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A MUST Read: 'Politicization of AIDS' Kills Millions
"Anonymous" wrote in message news:2Z005RBF38339.5817592593@anonymous... A "MUST" READ DOCUMENT The Politicization of AIDS ----------------------- The worldwide AIDS epidemic is considerably worse than had been estimated, according to figures released in Nov. '97 by UNAIDS, the United Nations agency charged with controlling the disease. Almost 31 million people are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, the report said. This is 8 million, or 30 percent, more than previous global estimates, it said in a revision that resulted from a recent country-by-country examination of data. The AIDS virus is now spreading at the rate of 16,000 new infections per day, the UN agency said, rather than the 10,000 new cases given in previous estimates. Other findings in the report include: * One in every 100 sexually active adults worldwide is infected with HIV, but of those, only one in 10 knows they are infected. Some 5.8 million people have been infected in 1997, and an estimated 5.3 million were infected in 1996, up from the count of 3.1 million people doctors estimated a year ago. * If current transmission rates hold steady, by the year 2000 the number of people living with HIV/AIDS will soar to 40 million, the report said. * An estimated 2.3 million people will die of AIDS in 1997 -- a 50 percent increase over 1996. Nearly half of those deaths were in women, and 460,000 were in children under 15. * 8.2 million children have been orphaned since the epidemic broke out. * South Africa now estimates that one in 10 adults are living with HIV -- up more than a third since 1996. * The rate of HIV-infection in Botswana has doubled over the last five years, now at 25 percent to 30 percent. * One in five adults in Zimbabwe were HIV-positive in 1996, with seven pregnant women in 10 HIV-positive in 1995 in one town with a large population of migrant workers. * In India, between 3 million and 5 million people are infected, making India home to the largest number of people with HIV in the world. * In Latin America and the Caribbean, AIDS has already overtaken road accidents as the leading cause of death. AIDS Cases by Groups, U.S. Through June 1996, (CDC Data) Category Number % Men who have sex with men Injecting drug use Heterosexual MSM/IDU Hemophilia Blood Product Recipient Pediatric Cases Undetermined 274,192 137,753 44,980 35,218 4,280 7,684 7,181 36,814 50.0 25.1 8.2 6.4 1.0 1.4 1.3 6.7 Total 548,102 100.0 Over 75 percent of AIDS infections result from homosexual activity or drug use and only two percent result from blood transfusions. All over American society people are working to discourage smoking, alcohol, toxic pollution and high fat diets for the simple reason that they reduce human life expectancy. Yet none of these threats reduces life expectancy as much as homosexual conduct. Why are all the TV programs on AIDS victims eager to evade the real issue - that liberal values and loose lifestyles are overwhelming contibutors to the epidemic? There is only one safe way to remain healthy in the midst of a sexual revolution. It is to abstain from intercourse until marriage, and then wed and be faithful to an uninfected partner. It is a concept that was widely endorsed in society until the 1960s. Since then, a "better idea" has come along ... one that now threatens the entire human family. * On September 30, 1993, the President issued a directive requiring every Federal employee to receive comprehensive education on AIDS/HIV. To date more than 75% of Federal employees have participated. * The Social Security Administration expanded the list of conditions that are considered in determining eligibility due to HIV/AIDS. The agency also revised its rules to allow health professionals to provide information to Social Security field offices, which then can make immediate disability findings. * President Clinton increased public health spending for HIV/AIDS programs by nearly 40%, including a 120% increase for Ryan White CARE programs and a 26% rise for AIDS-related research. * The President's Health Security Act would have provided private health insurance for all people with AIDS and prohibited insurance companies from discriminating against people with HIV and AIDS. Federal medical assistance programs serve at least 40% of people living with AIDS and up to 90% of children with AIDS. Medicaid is the largest single payer of direct medical services -- an estimated 25% of AIDS-related care. * A total of 14 Medicaid State waivers are in place, allowing States to provide targeted home and community-based services to people with HIV/AIDS. In 1994, those programs will serve an estimated 21,170 individuals. HHS also is developing prototype waivers to help other States gain quick approval. * In the last two years, HUD's Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) program has provided $300 million for housing assistance to people with HIV/AIDS. HUD also has established the National Office of HIV/AIDS Housing to assist low income people with HIV/AIDS to pay for housing and will distribute 5,000 Section 8 housing assistance vouchers. The President cited the proposal to cut $30 million from HOPWA as one of the reasons for his veto of the fiscal year 1995 rescissions bill. AIDS is the first disease in history to be endowed with civil rights by the government. Health laws prevent anyone with such diseases as hepatitus from working in a restaurant, yet those with AIDS may do so. To bar them, which common sense would demand, is forbidden as "discrimination," even though it means sure death to those who, as a result of this insane policy, may accidentally contract the HIV virus. In the first HIV-discrimination case brought by the federal government, an administrative law judge ruled that a hospital can't restrict the work of a pharmacist infected with the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The hospital sought to bar the HIV-infected pharmacist from preparing intravenous solutions for patients. Applying the heaviest sanctions under the law the judge ruled hospitals that discriminate against HIV infected employees face a cutoff of all federal funding, including Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements. The cornerstone of public health's effort to deal with venereal disease historically has been reportability in confidence to local health authorities and then contact tracing for those that are infected. But the homosexual network in America has such clout that in effect they've stood the health care systems in many of the states on their head, which has prevented this policy of reportability and contact tracing for HIV carriers. Long before 1985, when AIDS researcher Robert Gallo patented the HIV antibody blood test, gay activists and leaders of the AIDS lobby began to demand that the tests only be used to test blood bank specimens rather than used to screen the general population. Members of the AIDS lobbies then convinced state legislators to enact laws prohibiting identification of those infected with HIV. They convinced lawmakers to make a distinction between HIV infection and AIDS, the