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Does HIV and AIDS mean the same?
No, the HIV virus and AIDS are not the same.
AIDS: AIDS mean Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This syndrome is caused by the HIV virus itself. A person is infected with HIV if he comes in contact with an already infected person. The breast milk, vaginal fluid, semen or the blood of an infected person has enough viruses for it to contaminate others. Having sex with an already infected person or sharing a needle with someone who is already infected are possible modes of infection. There is also a possibility of getting AIDS through oral sex especially if the already contracted person has bleeding gums or open pores in his mouth.
HIV: HIV means Human ImmunoDeficiency Virus. This virus actually causes AIDS. The HIV virus causes AIDS when the immune system of the body is so damaged that there are less than 200 CD4+ cells.
AIDS is one of the most dangerous syndromes in the world. The country of Uganda had lost nearly half of its youth population to the virus. There is no cure for AIDS; it can only be prevented.
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"Pnuemonia kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined?"
"Diarrhea kills five times as many kids as AIDS."
On the eve of World AIDS Day, an AP report echoes a question AIDS Rethinkers
have been posing for years about fair appropriation of precious healthcare
funding for the developing world as a broad range of experts involved in
humanitarian relief efforts weigh in with some surprising - and refreshing - answers.
Following a series of public admissions earlier this year from UNAIDS and the World Health Organization that HIV and AIDS estimates were exaggerated in India and Africa by 50% or more, global health advocates "are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs."
Perhaps the most courageous among the new critics of the old regime is Roger England, head of Health Systems Workshop, a human-interest think tank based in the Caribbean island of Grenada. England actually asserts that UNAIDS "has outlived its purpose and should be disbanded."
"The global HIV industry is too big and out of control. We have created a monster with too many vested interests and reputations at stake...too many relatively well paid HIV staff in affected countries, and too many rock stars with AIDS support as a fashion accessory," England wrote in the British Medical Journal this past May.
England points out that closing UNAIDS would free up its $200 million annual budget for other health problems such as pneumonia, which kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.
"By putting more money into AIDS, we are implicitly saying it's OK for more kids to die of pneumonia," England said. According to AP reporter Maria Cheng, England's comments "touch on the bigger complaint: that AIDS hogs money and may damage other health programs."
"Diarrhea kills five times as many kids as AIDS," said John Oldfield, executive vice president of Water Advocates, a Washington, D.C. based organization that promotes clean water and sanitation. "Everybody talks about AIDS at cocktail parties," Oldfield said. "But nobody wants to hear about diarrhea."
"There needs to be a rational system for how to apportion scarce funds," said Helen Epstein, an AIDS expert who has consulted for UNICEF, the World Bank, and others.
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If anyone wants to add their take on this data, please feel free.
Looking at table 4.4, HIV/AIDS was listed as the cause of death in 2.5% of cases, 14532 in 2005, up from 13440 in 2004.
These numbers are not going up, people. This is supposed to be in a country where 5 million or so people were supposed to be 'HIV positive'.
The standard response by the orthodoxy is to add all the influenza and TB cases to pad HIV/AIDS deaths, but they still have to explain how so many doctors would risk their licenses by committing the crime of listing the wrong cause of death. And this, while virtually all doctors are orthodox believers.
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"Diabetes Affects 246 Million, Kills More Than AIDS" (Update1) Feb 23, '07 3:08 AM
by Paul for everyone
"Diabetes Affects 246 Million, Kills More Than AIDS" (Update1)
By Andrea Gerlin
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The number of people suffering from diabetes has soared to 246 million and the disease now kills more people than AIDS, the head of International Diabetes Federation said today.
COMMENT - He should have said more than 'AID$' medications.
Diabetes affects 5.9 percent of the world's adult population and accounts for 3.8 million deaths a year, the IDF said at the World Diabetes Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. The group estimates the number of cases may rise to 380 million within 20 years.
Diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels, or when the body can't use the insulin it produces. It affected about 171 million people in 2000, according to the World Health Organization.
``Diabetes is fast becoming the epidemic of the 21st century,'' IDF President Pierre Lefebvre of Belgium said at a press conference. Another group today estimated the number of diabetes sufferers in India would more than double by 2025 if lifestyles and eating habits don't change.
Sedentary lives and diets based on fast and packaged food have contributed to the epidemic, according to the IDF. Almost one in five diabetes sufferers are in a developing country, a proportion that is expected to grow as incomes rise in developing countries, the IDF said.
IDF said previous figures have underestimated the scale of the diabetes problem.
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