AIDS in Africa
Unlike in the United
States, AIDS in Africa is most frequently diagnosed based on four very
imprecise clinical symptoms--diarrhea, fever, persistent cough, and
weight loss greater than 10% over two months. HIV antibody tests are
not required to diagnose a case of African AIDS. These four clinical
symptoms are identical to the problems created by conditions of poverty
that have troubled Africa and other developing areas of the world for
centuries. In fact, symptoms of the so-called African AIDS epidemic
are indistinguishable from the effects of malnutrition, unsanitary drinking
and bathing water, and common curable conditions like malaria, cholera,
tuberculosis, and parasitic infections.
Rather than solve
the problems of African poverty caused by centuries of ruthless Western
exploitation, the U.S. government insists on broadcasting the doomsday
notion that Africa is suddenly gripped by a deadly, spreading sexual
plague. According to these American health authorities, salvation from
sickness can only be found in profitable pills manufactured by the white
West and exported to black Africa.
America's Racist
HIV Myth
The idea that AIDS
originated in Africa is a popular myth without any scientific or epidemiogogical
evidence. News reports that blame AIDS of African green monkeys are
based upon elaborate speculation about species-jumpin viruses rather
than reliable proof. Tall tales bout he spread of AIDS are promoted
through the most vulgar and racist sexual stereotypes about promiscuous
African people.
Still, the numbers
speak for themselves. According to the 1999 WHO Global HIV/AIDS Report,
the total number of AIDS cases in Africa virtually equals the total
number of cases in America even though Africa, with its 650 million
citizens, has more than two times the population of the United States.
Africa is often cited as a worst case example of what could happen in
America despite figures demonstrating that 99.5% of Africans do not
have AIDS, and among Africans who test HIV positive, 97% do not have
AIDS.
While Africa is
the frequent target of damaging AIDS media reports, the total number
of cases on the continent is relatively small. For example, from 1981
through 1999 cumulative AIDS cases for South Africa, the area claimed
hardest hit by HIV, were just 12,825.
Exporting Extermination:
AIDS PIlls Kill!
It is undeniable
that experimental AIDS treatments like protease inhibitors and AZT are
all highly toxic, dangerous products. Strokes, muscle wasting, anemia,
physical deformities, dementia, brith defects, organ failure, and death
are some of the "side effects" of these poisons. Thousands
of gay men in the 1980s and 1990s died from AZT poisoning. Now the U.S.
State Department has elevated AIDS to the level of a threat to national
security in order to gain public support for exporting AZT to pregnant
African women. Outspoken leaders like South African Presiden Thabo Mbeki--hard
pressed to explain why developing nations stricken with famine and civil
chaos should spend what little money they have on toxic anti-HIV drugs
while millions starve--are relentlessly attacked as unfit and crazy
by racist Western media outlets.
We invite you to
investigate the growing international controversy over the cause and
treatment of AIDS for yourself. Check out the below articles for more
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