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2006-04-08 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-08 13:55|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why? LLL conspiracy theorists would suggest it was all a propaganda ploy to get the people to use condoms, with the desirable side effect of reducing the rate of population growth.

Another possibility is that the rates were not overstated then, but that somehow the Rwandan population had or rapidly developed some natural immunity. In my opinion this disease is not new, and has jumped into the human population repeatedly in the past, such that there are reservoirs of potentially more resistant people scattered about.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-04-08 14:34|| 2006-04-08 14:34|| Front Page Top

#2 "U.N. AIDS agency, which for years overestimated the extent of HIV/AIDS"

Well, I'm just shocked!

Hooda thunk the sainted UN could possibly get something wrong ~~when it involves extorting more money from the West~~.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-04-08 14:49|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-04-08 14:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Heck, back about the mid-80s there was concurrent publication by Newsweek and Time [promoted by the advocates of the gay agenda] that a HIV epidemic would sweep hetero America by the mid-90s if nothing was done to stop the spread by dumping billions of dollars looking for a cure. Dire Predications[tm] of another 'black plague' style destruction of normal society and economy. Concurrent with those ravings were repeated denials that HIV in America was largely a disease spread among the gay community. Twenty years later the general population remains pretty free of the threat, but the gay community has paid a heavy price for that misdirection, largely self-inflicted. Watch carefully as they shift the discussion from America to the world in trying to tag it as a hetero spread disease. Its the same rhetorical slight of hand as the discussion of illegal immigrants is changed to 'immigrants'.

Posted by Theang Spereger8571 2006-04-08 15:07|| 2006-04-08 15:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder what the stats would show if they tracked the UN's movements with the spread of HIV? Any bets the Peacekeepers and bureaucrats raped and impregnated these city prostitutes, following the same trails that infection spread? Years ago I read AIDS, not yet identified for what it was, seemed to originate in Africa and Haiti, in places the UN had medical missions and and gave innoculations, playing into the conspiracy theory it was an engineered disease targeting blacks. Doesn't seem so improbable anymore. Who knows what goes on in Geneva?

Posted by Danielle 2006-04-08 17:07|| 2006-04-08 17:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, the spread of AIDS with U.N. medical missions is due to incompetence and penny-pinching, not a wide ranging conspiracy. The U.N. medicos simply reused syringes dozens of times in those areas, effectively infecting thousands with AIDS, hepatitis, and similiar blood-borne diseases. In the developed world, such reuse was already banned and so was not a contributing factor to the spread of AIDS, except among IV drug users.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-04-08 23:23|| 2006-04-08 23:23|| Front Page Top

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