World Health Organization Admits Threat of Global AIDS Epidemic Is Over

Fox News / The Independent (U.K.) ^ | June 8, 2008

[Stoat]

The head of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department has officially admitted for the first time that there will be no global epidemic of the disease among the heterosexual population outside Africa, The Independent reported.

Kevin de Cock said global prevention strategies to address AIDS as a risk to all populations, among the WHO and major AIDS organizations, may have been misdirected. It is now recognized that, with the exception of sub-Saharan African, it is confined to high-risk groups.

These groups include men who have sex with other men, drug users who inject with needles, and sex workers and their clients, The Independent reported.

“It is very unlikely there will be a heterosexual epidemic in other countries,” de Cock is quoted in The Independent. “Ten years ago a lot of people were saying there would be a generalized epidemic in Asia — China was the big worry with its huge population. That doesn't look likely. But we have to be careful. As an epidemiologist it is better to describe what we can measure. There could be small outbreaks in some areas.”

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[Stoat]

My apologies for the severe editing of this story....this was done in order to remain in compliance with Free Republic posting rules.  Please click on the Fox News link for more, as well as the link to the original Independent article here:

Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent

[EagleUSA]

OK, what money-maker for the WHO is next??

[Stoat]

Some AIDS organizations, including the WHO, U.N. AIDS and the Global Fund have been blasted for inflating estimates of the number of people infected, taking much-needed funds from other diseases like malaria, spending it on the wrong efforts such as abstinence programs rather than condoms.

Oh please....no bias here, eh?

[jpl]

Congratulations to the WHO for telling us something we already managed to figure out ourselves about 15-20 years ago.

[blam]

"OK, what money-maker for the WHO is next??"

Malnutrition due to the shortage and high price of food worldwide.

[Stoat]

OK, what money-maker for the WHO is next??

I have no doubt that Mr. deCock will find an innovative way to misdirect funds in the foreseeable future.....he has had so very much experience in the matter, after all.

I would imagine something that specifically targets the USA would be the most fashionable and the easiest to put in place.....

[Skywalk]

The guy’s name is awesome, considering the subject on which he’s commenting.

[HwyChile]

It is all Reagan’s fault.

[Stoat]

Congratulations to the WHO for telling us something we already managed to figure out ourselves about 15-20 years ago.

Do I understand correctly that you are using logic, reason and common sense to evaluate a massive Government initiative?

"snicker"

[Stoat]

The guy’s name is awesome, considering the subject on which he’s commenting.

Isn't that just amazing?  Reality is oftentimes more astonishing than fiction.

This beats the name of the auto parts store owner in a small town that I used to live in.

His name was Dick Driver.

[SampleMan]

Very few deadly diseases can be prevented by something so simple as keeping your pants zipped.

I do not believe that there can be more than five adults on the planet who do not understand how to prevent AIDS. And how can the UN make it be taken more seriously, when there are already people dropping like flies all around them.

[Stoat]

It is all Reagan’s fault.

Yes, if he had allowed Communism to flourish none of this would have happened.

"chortle"

However, considering that this is an election year and the Left is utterly apoplectic with Bush Derangement Syndrome, I'm sure that they will figure out a way to blame it on him   :-)

[Emmett McCarthy]

Or about how the women voters in Chicago think of their mayoral dynasty. They say they love Dick Daly.

[SampleMan]

If you only use your orifices as they were designed, and do not transfuse unscreened blood, the chances of a man getting AIDS is extremely small.

[taraytarah]

High prices - watch them skyrocket in relation to fuel price increases.

Which shortages?

[denydenydeny]

Every one of the idiots who insisted throughout the 80s that NO ONE IS SAFE! and told us about THE COMING HETEROSEXUAL AIDS EPIDEMIC! (very well chronicled by Michael Fumento) should be publicly ridiculed. But they won’t.

[Stoat]

Or about how the women voters in Chicago think of their mayoral dynasty. They say they love Dick Daly.

Oh lawd.....

 

[blam]

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