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World AIDS Day: A Look at the Fight Against the Global Pandemic
The 18th annual World AIDS Day was observed yesterday around the theme "Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise." The World Health Organization estimates that 3.1 million people worldwide will die of AIDS this year including 500,000 children and a recent UN AIDS report showed that the number of people living with HIV has topped 40 million for the first time. We speak with the Center for Health and Gender Equity.
The 18th annual World AIDS Day was observed yesterday around the theme "Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise." AIDS organizations across the globe are urging governments and the international community to remain committed to fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The groups are focusing on holding political leaders accountable for previous commitments to HIV/AIDS prevention. They are especially interested in enforcing pledges world leaders made at this year's G8 Summit to ensure universal access to AIDS treatment by 2010.
The World Health Organization estimates that 3.1 million people worldwide will die of AIDS this year including 500,000 children. Earlier this month, a UN AIDS report was released showing that the number of people living with HIV has topped 40 million for the first time. Sub-Saharan Africa remains home to more than half of those with HIV, but infection rates have spiked all over the world.
In India, at least 4.5 million people live with HIV. This is the most in any country outside of South Africa. Latin America saw a record number of new infections. And the U.S., Canada and Europe also witnessed an increase in infections. One million people in the U.S now live with HIV with at least 35,000 infections occurring this year.
Governments across the world announced initiatives and programs to address the crisis. The African state of Lesotho, which has one of the highest infection rates in the world, launched the world's first door-to-door HIV testing service. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for people to shed inhibitions and start discussing sex in an effort to increase AIDS awareness. President George Bush stressed the US "ABC" policy in a press conference Thursday. This stands for abstinence, being faithful and using a condom. He also touted U.S efforts to combat HIV abroad.
* President Bush, Washington DC, December 1, 2005.
For more on World AIDS Day we speak with the Center for Health and Gender Equity
* Jodi Jacobson, founder and Executive Director of the Center for Health and Gender Equity.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/02/1451221
The World Health Organization estimates that 3.1 million people worldwide will die of AIDS this year including 500,000 children. Earlier this month, a UN AIDS report was released showing that the number of people living with HIV has topped 40 million for the first time. Sub-Saharan Africa remains home to more than half of those with HIV, but infection rates have spiked all over the world.
In India, at least 4.5 million people live with HIV. This is the most in any country outside of South Africa. Latin America saw a record number of new infections. And the U.S., Canada and Europe also witnessed an increase in infections. One million people in the U.S now live with HIV with at least 35,000 infections occurring this year.
Governments across the world announced initiatives and programs to address the crisis. The African state of Lesotho, which has one of the highest infection rates in the world, launched the world's first door-to-door HIV testing service. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for people to shed inhibitions and start discussing sex in an effort to increase AIDS awareness. President George Bush stressed the US "ABC" policy in a press conference Thursday. This stands for abstinence, being faithful and using a condom. He also touted U.S efforts to combat HIV abroad.
* President Bush, Washington DC, December 1, 2005.
For more on World AIDS Day we speak with the Center for Health and Gender Equity
* Jodi Jacobson, founder and Executive Director of the Center for Health and Gender Equity.
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/02/1451221
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The symptoms of malnutrition and poverty are often misdiagnosed as HIV/AIDS. The symptoms are nearly identical and malnutrition and poverty also weaken the human immune system. ACT-UP and other AIDS dissidents are being demonized by the scientific status quo establishment because they refuse and resist the AIDS myth..
Something to keep in mind when reading this and other info is that IF poverty and malnutrition are responsible for the majority of the deaths in Africa, then the cure will not come from a pharmaceutical corporation. The only "cure" to deaths from malnutrition is return of land stolen by European colonization and the cultural restoration of people having access to their traditional land base for growing nutritionally diverse food for themselves, not commercial export plantation crops..
luna moth
"AIDS in Africa
Unlike in the United States, AIDS in Africa is most frequently diagnosed based on four very imprecise clinical symptoms--diarrhea, fever, persistent cough, and weight loss greater than 10% over two months. HIV antibody tests are not required to diagnose a case of African AIDS. These four clinical symptoms are identical to the problems created by conditions of poverty that have troubled Africa and other developing areas of the world for centuries. In fact, symptoms of the so-called African AIDS epidemic are indistinguishable from the effects of malnutrition, unsanitary drinking and bathing water, and common curable conditions like malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, and parasitic infections.
Rather than solve the problems of African poverty caused by centuries of ruthless Western exploitation, the U.S. government insists on broadcasting the doomsday notion that Africa is suddenly gripped by a deadly, spreading sexual plague. According to these American health authorities, salvation from sickness can only be found in profitable pills manufactured by the white West and exported to black Africa.
America's Racist HIV Myth
The idea that AIDS originated in Africa is a popular myth without any scientific or epidemiogogical evidence. News reports that blame AIDS of African green monkeys are based upon elaborate speculation about species-jumpin viruses rather than reliable proof. Tall tales bout he spread of AIDS are promoted through the most vulgar and racist sexual stereotypes about promiscuous African people.
