Role of Weak Erection, Condoms in Stopping New HIV Infections

Is it really conceivable to ''get to zero'' with some people still refusing to wear condoms for fear of losing an erection! I mean, is it possible to get to zero - to stop new HIV infections and further deaths from AIDS?

It looks possible but at times I don’t think it is viable, especially if sex remains central to politics in our world, today.

I am writing about this full of excitement that for the first time since HIV/AIDS was discovered there is talk of possibly ending this epidemic, or at least stemming its advance.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) report recently said "unprecedented progress" had been made in the fight against the disease. The report also said new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths had fallen to the lowest levels since the peak of the epidemic.

Coming hot on the heels of this report is the latest HIV science which said HIV treatment itself not only saves lives, but is also a critical form of preventing the spread of the virus.

But since then, it has become apparent that donors were bored of funding HIV/AIDS programmes, especially in light of economic challenges that started in 2007/2008.

In Africa, changes in sexual behaviour — use of condoms, reduction in the number of sexual partners and a delay of the start of sexual activity — have been responsible for driving HIV decline.

“Getting to Zero” is the theme for World AIDS Day 2011. So that brings me to the my point about whether it is possible to get to zero - to stop new infections and stop further deaths.

Without sounding simplistic, sex is driving new HIV infections -  the virus that causes AIDS. I feel sex is kind of right-wing. It may soon become a political party! And that is why it remains in the lead in promoting new HIV infections.

And condom remains one of the most critical ways of stopping people from contracting HIV.

To be able to leverage on new science and breakthroughs made, it is important that discussion on whether to use a condom or not should start at Java, Dormans or any other venue… weeks, days or hours before having sex.

Friends who want to have sex, couples or just say anybody, should discuss this way away from the sensual excitement minutes before going all the way. For hookers and their clients, this talk should be before taking the drive or walk to an alley or hotel to have sex.

But is this possible, away from the reach of UN enumerators and… in villages - like in a bench in Kakamega - where information on condom efficacy may be lacking.

There are so many excuses human beings give not to use a condom. There is the legend on over sweets and wrapper nonsense. I don’t even know how this came about. Sex is not a passion of panic over whether you have contracted an infection, but of assurance that you don’t worry that you may have contracted HIV. So this sweets tale is nonsensical.

Also, glorification of sex should be toned now; its political veneration impaired, if we are to ''get to zero''.

Kenyan Radio Plays Nicole, Muturi Sex Supplication Clip

This is the most explicit audio clip I have ever heard.  Well, it is the most explicit audio I have heard yet from Kenyan characters.

Nicole and Muturi are the two people here, and the conversation is in Swahili. Basically, in the audio, Nicole is supplicating for sex from Muturi.

Nicole: I wanted to be fuc***
Muturi: At this time?
Nicole: Yes
Muturi: Why didn't you tell me earlier?
Nicole: Muturi, please, just come now
Muturi: Where?
Nicole: My place?
Muturi: But I have slept?
Nicole: So can I come?
Muturi: No, you will make me fail to go to work tomorrow.

And then the conversation went on.

Let me start from the start. Earlier today, someone sent me a DM on Twitter telling me that there was an audio clip being circulated by e-mail featuring a ''couple'' arguing about sex.

So, in between some many things I was doing, I decided to find time to listen. So I listened and went back to my day job. Now, later this evening, another contact alerted me that Kiss FM wanted to play the clip, and they actually did, but with beeps to drown out about 9 words.

Apparently, the audio was posted to the audio distribution platform Sound Cloud earlier today, and circulated earlier by e-mail. It is not clear when it was recorded.

My take is, it looks like the call was made by Nicole, pleading with Muturi for sex. But cheekily, Muturi appears fed up with this girl and decided to record the conversation and later uploaded it online.

Nicole had about 18 Kenya shillings on her line when she was calling, assuming she was calling on either Safaricom or Zain line. From the conversation, she was calling him at just about 9pm local time.

Nicole: I will make you meat.
Muturi: No.
Nicole: Please come, if you don’t find meat, then go back.
Muturi: Aah.
Nicole: (I know) you are hard, in a nice way...
Muturi: Hahaha. I am blushing
…

Nicole: I am seriously wet
…

Nicole: You  don’t have to be smart, I just want you.

Nicole: Where do you come from? How can I be pleading with you for p***

And nine seconds later, the conversation ended, hanging. It is not clear, whether at the end of the conversation - 4:34 minutes - Muturi agreed to go to Nicole's place or whether she went herself. Or, if she called back again.

Now, I am still surprised that Kiss 100 drive played the clip!

Hear the clip here: http://soundclo­ud.com/soulsngr­/full-version-n­icole-and-mutur­i

Caroline Mutoko Defends Sex Toys, Adopts Child

With the baby, from her Facebook account

Caroline Mutoko is returning to work after taking a couple of weeks from Kiss 100 Big Breakfast to bond with her new love, in her new relationship.

The Queen of radio in Kenya announced in September that she had adopted a child, a few weeks after defending women who use sex toys because of the supposed failure of their husbands and boyfriends to satisfy them, sexually.

