A: Monkey love.
Monkey love. All righty then...
Posted on 04/15/2005 1:54:41 PM PDT by DBeers
ping.
It must be the Popes fault.
So, 2/3 of the epidemic is due to dirty needles?
Ignorance is the primary reason.
A: Monkey love.
Monkey love. All righty then...
I read several years ago an article that criticized the UN because they were putting so much attention into shipping condoms to Africa when they needed to be shipping medical supplies. In that article it pointed out that doctors and medical clinics were being forced to re-use needles because of a shortage and as a result they were spreading the HIV disease.
Read that paragraph a couple of times. It is very typical of HIV/AIDS "science". To paraphrase: Since our theory that AIDS is transmitted by heterosexual contact is clearly not correct than all that is left is "punctures" and that proves that "punctures" are a "huge" cause of the spread of AIDS.
I mean really.
A much simpler explanation is that the Africans are ruining their immune system the old fashioned way: poor nutrition, multiple diseases and infections that slowly eat away at their immune systems and probably some drug use thrown into the mix. I will be convinced that there is an HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa when someone provides evidence for the following:
1. That HIV actually causes AIDS.
2. That people are dying of AIDS in Africa faster now than they were dying of all that other stuff 30 years ago when nobody had heard of AIDS.
Yes people are dying in Africa. But if the diagnosis is wrong then the cure is going to be wrong. I see little or no progress in improving the lot of these poor people but I see a lot of Jesse Jackson like folk swarming around trying to raise money, raise more money, just a few more billion. The whole African AIDS thing still looks and smells like a scam to me.
That's the way I read the article. I doubt that so many people in Africa have access to hypodermic needles, and none of them know how to sterilize dirty needles.
http://www.garynull.com/Article.aspx?article=Issues/Index.aspx&Head=Issues
I also doubt the veracity of claims for HIV given the severe problem of malaria and other immune supressing diseases like TB,etc.
Combine this with the weird belief that "sex with a virgin will cure aids" and there is a cycle of those with aids passing it on.
"Grant money goes to those who follow the paradigm, not those who challenge it."
It could be the motto for the death of science, though in the case of African AIDS, it's more than science that dies.
All the money for AIDS prevention goes toward work related to sexual transmission. All the money for physics goes to string theory (even though it's 40 years old and hasn't made a single experimentally testable prediction).
Science is becoming neo-medieval faster than goth music, but now they write commentary upon commentary on Schwartz, Witten and Darwin, instead of on Aristotle.
The process had better stop before medicine follows in its wake just in time for all of our antibiotics to become useless.
(Oh, and BTW--if the folks on the board who want to abolish tenure get their way, science will die even faster: folks doing physics other than string theory and wanting to study iatrogenic AIDS transmission in Africa won't just not get grants, they won't have jobs.)
There simply isn't any money in typhus, malarial, etc. deaths
Most of the HIV infections are unconfirmed estimates !!!
"Ignorance is the primary reason."
Ignorance fostered by lies in the guize of politically correct.
Yep you know exactly what I'm talking about. AIDs is every African dictators' cash cow.
-I doubt that so many people in Africa have access to hypodermic needles, and none of them know how to sterilize dirty needles.-
Well, that's how they spread the Ebola and Marburgs around. Give a kid a shot, then use the same needle to give the next shot. No sterilizing involved. They have more people than needles.
Yep
OK I may have missed something but I think this article missed a point, that anal sex is an more accepted part of heterosexual sex in Africa than here and maybe that is the problem, the focus should be on discouraging any anal sex .....but then we are talking about an area where AIDS infected men are raping babies thinking it will cure them so we got a bigger problem here
and most sex experts will tell you, if anyone is familiar with Sue Johanson, the grandmotherly nurse from Canada, she says if you are going to have anal sex, you should "double bag it" ie use two condoms because one condom is quite likely to tear during anal sex and the transmission risk is so much higher during anal sex, of course.....
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