Posted on 05/31/2003 7:46:46 AM PDT by JZoback
Every major campaign against AIDS in Africa has been based on the premise that heterosexual sex accounts for 90 percent of transmission in adults. Yet safe-sex efforts have not stopped the spread of the epidemic, which now affects 30 million people. Economic anthropologist David Gisselquist therefore suspected that HIV might be spreading primarily by another route. After analyzing 20 years of epidemiological studies, he and his colleagues concluded that unsafe injections, blood transfusions, and other medical procedures may account for most AIDS transmission in African adults. Their analysis indicates that no more than 35 percent of HIV in that population is spread through sex.
Gisselquist's interest in AIDS was stimulated by the guidance he received while traveling through Africa as a World Bank consultant. "They give you a syringe and say, 'Carry this with you, and avoid all the health care that you can.' We've been paying for third-world health care while advising ourselves to avoid it," he says. When he examined hundreds of papers on AIDS in Africa, he found evidence to back up those concerns. A study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for instance, found that 39 percent of HIV-positive, vaccinated infants had uninfected mothers. In contrast, Gisselquist could not uncover any clear data proving that sexual intercourse dominates the spread of African AIDS. In Zimbabwe, HIV incidence rose by 12 percent per year during the 1990s, even as sexually transmitted diseases sank by 25 percent overall and condom use rose among high-risk groups. Gisselquist recently reported his findings in four papers published in the International Journal of STD & AIDS.
Medical researchers may have overemphasized sexual transmission of African AIDS in part because condom-use campaigns dovetail with their concerns about overpopulation, Gisselquist says. They also fear that people in Africa will lose faith in modern health care. Gisselquist urges new efforts to halt the spread of AIDS: "Aid programs need to push infection control in health care. And we need to give the public the advice and the tools for protecting themselves in medical situations," such as new syringes and single-dose vials.
> Who are the owners of the corporations processing that vaccine?
Funny you should ask. It was illegal to process prison blood plasma in this country, so a lot of lot of tainted plasma was processed by Connaught Laboratories, in Canada. Connaught was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Canadian Development Corp, which was half-owned by the Canadian Government. On the CDC board for this dubious enterprise was Paul Martin -- the next Prime Minister, everybody thinks. Martin was also a leading opponent of the official Canadian investigation of the whole contaminated blood disaster (Krever Commission).
As I recall there were four US blood fractionaters at the time and there is circumstantial reason to believe that one or more of them also processed bad blood. But no criminal case has been developed so that is mere speculation. The pharmaceuticals are closely protected by "blood shield" laws that absolve them of liabilities for contaminating blood in most cases.
I'd imagine many African women aren't too keen on this method.
Considering that many African men rape infant girls because they think it'll cure them of the disease, I'd say that's a pretty safe statement.
Bullseye, Mamzelle.
Prediction: Much of that money - OUR money - will find its way into the deep pockets of the continents dictators, and the rest won't do a damn thing to curb the AIDS rate. Might as well flush the $15 billion down the camode.
Couldn't hurt much worse than vaginal sex, the way they dry out & inflame the vaginal tissues with herbs (See "dry sex" at #30).
My searches did turn him up as Chairman of the Canadian Development Investment Corporation. Is that the same thing?
I don't understand your point. Nobody owes him any answers. Nobody has refused him current scientific research and information, either. It's all out there. We've used it in this forum.
In my previous post (#43), I referred to the Canadian tainted blood disaster in the 1980s. More than 1,000 Canadian hemophiliacs were infected with Hepatitis C, AIDS, or both from tainted Factor 8. Source of the contamination: Arkansas prison blood plasma. Some infections were traced right down to the lot # on the plasma. Similar outbreaks occurred in at least twenty other countries that received tainted blood and blood products, including the U.S.
HIV and HCV as blood-borne viruses explain these outbreaks. They cannot be explained by AZT, Dr. Duesberg's good character, the purportedly shady character of other doctors and pharmaceutical companies, or bad medical reporting in Africa.
Happy thought: the RCMP investigation is still open and active.
Other than that, you don't need to know much about Maurice Strong. Seeing his name associated with this kind of evil was all too predictable.
Why go to all that trouble when genocide is an annual event somewhere in Africa.
You are mistaken. Science is not run by the principles of human rights or free market. The scientists DO OWE the answers to the experts from their field if their theories are questioned.
The answers were not given to Duesberg (read his book or articles) and he could not find the date when he looked for it. I myself did the thourough search of original research publications and I verified the fact that the HIV/AIDS theory was not properly published. Searching circular empty references of the most recent publications is a chase after wind what I tried too.
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