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	Common misconceptions about HIV and AIDS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Virgin cleansing is a myth that has occurred since at least the 16th century, when Europeans believed that they could rid themselves of a sexually transmitted disease by transferring it to a virgin through sexual intercourse.
		The distribution of AIDS cases, whether in the United States or elsewhere in the world, invariably mirrors the prevalence of HIV in a population.
		In 1998, AIDS was the fifth leading cause of death among women aged 25 to 44 in the United States, and the third leading cause of death among African-American women in that age group (NIAID FACT Sheet: HIV/AIDS Statistics).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AIDS_myths_and_urban_legends (5560 words)

	HEAL San Diego - AIDS Myths
		Stephan Lanka explains that the depression of cellular metabolism caused by "AIDS drugs" often cause the "viral load," or cellular DNA in the blood, to become undetectable, which means that an absence of "viral load" is a negative reaction to toxicity.
		Muhammed Al-Bayati also targets corticosteroids and glucocorticoids as the "major causative agent in the U.S. AIDS epidemic." They are commonly prescribed to combat the effects of alcohol and drug abuse, as well as for hemophilia, allergies and "gay bowel syndrome".
		Charles Geshekter, Ph.D., explains that "AIDS" in Africa is a redefinition of the diseases of "rampant poverty." Muhammed Al-Bayati, Ph.D., chronicles his successes in treating immunodeficiency caused by malnutrition, regardless of HIV status.
	healsd.topcities.com /lies.htm (1135 words)

	"Persistent Myths About AIDS"
		AIDS activists want the public to believe that it is the worst catastrophe ever to occur to humans since the bubonic plague.
		Michael Fumento's book, "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," says that AIDS is not the monumental public health problem that homosexual groups have argued.
		AIDS activists want us to think that we are all equally at risk of contracting HIV so that our prejudice against the high risk groups won't influence our readiness to fund research and treatment, concludes Charen.
	www.aegis.com /news/ads/1992/AD920122.html (482 words)

	HIV & AIDS - Myths of AIDS and Sex
		Today, AIDS researchers have added new, undocumented twists to an old repertoire: stories of Zairians who rub monkey's blood into cuts as an aphrodisiac; claims that ulcerated genitals are becoming widespread; and urban folklore about philandering East African truck drivers who get HIV from prostitutes and then infect their wives.
		The WHO's clinical-case definition for AIDS in Africa (adopted in 1985) is not based on an HIV test or T-cell counts but on the combined symptoms of chronic diarrhea, prolonged fever, 10 percent body weight loss in two months and a persistent cough, none of which are new or uncommon on the African continent.
		At the Yokohama AIDS conference and the recent U.N. Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, feminists insisted that AIDS would be halted only when women were empowered to reduce inequalities by creating "networks" that enhanced gender sensitivity and prevented sexual victimization.
	www.virusmyth.net /aids/data/cgafrica.htm (1814 words)

	South End Press \| Global AIDS: Myths and Facts
		Global AIDS: Myths and Facts shatters 10 myths about HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention—such as "AIDS is an African problem," "treatment in developing countries is not technically feasible," and the myth of "limited resources"—while calling for an international movement to fight the disease.
		Carefully documented and thoughtfully written, Global AIDS is invaluable for anyone wishing to understand the roots of the AIDS crisis in poor countries.
		Myth: The best way to control AIDS in the developing world is by putting all available resources into stronger prevention programs.
	www.southendpress.org /2004/items/GlobalAIDS (565 words)

	Global Health Council - Global AIDS: Myths and Facts
		AIDS is the most devastating communicable disease in history, and poor countries have been most severely impacted by the pandemic.
		It has also revealed what many people with AIDS have known all along: the disease is not only propagated by the virus, but by racism, entrenched poverty, structural inequality, and the legacy of colonial domination and exploitation.
		Global AIDS: Myths and Facts aims to present the facts about HIV/AIDS, and empower people for informed, active participation in the global struggle against this plague.
	www.globalhealth.org /sources/view.php3?id=411 (199 words)

	H-Net Review: Sarah C. Richards on Global AIDS: Myths and Facts: Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic
		Photographs of AIDS activists and HIV-positive people from around the world, fighting for and receiving treatment and care, give the reader an idea not only of the real people behind statistics, but also that much has been and can be accomplished.
		The third myth, and the last in the category of "developing countries as the problem," is that corruption in developing countries is so bad that funding will not serve its intended purpose.
		In chapter 4, the myth that, for economic and logistic reasons, prevention should be fully accessible before treatment is delivered is strongly countered with an argument for combined prevention and treatment programs as the most effective method of controlling the epidemic.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=160611085174567 (1709 words)

	Save the Children: HIV, AIDS Myths
		In addition, nearly 15 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS, and that number is expected to climb to 25 million by the end of the decade.
		Most of the children orphaned by AIDS in Africa remain in their villages among family and friends who do their best to support and care for them.
		Myth #3: The effect of the HIV/AIDS crisis on children is confined to Africa.
	www.savethechildren.org /health/hiv_aids/top_five.asp (546 words)

