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Why is the President Asking for Financial Help for AIDS in Africa When We Have an Epidemic Here?
It is reported by national stats that 500,000 Black Americans suffer from AIDS or the HIV virus. More than 200,000 Blacks have passed away from AIDS-related problems. In the past 25 years, AIDS has swept through African American families here and some of the deaths are caused by lack of psychological result of perception learning and reasoning and lack of treatment. So, why is the President of the United States visiting Africa, talking in regards to financial aid for AIDS victims there, when little has been done to combat a circumstance that medical personnel have deemed an "epidemic" right here at home? Many Black AIDS victims live right behind the White House in the ghetto-like, poverty-stricken area of Washington, D. C. Why then ought to the President make such sympathetic appeals for support to Africa, when he has altogether ignored the plight of these Blacks? Do you believe our American citizens will have to get help before we send financial help to Africa? Should the President remunerate more attention to our own troubles here at home?
Because he's a hypocrite. He's cut programs in the USA. He's blocked research. He ignores all domestic issues.
However, he's pretending to give a rat's @ss when it comes to the circumstance in Africa so that he may seem like a humanitarian.
I'm with you, he must be paying attention to our difficulties HERE and quit creating new problems.
KristenAshburn 2003 Kristen Ashburn's photos of AIDS
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DID YOU KNOW THAT...
Perhaps the most widely known and esteemed South African movie is "Tsotsi" by Gavin Hood."Tsotsi" is a story regarding a gang leader.On March 5, 2006, "Tsotsi" won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film in Los Angeles.
In his speech, Gavin Hood said, "God bless Africa. Wow. I have a speech, it´s in my pocket, but that thing says 38 seconds. But mine´s way too long. Go to tsotsi.com and there is a big long list of people. Because I´m accepting this not for myself. This is for best alien language film. It is sitting right there to commence with.Please stand up Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto. My two fantastic young leads. Put the cameras on them, please. Viva Africa. Viva. I´ve got ten seconds.Ten seconds I just want to thank my fellow campaigners who I´ve become deep friends with. We may have alien language films, but our stories are the same as your stories. They´re with regards to the humane heart and emotion. It says please wrap.Thank you so much. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you".
Winner: "Tsotsi" (South Africa)
Finalists:
-"Sophie Scholl" (Germany)
-"Joyeux Noel" (France)
-"The Beast of the Heart" (Italy)
-"Paradise Now" (Palestine)
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For the introductory time since 1960, South Africa sent a delegation to compete in the Olympic Games. Certainly, South Africa sent 94 athletes to the 1992 Olympic Games, which were kept in Barcelona, Spain.The African delegation had athletes competing in seventeen areas: archery, badminton, boxing, kayak, cycling, equestrian, fencing, progressed pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track and field, weighlifting and wrestling. They returned to South Africa with two silver medals.
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Nelson Mandela was one of the most crucial leaders in the 20th century.He played a rudimentary role in the recuperation of the nation´s democracy. Under his leadership, South Africa adopted one of the best constitutions in the world.Mandela once said, "And so it has come to pass that South Africa today undergoes her rebirth, cleansed of a horrid past, matured from a tentative beginning, and reaching out to the future with confidence. Our pledge is : never and never again shall the laws of our land rend our persons detached or legalize their oppression and repression".
Since 1993, in South Africa you may feel the freedom. Different from Cuba, Iran, and Zimbabwe, South Africa is a democracy where the civil society has tremendous influence and power.
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South Africa has loads of national parks and reserves that are the home of a heap of aweinspiring wildlife. The Kruger National Park is one of the most popular tourist spots in the African continent. It is one of the world´s most gorgeous national parks. The Kruger National Park provides an idealisti habitat for animals such as elephants, giraffes, rhinoceroses, monkeys, zebras, cheetahs, hyenas, hippopotamus, gazelles, elands, lions, and African wild dogs.