end-stage of infection. Since HIV infection was not considered an infectious disease, like AIDS, it did not need to be traced or reported to the CDC like AIDS had been since 1981. Consequently, laws were passed in every state prohibiting doctors without written or informed consent from routinely using HIV blood tests and reporting test results to health officials. * In 1985, California passed a law which fined physicians up to $10,000 plus a year in prison if they violated confidentiality in regards to a patient testing positive for HIV. This meant, for example, that no doctor could alert any of his staff about a patient's HIV status prior to surgery or treatment without breaking the law. The AIDS crisis is supported by an entire movement that has taken a disease that could have been controlled by normal health standards and, by politicizing it, made it into a killer epidemic. Because it was the homosexual community which brought it to crisis proportions and because of the misinformation the homosexual lobby has persuaded the government and media to disseminate - AIDS enjoys a status never before granted to a highly contagious and deadly disease. Incredibly, instead of being treated like the fatal plague it is, AIDS has become a civil right that gives those carrying it a privileged status and even the prerogative to keep their infection secret. It is absolutely contrary to common sense to say that a virus has civil rights, but that's what the government has done. So we are treating a deadly disease differently from any other pandemic in history and denying the magnitude of the contagion involved for fear of offending the delicate sensibilities of those who suffer from it. Instead of following medically approved practices for limiting exposure and warning others of potential risks, we are allowing it to spread throughout the population. Dr. Lorraine Day says, "Our public health agencies were set up by your money and my money to track and control contagious diseases and to protect the uninfected. With this disease, it is the other way around."[Lorraine Day, M.D., AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You] It seems the government has been more concerned about being "politically correct" with gay sensitivities and appeasing certain interest groups than telling the medical truth and protecting the public. Rather, Clinton appointees like Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala promotes the homosexual AIDS agenda like never before. AIDS Misinformation * In the early days of the epidemic, the infectious-disease experts told health-care workers that they could not get AIDS through needlesticks or from contact with the body fluids of an AIDS patient. * The public was told by the experts that blood transfusions did not pass on the virus. Dr. Day writes: "It took 14,000-16,000 victims with HIV from transfusions to get the authorities to admit that death was being kept refrigerated and frozen in blood bank inventories and that, maybe, it was time to test."[Lorraine Day, M.D., AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You] * Through sex/AIDS education courses, the government is telling children and teens that latex condoms will protect them. Yet research shows that 30 percent of tested condoms allowed the AIDS virus to be transmitted. * The government says students can't be infected through contact sports, such as football or basketball, yet, two soccer players were recently infected through blood injuries incurred in competition. * The government says children can't catch AIDS by coming into contact with saliva, sweat, or tears. But Dr. Day cites a U.S. government study that shows the HIV virus can live outside the body in air and water. o "The general public stance," says Day, "is that this virus can't transmit via kissing, through sharing of utensils, by shaking hands or via aerosols. One risks professional lynching, practically, if one suggests mosquitoes, bedbugs, ticks or flies... The truth is no one has done the proper studies." o Researchers have documented a case in which the AIDS virus was passed from one child to another living in the same house. Sexual intercourse and contaminated hypodermic needles, the usual modes of transmission of the AIDS virus were ruled out in this case. "AIDS virus passed between children," THE WICHITA EAGLE, December 5, 1993. o A Texas burglar with AIDS is serving a 99-year prison term for attempted murder for spitting at a prison guard. Two appeals courts have rejected his clemency pleas. So it is recognized that spitting on someone could transmit AIDS, yet the government and Gay Rights advocates persist in the fiction that AIDS poses no health hazard to the general public. The Body - AIDS and HIV Information Rosource A study of 5,200 obituaries over five years, in 16 homosexual newspapers, plus dozens of other studies, show that homsexual conduct reduces life expectancy by 30 years. * The average age of homosexual men dying with AIDS is 39. * The average age of gays dying of all other causes is 41. * Only one percent of men who practice homosexual sex lives to be 65 or older. * Gay men are three times more likely to have alcohol or drug abuse problems. This leads to an increase in heart, lung and liver failure as well as an increase in accidental deaths. * Homosexuals are 14 times more likely to have had syphilis, and 23 times more likely to contract venereal diseases and thousands of times more likely to contract AIDS. * Lesbians are 19 times more likely than heterosexual women to have had syphilis; twice as likely to suffer from genital warts; and four times as likely to have scabies. * In San Francisco, America's most openly gay city, the rate of infectious Hepatitus A is twice the national average. * Their suicide rate is 60 times as high as the general population. * The ratio of homosexual men murdered (one in 200 deaths) was 50 times that of the general population. AIDS is the most politicized disease mankind has ever known. Special interest groups have helped subvert the health care policies we have in place - good policies that should apply to all diseases. We need to return to traditional medical and public health procedures historically used to control other infectious diseases. In this approach the responsiblity to diagnose and monitor the spread of HIV infection is again placed on the medical and public health communities. * CDC estimates between 1-2 million individuals are infected in the U.S. * World Health Organization estimates that at least 18.5 million adults and 1.5 million children are infected worldwide. * The number of people living with AIDS rose to 235,470 in 1996, an 11 percent increase from a year earlier. This growing population of people living with AIDS means that we're going to need to continue to increase resources for treatment for those people. * Although new AIDS cases declined 15 percent among white gay and bisexual men in 1996, AIDS among heterosexuals rose 11 percent among men and 7 percent among women. * Others estimate by the year 2000, 40 million persons may be infected with HIV. -=- This message was sent via two or more anonymous remailing services. |
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