A MYTH THAT KILLS

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THE Senate is near to pass ing a massive $50 billion Emergency Plan for HIV/ AIDS Relief - a bill whose priorities are based on myth, just like virtually all anti-AIDS efforts worldwide.

The world's top AIDS bureaucrat recently admitted the truth: "It is very unlikely that there will be a heterosexual epidemic" outside Africa, Kevin de Cock, director of the World Health Organization, told London's Independent newspaper. [snip]

"Although HIV causes 3.7 percent of [worldwide] mortality, it receives 25 percent of international health-care aid." ... "In the fight against AIDS, profiteering has trumped prevention," ... "AIDS is no longer simply a disease; it has become a multibillion-dollar industry." ... "We have created a monster with too many vested interests and reputations at stake."

Consider: A 2008 WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF report demands AIDS drugs for every victim worldwide, requiring spending hikes from $8.1 billion now to $35 billion by 2010. Yet AIDS remains incurable. Conversely, an African with non-resistant tuberculosis is curable with merely $25 of drugs.

There is no precedent in history for such myth-driven "democratization" of a disease, nor for the abominable unfairness in allocating funds away from so many curable illnesses.

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