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South Africa has three capitals: Cape Town (legislative), Pretoria (administrative), and Bloemfontein (judicial).However, Johannesburg is the most crucial economic, industrial and cultural center in South Africa.It is one of the most industrialized cities in the Third World along with Taipei (Taiwan), Mexico City (Mexico), and Seoul (South Korea).In 2006 Johannesburg had a population of 2.6 million
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For the primary time, Africa will host 2010 FIFA World Cup.The Football World Championship to be kept in South Africa.In 2000,Joseph Blatter, FIFA president, wanted the FIFA to vote for South Africa.However, New Zealand´s Charlie Dempsey ducked out of the final vote and Germany nicked it.For this reason, Germany hosted the World Cup in 2006.
In 2007,Thabo Mbeki, South African president, said: "I have no doubt that our local organising committee, government at all levels, and everyone concerned will do the necessary work to guarantee that we host a better tournament in 2010 than the splendid 2006 German World Cup".
It also noted that millions of dollars have been expended in the past years on reforming South Africa´s sporting system.
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About half of the world´s gold is invented in South Africa.
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South Africa has galore famous people: Christian Barnard (surgeon), Miriam Makeba (singer and anti-AIDS activist), Caron Bernstein (model,actress and singer), Nelson Mandela (former president and anti-AIDS activist), Nadine Gordimer (writer), Athol Fugard (writer),Mathosa (singer), Zola Budd (sportswoman), Charlize Theron (actress), Ilene Hamann (actress and model), Harry Oppenheimer (anti-apartheid industrialist), Richard Goldstone (international judge), Musetta Vander (actress and model), Danny Koppel (singer), Zakes Mokae (actor), Juliet prowse (dancer and actress), and Joe Mafela (actor).
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The South African Penny Heyns, won the 100-and 200-meter breaststroke events at the 1996 Summer Olympics.She is considered among South Africa´s national heroines. Like Anthony Nesty (Suriname), Felipe Muñoz (Mexico), Claudia Poll (Costa Rica), and Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe), Penny Heyns is a Third World swimming icon.
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South Africa has a good deal of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO: Greater Saint Lucia Wetland Park (1999), Robben Island (1999), Drakensberg Park (2000), Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (2003), Vredefort Dome (2005), and Cape Floral Region protected Areas (2004).
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On March 26, 1998, American U.S. president Bill Clinton visited South Africa.
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South Africa has more Nobel Prizes than Mexico(3) India (2) Brazil (0)Argentina (3) Cuba (0), and the People´s Republic of China (1).
South Africa has six Nobel Prize winners:
1960: Albert J. Luthuli (Nobel Prize for Peace)
1982: Aaron Klug (Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
1984:Bishop Desmond Tutu (Nobel Prize for Peace)
1991: Nadine Gordimer (Nobel Prize for Literature)
1993: Nelson Mandela and Frederik W. de Klerk (Nobel Prize for Peace)
2003: John Maxwell Coetzee (Nobel Prize for Literature)
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The people of South Africa are proud that their country is a society of persons with numerous dissimilar backgrounds. Many people are mixture of assorted nationalities and races. About 2 million Asians live in South Africa. The ancestors of the most of them came from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
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South Africa superstar Charlize Theron is an icon in Africa. She is a woman one may not fail to admire.
Academy Award winning actress, Halle Berry worked as a fashion model in the 1980s.Berry is not the only Hollywood star who made a living from particular jobs before getting famous. For numerous actresses, this early experience came in utile in their acting career. The South African actress Charlize Theron -who has appeared in over twenty films in a movie career lasting over ten years- was a supermodel in the 1990s.
Hollywood actress Charlize Theron was born on August7, 1975, in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa.She has German and French ancestry. Charlize grew up to be a beauteous young woman and attracted the attentions of a lot of people.She speaks English, Afrikaans and Xhosa.
Charlize had been an global model since the age of 16. She begun her career in Milan, Italy. In late 1996 she became an actress.On February 29, 2004, Charlize won an Academy Award for Best actress for her role as Aileen Wuournos in the film "Monster". She became the firstborn African actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress in the history.
Charlize Theron is one of the most finelooking women in the world.The graceful clothes she wears supplement her perfective body.
Filmography:"Celebrity" (1998), "Reindeer Games" (2000), "The Yards" ( 2000), "Men of Honor" (2000), "The Italian Job" (2003),
"Monster" (2003), "The Life and Death of Peters Sellers" (2004),"North Country" (2005), and "The Brazilian Job (2006).
