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By Dr Roberto Giraldo
Dr. Giraldo, an infectious disease specialist and expert in tropical medicine, examines and refutes claims that circumcising black Africans is sound public health policy.
By Dr Helen Lauer, University of Ghana
"Orthodox descriptions and treatment of Africa¹s
HIV/AIDS crisis are subject
to robust controversy among research experts and
clinicians who raise
questions about the tests used to define the crisis,
the statistics used to
document the crisis, and the drugs marketed to curtail
it. Despite this
critical scientific corpus, fanciful misconceptions
about chronic illness
and mortality in Africa are sustained by a historical
and a political
analyses misrepresenting Africans¹ contemporary
morality, social reality,
and public health care needs."
By Charles L. Geshekter, PhD
A potent challenge to the basic assumptions that causally link sexual
behavior to AIDS cases in Africa. Asserts that conceptual flaws, dubious
statistics, western stereotypes, poorly designed research, and racist
claims about African sexuality have created untenable conclusions.
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By Rian Malan
“The headline figures are horrible: almost 30 million
Africans have HIV/Aids. But, says Rian Malan, the figures are computer-generated
estimates and they appear grotesquely exaggerated when set against
population statistics…”
By Neville Hodgkinson
“AIDS was supposed to destroy Uganda. So why is it flourishing
again? Billions will be spent on powerful anti-AIDS drugs for the
third world, but Uganda reversed its epidemic without them…”
By Rosalind Harrison-Chirimuuta and Richard Chirimuuta
“The possibility of a monkey origin of the AIDS virus cohabits easily with racist notions that Africans are evolutionarily closer to sub-human primates.…”
By Liam Scheff
“What's the use of potentially deadly AIDS pharmaceuticals
for people suffering from poverty-related diseases like chronic
tuberculosis, or to pregnant mothers whose blood cross-reacts with
the nonspecific HIV tests?”
By Rian Malan
“AIDS is the most political disease ever, writes Rian Malan,
as he revisits the statistics and finds some pleasant surprises.”
By David Rasnick, PhD and Christian Fiala, MD
“Even if the estimated 1 million Africans had actually died
from AIDS, the loss would be dwarfed by the overwhelming, simultaneous
gain of 274 million people—the entire total population of
the US.”
By Rian Malan
“The frightening numbers were all that mattered. Once they
were shown to be accurate, further debate would be rendered obscene.
So I set out to confirm the death toll. I thought it would be easy—my
first mistake.”
By Brian K. Murphy
“A fundamental re-thinking inevitably entails confronting
vested interests and conventional wisdom. However, nothing less
is sufficient if we are to help those susceptible to AIDS, especially
the poor in our own communities, and in the poorest countries.”
“They came to my room and wanted to see my speech. They
said I must start it with a strong statement on retroviral drugs.
When I refused, they suggested that I cut it by half…”
By Rodney Richards, PhD
Edited for Alive & Well by Christine Maggiore
“In the March 8, 2002 issue of the medical journal AIDS, scientist
reveal that untreated HIV positive Ugandans are actually surviving
just as long as their medicated HIV positive counterparts in the
developed world…”
By Dr Stuart Derbyshire
“The discussion about HIV / AIDS in Africa invites visions
of apocalypse. But how much does it tell us about the extent of
the disease?”
By Gisselquist D, Rothenberg R, Potterat J, Drucker E.
“An expanding body of evidence challenges the conventional
hypothesis that sexual transmission is responsible for more than
90% of adult HIV infections in Africa.”
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