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Heads in the sand over AIDS

December 7th, 2011 Comments off

by Carolyn Moynihan

How many more lives, how many billions of dollars, will be sacrificed to western sexual ideology?

Every year since 1988 the joyful tidings of Christmas have been preceded by the increasingly upbeat message of World AIDS Day, December 1. This year’s theme of “Getting to zero” was launched last month by Hillary Clinton announcing that an “AIDS-free generation” was within grasp if the United States and countries around the world would team up on scientific advancements. President Obama threw an extra $50 million in that direction and he was joined by former presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton in promising greater commitment to eradicating the disease. The catch-line, “beginning of the end”, was scripted in the White House. Bono, Elton John and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leant their faces to the cause. Read more…

Bad shot: when will WHO warn women about the contraceptive jab?

October 28th, 2011 Comments off

by Carolyn Moynihan

The latest strong evidence that hormonal contraception is linked with AIDS finds experts still dallying.

DMPA shot

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Zimbabwe, HIV and Behavioural Change

August 4th, 2011 Comments off

by Marcus Roberts

Last week I mentioned that the number of centenarians is predicted to increase to over one million in five different countries by 2100.   I thought that this was, in part at least, a testimony to better medical practices and aged care in many parts of the world.  Read more…

Broken Promises

July 22nd, 2011 1 comment

by Dale O’Leary

A key player in the prevention controversy documents how the AIDS establishment has betrayed the developing world.

Harvard University researcher Edward Green rose to prominence in the AIDS controversy with his 2003 book, Rethinking AIDS Prevention. His new book, Broken Promises: How the AIDS Establishment has Betrayed the Developing World, chronicles the continuing battle over how to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Green, a key player in the struggle, documents how two radically different strategies have competed for funding and support. Read more…

Affirming Love, Avoiding AIDS

July 18th, 2011 Comments off

by Michael Cook

The best research shows that restraint and fidelity are the solutions to the devastating epidemic. But the bureaucrats aren’t listening.

Earlier this year, the journal PLoS Medicine published a stunning report about the prevalence of AIDS in Zimbabwe. Over the ten years to 2007 HIV prevalence was halved. This decline is almost unique in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more…

Reducing Risk, Increasing AIDS

July 2nd, 2010 Comments off

Sigh. Why doesn’t anyone pay attention to this stuff?

by Matthew Hanley

The predominant Western approach to preventing the spread of AIDS in Africa has failed. Though in theory the risk reduction strategies favored by Western governments and aid agencies—handing out condoms, promoting counseling and testing, and treating other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to block HIV transmission—can “work” in theory, they have not done so in practice. In Africa, despite years of promised improvements, they have not brought any downturn at all. Read more…

The Pill’s deadly affair with HIV/AIDS

April 28th, 2010 2 comments

Interesting. Verrrrrrrrry interesting. It only makes sense that there would be consequences to putting foreign chemically junk in your body, right?

by Carolyn Moynihan

Why does HIV/AIDS strike more women than men globally? Why is sub-Saharan Africa the home of the world’s largest heterosexual HIV/Aids epidemic? Why does Thailand have an HIV infection rate of over one-in-100 adults, while Japan’s rate is 0.01 per cent and the Philippines’ 0.02 per cent? One answer to these questions can be found in an article published this week by the Population Research Institute deeply implicating hormonal contraception in the AIDS epidemic. Read more…

Hope, change and AIDS

December 2nd, 2009 Comments off

Matthew Hanley, Mercatornet.com

World AIDS Day 2009 reminds us once again of the failure of risk reduction strategies.

December 1, 2009 is World AIDS Day — the first in the era of “hope and change”. So it is a particularly good time to ponder how well “risk reduction” measures for AIDS control — the most emphasised approaches to preventing new HIV cases — produce change and generate hope. Read more…