Posted on 11/30/2008 11:59:08 AM PST by thetru
LONDON – LONDON – As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.
They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease's spread has largely been curbed in much of the world, Africa excepted.
"AIDS is a terrible humanitarian tragedy, but it's just one of many terrible humanitarian tragedies," said Jeremy Shiffman, who studies health spending at Syracuse University.
Roger England of Health Systems Workshop, a think tank based in the Caribbean island of Grenada, goes further. He argues that UNAIDS, the U.N. agency leading the fight against the disease, has outlived its purpose and should be disbanded.
"The global HIV industry is too big and out of control. (We have created a monster) with too many vested interests and reputations at stake, ... too many relatively well paid HIV staff in affected countries, and too many rock stars with AIDS support as a fashion accessory," he wrote in the British Medical Journal in May.
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If HIV was treated like say, yellow fever (quarantine, mandatory reporting, etc) it would burned itself out.
“...If HIV was treated like say, yellow fever (quarantine, mandatory reporting, etc) it would burned itself out...”
Ding ding! We have a winner!
I have the dubious ‘honor’ of having been involved in the care for the first confirmed AIDS patient in the state of Mississippi. He was a 23 y/o who was infected from a dirty tattoo needle in San Francisco. The year was 1985.
CDC guide lines stated that care givers should not wear masks or gloves since that made patients feel isolated. We were told that an exchange of bodily fluids equivalent to 110cc was necessary for the virus to be acquired. These were the rules in those days.
If AIDS and HIV had been treated as an infectious disease, with quarantine it would be HISTORY! You sir are correct.
Fudgepackers wield incredible power worldwide.
never was.....never.....it has stayed primarily within its own disease opportunity circle.....homos, drug users.....
people are dying very young of cancer yet they seem not as important as the typical Aids patient....
I just don't get it....
all I can say is that Africa wasn't even supposed to have any people left after over 20yrs of the aids "crisis" and yet I think their population is very stable.
why stigmatize the Aids patient when you can stigmatize EVERYBODY and make EVERYBODY carry the burden....
I wouldn't be surprised if our MRSA infection epidemic is directly related to the universal precaution scam....
True. Many wanted to push AIDS cure research to “save the homosexual” when it first reared its ugly head. Now they are trying to claim it is not a predominantly gay disease. The hidden news story is that AIDS IS a predominantly gay disease.
As in the race card, gays like to play the victim card. It doesn’t work on me.
thanks, bfl
I accept that they've gone deviant and depraved. The problem is they want me to approve of their choices and to teach my children to do as they do.
I donate money to organizations that deal with cancer because I believe they have been neglected and underfunded in favor of giving more money to the highly politicized AIDS movement.
The other day, someone asked me to donate money to help fight AIDS. I told him, “I already did. I paid my taxes.”
“...why stigmatize the Aids patient when you can stigmatize EVERYBODY and make EVERYBODY carry the burden....”
In those days there were a number of nurses fired from local hospitals because they used COMMON SENSE and took precautions; mask and gloves. They sued, it was settled out of court and they were all reinstated. I believe the hospital administrators knew the nurse’s position was based on sound medical practice.
MRSA is another issue. It came to light several years later, in the early 90s. There could be a connection, but we will never be allowed to know for sure.
Probably involving male-female sodomy.
I never really saw AID’s as a threat in the first place. Be smart and live right, its no threat at all.
And another thing. As a Survivor fan, I dislike the way they have an AIDS foundation as their “official” charity. The producers have a lot of money and a lot of influence, and there are other people who could use their help. At the very least, they could include some other, less politicized charities.
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