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  HIV/AIDS in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shilts also details the fact that the Red Cross refused to ban bisexual and gay men from donating blood at the request of the Centers for Disease Control early in the discovery of the epidemic to keep the blood bank industry from suffering shortages.
Activists and critics of current AIDS policies allege that another preventable impediment to the attack on the disease was the academic elitism of "celebrity" scientists.
The CDC estimates the cumulative number of deaths of persons with AIDS in the U.S. through 2004 to be 529,113, including 5,515 children under the age of 13.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AIDS_in_America   (893 words)

  
 AIDS in America
While AIDS is not solely a homosexual disease, the disease was confined almost exclusively to homosexuals (males) in the beginning years of the epidemic in the United States, and homosexuals continue to make up the majority of cases.
AIDS had claimed approximately 350,000 lives by the end of 1994 in the United States, 70% of those death (250,000) were men who had sex with men, and at least that many more homosexual are currently HIV-infected.
AIDS is now the leading cause of death among fl men between the ages of 25 to 44.
www.cprmd.org /Myths/Myth_Fact_011.htm   (3660 words)

  
 AIDS in America: Racism, Poverty, Bigotry
Funds for AIDS are tied to anti-abortion policies, and condoms are put way down the list after the "A" and "B" in the much-lauded Ugandan campaign against AIDS called "ABC." "A" is for "abstinence," "B" is for "be faithful," and the "C" is for condoms.
He makes clear that key to dispelling the myth that AIDS was an exclusively "gay plague" was the evidence that intravenous drug users, who were often fl and heterosexual, their spouses and children, as well as hemophiliacs, contracted AIDS.
In America, as in South Africa, as everywhere, men who are forced to leave their homes for an extended period of time have new sexual partners, as do the women they leave behind.
www.icl-fi.org /english/wv/archives/oldsite/2005/AIDS-843.htm   (5055 words)

  
 PARANOIA - The Secret Origin of AIDS in America
Before exploring the man-made theory of AIDS, it is important to note a small but highly vocal group who believes the cause of AIDS is still unknown, that the AIDS blood test is worthless, and that HIV is a harmless virus that is not sexually transmitted.
One of the contentions of the man-made theory of AIDS is that the experimental hepatitis B vaccine was contaminated with an immunosuppressive AIDS-causing agent and/or the Kaposi's sarcoma virus.
AIDS in America erupted when government researchers began experimenting with gays, using an experimental vaccine developed in primates - the animals purported to contain the "ancestor virus" of HIV.
www.paranoiamagazine.com /aidsamerica.html   (4473 words)

  
 AIDS in America - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It quickly became apparent that the disease was not specific to gay men, and the CDC renamed the syndrome AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in 1982.
Activists and critics of current AIDS polices allege that another preventable impediment to the attack on the disease was the academic elitism of "celebrity" scientists.
Publicity campaigns were started in attempts to counter the often vitriolic and homophobic perception of AIDS as a "gay plague" and replace it with actual medical knowledge that would save lives.
www.questionz.net /AIDS/AIDS_in_America.html   (596 words)

  
 AIDS Crisis in America: A Reference Handbook
The second chapter is a chronology that begins with 1970 when H.M. Temin and S. Mitzutani discover reverse transcriptase, an enzyme produced by retroviruses and ending with September, 1992, with Magic Johnson announcing that he was HIV+.
One may want to question why other names were not included, but the author picked those that were felt to exemplify AIDS and its impact on researchers and citizens.
All materials in the journal are subject to copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and may be reprinted or redistributed for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or education advancement granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976.
www.aegis.com /pubs/books/1994/BK930012.html   (652 words)

