QUOTE (Capracus+Apr 26 2008, 09:17 AM)
So for the last 45 years the CIA has been covertly keeping the world population in check. Considering that the worlds population has doubled in that time, it appears that the CIA has failed miserably at this task, and should be reorganized into an organization such as the Nazi SS who were real masters at population control.
To compound their incompetence, the CIA released a virus that is most effective on gay men, the group that is least likely to promoted population growth.
Now if instead of HIV, we were faced with some virulent form of the mumps virus that was causing male sterility to skyrocket, then God, the CIA, or even someone like myself might be responsible.
Since the 1970s, AIDS has killed more than 21.8 million people. I wouldn't say that the Controllers have been unsuccessful at all. Especially considering that today, about 34-36 million people are living with HIV or AIDS, a total that is expected to reach 47 million in 2010.
The entire population of the country of Ireland is around 4,109,086. Compare that to the 21,000,000 that have already died from AIDS, and I think you can see how much damage it has truly done to the World. In other words, the AIDS virus has already wiped out over 5 IRELANDS worth of people.
You are right about one thing though, the AIDS virus did not turn out to work as fast as the Controllers were hoping it would.
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:24 PM
The use of the word "select" is an important thing to remember because in 1972, the World Health Organization chose a few geographical sites that they wanted to target with a smallpox vaccine.
The sites that the WHO chose are Uganda and Central Africa, plus Haiti and Brazil. All of these places had huge outbreaks of AIDS, didn't they? And Africa was practicly decimated by AIDS. But before I post about that, lets continue with the timeline.
Since the Controllers wanted both the death rate to increase and the birth rate to decrease, guess what happened in 1973? Abortion was legalized in the United States. You see, the big Club of Rome meeting that I mentioned earlier took place in 1968 where an overall plan was set in motion to achieve their objectives. Two years later, in 1970, Gloria Steinem co-founded the Women's Action Alliance, which was the beginning of the modern-day Women's Liberation Movement. Then, lo and behold, in 1973, the green light was given to abortion. It all fits into place quite nicley, don't you think?
It's crazy to realize how easily the Women of our World have been duped by the Controllers. Not that guys haven't too, but damn. Killing your own babies for them? Kinda makes you think....
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:27 PM
So in 1974, an alarming warning was given by the National Academy of Sciences. They recommended that, "scientists throughout the World join members of their committee in voluntarily deferring experiments linking animal viruses."
Just keep that little tidbit of information in mind for a little while. It's important.
In the meantime, the actual AIDS virus was created in 1974 at Fort Detrick, and by 1977, the World Health Organization staged the first catastrophic act of disseminating the virus into the Population.
How did they do it? The W.H.O. went into Africa and spread the virus through a series of smallpox vaccinations.
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:31 PM
Thats right folks! Smallpox vaccinations.
Let me guess...some of you might be asking yourselves, "Whatever happened to the Green Monkey theory?" You know, the one about the monkey that bit an African man on his ***, and that's how the disease was started. Hmmm, I wonder who started that rumor. Could it have been.....the Controllers?
Anyways, you guys don't seriously believe that theory do you? I hope not because it's one of the biggest hoaxes and the biggest LIES of all-time. Yeah, according to their story, a green monkey bit an African man on the ***; then this man had intercourse with someone and passed on the disease. Then that person had intercourse with someone else and spread the disease. But simultaneous to this "event", AIDS is also breaking out in Brazil, Haiti, other parts of Africa, and the United States. What were those green monkeys doing, flying around the Globe with jet packs on their backs?
How many people even know what a green monkey is? If this monkey DID bite a man on the ***, it's still statistically impossible for the disease to spread so exponentially and to reach such epidemic proportions in so many places around the Globe...all from a simple monkey bite. If people would ever look at the numbers, they would see that it was disseminated around the World, proving that the disease was deliberately spread rather than just happening "by accident" as the result of a monkey bite.
