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All the children are dead!

by Aletta Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004 at 8:01 AM

New TV commercial adds up to only one thing - All the children are dead!

A dramatic new TV ad (showing as school devoid of students) claims that 25 million children have died of AIDS. Let us assume that is true. The WHO, however, states that 'AIDS' accounts for only 3% of child disease related mortaities. (As reported in the Orange County Register - An ultra conservative daily).

So if 25 million have died of 'AIDS' then the total deaths exceed 832.5 million. Clearly this has not happened in the USA, Canada, Australia or Europe and so we must assume nearly all have died in the Third World.

If that is true then EVERY SINGLE CHILD IN AFRICA and INDIA IS ALREADY DEAD.

No more problem!

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The truth

by Aletta Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004 at 8:52 AM

The truth...
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Millions of children die needlessly

Nearly 11 million under age 5 succumb each year, largely to easily preventable illnesses, health experts say.



By EMMA ROSS

The Associated Press

LONDON – The lives of 6 million children under 5 could be saved every year if flu shots and other low-cost measures to prevent or treat disease were more widely used, global health experts say.

Every year, nearly 11 million children worldwide die before their fifth birthdays, most from preventable causes such as diarrhea, pneumonia, neonatal problems and malaria. Malnutrition is a major factor in more than half those deaths, researchers estimate.

In a series of articles this week in The Lancet medical journal, experts say inexpensive lifesaving measures - such as breast feeding, insecticide-treated bed nets, flu shots, antibiotics, newborn resuscitation and clean childbirth - are not reaching the mothers and children who need them most.

Scaling up those interventions to a level that would save 6 million lives a year would cost about .5 billion annually, the experts say.

In the 1980s, the world made great progress in reducing unnecessary child deaths through a UNICEF campaign called the child-survival revolution. But the momentum was lost in the 1990s.

"We have dropped the ball," said one of the experts, Cesar Victora, professor of epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil. "Child survival has fallen off the international agenda. We need now a second revolution to finish this job."

The number of deaths among children under 5 fell from 117 per 1,000 live births in 1980 to 93 per 1,000 in 1990. Today, the death rate is still declining but not as quickly - in 2000, it was 83 per 1,000.

Experts stressed two main reasons why progress appears to have stalled.

One is the realization in the 1990s that HIV/AIDS was decimating populations in Africa, which shifted the world's attention and resources toward fighting specific diseases, such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

"I'm not saying that it was wrong, but child health lost out in that," said Hans Troedsson, director of child and adolescent health and development at the World Health Organization.

The experts noted that the total number of child deaths each year is greater than deaths due to HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

The other major factor was complacency, experts say.

"We were doing really well," Troedsson said. "There was a kind of attitude that the job was more or less finished. That kind of perception meant that a lot of investments and commitments to keep the steam in child survival was actually lost."

Other experts said the death of former UNICEF leader Jim Grant, who spearheaded the child-survival revolution of the 1980s, left a void in global leadership as UNICEF's focus shifted toward children's rights and education.

The U.N. children's agency said it still spends most of its money on child-survival programs and that many of its newer strategies addressing children's rights and education translate in the long term to better child survival.

"The easy gains have been made," said UNICEF spokeswoman Marjorie Newman-Williams. "We have now plateaued because the strategies we have to put in place are more difficult."

Whereas earlier strategies were focused on delivering vaccines and medicines to clinics, future progress does not necessarily depend on that, she said. The benefits of that approach have been mostly mined, she said.

Many of the actions that will reduce the deaths now are those that have to be taken into the home, such as breast-feeding, bed nets and proper infant nutrition after weaning.

"Those three heavily depend on women's time, women's knowledge and availability," Newman-Williams said. "And to reduce neonatal mortality, you have to focus on women's health. This is not a child health intervention."

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breast feeding

by more rational Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004 at 12:56 PM

Nestle, trying to sell their baby formula, advocated that women stop breast feeding and use formula instead. The formula was mixed with unclean water, and led to babies getting sick (and obviously, some would die).