  
 AIDS In America - 20 Years And Still Killing
Third, AIDS drugs are extending life but in the long run, they may ultimately contribute to the patient's demise.
One cannot reasonably expect to survive AIDS by one's wits.Using one's wits to stay alive is an excellent tactic, but we are not yet far enough along in the development of effective, low-toxicity treatments to think that AIDS is manageable or survivable.
When a patient and their doctor suspect cancer, the patient is referred to an oncologist who carefully operates and performs a biopsy to determine what kind of cancer it is and which drugs will be effective.
www.rense.com /general6/aidsinam.htm   (1239 words)

  
 LA Weekly - Time of Misery
Since the last International AIDS Conference, which was held in Barcelona, Spain, in 2002, 6 million people have died from the disease.
While the United States has earmarked $15 billion in a five-year emergency plan for AIDS relief, it has been widely criticized by participants in the Bangkok conference for undertaking it unilaterally and not in conjunction with the global fund that reaches 128 countries as part of a collaborative effort.
The passing of Ronald Reagan, whose inaction on AIDS spurred activists’ fury, briefly brought the topic to light on the public stage in ways that frustrate Petrelis.
www.laweekly.com /ink/04/36/features-ehrenstein.php   (2077 words)

  
 AIDS, Made in America (Sep. 22, 2005)
Len Horowitz really blew the cover off the AIDS scandal with his blockbuster 1994 book, "Emerging Viruses." Since that time, Jon Rappaport and many other writers have published books and videos revealing the origins of AIDS in stunning detail.
Professor Scott is an expert on the subject of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), and related neuro-systemic degenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, Crohn's-colitis and Alzheimer's.
The Common Cause Medical Research Foundation has initiated the Sudbury Study to continue its research and to publicize the tragic reality of AIDS and CFS and the dramatic increase in the related diseases, and their spread by vaccines, food-chain contamination and aerosol diffusion.
educate-yourself.org /cn/aidsmadeinamerica22sep05.shtml   (1027 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Tracking AIDS in America -- August 31, 1999
JIM LEHRER: The latest on AIDS, and we get that from Dr. Helene Gayle, who directs the AIDS program for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where a CDC conference on AIDS is now underway.
HELENE GAYLE: Well, what we're seeing is that although the new cases of HIV infection, the new cases of AIDS continue to decline, they are not declining as rapidly as they were when the new drugs were first introduced.
AIDS deaths declined by almost 70 percent between 1995 and 1997, but only 30 percent between 1997 and 1998.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/health/july-dec99/aids_8-31.html   (1623 words)

  
 AIDS in America - The Student Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This same year, President Ronald Reagan referred to AIDS for the first time in response to a question at a press conference—despite the fact that over 8,000 people had already died from the disease.
The silence and stigma that surrounded AIDS in the early 80s was fueled in part by hysterical media coverage of the “gay cancer.” While media coverage of the AIDS epidemic peaked in 1987, AIDS cases continued to rise until the early 90s.
And yet, as the nation witnessed during the Vice-Presidential debate last October, there is a widespread ignorance about the impact of AIDS on the fl population here in the U.S. When AIDS was first discovered, it was seen as a gay problem or a junkie problem.
www.tsl.pomona.edu /index.php?article=521   (810 words)

  
 HIV/AIDS Made In America? - Graves Gets His Day In Court By Ian Gurney
This week in California a lawyer is suing the U.S. government, claiming that the HIV-AIDS virus is a man made virus developed and manufactured in the United States with the knowledge of the U.S. government.
prominent lawyer and AIDS researcher, Dr. Boyd E Graves JD* will finally present his case, number 02 CV 02396**, before Judge Jeffrey T. Miller in a San Diego court, claiming that the HIV virus, the virus that causes AIDS, is a virus that was manufactured in American laboratories between 1962 and 1978.
The Supreme Court case was brought from a lower court which dismissed the origin of AIDS as a frivolous issue.
www.rense.com /general38/made.htm   (820 words)

  
 Hearing Loss Aids FAQ - America Hears   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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www.americahears.com /hearing-loss.shtml   (889 words)