Another interesting note is that if someone was to ever take a look at the gene structure of a green monkey, they would discover that it is genetically impossible to transfer AIDS from a monkey to a man by natural means.
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:34 PM
Did you guys know that in Africa as opposed to this country, AIDS is largely a heterosexual disease?
What does that mean?
It means that the virus can be pinpointed....or at least its dissemination....to very SELECT audiences. In fact, in the early days of the AIDS catastrophe, certain groups of people were targeted to be the recipients of this virus. And at least in Africa, the whole thing was run by the World Health Organization.
However, in the United States there was something called "Operation Firm Hand" that was administered by the National Institute of Health and the Centers for Disease Control.
And for those of you wondering what "Operation Firm Hand" was all about....please allow me to spill the beans again.
You see, before 1978, there was no such thing as Aids in the United States. Then, in November of 1978, an experimental Hepatitis B vaccine was introduced to New York City. The word was put out that this free vaccine was available at a local blood bank headed by Dr. W. Szmuness.
Dr. W. Szmuness was a Polish doctor that immigrated to this country in 1969, and he later became the head of the New York City blood bank where the vaccine was administered. But what does a blood bank have to do with AIDS you might be asking? Well you see thats where the Hepatitis B vaccine was administered, but of course it wasn't given to just anyone. The participants had to fill out a detailed-questionnaire. But I'll get into that here in a second.
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:38 PM
Ok so in regards to the "questionnaires" that I was talking about, they were created for one group and one group only, and can you guys guess who it was? Gay, non-monogamous men between the ages of 20 and 40. Ring a bell? Another big rumor that was started was that Gay men created the Aids virus through their intercourse. Well I'm here to tell every single one of you...thats another MAJOR LIE. Gay people have been around for millennia, perhaps not in the public eye, but I guarantee you that AIDS was not around when the first two Gay people had intercourse with eachother.
So anyways...the blood bank wanted Gay men. And in all, they wanted between 1,040 and 1,083 gay men to be inoculated with this "vaccine". I feel very sorry for the men that signed up for this treatment, because they had no clue what they were getting themselves into.
You also have to remember what the times were back then. It was the late 1970's, and the concept of lethal sex disease hadn't even really been heard of. I mean for crying out loud, you had clubs like Studio 54, cocaine, and even gay bathhouses.
The fact is, people screwed like crazy back in those days. And then, in 1979 and 1980, these same "vaccination" programs were repeated in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Denver. Now, if you take only the New York City men who participated in this program - approximately 1,000 of them - and figure they had 50 different sex partners over the next few years - what do you come up with? 50,000. Thats right. And say these 50,000 men had 50 different sex partners. What do you come up with? A quarter of a million. Now multiply 250,000 by all the other cities that I just mentioned, plus throw in all the junky intravenous drug users, and what do you get?
AN AIDS EPIDEMIC!
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:42 PM
Also, did you guys know that by 1984, the CDC did a report on the New York City men that received this inoculation, and they found that 64% of them had either contracted AIDS or had already died from it? Well it's true, and it's truly sickening.
After that, all of the sudden any further statistics mysteriously became "unavailable". I'll bet if they were found though, the number could be 100% just a few years later.
So think about this. If you drove up to the Centre Community Hospital and asked them, "If you had a vaccination program, say for the flu, and six years after it was administered 64% of the people that received it were infected with a lethal, incurable disease, what would you think?" They'd flip out.
Now I want you all to take this information and compare it to the Green Monkey theory or any other monkey theory for that matter. Which one seems more plausible when viewed in terms of an exponential explosion?
It's a downright crime!
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:45 PM
There is a researcher named Waves Fores who wrote an article called "Designer Diseases: AIDS as Biological and Psychological Warfare". At one point in this column he said, "Another indication that AIDS has multiple origin points is that the 14-month doubling time of the disease cannot nearly account for the current number of cases if we assume only a small number of initial infections starting in the late 1970's."
So people..isn't it clear here? This whole cover story about AIDS starting at one specific point is nonsense.
