility, copious generosity, and unparalleled solidarity. The very creation is a manifestation of a fecund imagination and God’s own joy writ large enough to witness sexual diversity—from asexual to heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer—among all living beings. In the human community the gift of sex and one’s identity as a sexual being include the purposes and promises of the extravagance that is sexual creativity in and through diversity. This chapter explores what insights theology can bring to the purposes of sex as creativity/generativity and intimacy-building communion/pleasure, and what intuitions theology can bring to the promises of sex as transcendent experience.

Care, Vulnerability, Resilience

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Thornber
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Language ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Creative Production ◽  
Hiv Aids ◽  
At Home

Chinese-language writers have grappled with the destruction of environments at home and abroad for millennia. Analyzing more closely precisely how they have done so, becoming more attentive to the ecological resonances in creative production of all types, exposes our vulnerabilities at the same time that it points to possibilities for the future, alternative ways of caregiving and giving care, and different types of resilience, if not immunity. This chapter discusses the ecological resonances of two works of Chinese-language literature set against the backdrop of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Taiwanese writer Chu T’ien-wen’sNotes of a Desolate Man(1994) and mainland Chinese writer Yan Lianke’sDream of Ding Village(2006). It analyzes howNotesprobes the intricacies and paradoxes of caregiving and howDreamengages with the interdependence and shared fragility of people and landscapes.

scholarly journals Origin of HIV/AIDS and Vaccine Failure: Simulation of the Role of the Adjuvant Activation Hypothesis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.C. Grassi ◽  
E.D.J. Andrades ◽  
V.J. Andrades-Grassi
Keyword(s):  
Passive Immunization ◽  
Hiv Infections ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Vaccine Failure ◽  
Humoral Immune ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Immunodeficiency Syndrome ◽  
Therapeutic Alternatives ◽  
Hiv Aids

ABSTRACTHuman Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the etiological agent for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It is possible that vaccine failure could be related to the events involved at the origin of HIV/AIDS. In this work the role of the adjuvant activation hypothesis on the origin and on the failure of vaccines, as well as other effects is evaluated by means of a simulation using a mathematical analysis, differential equations and an Excel spreadsheet. The results show that the adjuvant activation alters the viral load and the cellular and humoral Immune Response. Under certain conditions it was possible to show how the adjuvant activation could have promoted the origin of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and also, as a consequence of the SIV adaptation to human beings at the origin, the failure of present day vaccine trials. Other effects such as Immunotolerance and Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) were shown. This study provides a means to examine other effectors in order to suggest therapeutic alternatives. In this case passive immunization in combination with anti-retroviral therapy showed an acceptable adaptation to the conditions tested. It is concluded that the methodological strategy of this work may be useful for the analysis of the adjuvant activation hypothesis as well as other effects, interactions and new proposals, such as thermodynamics of HIV infections.

scholarly journals That all may live! : essays in honour of Nyambura J. Njoroge

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Religion And Theology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Hiv Aids

This volume of BiAS/ ERA is a Festschrift honouring Nyambura J. Njoroge. She is an outstanding woman theologian whose work straddles diverse fields and disciplines. Inspired by her rich and impressive œuvre, in this volume friends and colleagues of her (among them celebrities like Musa Dube, Gerald West, Fulata Moyo, Ezra Chitando, and others) explore how religion and theology in diverse contexts can become more life giving. Contributors from many countries and different continents explore themes such as African women’s leadership, theological education, HIV/ AIDS, lament, the Bible and liberation, adolescents and young women, sexual diversity and others. Collectively, the volume expresses Nyambura’s consistent commitment to the full liberation of all human beings, in fulfilment of the gospel’s promise that all may have life and have it to the full (John 10:10)

scholarly journals Key populations are the future of the African HIV/AIDS pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Barr ◽  
Geoff P Garnett ◽  
Kenneth H Mayer ◽  
Michelle Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Key Populations ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Money and sociality: Measuring the unmeasurable money as justice, time and usury

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 938-957
Author(s):  
Zoran Jankovic
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Moral Condemnation ◽  
The Relationship

Levinas confirms: a reflection about a money as a social and economical reality is not possible without a serious analysis of empirical data. On the other hand, this reflection always involves something else, so a money is never a merely economical category. In that sense, Levinas proposes an intriguing meditation about some ?dimensions? of a money in the western tradition. Contrary to the traditional moral condemnation of a money - which however remains unquestionable because of the fact that a man always carries a risk of becoming a merchandise - Levinas suggests that money never simply means a reification, but always implies some positive dimensions. Levinas suggests that a money is not something morally bad or simply neutral covering human relationships, but rather a condition of human community. Furthermore, he claims that a money is a fundament of the justice. A money makes possible a community, he explains, because it opens up the dimension of the future, and implies the existence of human beings who give themselves a credit; a credit understood as a time and a confidence. We shall try to address some problems implied by this thesis, particularly the problem of the relationship between time, money and credit. Finally, we are going to ask whether this cred?it - inseparable from the very essence of the money - is not always already a sort of usury.

Adaptations of Time Travel Narratives in Japanese Multimedia: Nurturing Eudaimonia across Time and Space

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Ae Lee
Keyword(s):  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
The Future ◽  
Live Action

To displace a character in time is to depict a character who becomes acutely conscious of his or her status as other, as she or he strives to comprehend and interact with a culture whose mentality is both familiar and different in obvious and subtle ways. Two main types of time travel pose a philosophical distinction between visiting the past with knowledge of the future and trying to inhabit the future with past cultural knowledge, but in either case the unpredictable impact a time traveller may have on another society is always a prominent theme. At the core of Japanese time travel narratives is a contrast between self-interested and eudaimonic life styles as these are reflected by the time traveller's activities. Eudaimonia is a ‘flourishing life’, a life focused on what is valuable for human beings and the grounding of that value in altruistic concern for others. In a study of multimodal narratives belonging to two sets – adaptations of Tsutsui Yasutaka's young adult novella The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Yamazaki Mari's manga series Thermae Romae – this article examines how time travel narratives in anime and live action film affirm that eudaimonic living is always a core value to be nurtured.

Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: A U.S. Global AIDS Strategy for the Long Term

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Council on Foreign Relations Milbank Memorial Fund
Keyword(s):  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Hiv Aids
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