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Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so

World Dec. 01, 2008 - 06:00AM JST ( 10 )

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some14someDec. 01, 2008 - 07:49AM JST

No money so some dare to say so, How about funding the projects by selling CO2 ?
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smithinjapanDec. 01, 2008 - 07:54AM JST

"They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease’s spread has largely been curbed in much of the world, Africa excepted."

Geez... I wonder if that's BECAUSE of all the hype?! Nah, that's rhetorical. AIDS has become a 'manageable' illness in most of the modern world (Japan is also arguably an exception -- or will be soon) through awareness and prevention efforts, as well as through valuable research. Saying that money should be taken from it and put into more pressing issues would just end up making AIDS the pressing issue again in a decade or so.
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mcheekyDec. 01, 2008 - 09:43AM JST

“Everybody talks about AIDS at cocktail parties,” Oldfield said. “But nobody wants to hear about diarrhea,” he said.

He is right. I sure did not want to hear about it. If it kills five times the kids, then please put the money to preventing that. I don't want to hear about it again.
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BrainiacDec. 01, 2008 - 09:50AM JST

AIDS is the most preventable of the major diseases. I would rather see more funding go toward prevention of Alzheimer's, cancer and heart disease.
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skipthesongDec. 01, 2008 - 12:22PM JST

In away, I am going to agree with the article. With all the energy going into AIDS, one would think there are very few other killers out there. I hardly ever hear about Cancer, which lung cancer still killing people yearly.
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dennis0bauerDec. 01, 2008 - 03:14PM JST

Stop using comdoms, Stop sexual education then see whet happens
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SimondBDec. 01, 2008 - 03:52PM JST

This story is so true. A year ago I left an international organisation I was working for. We had our own "Aids" unit in our group. They spent their time flying around the world holding meetings in 5 star hotels, filling up screens of butchers paper about what they were going to do in the next twelve months. No follow up, no auditing. Throw in an occasional symbolic AIDS victim with a story to tell and Bob's your Uncle.

This has become an international bussiness. Fly the world and tell people to use condoms. Do an occasional ineffective survey and start planning your trips for next year. Take the high moral ground if any one questions what difference you might be making. Cry a little bit for the cameras about the suffering you have seen and then fly back to Chelsea, Fulham and SW2, claim all your per diems, overnight allowances then spend 150 quid a person at a dinner where you can say "Darling, you have no idea what we have to do"....and most of us don't because the change they make is so insignifigant.

It is a FKG scam and I have seen it first hand. In some ways this is like feminism in the late eighties early ninties...............it has been captured by white, middle to upper class women. It is a gravy train and it needs to be derailed.
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smithinjapanDec. 01, 2008 - 04:25PM JST

"'Everybody talks about AIDS at cocktail parties,” Oldfield said. “But nobody wants to hear about diarrhea,” he said.'

Okay, well, here's an idea: next time you're going to say to somebody (why you would, unless it's a loved one and you're explaining a health problem, I know not, but people do), "I got diarrhea during my trip" or, "... after eating Thai" substitute 'diarrhea' with 'AIDS' and see just how much the reaction changes, particularly if you're whispering in said person's ear. You see, one is quite normal in the duration of one's life, the other is not, and will make said duration a whole lot shorter. In other words, they're not at all comparable.

skipthesong: "I hardly ever hear about Cancer, which lung cancer still killing people yearly."

Well, I have to say your hearing is pretty selective. There may be MORE about AIDS out there, but there's also a whole lot about cancer, and in particular when talking about breast cancer and how you should check for it, etc. What's more, with AIDS you don't have to battle any major groups like tobacco who lobby against, and until recently have often won, ads which would condemn smoking as a way of avoiding cancer, etc. All you're really saying is that there needs to be more awareness about cancer, if anything, which is also fine.
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AltriaDec. 01, 2008 - 04:37PM JST

“Everybody talks about AIDS at cocktail parties,” Oldfield said. “But nobody wants to hear about diarrhea,” he said.

These bandwagon jumpers make me sick. You can tell I'm a genuine, long-time campaigner against disease by my old-school references to scurvy, goitre and botulism.
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soothsayerDec. 01, 2008 - 07:19PM JST

Stop using comdoms, Stop sexual education then see whet happens

Whet do you mean, Demmis?