Thats right. Because a very organized effort was behind it. And by 1981, AIDS had become part of the popular consciousness. When it was never there before! At first, due to the nature of who it infected in this country, the disease was originally called "Gay Cancer". From 1979 to 1981, the scientific community labeled it GRID - Gay Related Immune Deficiency. That was actually the first official name for AIDS.
But to keep the timeline going....
In 1983, a New York Congressman named Theodore Weiss said:
"As far-fetched as it may seem, given the attitudes toward homosexuals and homosexuality by some segments of society, the possible utilization of biological weapons must be seriously considered."
Now that's a United States Congressman saying this! In 1984, then, the AIDS virus was officially "discovered" by Dr. Robert Gallo.
And people should know that there was even a newspaper article printed in the London Times on May 11, 1987 titled - "Smallpox Vaccine Triggered AIDS." Of course, not surprisingly, this information never filtered into the American mainstream media.
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:49 PM
The creation of AIDs was a Bilderberg-inspired project that utilized the Department of Defense in conjunction with the CIA's "Project MK-NAOMI" under the auspices of the World Health Organization. What these folks did was come up with a list of "undesirables" that needed to be eliminated. Can you guys guess who these "undesirables" were at that time? Blacks, Junkies, and Homosexuals. Oh and throw in a few Hispanics and Orientals, and you have a pretty good idea of who they found to be "undesirable".
Many of you might be thinking....wasn't there any other way?
Do you think these people care? Come on. The beauty of AIDS for them was that it accomplished their goal of population reduction by targeting specific racial and ethnic groups through bio-weaponry. Before AIDS, bio-weaponry was indiscriminate, killing at random. But once they came up with a more intelligent "Agent", it became much easier to target specific groups for elimination.
They could infect whoever they wanted to.
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:52 PM
Many people don't really understand still how exactly AIDS was created. They know that it WAS created. But they don't understand how.
Well, to start:
AIDS is a form of viral cancer that resulted from the combination of two retroviruses - a bovine lukemia virus and a sheep visna virus. If these two viruses are combined, and then injected into a Human culture, what you get is the first retrovirus known to Mankind.
There were two doctors. Robert Strecker, famous for his "Strecker Memorandum", and Alan Cantwell - who were curious about this virus, and so they punched the following words into their computer - bovine visna - and guess what it came up with? The computer spit out reams of information that described a virus which was IDENTICLE to the AIDS virus!
For example:
If you take the bovine visna virus and compare it with the AIDS virus, you will see that it has exactly the same morphology (shape), the exact same molecular weight, the same magnesium dependency; it has the ability to kill cells; it has the same T cell tropism (it attacks T cells); and it has the same exact characteristics in cattle that AIDS does in Humans. It also produces a disease in Cows, characterized by initial lymphomamply within a few weeks of initial infection, followed by the production of antibodies against that virus, and subsequently, 5-7 years later, the cow dies of a wasting disease - an immune deficiency.
AIDS is a horrible disease. Besides being Man-Made it also has the ability to spread extremely quickly. To transfer the disease, all you need is a highly concentrated exchange of bodily fluids between two people. One who is infected and one who isn't. And Bam....somebody's got AIDS. And yes, even just injecting a dirty needle into your arm gives you a much higher chance of contracting AIDS.
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 10:56 PM
Think of all the millions of people who have contracted AIDS over the years, and also how many died from it. Then, think of all the famous people who have lost their lives due to AIDS. They come from every walk of life. There are sports figures who have contracted it, people like Magic Johnson - there have been musicians like Freddy Mercury, Liberace, there have been movie stars like Rock Hudson, there have been artists like Robert Mapplethorpe, plus there have been dancers, theatre stars, and countless others.
AIDS has hit every group imaginable. Except for one of course. And guess which group that is? High ranking politicians and World leaders.
Now think about that for a second. Try and name one top-level politician who has ever died from AIDS. You can't do it, can you? And why do you think that is? Is it because they're so much more virtuous, monogamous, and faithful than everyone else in the World?