Ain't it ironic that once the profit is deleted from the situation, the focus of healthcare shifts. No doubt, the AIDS situation in Africa is critical... but why do the drug companies want to selling them drugs rather than leasing their intellectual property to the WHO to help get the situation under control?

Maybe it's for the same reasons that they don't seriously advocate for a holistic "good health and well being" solution to the problem of HIV infection turning into AIDS. It's not their business, there's no money for them in it, and their primary responsibility is to their shareholders... who are not poor Africans, working class gay men, or injecting drug users.

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denial kills

by more rational Sunday, Apr. 11, 2004 at 6:37 PM

(OK, I was sucked into their arguments....)

AIDS Denial Kills

If you want to lowdown on these posts about AIDS, read this article, linked. These AIDS deniers, in case you can't tell, are all heterosexual men promoting sex without condoms.

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-nyc-editorial/2003-October/003110.html

from the article:

"AIDS is not a myth. That is the plain fact. From looking at what happened in San Francisco with this issue a couple of years back back, we can see that the folks who aggressively promote the "don't use condoms" and "stop taking your medicine" schools of thought are not principled. In fact, there was one well-publicized case where some of these "activists" required restraining orders for stalking and harrassing individuals with whom they disagreed. We can also see this behavior in recent spam on the wire calling non-denialists "Jacobin Pharma-Fags." This is in reference to their theory that the ENTIRE AIDS movement (and medical establishment and governments of third world countries who are creating generic versions of life-saving drugs) have been bought out by pharmaceutical companies. Fascinating theory. Great delivery."

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AIDS Apologists VS AIDS Dissidents - DissiDUNCE EXPOSED!

by GOD (grouping out dissidents) Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004 at 7:05 AM

AIDS Apologists VS AIDS Dissidents - The Truth About AIDS Denialists AIDS Apologists VS AIDS Dissidents - Truths About AIDS Denialists

AIDS Apologists VS AIDS Dissidents - The Truth About AIDS Denialists **Dear webmaster, we see your group/forum is being attacked by AIDS dissidents (we have had the same problem from sites like dissidentaction and virusmyth or from paulking, so we are warning you). Please make sure you block domain names listed on http://www.medchecker.com/dissident/aids-dissidents.htm . You must do what you can to stop these web terroists/trolls before they take over your web site and any rational conversations!

AIDS apologists are those who know HIV leads to AIDS (proven by science, so much scientific proof) and we are defending the scientifically known fact that viral pathogenesis and progression of 'HIV to AIDS' causes the eventual need for combination therapies to prolong life. Mixed "AIDS Apologist" links here or find comments here from both sides (dissidents and the scientific community), but still about AIDS Apologist activities...

AIDS dissidents (better known as AIDS Denialists who are AIDS dissidence, dissidence is anti-establishment like, against science and progression, argumentative) deny HIV causes AIDS and claim the medications kill the patients (AZT "over use" alone started this myth in the late 80s, but medicine combo/therapies are working today in the year 2000+). Basically a group of non doctors and non scientists who challenge the conventional HIV/AIDS model or hypothesis and do not accept the proven evidence. These dissident groups seem almost fanatical by them posting the same message multiple times to a targeted list of internet websites (non dissident sites of course, clogging up the normal flow of reading material with intentions of shutting the sites down) and insulting/bashing anyone who may not agree.

What are AIDS dissidents? Find out who, what, where, when and why:
http://www.hivforum.com/?dissident=dissident+site:aegis.com

What are AIDS denialists all about? See the myths exposed:
http://www.hivforum.com/?dissident=dissident+site:thebody.com

Learn about how they are murdering HIV positive people:
http://www.medchecker.com/dissident/aids-dissidents.htm

Thanks.
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READ THE FACTS

by TRUTH Saturday, Oct. 16, 2004 at 6:36 PM

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