Without suggesting whether she will be getting married, Ms Mutoko wrote in September  that she had adopted a baby girl - Theodora Nduku - from a children's home and said she was happy.

The young woman who wrote the column last month in The Star newspaper was a humble, lovable person who liked being referred to as Mama, and who referred to the adopted kid as sweetheart - far from the brutally frank and almost demented girl who wrote about sex a few weeks earlier.

''Women need sex. Not a tiresome headboard pounding, but a toe-curling experience. It’s good for our immune system... and the ticket to a good night’s sleep,'' Ms Mutoko wrote in early July.

''I guess our worst crime as women in the bedroom is that we have never vocalized what we want and need. The average man is clueless as it is and the way sex works – a man is guaranteed –ahhh- how do I say this – a great finish. Women have nothing to gain from a sexual encounter and especially if the man in question is clueless about what brings her pleasure,'' she wrote then.

''Theodora Nduku, my daughter, my heart, my love... Words fail me. I love you deeply, totally. Thank you for teaching me simplicity, humility and bringing such joy and balance into my world,'' she wrote, four weeks later.

She did not elaborate what balance she was speaking of in the article. I wish her all the best in her new love.

Hundreds Die in Kenya Capital Petrol Fire

Over 100 people are feared to have burnt to death in a fire incident in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, local media say, a tragedy similar to another blaze that killed over 140 in early 2009.

State broadcaster Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) said in its 1pm news broadcast on 12 September that over 150 may have died in the incident which happened along Lunga Lunga Road in the Nairobi's Industrial Area.

The fire started when villagers in nearby Sinai slum tried to siphon fuel from a leaking Kenya Pipeline Company pipe, KBC said.

 ''The death toll is likely to reach 200 with spontaneous explosions reported along the pipeline that passes through the sprawling slum,'' the broadcaster added in a website report.

Capital FM radio reporter Bernard Momanyi at the scene said he had counted at least 70 bodies that were being retrieved.

Leading Daily Nation newspaper website said that its reporter had counted 73 ''badly burnt bodies'' at the scene.

In January 2009, 145 people died in two fire incidents in Nairobi and in western Rift Valley Province.

Ocampo’s Threadbare Evidence Against Six Kenyans

Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo appears to have relied on threadbare evidence to indict six Kenyans of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity following the 2008 violence.

His latest disclosure of evidence to the six persons indicate that the ICC prosecutor relied on reports whose credibility is almost nil, at the same time, lacking any incriminating content.

Of course unless he has some other material that can link the suspects to the violence, otherwise, what he has passed on to them do not show any links to the violence.

I have been reading several pages of evidence to some of the six individuals... Several of the pages and sentences are lies, some not true while others are illogical.

It consists of newspaper commentaries, news articles, Facebook posts, blog posts, minutes of an open meeting… ridiculous stuff.

This is besides the previous evidence he submitted to the suspects  a few months ago.

Kenyan Judges, Lawyers Can Now Wear Studs, Dreadlocks

Below is a statement by Chief Justice Mutunga about the controversy on wearing a stud to the courts. He e-mailed this statement to a google group of Kenyan writers, and also posted on his Facebook page.


Over the past week, I have received questions on Facebook and Twitter by young lawyers about my position on studs and the dress code in Kenyan courts. To wit can lawyers appear before the Court wearing their studs? Because it is difficult for me to respond to each one of them individually, I wish to clarify my position here.

At this point, I can say that the Judges of the Supreme Court have agreed that we have no issues with anyone appearing before the Supreme Court, wearing their studs. Our position is that as long as officers of the court - both lawyers and judges can appear smart, a stud - or indeed dreadlocks - should not hinder the administration of justice.

At the Supreme Court, we shall not be wearing the colonial wigs and robes, and we shall seek the input of Kenyans on a simple robe that can be worn over a suit, for example. We will encourage the Court of Appeal and the High Court to review the dress code there. We will dialogue with them and the LSK and we expect the public to participate in the debate.

Willy Mutunga,
Chief Justice, Republic of Kenya
President of the Supreme Court

RIP Tamo Kosgey of Kass FM Radio

Last night, I dreamt about a friend who died on Wednesday evening this week.

His name is Philip Rotich Kosgei, known to his colleagues at Kass FM radio as Tamo - short for Tamoron'giot. Tamo collapsed and died just next to his home in eastlands, Nairobi hours after presenting his drive evening programme on Kass.

Post-mortem has been done on his body. Results should be out by the end of today.

Tamo used to suffer from epilepsy. The last time he had a seizure was about four years ago, at around the same time he joined Kass FM as a comedian and later co-presenter of a main family show on Tuesday and Thursday.

I think he died after a seizure... fell into a small ditch, and no-one saw him, until hours after he had died. This is the saddest part that has remained in my mind.

I knew Tamo so well. I even worked with him at some point in his career in politics and radio comedy.

My heart goes out to his wife Margaret and children. May God rest his sould in peace.