STRAIGHT AIDS MYTH SHATTERED

[PaulKing]

STRAIGHT AIDS MYTH SHATTERED

New York Post
March 19, 2004 --

THE public health experts - and their amen corner in the media - owe Helen Gurley Brown an apology.

The legendary Cosmopolitan editor was vilified in 1993 when she published a piece called "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS." But she was right.

Eleven years later, Details is asking: "Whatever Happened to AIDS and Straight Men?" The article states, "A disease-free man who has unprotected sex with a drug-free woman stands a one in 5 million chance of contracting HIV."
The story by Kevin Gray also cites a joke that made the rounds of the New York City Department of Health as statistics came in showing that the predicted spread of AIDS to heterosexuals wasn't happening:
"What do you call a man who got HIV from his girlfriend? . . . A liar."
"I feel somewhat vindicated," Brown told PAGE SIX.

Michael Fumento, who wrote the original 1990 book titled "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," said, "I'm not waiting for an apology. It's not going to happen."
When Basic Books published Fumento's tome, "Distributors refused to handle it," he says. "Stores refused to carry it. And at many stores that did have it, clerks left it in the basement."
Celia Farber, who wrote an AIDS column in Spin magazine, was routinely attacked because she refused to rehash the propaganda put out by AmFAR and other groups.
"Everybody who was wrong got journalism awards. Everybody who was right got all but driven from the profession," Farber said.

Farber exposed the conspiracy between profit-hungry drug companies, researchers who wanted more funding, homosexuals who didn't want the disease to be known as "the gay plague," and conservatives who wanted to turn back the sexual revolution.
"They believed in what they were doing, not what they were saying," Fumento said. "They knew it was lies. They felt the end justified the means."
At a recent editorial meeting at Seed, the new science magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Laurie Garrett supposedly threatened to quit when a colleague suggested a story about Peter Duesberg, a leading retrovirologist.

Duesberg lost his funding, his laboratory, and his students when he announced in 1987 that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. "He lost everything," said one insider. Duesberg switched to cancer research, and is now touted to win a Nobel Prize.

[admin]

I am filled with grief and unhappiness that so many people have contracted HIV. I hope and pray that we can all learn to have mutual respect in love—then HIV will not continue to be spread by high-risk behavior, and this devastation will perish on its own.

Get to know the facts.  An estimated 56 million Americans have an incurable viral STD other than HIV, such as genital herpes or genital warts (human papilloma virus).  That is more than one in five Americans.  There are over 15 million new cases of STD's in the U.S. each year.  Furthermore, STD's affect one in four U.S. citizens over a lifetime.  Around the world, over 100 million persons contract an STD annually.  Add to this another 5 million intravenous drug users at high-risk for HIV around the world.

"a one in 5 million chance of contracting HIV" -- As of the end of 2003, AIDS has killed over 22 million people worldwide and it is estimated that over 40 million people are infected with HIV.  An estimated 5 million new HIV infections occurred during 2003 (that is about 14,000 infections each day).

THE PURPOSE OF HIV ANONYMOUS

HIV Anonymous is a twelve-step support program adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous.  We are a global network that offers unbiased support to people infected with, affected by, or at risk for HIV/AIDS.  There is a dire need to remove the stigma and face the fears and ignorance surrounding HIV/AIDS.  Our fellowship is helping to reduce the prejudice and discrimination against HIV/AIDS-affected individuals.
We are a fellowship of men and women who are committed to a way of life that will help fight the spread of HIV.

If you want what we have to offer, and are willing to take certain steps—keep coming back.
HIV Anonymous is a fellowship of persons who have found that living with a potentially terminal illness is a major challenge.  We are individuals who meet regularly as a group, assisting one another in this new way of life.
We have no outside affiliations.  Our past is kept in confidence within the group.  We don’t thrive on our past, but concentrate on what we want for today and our future.

For many of us, the realization of our present condition left us feeling dejected and depressed.  We could no longer live life to its fullest.  We became disoriented, and our peace of mind was displaced by uncontrollable emotions.

We are not here to change you.  We are not here to segregate or impose a particular belief system upon you.  However, if you feel remorse that you have transmitted HIV to another person, or if you are concerned that your behavior could spread HIV, or maybe you just want to fellowship with other people who are living in balance and harmony with HIV and AIDS, then HIV Anonymous is for you.

There are thousands of sources telling you what to do and what not to do.  Some sources claim that HIV causes AIDS and others claim that it does not.  We at HIVA avoid getting caught up in scientific contention.  We have experienced much suffering.  We have seen too many broken hearts and too many people die to take one side in an unresolved scientific debate.

We also emphasize Prevention for Positives, which includes prevention challenges specific to people already infected with HIV, such as re-infection with resistant strains of HIV, co-infection with hepatitis, TB, and STD’s, denial of risk, health issues, and psychosocial issues.

The choice to take medication for HIV or AIDS is a decision that each individual must make.

We at HIV Anonymous share a few common goals:

1. We take care of ourselves spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

2. We abstain from high-risk behavior.

3. We accept people as they are and believe that harm reduction is a step in the right direction.

4. We try to carry this message of hope to others.

We have learned from our group experience that those who come to our meetings on a regular basis, and work the program with diligence, are those who experience spiritual transformation.

[DaveyBoy]

  Dear webmaster, we see your group/forum is being attacked by AIDS dissidents (we have had the same problem from sites like dissidentaction and virusmyth or from paulking, so we are warning you). Please make sure you block domain names listed on http://www.medchecker.com/dissident/aids-dissidents.htm

You must do what you can to stop these web terroists/trolls before they take over your web site and any rational conversations! It may be a good idea to remove this entire thread..