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The answer lies in the World Health Organization's definition of "AIDS" in Africa which differs decisively from AIDS in the West. The WHO's clinical-case definition for AIDS in Africa (adopted in 1985) is not based on an HIV test or T-cell counts but on the combined symptoms of chronic diarrhea, prolonged fever, 10 percent body weight loss in two months and a persistent cough, none of which are new or uncommon on the African continent.
HIV TESTS are notoriously unreliable in Africa. A 1994 study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases concluded that HIV tests were useless in central Africa, where the microbes responsible for tuberculosis, malaria and leprosy were so prevalent that they registered over 70 percent false positive results.
Furthermore, everything we know about viruses tells us that they are equal opportunity microbes. They will attack men and women weakened by malnutrition, the most effective cause of immune suppression. Venereal diseases left untreated can also impair one's immunity, rendering any victim susceptible to other infections. Africans are often assumed to die from "AIDS-like" symptoms after their immune systems have been weakened by malaria, tuberculosis, cholera or parasitic diseases.
By calling these deaths "AIDS" and claiming there is a new epidemic in Africa, are health officials from the West, perhaps unwittingly, helping to provide opportunities for development agencies, biomedical researchers and pharmaceutical companies who clamor for more money and markets? Certainly, promulgating the idea that AIDS is an epidemic caused by sexual promiscuity will deepen Africa's dependency on Western aid for diagnostic tests, high-tech sterilization equipment and medical personnel.
http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/cgafrica.htmIn the instance of communicable disease, public health officials usually try to contain and stop the spread of a disease, not enable behavior which creates a possibility of transmission. We've also quarantined people for lesser diseases.
The entire AIDS epidemic has been conducted unlike any other communicable disease. It's also been a complete failure. If someone in your family had tuberculosis, I guarantee you that everyone would not be instructed to continue kissing/sharing utensils, etc, because it's politically incorrect to ask otherwise.