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Sexual Abstinence Behind Uganda's AIDS Success Story Nairobi, Kenya (CNSNews.com) - Some experts say the dramatic drop in HIV/AIDS infections in Uganda is proof that abstinence from sex is the best way to combat the deadly disease, especially in the world's hardest-hit area, sub-Saharan Africa.

AIDS: The Untold Story ... ...the predominant subtype of the virus found in Western nations is HIV-I: subtype B, whereas in both Asia and Africa the predominant subtypes are C and E. This study may explain why we find heterosexual spread of HIV infection in Asia and Africa where subtypes HIV I: C and E predominate, but only rarely in Western nations where subtype B is found. It is presumed that homosexuals and IV drug users contract HIV I: subtype B readily because of their lifestyles involving needle sharing and rectal sex. (7) Dr. Essex's work, however, does not explain the heterosexual epidemic developing within black America today. This aberration may be explained by studies which have found that certain genetic factors predispose blacks to HIV infection. Researchers have recently identified two mutated genes in some whites that are not found in blacks; these altered genes protect their hosts from HIV infection. There may well be other yet unrecognized genetic factors which confer complete or partial immunity to whites, but these factors have yet to be identified. (8,9)

...Peter Duesberg on AIDS insists that there is no AIDS epidemic, and that most of those who are assumed to have died from AIDS have actually succumbed to the complications of drug usage, sexual stimulants, and AZT.

...A detailed analysis of Dr.Duesberg's arguments and his agenda is beyond the scope of this article. That subject is covered in my HIV-Watch newsletter, and in my monograph, "Population Control Agenda". Unfortunately, Dr. Duesberg's books have convinced many otherwise sincere people that there is no reason to institute standard public health measures to control further spread of the epidemic.

HIV/AIDS Statistics, NIAID Fact Sheet

As of the end of 2002, an estimated 42 million people worldwide - 38.6 million adults and 3.2 million children younger than 15 years - were living with HIV/AIDS. Approximately 70 percent of these people (29.4 million) live in Sub-Saharan Africa; another 17 percent (7.2 million) live in Asia.⁽¹⁾
Worldwide, approximately twelve of every 1000 adults aged 15 to 49 are HIV-infected. In Sub-Saharan Africa, about 9 percent of all adults in this age group are HIV-infected. In 4 African countries, the prevalence of HIV infection among adults aged 15 to 49 exceeds 30 percent.⁽¹⁾
Approximately 40,000 new HIV infections occur each year in the United States, about 70 percent among men and 30 percent among women. Of these newly infected people, half are younger than 25 years of age.^(3,4)
Of new infections among men in the United States, CDC estimates that approximately 60 percent of men were infected through homosexual sex, 25 percent through injection drug use, and 15 percent through heterosexual sex. Of newly infected men, approximately 50 percent are black, 30
As of December 31, 2001, 467,910 deaths among people with AIDS had been reported to the CDC.⁽⁵⁾ AIDS is now the fifth leading cause of death in the United States among people aged 25 to 44, and is the leading cause of death for black men in this age group.⁽⁶⁾
The estimated annual number of AIDS-related deaths in the United States fell approximately 70 percent from 1995 to 2001, from 51,670 deaths in 1995 to 15,603 deaths in 2001.⁽⁵⁾
Of the estimated 15,603 AIDS-related deaths in the United States in 2001, approximately 52 percent were among blacks, 29 percent among whites, 18 percent among Hispanics, and less than 1 percent among Asians/Pacific Islanders and American Indians/Alaska Natives.⁽⁵⁾

Focus On The HIV-AIDS Connection Why is there overwhelming scientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS?

Alive and Well AIDS Alternatives Many experts contend that AIDS is not a fatal, incurable condition caused by HIV? That most of the AIDS information we receive is based on unsubstantiated assumptions, unfounded estimates and improbable predictions? That the symptoms associated with AIDS are treatable using non-toxic, immune enhancing therapies that have restored the health of people diagnosed with AIDS and that have enabled those truly at risk to remain well?

Unlike most AIDS organizations, we do not accept funding from the pharmaceutical industry, federal or local government, or any entity that may limit public access to factual information regarding HIV, AIDS and health.

HIV & AIDS - VirusMyth AIDS HomePage A growing group of bio-medical scientists claim the cause of AIDS is still unknown. These heretics do not believe in the lethal AIDS virus called HIV. They claim that the virus is indeed harmless. Most of them think AIDS is also not sexually transmitted; it probably has toxic causes. People die because they are poisoned to death by toxic antiviral drugs. Part of the AIDS dissidents even question the existence of a virus entity. These HIV skeptics say that the AIDS virus has never really been isolated, and the AIDS tests are worthless...