Think about all that for awhile. And then when you are done.....ask yourself this simple question. What are these Monsters doing to us?
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 11:01 PM
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 11:25 PM
In geometry a double helix (plural helices) typically consists of two congruent helices with the same axis, differing by a translation along the axis, which may or may not be half-way.
The double helix shape is very strong. DNA takes this shape over a straight shape naturally for two reasons. It must be 'double' so it can reproduce itself and the helix, being intertwined, is stronger than two parallel chains because pulling it in any one direction won't break it apart.
Much of the DNA in Twins is identical. Twins occur when one fertilized egg splits into two babies.
It takes two people to make a baby. Both with reproductive organs. The number 2 is the Symbol of sexuality since 2 represents also the division of the unit in male and female.
The 2 is the first number to be deviated from the unit. 2 symbolizes the love, the charity, since there is necessarily duality between which gives and which receives.
2 is the Number by which one is united to the other and by what only all parts of the world make one.
The two great divisions of the Bible: the Old and the New Testament. By group of two Jesus-Christ sent his apostles to preach the Gospel. (Mk 6,7) The two turtledoves and the two doves of the purification. (Lk 2,24) The two witnesses of the Revelation. (Rv 11,3-4) The two fishes of the multiplication of breads. (Mt 14,19) The two swords of Peter. (Lk 22,38) The two thiefs. (Mt 27,38) The two kinds of baptism: water and spirit. (Jn 3,5) The two angels of the tomb. (Jn 20,12) The two angels of the Ascension. (Act 1,10) The two sons of Abraham. (Ga 4,22) The two coins of money given by the widow. (Mk 12,42) The two coins of money that the hotel keeper receives. (Lk 10,35) The two silver trumpets that God asked Moses to forge. (Nb 10,1) The two olive-trees situated on both side of the golden lamp, in the vision of Zechariah. (Zc 4,3) The two marriages of Jacob. (Gn 29,15-30) The two stone tables on which were registered the Ten Commandments of God given to Moses on the Mount Sinai. (Ex 31,18) The two cherubs of the ark. (Ex 25,18) The two expiatory goats. The two sons of Rebekah. (Gn 25,23-24) The two kingdoms of Juda and Israel. (1 K 12,19) The two golden calves of Rehoboam. (1 K 12,28) The two angels of Heliodorus. (2 M 3,26) The two columns in front of the Hall of the Temple of Solomon: Jachin and Boaz. (1 K 7, 15-22)
Twice in her life the Blessed Virgin was deeply disturbed in herself: when to the temple the great priest wanted to give her in marriage and during the Annunciation.
The two Twin Son (Gold and Silver Ray) resulting from God whcih express the Verb.
"At the time when you were One, you have made the two" tells the Gospel of Thomas.
The soul is attached to the body by two silver cords: one behind the head linked to the center of the thought of the brain, and the other linked to the astral body near of the solar plexus.
The two snakes of the Hermes caduceus, coiled around a golden stick, looking on both sides of the stick in the superior part.
In the man, the mechanism of the thought operates by dichotomy. The man cannot get any idea in himself of an absolute manner, but he recognizes the relationship between two ideas. "It is necessary that the Intelligence, when thinking, is double", tells Plotin. "All notion is clear and perfect, tells Lacuria, only when it becomes complicated by two opposite terms. (...) All idea has its negation by which it is clear and distinct".
The number 2 is the first plural number and all plural is a ratio of N/1. There exists then a relationship between an unspecified reality N and the abstract concept of a singularity 1.
According to the Cabal, all what exists, all what has been formed by the Ancient, subsistes by a male and by a female.
In Hebrew, the number 2 is designated by a word that, according to Fabre of Olivet, means etymologically: "product of a relative duration, mutation, transition, diversity, variation".
The key of any duality consists in the antithesis. Only the nothingness would escape this law.
In Hebrew, the number 2 is represented by the letter Beth, which means a ray of light on two horizons, or the house of God and the man between the two columns of the temple of the nature. According to the Cabal, God made this letter the foundation of the world.