  
 HIV/AIDS Among America's Youth
Among young men aged 13- to 24-years, 49% of all AIDS cases reported in 2000 were among men who have sex with men (MSM); 10% were among injection drug users (IDUs); and 9% were among young men infected heterosexually.
In 2000, among young women the same age, 45% of all AIDS cases reported were acquired heterosexually and 11% were acquired through injection drug use.
These data also show that even though AIDS incidence (the number of new cases diagnosed during a given time period, usually a year) is declining, there has not been a comparable decline in the number of newly diagnosed HIV cases among youth.
teachervision.fen.com /illness/disease-prevention/30352.html?detoured=1   (1107 words)

  
 US Department of Justice aids Terrorism in America
Mohammed also divulged that, in its final stages, the hijacking plan called for as many as 22 terrorists and four planes in a first wave, followed by a second wave of suicide hijackings that were to be aided possibly by al-Qaida allies in southeast Asia, according to the reports.
Over time, bin Laden scrapped various parts of the Sept. 11 plan, including attacks on both coasts and hijacking or bombing some planes in East Asia, Mohammed is quoted as saying in reports that shed new light on the origins and evolution of the plot of Sept. 11, 2001.
Click for their continued antics of placing America at risk, as the Immigration and Naturalization Service is hidden deep within the Homeland Security Agency.
www.justice-denied.net /Congressletter-12.htm   (2880 words)

  
 Children With AIDS Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The aim of the Children With AIDS Project of America (CWA) is to transform the silence that surrounds HIV infected, affected children and AIDS orphans into an audible sound.
This sound must be amplified until the needs are met for all children in the nation and globally affected by the AIDS epidemic.
Children With AIDS Project is a non-profit organization which is classified by the IRS as exempt under IRC Section (501) (c) (3) and is a public charity under IRC section 509.
www.aidskids.org   (729 words)

  
 KnoxNews: Local
She is thought to have been the first non-African to die of the illness.
Film star Rock Hudson, who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1983, goes to France to take the drug.
A study earlier this year showed that a significant number of fls said they believe AIDS was engineered by scientists to destroy the fl race.
www.knoxnews.com /kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_3991438,00.html   (2451 words)

  
 Fact Sheet: Continuing the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in America
The number of AIDS cases is especially high in African-American, Hispanic, and gay communities, as well as among intravenous drug users and prisoners.
Nations around the world are fighting for the lives of their citizens - and America is now their strongest partner in that fight.
Launched by the President on World AIDS Day in 2005, the New Partners Initiative will establish a competitive grants process for new partners, including faith-based and community organizations, with the desire and ability to help implement PEPFAR, but who have little or no experience in working with the United States government.
www.hivdent.org /presFSCF0206.htm   (1150 words)

  
 AIDS: darkening in America By Susan Brink
Most fl AIDS organizations in the United States were small and focused largely on prevention education.
The Black AIDS Institute, located in Los Angeles, has an African-American HIV University, an education fellowship aimed at training community activists on all aspects of AIDS.
It is increasingly easy to debunk the myth that AIDS is a white gay male problem because people see otherwise.
www.waifaction.org /pages/s.0005/t.1684.html   (709 words)

  
 Anthrax, AIDS, and America : ChristianCourier.com
Since the HIV virus, with its ensuing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), was classified as a “terror” of “epidemic” proportions, just a few years back, around 22 million people have died of this malady.
Amazingly, however, the homosexual community, responsible for approximately one-half of the AIDS cases, is not held accountable for its visitation of terror upon this nation.
Even when prominent figures are associated with AIDS (as in the cases of Rock Hudson and Liberace), they are cast in a sympathetic light.
www.christiancourier.com /articles/read/anthrax_aids_and_america   (892 words)