HIV & AIDS - Rethinking AIDS - Homepage The Group formed in 1991 in support of a STATEMENT calling for an independent, scientific, fact-based evaluation of the HIV-based model of AIDS. No medical journal would publish this letter, even after hundreds of physicians, biomedical scientists, and other professionals signed it.

The Group's members include biomedical scientists, physicians, and other professionals from around the world who encourage a serious and open evaluation of the HIV explanation of AIDS, as well as criticisms of and alternatives to it. The Group's members have identified solid scientific and other reasons to conclude that:

The phenomena labeled "HIV" may qualify as entirely harmless.
Illnesses diagnosed as "AIDS" may derive not from a retroviral infection, but rather from other factors....
Within the AIDS risk groups, conditions diagnosable as "AIDS" may appear at increased frequencies even among those who test negative on the "HIV tests." This would represent a reason to look beyond retrovirology in order to explain AIDS, and a need to reconsider the official AIDS definition, which limits diagnoses to patients whose blood reacts to these tests.
Pharmaceuticals prescribed to treat HIV infections may actually cause some cases of AIDS.
Most people who react positively on the "HIV tests" may possess no active HIV infections, including many AIDS patients.
Contrary to the public health message that "everyone is at risk for HIV and AIDS," the vast majority of even sexually active Americans have no significant risk of either.

Questions and Answers On Holes in Condoms The reports of holes in latex appear to have originated from an article in Science magazine about latex gloves, not condoms. Holes as large as 5 microns in diameter were evidently identified in latex used in gloves. However, gloves are only dipped in latex once when they are made, condoms are dipped in latex twice. Gloves are allowed to fail the water leak test at a rate of 40 per thousand, while condoms are only allowed 4 failures of the water leak test per thousand condoms before the entire batch of condoms is rejected. While holes large enough to allow HIV to pass through have been found in natural membrane condoms, latex condoms do not allow HIV to pass through the condom unless the condom has been damaged or torn. Used properly, latex condoms are effective in reducing the risk of HIV infection.

Guidance for Industry Surveillance and Detention Without Physical ... Consumers rely on condoms for protection from HIV (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), as well as for contraception. Defective condoms present a potential hazard to health. The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has found that some foreign manufacturers and shippers of condoms consistently fail to provide condoms of adequate quality for distribution into the United States. Therefore, continuous monitoring of these devices is needed.

June 1999 Condoms are an excellent product that seldom fails for birth control or disease prevention," says Paul J. Feldblum, an epidemiologist at the nonprofit Family Health International, a Research Triangle Park, N.C., group that studies both issues.

Condoms are also randomly sampled for factory water-leakage tests mandated by the Food and Drug Administration. (Condoms are regulated as medical devices, so the FDA inspects factories and on occasion samples condoms itself; other times it audits factory records.) Holes as small as 5 microns (about 0.0002 inch) can be detected. Only a fraction of condoms are tested with water--the test renders a condom unusable--but an entire production lot fails if the equivalent of 4 or more per 1,000 leak.

Thanks for correcting much of the clear bias in this original story with the facts.

So essentially the Trent Lott/Bill Frist majority leader "trade" is responsible for $15 billion earmarked as an administration PR stunt to AIDS Africa, instead of to millions of hard-working Americans who languish without health insurance or the care they need?

This is a unauthorized international confiscatory tax -- plain and simple.

*Sex in the City and Elsewhere: A Look at the Social Issues in the 21st Century

Dr. Meg Meeker Addresses Sexuality and STDs

Appearing on the same panel was Dr. Meg Meeker, author of Epidemic: How Teen Sex is Killing Our Kids, published by Regnery, a Human Events sister firm. Dr. Meeker said Americans are allowing the entertainment industry and major corporations to sell sex to children in order to make money and that the result has been an alarming increase in sexually transmitted diseases. She noted that according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 15 million Americans get a new STD each year, and two-thirds of those are under the age of 25.

Dr. Meeker said that, according to the CDC, there were two common STDs in the late 1970s and "after 20 years of teaching our kids how to use condoms we have 30 STDs among our children age 12-18." In light of a recent report from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that concluded that there was not enough evidence that male latex condoms were effective at reducing the risk of most STDs other than HIV/AIDS, Dr. Meeker said, "I personally consider it malpractice to hand one of my patients a condom and tell them it works when the NIH doesn’t say so."

Concluded Dr. Meeker, "It is time we take sexual freedom off its pedestal and raise up sexual health."