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07 April, 2011
A New Hope
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Taken in Bussana Vecchia
Ghost Town
06 April, 2011
Bussana Vecchia 2
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Bussana Vecchia
Ghost Town
Location of the province of Imperia
Bussana Vecchia (Old Bussana) is a 1,000 year old ghost town in Liguria, a few kilometers from the Italian-French border. It is administratively part of the city of Sanremo.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Earthquake
3 Rebirth
4 Today
5 Notes and references
6 External links
]History
Bussana was founded probably in the second half of the ninth century when the coastal region was repeatedly attacked by Saracens. It was built on the top of a hill to be easily defended.
In 1429 it had 250 inhabitants and it was granted autonomy from the Maritime Republic of Genoa. A period of major development followed and most of the current buildings were built in this period.
[edit]Earthquake
A marmour memorial remembering those who died in the Earthquake in Bussana Vecchia
The French Riviera and western Liguria are at the junction of south-western Alps and Liguria basin, a region of moderate seismicity. The severest earthquake to hit Bussana struck the region on February 23, 1887 killing more than 2000 people. The worst of the damage in Bussana occurred at 6:21 on that Ash Wednesday morning, a twenty second seismic wave caused immediate destruction and deaths throughout the village.
The earthquake was the first recorded by a true seismograph built by Filippo Cecchi in Moncalieri, Italy.
Most buildings were severely damaged and the authorities decided to rebuild the village in a new site downhill called Bussana Nuova (New Bussana). The old village was abandoned and all of its buildings declared dangerous.
[edit]Rebirth
In 1947 immigrants from Southern Italy started illegally settling the ghost town. After a few forced evictions by the Italian Police in the 1950s the authorities ordered the destruction of all first floor stairways and rooftops.
Despite this in the early 1960s a group of artists, the Community of International Artists (now International Artists Village), decided to move to Bussana Vecchia. The spirit of the organization was somewhat idealistic: to be able to live simply and to work artistically within the village.
In the village there was no electricity, tap water or sanitation but the new community of inhabitants grew from the small original nucleus to around twenty to thirty people by 1968, mostly hippie artists coming from all over Europe (Italian, Austrian, English, French, Danish, German and Swedish).
Tensions with the old inhabitants and with the police grew until on July 25, 1968 an eviction was ordered again and the police sent to the village to enforce it. When the police forces arrived, they were faced with the villagers behind their barricades refusing to leave and by a large group of international news reporters. The police decided to avoid confrontation.
[edit]Today
The International Artists Village was born and despite periodical confrontation with the authorities (the latest eviction order was issued in 1997 when all buildings were declared property of the Italian Government) the community is still living there, selling its handiwork to tourists, and organizing artistic events.
courtesy of Wikipedia
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To Be or Not to be HIV-positive
To Be or Not to be HIV-positive
Fermiamo l'Aids sul nascere
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Aiutaci a fermare l'AIDS. Fai nascere la Vita.
La grande campagna Cesvi per vincere l'AIDS in Africa.
In Africa, una futura mamma su tre è sieropositiva e rischia di trasmettere la morte e non la vita al suo bambino.
La cura per salvarlo però esiste e fa parte del progetto "Fermiamo l'AIDS sul nascere".
Dal 2001 pratichiamo in Zimbabwe una terapia per evitare il contagio da madre a figlio attraverso un programma di prevenzione, cura farmacologica, assistenza alimentare e psicologica.
Negli ultimi 4 anni il Cesvi ha fatto passi da gigante in Zimbabwe: 2.000 bambini fuori pericolo di contagio, 40.000 donne sono state sottoposte al test Hiv e seguite con appoggio psicologico durante gravidanza, parto e allattamento; 1.450 operatori sanitari formati e oltre 300.000 persone coinvolte in incontri di prevenzione e informazione.
L'intervento Cesvi è oggi attivo in 7 ospedali e 17 cliniche rurali dello Zimbabwe e poi in Sudafrica, Repubblica Democratica del Congo e Uganda.
