A MUST Read: 'Politicization of AIDS' Kills Millions

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The Politicization of AIDS
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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.


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