Posted on 05/28/2013 10:27:39 PM PDT by neverdem
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is raging out of control in Vladimir Putin's Russia. It is perhaps the single most devastating hallmark of the demographic crisis that has his nation by the throat. Instead of contending with it forthrightly and energetically, Putin is ignoring the crisis in favor of a neo-Soviet Cold-War confrontation with the West.
In a 2011 report issued on World AIDS Day, the United Nations stated the stunning reality: "The Russian Federation and Ukraine account for almost 90% of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region's epidemic. Injecting drug use remains the leading cause of HIV infection in this region, although considerable transmission also occurs to the sexual partners of people who inject drugs."
In 2009, U.N. data had shown that there were just under 1 million people infected with HIV in Russia, with Ukraine adding another 350,000. But by 2011, the U.N.'s data revealed, Russia's number had soared to as many as 1.3 million, a breathtaking rise of as much as 30% in three years, with only about 5% of those infected receiving antiviral therapy.
The U.N. estimates that as many as 75,000 people per year (that's over 200 per day, more than eight every single hour) are currently perishing in Russia due to AIDS. A 2010 analysis in Foreign Policy suggested that Russia's problem with the disease might be worse than Africa's. It's hard to put exact numbers on the problem because the Russian government steadfastly blocks efforts to gather data and lies brazenly about its own results. The entire demographics community knows that Russia, just like the USSR always did, is lying shamelessly about its AIDS infection rate, just as it misrepresents virtually all demographic and other data which would tend to make it look bad.
But the Russian government itself does admit in just-published...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Russian brides, anybody?
There are NGOs working in the country with “risk groups” (prostitutes, addicts and homosexuals)who are testing their clients. It is not surprising if they have high rates as soon as housewifes and priests won’t make any good statistics with their lack of HIV.
AIDS was brought about by Homosexuals. I was a Queer that brought it from Africa to the US. Homosexual drug users then spread it to others through the use of dirty needles.
Sorry, but no sympathy for homosexuals or drug users. They brought this upon themselves.
Please don’t post that copyrighted photo from the Chicago Tribune again.
Gee, why did you bring it from Africa? That wasn’t nice of you..
Why HIV ‘tests’ are very unreliable;
http://www.naturalnews.com/029689_western_blot_HIV_test.html
Worst. Typo. Ever.
Ouch! So much for auto spell check.
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Yeah - basically American male homosexuals (64% of HIV cases in the U.S.) are contributing to the ill health of Russia's drug addicts. Who would be perfectly fine otherwise. Hmm...
Too bad you did that.
ROFL!
Except .... that as I recall it, the USSR kinda had a whole bunch more of their military there, and for a longer time, than we have or ever had at one time. And before that little Ruskie military invasion Afghanistan was a Communist led country, with a USSR hand-picked communist puppet government.
So why didn't either of them DO IT, Huh Vlad? (crickets, crickets, crickets..)
The ruskies think we are all a bunch of turd burglars but they are all drunks.
Well, I knew what you meant. Whatever that's worth.
It is funny though ;-)
Thanks neverdem.
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