The number two incarnates all oppositions: the two sexes, the day and the night, the two great lights (the sun and the moon), the life and the death, the soul and the body, the left and the right, the chosen and the reprobate, the north pole and the south pole, the good and the evil...
The number 2 is used 1065 times in the Bible. The number 2 is used 141 times in the Koran.
GoldCandle
26th April 2008 - 11:45 PM
Somebody's Been Trying To Play GOD
newguy
26th April 2008 - 11:53 PM
QUOTE (GoldCandle+)
In Hebrew, the number 2 is represented by the letter Beth...
And KISS put out a song entitled "Beth" in 1976...
Wow.
1 + 9 + 7 - 6 = 11
Take the two ones and add them together and you get 2!!!
Amazing!!!
Wait, there's more!!!
There are 2 guys with butterfly nets standing outside your door...
Don't resist them.
Seriously, if the people around here get any nuttier, I think I might start going back to church.
Sapo
27th April 2008 - 12:07 AM
Or perhaps some other joint...
Derek1148
27th April 2008 - 12:15 AM
QUOTE (newguy+Apr 26 2008, 11:53 PM)
...I think I might start going back to church.
You should. Organized, structured, inflexible, and intolerant religion is the best type.
newguy
27th April 2008 - 12:20 AM
QUOTE (newguy+)
There are 2 guys with butterfly nets standing outside your door...
Don't resist them.
Seriously, if the people around here get any nuttier, I think I might start going back to church.
QUOTE (Derek1148+)
You should. Organized, structured, inflexible, and intolerant religion is the best type.
Ummm...make that 3 guys with butterfly nets. Well, there goes the whole Kabbalah thing. Go figure.
Lizzy Frog
27th April 2008 - 02:31 AM
Dear Goldcandle,
I'm part of another huge project to remove all religious idiots from the gene pool, me and 145,487 other caring men and women with the AID's immune CCR5-delta 32 mutation are currently being employed by a global concern organization to target and have unprotected sex with bible thumping cretins.
We were all injected with the aids virus (I begged and received 3 treatments - just to make sure)
- Been with anyone lately honey?
BigDumbWeirdo
27th April 2008 - 03:28 AM
Every post in this thread by GoldCandle is a collection of idiocies, lies and misinformation. I wish the mods would take a stand against this kind of crap...
GoldCandle
27th April 2008 - 04:21 AM
Well, here's the speech from Dr. Robert Strecker on the AIDS virus:
http://www.righto.com/theories/strecker.html
Lizzy Frog
27th April 2008 - 06:56 AM
Dear Mouldsandal,
Have you the distinct impression we don't want your cataclysmically inane paranoid psychotic nonsense here?
Go back to The Alien Seeker News asylum where you belong before the FM really 'get on your case'.
GoldCandle
29th April 2008 - 06:20 PM
Tell you what.
Since some people would rather watch a video on the subject instead of read about it (For all those visual people out there), I'll just let Dr. Strecker explain the entire situation himself in great detail:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5...379558&q=&hl=en
GoldCandle
1st May 2008 - 01:44 AM
It is entirely possible that Robert Gallo also played a significant role in the creation of the AIDS virus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDxZ7PX8YGI&feature=related
barakn
1st May 2008 - 05:25 AM
QUOTE (GoldCandle+Apr 26 2008, 10:52 PM)
AIDS is a form of viral cancer that resulted from the combination of two retroviruses - a bovine lukemia virus and a sheep visna virus. If these two viruses are combined, and then injected into a Human culture, what you get is the first retrovirus known to Mankind.
Another example of your ignorance of what is freely available public knowledge. The first retrovirus known to "Mankind" was Human T-Cell Lymphotrophic Virus 1 (HTLV1), not HIV.
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/2/1/17You can't be trusted as a reliable source of information.
GoldCandle
3rd May 2008 - 02:05 AM
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GoldCandle
9th May 2008 - 07:07 PM
Any comments?