  
 Angels, Reagan and AIDS in America [BARF Alert]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In Dr. Koop's account, he was kept out of all AIDS discussions for the administration's first five years, while "the advisers to the president took the stand" that homosexuals and intravenous drug users were "only getting what they justly deserve." In Mr.
Science is politicized in the Bush White House, as it was in Reagan's, to the point where AIDS researchers have complained that terms like "gay" and "anal sex" must be omitted from their grant applications to the National Institutes of Health, lest they prompt the administration to shut them down.
Even during heterosexual intercourse AIDS is extremely hard to contract because the disease mostly thrives in fecal waste and open bloody sores in the anal rectums of gay men.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1023002/posts   (4509 words)

  
 Wheelchair, 5K race aids Latin America
Energized and horrified by the experience, Cardenas has devoted the past 15 years to increasing opportunities for disabled people in developing countries, primarily in Latin America.
The Momentum International 5K, July 13 at Pearson Park, will feature a 5K wheelchair race, a 5K run/walk and two children's races, a.2-mile division for children ages 7 and under, and a half-mile division for children ages 8 to 10.
Cardenas also expects Antonio Nogueira, a veteran of the UPMC Health System/City of Pittsburgh Marathon, who is from Portugal, to compete, along with two Kenyans who might arrive by bus from Atlanta.
www.post-gazette.com /sports/other/20020701wheelchair0701p3.asp   (972 words)

  
 Housing Works AIDS Issues Update: October 06, 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
George Bush and Dick Cheney proposed budgets that held domestic AIDS funding flat or cut it every year in office, as America has suffered over 100,000 new HIV infections during their term, many of them women of color.
The AIDS question posed to vice presidential candidates is one sign that the AIDSVote campaign is having a positive impact.
Question on AIDS Goes Unanswered By Maria L. La Ganga Times Staff Writer October 6, 2004 A new issue crept into the campaign Tuesday night - what to do about AIDS in America - and neither of the well-prepped candidates in the vice presidential debate had much to say.
www.hwadvocacy.com /update/archives/2004/10/06   (985 words)

  
 AIDS in America: The Invisible Epidemic
AIDS is no longer a deadly disease to many people," Mayer said from the National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta.
About 40,000 new HIV cases have occurred each year in the United States since the 1990s, and the government has failed to meet its 2005 goal of cutting that number in half.
There was a time in the 1980s and 1990s when there was one to two funerals a week for a friend who had died of AIDS, Kovacev said.
health.dailynewscentral.com /content/view/0001052/58   (428 words)

  
 Living In Latin America
S ao Paulo is the most expensive city in Latin America and Asuncion the least-expensive...
M ontevideo is the most best city in Latin America and Port-au-Prince the worst, according to the...
South America, the planet's 4th largest continent, includes (12) countries and (3) major territories.
www.livinginlatinamerica.com /news/current-events-in-latin-america   (328 words)

  
 Films Media Group - AIDS in America: A History
From San Francisco, the epicenter of the AIDS explosion, to the Bronx, notorious for its injected drug abuse, this program examines how AIDS took hold in the U.S. during the early 1980s and the advances being made toward a cure.
In America, many AIDS patients receive as much as $25,000 per year in medical assistance, while patients in poorer nations receive virtually none.
Films Media Group, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, Shopware and their respective logos are trademarks of Films Media Group, a PRIMEDIA company.
www.films.com /id/11263/AIDS_in_America_A_History.htm   (294 words)

  
 Gomek and Gator AIDS. Roadside America
On command, a living Gomek would come out of his pool and eat "pre-killed" nutria.
Over the past two years, some 90 of the attraction's 1,400 gators have succumbed to a mysterious mycoplasma bacteria (some call it Gator AIDS), but Gomek, who was estimated to be as much as 80 years old, had heart disease, which ultimately led to cardiac failure.
Quickly stepping into the breech was Billie Swamp Safari of Clewiston, FL, which on May 5th put out a press release announcing to the world that they now had the world's largest verifiable alligator -- Superman.
www.roadsideamerica.com /set/ANIMgator2.html   (454 words)

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