	10 AIDS Myths
		The Sixth Myth: Africa is ravaged by AIDS.
		The Seventh Myth: AIDS is an incurable disease.
		AIDS can be cured by avoiding toxic drugs, through good nutrition, certain alternative therapies, and a healthy lifestyle.
	www.naturodoc.com /library/public_health/AIDS.htm (304 words)

	Deaf Myths Hearing Aids - Polynesian Myths - www.myths.wineglasses.be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These are the myths we hear these days in regard to the marina.
		Behind the Ear Hearing Aids (BTE) are among the most recognized hearing aid devices.
		These hearing aids fit comfortably behind the ear and are custom fitted for the particular individual.
	www.myths.wineglasses.be /polynesian-myths/deaf-myths-hearing-aids.html (526 words)

	Amazon.ca: Global AIDS: Myths and Facts: Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AIDS is the most devastating communicable disease in history, and structures of poverty and injustice are magnifying the crisis in underresourced countries.
		And since AIDS was first recognized in the early 1980s, 13 million children have been orphaned and 22 million people have died from the disease.
		Irwin and Millen, co-authors of the critically praised Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor, demonstrate that it is morally imperative and practically feasible to control the spread of AIDS by overturning common myths about treatment and prevention.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0896086739 (495 words)

	HIV/AIDS: Myths and Facts / Radio Scripts / DCFRN
		Find out the most common myths in your listening audience and then use your programs to dispel them.
		Item number 3 in this package presents some of these facts and myths in a game show format, and serves as one example of the many possible ways to present this information.
		AIDS is a syndrome that has no cure.
	www.farmradio.org /english/radio-scripts/62-2script_en.asp (538 words)

	Global AIDS: Myths and Facts
		Myth: AIDS treatment in the developing world is impossible because antiretroviral drugs are too expensive and because developing countries lack the sophisticated infrastructure necessary to deliver the drugs.
		Myth: Since resources are limited, officials should concentrate on problems that effect large segments of the population, such as nutrition, clean water, maternal & child health, and immunizations, rather than expensive and complex AIDS treatment that helps only a few.
		AIDS kills primarily young adults in their prime working years; these deaths are devastating to economies.
	www.amsa.org /global/aids/aidsfacts.cfm (1366 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Symposium: The Radical Lies of Aids by Jamie Glazov
		At this point, there was also a growing AIDS industry of "experts" and "educators" who had a sizable investment (in pride, as well as money) in the Big Lie.
		To admit that AIDS in Africa is not a heterosexual transmission problem, but actually the result primarily of contaminated syringe puncturing and anal intercourse, will simply shatter too many radical dreams.
		A serious problem now is that the "heterosexual Aids myth" has taken on a life of its own within the scientific establishment, and become dogma.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18294 (6731 words)

	The Body: AIDS Myths and Misunderstandings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Many people believed that HIV and AIDS could be transmitted by a mosquito bite, by sharing a drinking glass with someone with AIDS, by being around someone with AIDS who was coughing, by hugging or kissing someone with AIDS, and so on.
		Myth: HIV is being spread by needles left in theater seats or vending machine coin returns.
		Myth: AIDS drugs are poison and are more dangerous than the HIV virus.
	www.thebody.com /nmai/myths.html (1109 words)

	Global AIDS: Myths and Facts: Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic
		These responses are very descriptive and point out why the myth is not to be accepted.
		The final sentence in the conclusion sums it up: "By the choices we make with respect to AIDS, we are defining our moral selves, and determining the ethical character of the world we will inhabit and leave to future generations." A directory of resources for activism is included.
		AEGiS is made possible through unrestricted grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, Elton John AIDS Foundation, John M. Lloyd Foundation, the National Library of Medicine, and donations from users like you.
	www.aegis.com /pubs/books/2004/BK041216.html (345 words)

	HIV & AIDS - VirusMyth AIDS HomePage
		A growing group of bio-medical scientists claim the cause of AIDS is still unknown.
		Most of them think AIDS is also not sexually transmitted; it probably has toxic causes.
		These HIV skeptics say that the AIDS virus has never really been isolated, and the AIDS tests are worthless...
	www.virusmyth.com /aids (248 words)

	AIDS Myths and Misunderstandings \| The New Mexico AIDS InfoNet
		Myth: You have to take 100% of your doses on time or else they’ll stop working.
		Reality:Ever since the first AIDS drugs were developed, patients have wanted to stop taking them due to side effects or just being reminded that they had AIDS.
		The AIDS InfoNet is a project of the New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.
	www.aidsinfonet.org /factsheet_detail.php?fsnumber=158 (1135 words)

	AIDS IN AFRICA: MYTHS OF AIDS AND SEX
		At the 10th International AIDS Conference in Yokohama in August [1994], Dr. Yuichi Shiokawa put the sentiment in a different way.
		Because of the extraordinary time lag between HIV infection and onset of “AIDS” -- now set at six to 12 years -- AIDS activists warn that their awareness campaign will require many years of active government intervention and funding to overcome resistance to behavioral changes.
		AIDS IN AFRICA: MYTHS OF AIDS AND SEX.
	www.africaresource.com /jenda/vol1.2/geshekter.html (1795 words)

