Posted on 12/17/2004 2:16:42 PM PST by Conservative Canuck
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - President Thabo Mbeki's ruling party published a stinging attack Friday against top U.S. health officials, accusing them of treating Africans like "guinea pigs" and lying to promote a key AIDS drug.
The criticism reinforces fears of doctors and activists that new questions about the testing of nevirapine could halt use of a drug that's credited with protecting thousands of African babies from catching HIV from their mothers...
"Subsequent research has confirmed the safety and efficacy of nevirapine in protecting newborns, according to the World Health Organization."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnews.canoe.ca ...
We're wrong if we ignore the problem and we're wrong if we try to do anything about it. Ho hum.
I created the AIDS retrovirus in my basement labor-a-tree (a little British lingo there) and injected it into African green monkeys who infected all the truck drivers in Africa.
I thought I was going to get away with it, but President Mbeki's ruling party was just too smart for me.
On the flip side, there were white, male homosexuals with AIDS beating on the FDA to let them be guinea pigs,
since that was their last, and only remaining chance at survival.
I'm with you. How dare we send them all that money and then make them "feel bad" by telling them to abstain. I say we but(t) out and not give them any advise or suggest how they live (die?). We also don't send them any of our evil money, evil social workers, etc etc etc. Man, Monroe Doctrine here I come...
(Sorry - I feel better now...)
Yep this guys right. We killed 40% of them with aids then will kill the rest with the drugs we ship over.
Perhaps they could go back to raping virgins to cure AIDS>
First the anti-Western rhetoric, then the racially-motivated land-grabs, then the racist murders and pogroms begin.
What we are seeing in SA is a First World nation diving headlong into Third World squalor. I'm just glad that the Afrikaaners dismantled and destroyed their nuclear program before they turned power over to majority rule and the now-looming thugocracy.
No big deal. Send Kofi Annan to So. Africa he would fit right in.
It's just never enough, they are like spoilt children. Mbeki spends millions travelling to make peace across Africa, and believes every conspiracy theory out there on Aids, while bashing the USA. Nobel Peace prize, anyone? Millions of Africans will continue to die from Aids, and no-one can do anything about it.
agreed bump!
I find that statement ironic since S. Africans rape babies thinking that will cure them of AIDS.
They will rather believe in African witchcraft than Western medicine, has been that way forever.
"Africans will be ready for self government as soon as they stop eating each other." - Wm. F. Buckley
Maybe one of the prominent Afrikian scholars from the many bastions of higher education will invent a new drug?
...then maybe not!
Castro has gotten away with this for years. All the ills of his regime are somehow our fault, mostly because we have an embargo on Cuba. Guess the fact that all the rest of the world trades freely with Cuba just doesn't factor into it. Why does Cuba need to trade with the US? Is it that they only want to buy US goods, or they don't have a functional economy so that they can't buy anything from anybody, US embargo or not. Clearly there are sane people in Cuba and these other countries who don't buy this type of crap, but they either get killed, put in prison (or insane asylums) or somehow manage to escape.
In the case of Global Warming there is no real danger, beyond damaging economies and resultant fall out from that. Unfortunately, in the case of AIDS, there's a good chance that the populations of Africa and Southeast Asia will be basically wiped out if these clowns succeed in demonizing the drugs and prevention programs coming from the west.
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