WHO Chief Presses Rich Nations for More AIDS Cash (hand me your wallet)

Yahoo! News ^ | Dec 07, 2003

[traumer]

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization (news - web sites) on Sunday urged rich nations to provide more money to fight AIDS (news -web sites), which is devastating African nations.

WHO Director General Jong-Wook Lee called on Britain, Japan and Scandinavian nations in particular to donate more money to the organization's global push against the disease, estimated to be killing 8,000 people a day.

"The trend is more money is becoming available, we have to put in more requests and suggestions and pressure to the countries," said Lee, in Brazil for a global health conference.

He said "very urgent action and not the business-as-usual approach" was needed.

Funding to battle HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS has increased from $3.2 billion in 2002 to $4.7 billion but is still less than half the yearly total the United Nations (news - web sites) has called for to fight the epidemic and provide drugs to treat people infected by HIV.

The WHO earlier this month unveiled plans to rush life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) AIDS drugs to 3 million of the world's poor by 2005 and train 10,000 health workers.

Lee said HIV had now infected nearly 40 percent of people in Botswana and half the population would die of AIDS unless urgent action was taken. Life expectancy in Mozambique is expected to fall to 27 years due to the disease.

In 2002 around $1 billion was spent on fighting HIV and AIDS in Africa, which is thought to have nearly 30 million of the 40 million people infected by the disease.

The United States has promised $15 billion over five years to combat AIDS, especially in Africa. It has come under fire for only earmarking $2 billion for the program next year.

Earlier this year, Britain said it would give a global AIDS fund $280 million through to 2008 after initially pledging $200 million for five years in 2001.

[traumer]

Paging singer Bono....

[concerned about politics]

Change the behavior that spreads the AIDs. It's free.
Maybe pay to educate the uninformed in other countries about the consequences of homosexualitry. That should cost billions less.
Just say no to gays. It's easy.

[isom35]

well dont ask ted turner, isnt he a big depopulation buff?

[Arpege92]

"Change the behavior that spreads the AIDs. it's free."

I was just thinking the same thing as I was reading this. Educate these people!!!

[yankeedame]

WHO Chief Presses Rich Nations for More AIDS Cash

What? Again?? Oh, that's right. Last month it was the UN saying the rich nations needed to pony up more to 'fight AIDS'. How about "presses" to fight malaria or diarrhea? I'll bet these two beauties kill a whole lot more people in 3rd world countries than AIDS.

[concerned about politics]

[sunryse]

>Maybe pay to educate the uninformed in other countries >about the consequences of homosexualitry. That should cost >billions less.
>Just say no to gays. It's easy.

This is the kind of moronic crap that libs have a point on.
AIDS is spread through more than homosexual activity, why don't you take a class on it that has been updated since 1985.

[camas]

you can not educate most of them. they belief the witch doctor>

[concerned about politics]

This is the kind of moronic crap that libs have a point on. AIDS is spread through more than homosexual activity, why don't you take a class on it that has been updated since 1985.

No, it's spread by homosexuals and those who engage in behavior similar to homosexuals, as in bisexualism.
Read up, my friend.
You've been listening to way too much PC "It's normal" propaganda. We live in 2003 now. The thought police are gone.

[goodnesswins]

Yeah...it's spread through NEEDLES AND homosexual activity....it's NOT spread through monogomous sexual activity. GET IT? MORE money is spent on AIDS stuff than on HEART DISEASE, etc......where MORE PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED.

[concerned about politics]

. This is the kind of moronic crap that libs have a point on.

You'll catch on soon enough newbie. Stick around a while.

[geedee]

I wonder . . . is anyone auditing these accounts any better than they did the "oil for food" accounts that the UN got rich off of?

[JoJo Gunn]

I'm ready for that class, Professor.

While you're at it, enlighten me as to why we should throw money at superstitious wackos who have sex with little girls in order to keep the boogerman away....

[MegaSilver]

This is the kind of moronic crap that libs have a point on.

AIDS is spread through more than homosexual activity, why don't you take a class on it that has been updated since 1985.

The chances of contracting HIV from a promiscuous homosexual lifestyle are much higher than the chances of contracting HIV from a promiscuous heterosexual lifestyle.

No offense, but why don't you take a class on it that isn't taught by a liberal professor?

[meenie]

Why with the various problems in the world with other diseases and poverty would any legitimate organization throw any money at AIDs? The only way AIDs will be wiped out is when the death rate gets high enough to frighten the participants into quitting their life-style.

[JoJo Gunn]

But it won't scare them, because Leftists are a true DeathCult.

[MegaSilver]

The only way AIDs will be wiped out is when the death rate gets high enough to frighten the participants into quitting their life-style.

I think the death rate among HIV patients is a pretty solid 90-100%.

[sunryse]

>The chances of contracting HIV from a promiscuous >homosexual lifestyle are much higher than the chances of >contracting HIV from a promiscuous heterosexual lifestyle.

No, you are incorrect. AIDS is spread faster through homosexual activity because of the anal sex. Not to mention that male homosexuals are uh, on the giving end, so the bodily fluid is LEFT in the other person. Lesbians have the lowest incidence of AIDS. Surely it isn't because of the lifestyle, right? (sarcasm at your homophobia) The virus is spread more easily through anal sex, even HETEROSEXUAL anal sex. Furthermore, AIDS spreads through HETEROSEXUAL sex as well as homosexual. (Anal, vaginal or oral, it's just harder to get from a female than from a male) Even if your theory is correct (which it isn't), heterosexuals wouldn't be getting if they weren't having UNPROTECTED sex period. With Bisexual people or otherwise. And we won't go into HETEROSEXUAL drug users. Liberal professors have nothing to do with it. Get yourself an education, liberal or conservative have nothing to do with the medical side of AIDS.

[sunryse]

>No, it's spread by homosexuals and those who engage in >behavior similar to homosexuals, as in bisexualism.

So you are saying it's spread by PEOPLE? Noone is denying that homosexual get AIDS, but to blame homosexuals for the entire AIDS problem is ludicrous and just plain stupid.

>You've been listening to way too much PC "It's normal" >propaganda. We live in 2003 now. The thought police are >gone.

What does normal or not normal have to do with anything? To say that homosexuals are the cause, reason for the spread of AIDS is beyond moronic. If that's the case, tell that to all the heterosexuals who have it. It merely spreads faster in those who practice ANAL SEX. Hetero or Homo.

[sunryse]

>Yeah...it's spread through NEEDLES AND homosexual >activity....it's NOT spread through monogomous sexual >activity. GET IT?

Oh Dear God. I am a conservative. There are many sterotypes of conservatives and you people are filling every damn one of them.

So what you are saying is that two HIV negative men get involved in a MONOGAMOUS relationship, they will all of a sudden GET AIDS? Think LOGICAL people, for crying out loud. PROMISCOUS BEHAVIOR SPREADS AIDS, UNPROTECTED SEX SPREADS AIDS. Whether HOMO OR HETERO!!