AIDS was recognized in the U.S. as a distinct disease in 1981 when young homosexual men began to die of this mysterious illness.
At the time the disease was recognized, homosexual activists were determined to avoid any stigma associated with the disease, even though it was predominantly an epidemic in the homosexual and a drug addict community. Consequently, homosexual activists commenced an intense propaganda campaign, spending literally billions of dollars on AIDS campaigns, proclaiming that “anyone could get it” and that women were “the new fact of AIDS”. Predictions were made by these activists, as well, that China and Russia would experience a heterosexual epidemic of AIDS. None of this has happened. The number of women with AIDS in Canada, contracted either from bisexual or homosexual men or by use of contaminated needles, make up less than 20% of the AIDS population.
This misguided AIDS campaign has now become a multi-billion dollar industry with many vested interests. Profiteering has trumped prevention.
After twenty-five years of this campaign and billions of dollars spent, however, finally, in June, 2008 at the UN’s high level meetings on AIDS in New York, the truth was finally acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO) that there will be no AIDS pandemic among heterosexuals (except in sub-Saharan Africa) because the illness has mostly been contracted by homosexual men and intravenous drug users. It was also acknowledged that AIDS education was wasted on the general population, who were never at great risk.
Even the Canadian AIDS Society now classifies anal sex without condoms as a high-risk activity for HIV transmission since the overwhelming majority of HIV transmissions between two men happen during anal sex without condoms. (Capital Xtra, July 16, 2008)
Tragically, AIDS funds, which should have been directed at the high-risk groups of homosexuals and drug users, were diverted from pressing health needs such as malaria, safe water projects and typhoid etc. from many countries that were deprived of funds for these urgently needed projects in order to support the broad AIDS campaigns. That is, funds, which could cure diseases, were being squandered on the ineffective AIDS campaigns. Robert England (who heads the charity Health Systems Workshop) made this point in a recent British Medical Journal, when he stated that “Although HIV causes 3.7% of [worldwide] mortality, it receives 25% of international health care aid”. (National Post, July 7, 2008)
International AIDS Conference, Mexico City
Concerns were also raised at this UN meeting in New York in June that effective intervention, such as circumcision, which cuts the risk of HIV infection by 60%, and the reduction of the number of sexual partners (heaven forbid that there be only one sexual partner for life!) were not made a part of the misguided AIDS campaigns. Instead, condoms were promoted as “safe” sex, (which they are not) and no mention, of course, was ever made about changing behaviour, ie. that anal intercourse and sharing needles are the real risks that lead to getting AIDS.
Instead of dealing with the reality of HIV transmission, the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in August 2008 continued on with truly absurd excuses for the failure to stop the infection. It stressed that “aggressive treatment” of AIDS was the answer because it makes sufferers “less infectious” which can slow down the disease. Behaviour changes for homosexuals, which is the only way it can be stopped, never hit the radar at that conference.
No Decline in HIV Cases
Unfortunately, HIV among men who have sex with men is not declining today and, in some cases, is increasing. This is caused by a number of factors (besides the misguided education campaign). One of the main reasons is the growing popularity of “bare-back” (no condom) sex in or among the members of the promiscuous homosexual community, often involving recreational drugs to sustain sexual highs. Also, the development of antiretroviral drugs, that keep AIDS carriers alive for years, has led to the disease being taken far less seriously by homosexual men, who now consider AIDS to be merely a chronic disease, almost a curable one, rather than the deadly infection it actually is.
Rising Number of AIDS Victims
In the U.S., the number of young homosexual men with HIV infections is rising by 12% a year, in the 13 to 24 age group, among men having sex with men. The diagnosis for AIDS was up 8%, between 2001 – 2006, with the steepest upward trend in young black men. In Canada in 2006, there were approximately 58,000 people living with AIDS. Between 2000 and 2004 following a steady decline since 1995, the number of cases reported annually rose from 2112 cases to 2550.
Where AIDS Developed
For years, the public was told that AIDS was imported to North America by a promiscuous, homosexual Canadian flight attendant, dubbed by scientists as “Patient Zero”. However, scientists have now traced the genetic evolution and path of the deadly virus from Africa, to Haiti and then to the U.S. and on to Canada and Europe.
This puzzle of the origins of the AIDS epidemic was explained in a study presented to the US National Academy of Sciences in November 2007. It was disclosed in this study that HIV originally jumped from chimpanzees to humans, possibly when African hunters butchered animals infected with the disease. AIDS has had a long history in Africa, where the virus began to proliferate in 1930. The virus made its jump from Africa to Haiti around 1966 after the Democratic Republic of Congo won its independence in 1960, which resulted in many Haitians seeking work in the Congo. Consequently, the virus entered Haiti and then was transmitted to the U.S. in and around 1969 before traveling to Europe, Canada, Latin America, Australia and Japan among other countries. The U.S., in effect, served as a worldwide hub for the spread of AIDS, which was circulated in the U.S. for years before its formal recognition by U.S. doctors in 1981. “Patient Zero” was undoubtedly an early victim of AIDS and he has been linked to many other early cases of AIDS – but he is no longer considered the original carrier of the disease.
Now that AIDS experts at WHO have admitted that homosexual men and intravenous drug users are mainly responsible for the spread of HIV – can we expect an honest educational campaign on the issue directed at those who are at risk? Will men having sex with men change their sexual practices? One can only hope they do so to prevent them enduring the terror of AIDS. |