Agent X20
9th May 2008 - 09:16 PM
QUOTE (GoldCandle+May 9 2008, 07:07 PM)
Any comments?
I heard god tell me last night, that you're just some insane idiot.
howtothinklikegod
10th May 2008 - 01:30 PM
WHO CARES ABOUT BEING SANE, ANYWAY, RIGHT???!!!
philip347
10th May 2008 - 02:37 PM
If household cleaning chemicals can kill this virus and fragments of this virus is in our water systems, then what is the future etiology for people using the watershed supply?
N O M
11th May 2008 - 09:16 PM
Simple philip145, you need to drink more household cleaning chemicals.
Oh wait, you have
Sapo
11th May 2008 - 09:39 PM
I've noticed that philip.00000000347's number keeps changing. You seem to be decrementing him by one per stupidity, whereas I have been using the decimal point liberally.
I suggest that we come to some agreement on how to award philip3.47x10⁻¹⁰ his well deserved reputation equitably.
TheDoc
11th May 2008 - 10:37 PM
QUOTE (GoldCandle+May 9 2008, 07:07 PM)
Any comments?
Ok, I'll comment: I think you're a complete lunatic.
QUOTE (Sapo+)
I've noticed that philip.00000000347's number keeps changing. You seem to be decrementing him by one per stupidity, whereas I have been using the decimal point liberally.
I suggest that we come to some agreement on how to award philip3.47x10⁻¹⁰ his well deserved reputation equitably.
I'm fine with whatever you guys suggest. Keep in mind that since his feedback is in the red, we can also start using negative whole numbers.
N O M
12th May 2008 - 03:20 AM
QUOTE (Sapo+May 12 2008, 09:39 AM)
I've noticed that philip.00000000347's number keeps changing. You seem to be decrementing him by one per stupidity, whereas I have been using the decimal point liberally.
Wrong guess sorry

If it was decrementing for each of philip143's stupidities, he would be well in the negatives by now
Masked Marauder
12th May 2008 - 01:12 PM
Just when I start getting board with other consipracy threads, one pops up that truly gets me giggling.... and milk going out the nose is not nearly as enticing and beer going out the nose.
However, I think I am going to start billing these loons such as GoldCandle for the cost of cleaning my LCD panel everytime this happens... I am sure the repair shop is wondering just how I manage to short out so many panels in such a short time....
GoldCandle, thanks for providing a new source of entertainment...
GoldCandle
23rd June 2008 - 05:13 AM
Did The Georgia Guide Stones help lay out the plan and the so called "need" for viruses like AIDS?
The Georgia Guidestones are a huge granite artifact located on a hilltop in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. It is sometimes referred to as the "American Stonehenge", a title which has been applied at times to a number of other structures. A message comprising ten guides is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
The artifact is almost twenty feet tall, and made from six granite slabs weighing more than 100 tons in all. One slab stands in the center, with four arranged around it. A capstone lies on top of the five slabs, which are astronomically aligned. An additional stone tablet, which is set in the ground a short distance to the west of the structure, provides some clarifying notes on the history and purpose of the Guidestones.
The Georgia Guidestones were unveiled before a crowd of 400 people on March 22, 1980.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_GuidestonesA message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Ancient Chinese, and Russian.
There are some things written on the stones that may appear to many to be "Good" things but there is one thing in particular that I find to be extremely disturbing:
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with natureIn order to achieve a population of 500,000,000, 90% of all people would have to die. The world is currently over a population of 6.6 billion.
http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/AIDS_...epopulation.htmThe Georgia Guidestones are located in Elbert County, Georgia, approximately 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Atlanta, 45 miles from Athens (precise distance is 44.3322 miles), GA and 9 miles (15 kilometers) north of the center of Elberton.
The Georgia Guidestones have been part of the landscape in Elberton, Georgia for a quarter of a century.
The Georgia Guidestones were ordered, constructed and paid for in total anonymity.
