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Updated Sunday, May 18, 2008 0:00 am TWN, By James Chin, Special to The China Post

Myths behind AIDS might lead to billions in misspending

A recent report by an independent commission on AIDS in Asia has acknowledged that epidemic sexual HIV transmission has not spread in Asia beyond the highest HIV-risk groups, such as gay men, injecting drug users, and sex workers, into any general population. However, UNAIDS’s perpetuation of the myth that everyone is at risk of AIDS has led to billions wasted on HIV prevention programs directed at general populations and especially youth, who, outside of sub-Saharan Africa, are at minimal risk of any exposure to HIV.

UNAIDS’s proposed budget for 2008 includes US$1.9 billion for prevention programs aimed at young people and the workplace. While some of this will be usefully spent in sub-Saharan Africa, the rest is effectively wasted.

At least US$5 billion has been wasted in this way in the last five years. Meanwhile, to the shame of the global health bureaucracy, a handful of diseases that are relatively inexpensive to prevent or treat — several vaccine-preventable diseases, diarrheal diseases, malaria and some acute respiratory infections — continue to account for about four million annual child deaths globally.

UNAIDS is apparently concerned that support for AIDS programs might be reduced if most regional HIV rates are stable or decreasing and HIV remains concentrated in the highest-risk populations.

These are realistic concerns but global and regional HIV rates have remained stable or have been decreasing during the past decade; HIV continues to be concentrated in populations with the highest levels of HIV risk behaviors; and HIV is incapable of epidemic spread in the vast majority of heterosexual populations.

Continued denial of these realities will further erode whatever credibility UNAIDS and other mainstream AIDS agencies and experts may still have, and will seriously damage the future fight against this disease: let’s face the data and put the money where the real problems really are.

James Chin, a former chief of the surveillance, forecasting, and impact assessment unit of the Global Program on AIDS of the World Health Organization, is clinical professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. His monograph The Myth Of A “General” AIDS Pandemic is published by the Campaign for Fighting Diseases this month. He is in Geneva to meet policymakers at the WHA.

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February 25, 2010 futuregregory@

The HIV Test is cross-reactive and based on fraudulent research(www.fearoftheinvisible.com) - the HIV test only identifies the presence of 2, 3 or 4 proteins for a positive result depending on which country one is testing in and many conditions have been found to cause the body to produce those proteins including drug use, steroids, flu shots and pregnancy among others. please pray for all those who have been wrongly diagnosed with HIV and AIDS and please visit www.youtube.com/hivquestions (and healing alternatives) videos available in seven languages

February 25, 2010 dsyner@

View the new documentary "House of Numbers" to see why questions about this must be raised and deeper issues about HIV and AIDS need to be discussed. Lives are at risk, and this is the first documentary with the worlds foremost authorities highlights the scientific problems with HIV testing, science, statistics, and why there is no cure. It sheds new light on a misunderstood phenomena. GO to http://houseofnumbers.com/ to see the trailer.

Truth about AIDS as told by Dr. Luc Montagnier. AIDS can be reversed. Nutrition is the answer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQoNW7lOnT4

March 1, 2010 watch_September_Clues@

The entire world has been tricked. There is no HIV virus. The test simply looks for anti-bodies, not a virus, which btw has never been identified. Victims of this false diagnostic sentence of death succumb to the anti-viral drugs AZT etc. which break down the immune system and destroy the liver. Millions of lives and families have been wiped away and ruined by this fraud perpetrated against a trusting, naive public. Western medicine in general is a farce consisting only symptomatic temporary relief based on legislation, media hype and drugs which never cures anything. In fact, the latter is the largest cause of death in the USA.


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