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!<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.dissidentaction.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"New TV commercial adds up to only one thing - All the children are dead!","numcomment":5,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/02\/103082.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":103084,"heading":"The truth","article":" Millions of children die needlessly\r\nNearly 11 million under age 5 succumb each year, largely to easily preventable illnesses, health experts say.\r\n\r\n \r\nBy EMMA ROSS\r\nThe Associated Press\r\n\r\nLONDON \u2013 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.\r\n\r\nEvery 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.\r\n\r\nIn 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.\r\n\r\nScaling up those interventions to a level that would save 6 million lives a year would cost about $7.5 billion annually, the experts say.\r\n\r\nIn 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.\r\n\r\n"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."\r\n\r\nThe 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.\r\n\r\nExperts stressed two main reasons why progress appears to have stalled.\r\n\r\nOne 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.\r\n\r\n"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.\r\n\r\nThe experts noted that the total number of child deaths each year is greater than deaths due to HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined.\r\n\r\nThe other major factor was complacency, experts say.\r\n\r\n"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."\r\n\r\nOther 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.\r\n\r\nThe 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.\r\n\r\n"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."\r\n\r\nWhereas 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.\r\n\r\nMany 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.\r\n\r\n"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." ","author":"Aletta","parent_id":103082,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-02-17 08:52:54","modified":"2013-11-11 00:28:48","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/needless.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/needless.jpg"}},{"id":103085,"heading":"breast feeding","article":"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).\r\n\r\nAin'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?\r\n\r\nMaybe 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.","author":"more rational","parent_id":103082,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-02-17 12:56:12","modified":"2004-02-17 12:56:12","fileurl":""},{"id":107489,"heading":"denial kills","article":"(OK, I was sucked into their arguments....)\r\n\r\nAIDS Denial Kills\r\n\r\nIf 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. \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/lists.indymedia.org\/pipermail\/imc-nyc-editorial\/2003-October\/003110.html\r\n\r\nfrom the article:\r\n\r\n"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."\r\n","author":"more rational","parent_id":103082,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-04-11 18:37:36","modified":"2004-04-11 18:37:36","fileurl":""},{"id":115287,"heading":"AIDS Apologists VS AIDS Dissidents - DissiDUNCE EXPOSED!","article":"