Still, the numbers speak for themselves. According to the 1999 WHO Global HIV/AIDS Report, the total number of AIDS cases in Africa virtually equals the total number of cases in America even though Africa, with its 650 million citizens, has more than two times the population of the United States. Africa is often cited as a worst case example of what could happen in America despite figures demonstrating that 99.5% of Africans do not have AIDS, and among Africans who test HIV positive, 97% do not have AIDS.
While Africa is the frequent target of damaging AIDS media reports, the total number of cases on the continent is relatively small. For example, from 1981 through 1999 cumulative AIDS cases for South Africa, the area claimed hardest hit by HIV, were just 12,825.
Exporting Extermination: AIDS PIlls Kill!
It is undeniable that experimental AIDS treatments like protease inhibitors and AZT are all highly toxic, dangerous products. Strokes, muscle wasting, anemia, physical deformities, dementia, brith defects, organ failure, and death are some of the "side effects" of these poisons. Thousands of gay men in the 1980s and 1990s died from AZT poisoning. Now the U.S. State Department has elevated AIDS to the level of a threat to national security in order to gain public support for exporting AZT to pregnant African women. Outspoken leaders like South African Presiden Thabo Mbeki--hard pressed to explain why developing nations stricken with famine and civil chaos should spend what little money they have on toxic anti-HIV drugs while millions starve--are relentlessly attacked as unfit and crazy by racist Western media outlets.
We invite you to investigate the growing international controversy over the cause and treatment of AIDS for yourself. Check out the below articles for more information."
http://www.actupsf.com/aids/africa/index.htm
Something to keep in mind when reading this and other info is that IF poverty and malnutrition are responsible for the majority of the deaths in Africa, then the cure will not come from a pharmaceutical corporation. The only "cure" to deaths from malnutrition is return of land stolen by European colonization and the cultural restoration of people having access to their traditional land base for growing nutritionally diverse food for themselves, not commercial export plantation crops..
luna moth
"AIDS in Africa
Unlike in the United States, AIDS in Africa is most frequently diagnosed based on four very imprecise clinical symptoms--diarrhea, fever, persistent cough, and weight loss greater than 10% over two months. HIV antibody tests are not required to diagnose a case of African AIDS. These four clinical symptoms are identical to the problems created by conditions of poverty that have troubled Africa and other developing areas of the world for centuries. In fact, symptoms of the so-called African AIDS epidemic are indistinguishable from the effects of malnutrition, unsanitary drinking and bathing water, and common curable conditions like malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, and parasitic infections.
Rather than solve the problems of African poverty caused by centuries of ruthless Western exploitation, the U.S. government insists on broadcasting the doomsday notion that Africa is suddenly gripped by a deadly, spreading sexual plague. According to these American health authorities, salvation from sickness can only be found in profitable pills manufactured by the white West and exported to black Africa.
America's Racist HIV Myth
The idea that AIDS originated in Africa is a popular myth without any scientific or epidemiogogical evidence. News reports that blame AIDS of African green monkeys are based upon elaborate speculation about species-jumpin viruses rather than reliable proof. Tall tales bout he spread of AIDS are promoted through the most vulgar and racist sexual stereotypes about promiscuous African people.
Still, the numbers speak for themselves. According to the 1999 WHO Global HIV/AIDS Report, the total number of AIDS cases in Africa virtually equals the total number of cases in America even though Africa, with its 650 million citizens, has more than two times the population of the United States. Africa is often cited as a worst case example of what could happen in America despite figures demonstrating that 99.5% of Africans do not have AIDS, and among Africans who test HIV positive, 97% do not have AIDS.
While Africa is the frequent target of damaging AIDS media reports, the total number of cases on the continent is relatively small. For example, from 1981 through 1999 cumulative AIDS cases for South Africa, the area claimed hardest hit by HIV, were just 12,825.
Exporting Extermination: AIDS PIlls Kill!
It is undeniable that experimental AIDS treatments like protease inhibitors and AZT are all highly toxic, dangerous products. Strokes, muscle wasting, anemia, physical deformities, dementia, brith defects, organ failure, and death are some of the "side effects" of these poisons. Thousands of gay men in the 1980s and 1990s died from AZT poisoning. Now the U.S. State Department has elevated AIDS to the level of a threat to national security in order to gain public support for exporting AZT to pregnant African women. Outspoken leaders like South African Presiden Thabo Mbeki--hard pressed to explain why developing nations stricken with famine and civil chaos should spend what little money they have on toxic anti-HIV drugs while millions starve--are relentlessly attacked as unfit and crazy by racist Western media outlets.
We invite you to investigate the growing international controversy over the cause and treatment of AIDS for yourself. Check out the below articles for more information."
http://www.actupsf.com/aids/africa/index.htm
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