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The Nobel Prize Nadine Gordimer is a humane rights activist. Her proudest moment was when she testified at a 1986 treason trial on behalf of 22 South African anti-apartheid activists.
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South Africa has had widely known and esteemed athletes in the past century: Reggie Walker (olympic 100m gold medallist in 1908), Esther Brand (olympic high jump gold medallist in 1952), Joan Harrison (swimmer,won 1 olympic gold medal in 1952), and Sam Atkinson (olympic 110m hurdles gold medallist in 1928).
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Mathosa was one of the best singers in South Africa. She was called "South Africa´s Madonna of the townships". In the 1990s, Mathosa was considered among the most gifted artists in Africa.
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The 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to South African author John Maxwell Coetzee. He was the fourth African Nobel laurate for creative writing of recognized artisti value after Wolle Soyinka of Nigeria (1986), Naguib Mahfouz of Egypt (1988), and Coetzee´s countrywoman Nadine Gordimer (1991). J.M Coetzee was born on February 9, 1940, in Cape Town, South Africa. He was cited by the Swedish Academy as an author "who in innumerables guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider".Certainly, Coetzee is one of the most widely known and esteemed South African writers in the 21st century.
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South Africa hosted the 1999 Pan African Games.
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The golf is a standard sport in South Africa. South Africa has had famous golfers allround it is sports history.In the 1960s and 1970s, Gary Player was one of the best golfers in the world. He won galore tournaments such as the Masters Golf Tournament ( 1961,1974, and 1978), the United States Open (1965), the PGA Championship (1962 and 1972), and the British Open ( 1959, 1968, and 1974).His countryman Bobby Locke won the British Open (1949, 1950, 1952, and 1957). Furthermore, South Africa won two times the World Cup Golf: 1965 (Gary Player and Harold Henning) and 1974 (Bobby Cole and Dale Hayes).
From the Author
"In the Summer of 1985, when the United States had over 10,000 AIDS cases, the Republic of South Africa had 21 AIDS cases." ● Collectively, these empirical data reconfigure the statistical scenario upon which resource allocations and health care interventions are decided. These new selective information indicate that past and current UNAIDS estimates for HIV/AIDS deaths in the Republic of South Africa could be overestimated by two orders of magnitude.
WHO estimates for the AIDS cases in Africa are likely to be inflated in a similar fashion. For example, each year from 1993 to 2000, WHO estimates for AIDS in Africa were systematically 25 - 30 times of actual number of AIDS cases reported by all African countries collectively.
"In late 1996, when the United States had over 580,000 AIDS cases, the Republic of South Africa had a total of 13,000 AIDS cases. Two years later, UNAIDS would assert that 140,000 people in South Africa had passed away of AIDS in 1997 alone."
HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction offers assorted rudimentary extrapolations of prevalence rates, incorporating the aforementioned data, and likewise providing substitute interpretations of the selective information set as determined by two independent analysts valued by the South African health authorities.
HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction is the adjuvant associate book to HIV/AIDS - The Facts and the Fiction, and provides numerical substantiation to galore of the assertions staged in HIV/AIDS - The Facts and the Fiction.
Fully referenced, these two books are based on a review of over 3000 scientific and medical diary articles. Together, they redefine global conceptions for the prevalence and distribution of HIV infection, and have powerful significations for HIV/AIDS funding, exploration prerogatives, and global health care interventions.
For numerous readers, each page of these two books holds a revelation. For the student, the professional concerned regarding global health, or the curious reader who has never felt satisfied with the story of AIDS as presently told, HIV/AIDS - The Facts and the Fiction and HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction are seminal works granting new comprehension.
Chris Jennings (Harvard, B.A., Biology 1976/77) excels at writing scientific books that fulfill the needs of pros while rendering the science accessible to the intermediate reader. His prior book, Understanding and Preventing AIDS: A Book for Everyone, was favorably reviewed by the New England Journal of medicine ● adopted for staff education by Massachusetts General Hospital, the hospital related with Harvard Medical School; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); and Walter Reed Army Medical Institute ● sold in medical bookstores ● purchased by innumerable city and state health agencies ● and applied as a textbook at colleges, nursing schools, and public health schools.
