-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave An excellent article exposing myths and lies about HIV and AIDS, now breaking into the mainstream. This one is by Nicholas Regush, on ABC News.com: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/SecondOpinion/secondopinion.html Tale of Two Acronyms Revisiting African AIDS, Plus American ADHD Commentary By Nicholas Regush ABCNEWS.com A couple of issues this week: Some thoughts on the AIDS nightmare that’s making big news and a postscript to last week’s column on Ritalin and the abusive overdrugging of children. Focus on Deaths, Not Disease AIDS has hit sub-Saharan Africa hard but is on a list of maladies that includes malnutrition, malaria and parasitic infection. (George Mulala/Reuters) First: One of the big news stories for 2000 should be AIDS in Africa. No, not how HIV is destroying that continent, but rather the focus should be on the complex medical and political conditions that keep Africans dying in huge numbers because of a host of infections as well as malnutrition, toxic environments and atrocious medical care. This week, the U.N. and its chief AIDS investigator Peter Piot popped up once again to present us with dire figures on HIV and AIDS, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Newsweek gave us a provocative cover on AIDS orphans and Al Gore spoke of a $150 million U.S. war chest against AIDS on that continent. Investigative reporters should examine: How does the U.N. acquire AIDS figures such as 23 million Africans affected and about 2 million deaths in 1998? Why do so many medical writers gobble up every hair-raising estimate — that’s all they are — thrown to them by Piot and Co. on AIDS in Africa, evidently without consulting the chaotic medical literature on the subject? >From whom does the Clinton administration divine its confused information on AIDS? These topics would keep numerous reporting teams busy for years, excavating the fascinating roots of politically correct African AIDS mythologies. Criminal Obsession? The current U.N. obsession with HIV — principally aided and abetted by the financially well-endowed, aggressive U.S. HIV establishment and its European colleagues — is sheer madness and stupidity of the highest magnitude. Frankly, it should qualify as a war crime, and I suspect that perhaps as the years go by, the people involved in perpetrating this drama might even be brought before an international tribunal. AIDS in Africa is often — if not routinely, in many areas — diagnosed on the basis of nonspecific symptoms alone, such as cough, fever, diarrhea, tuberculosis and a skin lesion known as Kaposi’s sarcoma. If ill people lose a lot of weight, they are seen as having “slim disease,” a euphemism for AIDS. Consider that malaria, tuberculosis and parasitic infection are often hard to separate from what is being called AIDS. In other words, let’s at least consider the likelihood that much of what passes for AIDS these days in Africa is a new name for a collection of old diseases. Tough to Test Even some of those scientists who believe that a positive result on the HIV antibody test marks the beginning of AIDS admit that testing people in Africa is tricky because a variety of infections, including malaria, can turn the test positive. So, when the test is used, what is it measuring? Why don’t we hold a few public symposia on just this issue, rather than bury it and pretend the test does its job in Africa? (How the HIV antibody test performs in the United States is another issue worth exploring and will shortly be the subject of a special Second Opinion investigation.) The U.N. and the HIV establishment are, in effect, hiding the dire circumstances of life in everyday Africa and the gross neglect of its peoples by industrialized nations. HIV in this context becomes leverage to take eyes off gigantic medical problems that have long plagued that continent, well before the word AIDS made its appearance. P.S. on ADHD Now another word on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the use of Ritalin: I’d like to thank the hundreds of parents who wrote me detailed letters about how they managed to keep their children off this drug after doctors and teachers recommended it then watched their kids grow up to be healthy and spirited individuals. To those who disagreed with me, often very vigorously: That’s fine. I’m glad you care about your kids and will fight for whatever you believe in. However, the fact remains, this nation is drugging kids to an extreme degree, and major investigations are required to get to the bottom of it. I’ll try to write back to as many people as possible, but I can’t write to everyone. Nicholas Regush produces medical features for ABCNEWS. In his weekly column, published Wednesdays, he looks at medical trouble spots, heralds innovative achievements and analyzes health trends that may greatly influence our lives. 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