CDC: AIDS the Leading Cause of Death Among African American Women Aged 25-44

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

If you have an issue with poverty in Africa or drug companies being greedy and pols crooked, that's one thing.

But to make up figures and state things like "For example, from 1981 through 1999 cumulative AIDS cases for South Africa, the area claimed hardest hit by HIV, were just 12,825." is just fucking nuts.

Nevermind their HIV-doesn't-cause-AIDS theories. Anyone who wants to can just check the URL below for links to numerous sites and multiple sources that come no where close to Act-Up SF's fanciful figures. Is the whole world wrong but them? Is it racist of them to belittle the dire situation of AIDS in Africa?

What ACT-UP and other AIDS dissidents are saying is that the thousands of deaths in Africa attributed to HIV/AIDS are in reality a result of malnutrition and other poverty induced illnessess..

This isn't what people want to hear, especially if they've bought the HIV/AIDS myth for the past few decades. Also, the cure for malnutrition and poverty won't come from a pharmaceutical corporation..