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Is the African AIDS pandemic a bluff?
Afrol News ^ | 2 Jun 07 | Rainer Chr. Hennig, afrol News editor

Posted on 06/02/2007 12:31:04 PM PDT by xzins

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According to the WHO's Africa definition, "AIDS is diagnosed on the basis of non-specific clinical symptoms and without an HIV test," Mr Fiala says. Even today, "people with for example continuous diarrhoea, weight loss and itching are declared to be suffering from AIDS. But also the typical symptoms for tuberculosis - fever, weight loss and coughing - are officially considered to be AIDS, even without an HIV test," holds the Austrian specialist.
1 posted on 06/02/2007 12:31:06 PM PDT by xzins
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To: FredHunter08; AFPhys; Salvation; Jim Robinson

ping to the article

quite intriguing and quite recent

No one wants to be heartless about sick people, but why is there 45 billion for questionable aids in africa and no funding for a fence in America?


2 posted on 06/02/2007 12:35:41 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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but last time I checked, spending on AIDS research exceeded spending on TB by a crushing factor of 90 to one

TB needs a new lobby.
3 posted on 06/02/2007 12:38:24 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: xzins

The purpose of AIDS programs in Africa is to allow African governments freer access to western money than previously allowed.


4 posted on 06/02/2007 12:38:45 PM PDT by Dogrobber
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“No one wants to be heartless about sick people, but why is there 45 billion for questionable aids in africa and no funding for a fence in America?”

Corrupt dictators need a retirement fund?

It’s one thing to donate out of one’s own volition, but it’s another thing entirely to donate other people’s money taken at gunpoint.

5 posted on 06/02/2007 12:40:11 PM PDT by FredHunter08 (Boycott Illegal-Alien-Pandering Lowes!)
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If I remember correctly, a few years back the prediction was for millions and millions dead in Africa from AIDS by now.


6 posted on 06/02/2007 12:41:57 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: P-40
>TB needs a new lobby

Might spread TB, you
get locked up. People who might
spread AIDS get condoms...
7 posted on 06/02/2007 12:42:13 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: xzins

I don’t really care whether aids in Africa is a bluff or not. They should NEVER be sent any of our tax money. It should be the job of charities, not the U.S. taxpayer.
Thanks again George Bush.


8 posted on 06/02/2007 12:42:37 PM PDT by sheana
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Everyone has AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!

And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)

Well I’m gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There’s a hero inside of all of us
I’ll make them see everyone has AIDS

My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog ‘ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C’mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS! x 20


9 posted on 06/02/2007 12:42:42 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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Nothing that $30 billion of USA taxpayers money won’t do to fix the African AIDS problem ay World President GW Bush? Most of that $30 billion money will be siphoned off by the corrupt African leaders anyway, right Mr Kofi Annan? And the IRS hounds us for every penny it can milk out of us. The federal govt. collects over $3 trillion dollars a year from us all and throws it down the sewers. Politicians disgust me endlessly!.


10 posted on 06/02/2007 12:42:55 PM PDT by tflabo (<p>)
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To: xzins
No one wants to be heartless about sick people, but why is there 45 billion for questionable aids in africa and no funding for a fence in America?

Because the homosexual AIDS lobby is very powerful and very chic.

11 posted on 06/02/2007 12:44:11 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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- But, says Mr Malan, "the figures are computer-generated estimates and they appear grotesquely exaggerated when set against population statistics." In Botswana, the country with the world's highest AIDS prevalence, several reports had suggested that population had dropped from 1.4 million in 1993 to under a million currently, due to the AIDS pandemic.

Not true, says Mr Malan. "Botswana has just concluded a census that shows population growing at about 2.7 percent a year, in spite of what is usually described as the worst AIDS problem on the planet. Total population has risen to 1.7 million in just a decade. If anything, Botswana is experiencing a minor population explosion," the South African writer concludes.

This is an extremely powerful argument against the current "Aids in Africa" view proposed by the knowledge elites.

12 posted on 06/02/2007 12:44:30 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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Methods of transmission of HIV/AIDS have NOT changed as far as I am aware.
It is not airborne but rather blood borne.
No sharing or needles, no unprotected sex and careful selection of close contacts in one’s inter/intra personal relationships should be the correct manner of staying well.

I for one believe Africa should achieve a “shakeout” and whomsoever get it, gets it.
Whomsoever dies, dies.
Neither the African governmental echelons nor the social leaders appear to take the problem very seriously. So EFF’em. Let them die.
I do NOT want to pay for their ignorance and savage stupidity.

13 posted on 06/02/2007 12:46:24 PM PDT by Gideon Reader (DEMOCRATS: Not quite American, and proud of it! Palestinians are,...well,... Palestinian.)
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Nothing that $30 billion of USA taxpayers money won’t do to fix the African AIDS problem ay World President GW Bush?,

He pledged that money just to pacify the global Left. Obviously, they still hate him (and the U.S.), so in many ways it was a waste of money.
14 posted on 06/02/2007 12:48:17 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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Is anyone really surprised to discover that Aid in Africa is just a a giant SCAM?

It is worth noting that the UN uses "computer models" to predict the incidence of AIDS in the population and the annual death toll of this "pandemic". That might sound familiar to the Global Warming folk who use the same technique for the same reason the HIV=AIDS people do, to take money out of your pocket and put it into theirs.

15 posted on 06/02/2007 12:48:52 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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paaaah leez,

“AIDS funding” is just code for bribe money,

bribe money to silence recreational sex fetish activists.

bribe money to silence banana republic politicians.

and

just plain bribes...


16 posted on 06/02/2007 12:49:23 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: InterceptPoint

Oops. Make that AIDS in Africa.


17 posted on 06/02/2007 12:49:37 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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If you read the article, you’ll discover that they’ll not die because they don’t even have it.

The report that there’s an epidemic is in all likelihood a scam.

(I agree that the means of transmission is well known and that those who get it do so on their own dime.)


18 posted on 06/02/2007 12:51:34 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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Find a great unlikely to be seriously followed “humanitarian” issue, and there’s serious money in it. From rainforests to global warming to aids in africa, I’m just plain tired of being taken for a ride by the tax thieves.


19 posted on 06/02/2007 12:53:17 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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Recipe for “success”:

1. Grossly inflate statistics about the problem.

2. Spend billions and billions on politically correct programs (no reason to worry about their effectiveness).

3. Report accurate statistics.

4. Declare success.

20 posted on 06/02/2007 12:53:29 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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