The origination of the Georgia Guidestones is steeped in bizarre mysticism. They were said to be paid for by an anonymous man with the unlikely name of R.C. Christian back in 1979. Indeed, the name of the donor has remained a secret ever since. As folk legend would have it, a certain Mr. Christian came to town out of nowhere and just as quickly returned to nowhere.
GoldCandle
23rd June 2008 - 05:18 AM
There are over nine million children who have lost one parent or both to the African AIDS epidemic. The harsh reality of ruined lives is painful to witness.
Fathers and mothers burying their children. Grandmothers and grandfathers raising their children's children.
According to the most recent UNAIDS report, half of all 15-year-old boys in Zimbabwe can expect to die before the age of 50. A third of the work force was thought to be lost in the year 2005. Life expectancy for women is now only 39 years. No family escapes the scourge of this disease.
So great is the depth of this epidemic that it borders on the unimaginable. Yet when you are there it is almost as if this disease does not exist. The stigma attached to AIDS promotes an air of desperate denial. Admitting to having AIDS is a sure way of being ostracized. In the words of one AIDS sufferer: "You become a monster." Those who have the illness call it something else: fatigue, tuberculosis, malaria, anything but AIDS. But the cemeteries, overfilled with newly dug graves, tell the truth. The tomb markers read born in 1964, 1970, 1955 ... died in 1999, in 2000. In this country they bury a thousand victims of AIDS a week.
GoldCandle
23rd June 2008 - 05:22 AM
Statistics from a World Bank Report: The Impact of AIDS on Capacity Building written in 1997/98:
In Africa, AIDS has yet to peak in the number of people it will affect.
AIDS has become the number one cause of mortality among adults 15-49 years of age. Mortality rates, usually caused by other important diseases such as malaria, have doubled and tripled because of AIDS. Tuberculosis has also increased tremendously.
HIV is a disease of both the affluent and poor. High social groups have not been spared its ravages.
HIV rates exceed 30 per cent of prime-aged adults in urban and semi-urban areas. Botswana, Malawi and Zimbabwe were predicted to have lost 25 to 50 per cent of their 1996 urban work force by 2005.
Life expectancy of a person living in Zimbabwe was 21 years lower in 2000-2004 than it would have been without AIDS.
More than nine million children under the age of 10 in Africa have lost a parent to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, officials estimate that there are 600,000 orphans. Unofficial estimates say it could be as high as one million.
In Africa's fight against AIDS, human and financial resources are too few or not well utilized. Skills are weak and effective leadership and role models from political levels are absent.
Most of the AIDS control programs in Africa are funded by external-donor-sources rather than by national and local governments. Not one country in Africa is meeting the financial needs created by this epidemic.
GoldCandle
23rd June 2008 - 05:26 AM
From a report released by UNAIDS: Number of people living with HIV/AIDS is 34.3 million including 1.3 million children under the age of 15 years.
In most sub-Saharan African countries adults and children are acquiring HIV at a higher rate than ever before: the number of new infections in the regions during 1999 was four million. Botswana has an infection rate of 35.8 per cent, Zimbabwe 25.8 per cent, South Africa 19.9 per cent
In Zimbabwe, by 1997, 15-year-old boys could expect to die before the age of 50.
Many companies in Africa report that illness and death is now the main reason for people leaving the company.
In sub-Saharan Africa there is still an enormous stigma attached to this disease and those who are sick are often ostracized. "Fear, stigma and denial: a vicious circle....This wall of silence hinders prevention and care.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aids/aids-africa.html
GoldCandle
23rd June 2008 - 05:47 AM
Between twelve and fifteen million Americans have already been infected. One in 60 babies born in New York City is infected; one in 300 college students in America is infected; one in 20 aliens applying for amnesty is infected, including men, women and children. These are just some of the facts you are not likely to hear about from the media.
The number of AIDS infected people is doubling approximately every 14 months, and in some areas even sooner. With over twelve to fifteen million Americans carrying the virus, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see how long we have in places like the U.S.
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