	AIDS
		A little reported fact is that AIDS is not among the fifteen leading causes
		On 18 Mar 2005 05:47:49 -0800, "koolfire_or" AIDS: "The
		AIDS virus, the IHV is dedicated to the discovery, research, treatment and prevention of chronic viral diseases.
	www.northernaidsinitiative.mb.ca /index.php?C=AIDS&T=0 (330 words)

	'Will watching porn get me AIDS?'- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Experts manning the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's AIDS helpline, the only one in the state run by a civic body, have been left aghast by questions that pour in from across the cityâ”-not always from teenagers.
		They now say that these questions could be an indicator of the failure of campaigns to dispel myths surrounding the disease.
		One asked the helpline: "At which age can a person get AIDS?" Another asked, "Is it true that AIDS cannot be transmitted from an animal to a human?," says Malodia.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1004280.cms (332 words)

	AIDS Myths, HIV, Urban Legends, Infection - Guide4Living (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During the 20 years that AIDS has been in the public eye, countless urban legends, myths and wonderful conspiracy theories have sprung up, each claiming to be the cause of the current HIV pandemic.
		Some of these myths are fairly harmless – like the one about the virus being transmitted through mosquitoes which have bitten someone with HIV.
		There was a theory back in the 1980s, still expounded by some, that the HIV virus was a part of a CIA conspiracy and a biological experiment that went very wrong.
	www.guide4living.com /hiv-aids/myths.htm (546 words)

	Hiv Myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Angola Red Cross volunteers faced with fears and myths in rural...
		There are myths such as if you are an HIV infected person then having sex with a virgin can rid you of the disease, then there is one which says how you can...
		She further explained that while the knowledge levels are high as it relates to how HIV is spread, they are still seeing some myths and misconceptions arising...
	www.earlyhivsymptom.com /hiv-myths.php (773 words)

	PIH \| Library \| Books \| Global AIDS: Myths and Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This book shatters ten common myths about HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention —such as “AIDS is an African problem,” “treatment in developing countries is not technically feasible,” and the myth of “limited resources”—while calling for an international movement to fight the disease.
		media’s role in “myth making,” the real promise of vaccine research, and the impact of activism on patenting laws.
		Published by South End Press and distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution (www.cbsd.com; for individual orders, call 800-533-8478; for bulk orders, call 800-283-3572), Global AIDS will be available at independent and chain bookstores in March 2003.
	www.pih.org /library/books/global_aids.htm (149 words)

	* YoLanda's Top 12 AIDS Myths * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But that is only one twentieth of the myth.
		This stems from the Old Math Myth that two positives make a positive.
		Tough myth to break since this used to be true.
	www.yolandasays.com /HTML/YoLandaAIDSmyths.html (517 words)

	HIV / AIDS: MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some common myths regarding how you can get HIV are by:
		Even in family members where there is on-going close contact there have been no cases of non-sexual transmission.
		To learn more, call your local AIDS organization or the National AIDS 24-hour Hotline at (800) 342-2437.
	www.metrohealth.org /HI/indexes/HIVI4616.htm (293 words)

	portland imc - 2004.05.04 - AIDS myths
		Disagreement about HIV's role in causing AIDS has been curiously absent from public and scientific debate, even though many of the 700 M.D.'s and/or Ph.D.'s of The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis have published their reasons for their concern (Philpott 1999).
		New research by Dr. Muhammed Al-Bayati also targets corticosteroids and glucocorticoids as the "major causative agent in the U.S. AIDS epidemic." They are commonly prescribed to combat the effects of alcohol and drug abuse, as well as for hemophilia, allergies and "gay bowel syndrome".
		I also think that it is a method of genocide, psychological (hiv=aids=death) and chemical (prescribing deadly aids drugs) and as an excuse for not addressing the real causes of those diseases and illnesses attributed to aids.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/05/287542.shtml (5688 words)

	Let's dispense with feline AIDS myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The virus that causes feline AIDS is a retrovirus, which is similar to the human AIDS virus.
		Because of this, most vets recommend that cats that test positive on this test be screened again with a different test.
		This second procedure is the same one done on people who initially test positive for the human AIDS virus.
	ocregister.com /ocr/2004/07/13/sections/life/lf_pets/article_165379.php (675 words)

	YouthNoise \| Top 10: Myths About AIDS
		AIDS medication can be very expensive, which is why those living in poverty can't always get it -- and also why it is often easier for those who have money and health insurance to get treatment.
		Stage four is when symptoms become severe and HIV is diagnosed as AIDS.
		The two main ways young people can get HIV are by having sex with an infected partner or by using a needle or a syringe that has been used by someone who is infected.
	www.youthnoise.com /page.php?page_id=452 (514 words)

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