In addition to conducting investigative exploration of the scientific and medical literature, Chris Jennings provides writing services to the pharmaceutical, medical, and diagnostic industries. He has written HIV assay (HIV antibody test) specification sheets, articles with regards to the juxtaposition of the HIV assay in the diagnosis and clinical management of HIV infection, articles with regards to diagnostic assay architecture, and clinical trial reports for submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on various antiretroviral drugs and drugs versus AIDS-related opportunistic infections.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Republic of South Africa (RSA) Death Counts, 1997 - 2008
Compare the Numbers
--- AIDS Cases in the RSA Compared With United States, 1981 - 2002
--- AIDS Cases in All of Africa Compared with United States, 1981 - 2002
--- WHO Estimates for All of Africa Compared with Surveillance Data, 1993 - 2007
The Search for More HIV/AIDS Deaths in the RSA
The First AIDS Cases in the RSA
Why Are the Estimates so Escalated?
--- Misconception of the HIV Incubation Period
--- Misconception of the natural Course for HIV Infection
------ The T-Cell Defect
------ Opportunistic Diseases Consequent to the T-Cell Defect
------ HIV / AIDS Mortality in Untreated Patients
------ Forgotten Knowledge
--- Antenatal HIV Sero-Survey Findings
Tuberculosis & Other Killers
Discussion
Summary
--- Estimates Derived from RSA Death Tabulations
--- Estimates Derived from U.S. Mortality Rates
--- Estimates Derived from an Assumed HIV Prevalence
Errata & Updates
References
Appendices
--- Appendix A: Statistics South Africa vs. NCHS Ranking Methods
--- Appendix B: Underlying vs. Causes of Death: 1997, 1999, And 2001
--- Appendix C: The RSA Death Count Data Set, 1997-2008
--- Appendix D: HIV / AIDS in the RSA Health System
--- Appendix E: The 1982 CDC Case Definition for AIDS
--- Appendix F: The South African HIV Club - Blacks Only
Few persons realize that the intimate HIV/AIDS international stats are actually estimates. For example, UNAIDS approximated that the Republic of South Africa (RSA) had 140,000 HIV/AIDS deaths in 1997. However, after tabulating all deaths for 1997, the Republic of South Africa attributed only 6,635 deaths to HIV/AIDS.
Such discrepancies are seldom noted. The Republic of South Africa (RSA) stands as the exemplar of these discrepancies. It is reputed to have the world's biggest AIDS epidemic with an approximated 5.6 million humans living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) in 2008.
Such PLWH estimates, as with the estimates of HIV/AIDS deaths, are highly questionable. HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction clarifies the reasons behind these discrepancies by describing two mutual misunderstandings of HIV infection that bestow to poor mathematical modeling outcomes.
Unfortunately, the health authorities in the Republic of South Africa concede more validity to computer-generated estimates than to their own empirical death counts. HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction discusses why these modeled estimates, and the HIV sero-prevalence surveys upon which they are based, are merely implausible.
Fully referenced, HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction presents and compares raw numerical data on:
● the tabulated number of HIV/AIDS deaths in the RSA;
● the number of AIDS cases detected by RSA sickness surveillance systems;
● UNAIDS/WHO estimates for AIDS deaths in the RSA; and
● UNAIDS/WHO estimates for the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the RSA.
The total cumulative numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in the United States and the cumulative totals for the continent of Africa are also staged for purposes of comparison, and to place the African and RSA selective information within suitable epidemiological context. Overall, these info span from 1981 to 2009.
Altogether, these data, plus further and added data detailing the nature of HIV infection and heterosexual HIV transmission rates, explain why the hyperbolic mathematical estimates and HIV antibody test surveys - the primary roots of HIV/AIDS selective information in Africa - are merely implausible.
Contents: 118 pages, 20 tables, various side boxes, and 240 references.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1126043 in Books
- Published on: 2012-02-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 118 pages
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