I progetti Cesvi di lotta all'Aids nell'Africa Australe, non riguardano solo la prevenzione del contagio madre-figlio ma anche la prevenzione della diffusione del virus, la cura dei soggetti già affetti ed il supporto sociale ai malati e agli orfani dell'Aids.
In particolare in Uganda l'attenzione è concentrata sull'attività di sensibilizzazione lla prevenzione e di testing volontario della popolazione che, nel 2007, ha riguardato circa 100.000 persone.
Ma tutto ciò non basta di fronte ai numeri della catastrofe africana: le persone contagiate dall'Hiv sono 33,2 milioni, di cui 15,4 milioni donne.
2,1 milioni sono stati i decessi nel mondo per Aids e malattie collegate, di cui 330 mila bambini.
Il tasso di donne affette da HIV è in aumento in tutte le regioni africane e nell'Africa sub-sahariana tocca il 61% più che in qualsiasi area. Come sottolineato dal direttore generale dell'OMS, Margaret Chan, il vasto contagio delle donne rende questa tragedia ancora più grave, poichè esse costituiscono la spina dorsale delle famiglie e delle comunità.
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Hiv-Aids
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>>>>>HIV, Pregnancy, Maternal and Child health<<<<<<
It has been estimated that 1.5 million HIV positive women become pregnant every year, which means that about 600,000 children are infected every year by vertical transmission. The figures from selected pre-natal clinics in urban areas reveal an incidence of HIV among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa of over 25%. In 2005, in LHDIC (Low Human Development Index Countries) only 9% of pregnant HIV-positive women received an antiretroviral prophylaxis to prevent transmission of the virus to their children, a modest increase of 3% compared with 2003. In these countries infection is associated with an increased risk of: spontaneous miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, premature labour, premature rupture of membranes, urogenital infections, syphilis. In industrialized countries the incidence of vertical transmission of the virus has fallen to minimal levels, as low as 2%, thanks to the introduction of antiretroviral therapy, the use of Caesarean section, and artificial feeding. In Africa, instead, where these operations are not widespread and not always available and where breastfeeding for long periods is normal, the vertical transmission of the virus is still around 25 to 40%.
PMTCT (Prevention Mother to Child Transmission) and PPTCT PLUS (Parental Prevention to Child Transmission)
Vertical transmission can occur at various stages: during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding. In LHDIC the prevention of vertical transmission by seropositive mothers is achieved through diverse interventions including:
- Services to promote maternal and infant health (pre- and postnatal).
- Counselling and testing services. - Promotion of alternatives to breastfeeding and/or early interruption of the same.
- Optimized and non invasive obstetric procedures - Preventive antiretroviral therapy for the mother and child.
- Antimalarial prophylaxis, since it has been demonstrated to reduce vertical transmission.
It is important to guarantee all women access to counselling and to VCT (Voluntary Counselling Testing).
The breastfeeding stage is the most delicate and difficult to deal with. The WHO estimates that 94% of children in the world are breastfed. 79% continue to one year and 52% up to two years. Breastfeeding over six months is common in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia. Without antiretroviral prophylaxis or other effective intervention to prevent the vertical transmission of HIV, breastfeeding that extends for two years or more can increase the risk of transmission of HIV by about 40%. About 5 to 20% of infants are infected in the post-natal period and the risk increases progressively with the duration of breastfeeding. However, the alternative to breastfeeding, artificial feeding, is recommended only where it is easy to guarantee the supply of powdered milk and clean drinking water. In LHDIC artificial feeding may lead to the development of very serious problems. Bearing in mind that regarding breastfeeding there are no unanimous and general recommendations and that every intervention depends on the operative context, it is advisable to abide by the strategies proposed by the Ministry of Health in each individual country, which in turn are derived from general recommendations of the WHO.
Case study: PMTCT and PPTCT PLUS in Zimbabwe
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La grande campagna Cesvi per vincere l'AIDS in Africa.
In Africa, una futura mamma su tre è sieropositiva e rischia di trasmettere la morte e non la vita al suo bambino.
La cura per salvarlo però esiste e fa parte del progetto "Fermiamo l'AIDS sul nascere".
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