Hello, Jabou, you have summed up many of my exact thoughts exactly...
     Especially since I think it was last year that the then President
Clinton declared AIDS a national security threat.  Which then, I would
guess, gives the US more authority or so they think, to then go in to
certain countries and dictate to them what they can do or how they can
handle the crisis.
     And the latest call of some groups to make AIDS drugs available to
African nations is troubling to me.  First of all, these drugs, even though
they would be made available at a cheaper price, my understanding is that
loans would be made available to these countries to make these drugs
availalbe.  Which then puts Africa into more debt than it already is in.
Which is not a good idea.  Secondly, in January, I think it was, the US CDC
changed its gudielines such that the so-called hit hard hit early approach
to treating HIV and AIDS has been changed in favor of waiting until the
immune system begins to show some decline.  The change came about because
the new cocktail drugs, the same ones that some want to make available to
Africa, had such horrible side affects.
     The thing is, these drugs are very toxic, and the argument put forth by
this article of "thining out the population" by use of these drugs is, to
me, a very plausible one. Especially, when you consider that population
projections have it that in the not so distant future, because of the change
in the demographics of the world, the power will begin to shift more toward
people of color.
     Of course, then, I wonder, how can you say on one hand that the
population is exploding, and then on the other say that the population is
being decimated by AIDS?
     These are just some random thoughts...
Ginny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jabou Joh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: interesting news about aids in Africa


> This article on AIDS in Africa is truely amazing, but not at all
surprising.
> I have always thought it rather bizarre that AIDS has appeared seemingly
out
> of nowhere, and the theories that it is an invented illness has somehow
> always seemed plausible to me.
> The issues addressed by this article makes perfect sense, especially when
one
> witnesses the hysteria with which Thabo Mbeki's  beliefs on the origins of
> this disease are met, and the undying attempts to change his mind about
AIDS
> has become a mission in itself.
> If one stops to ponder that Western society has always sought to subjugate
us
> somehow, and use Africa as it's stepping stone to development and wealth,
> first the British and other Europeans with colonialism, and then the
> Americans with slavery, It somehow is not out of the question to then come
to
> the conclusion that these same forces have now come up with new and more
> polished tactics to "do away" with Africans if they cannot somehow control
us
> anymore.
>
> Call me paranoid but I have always thought that it is rather interesting
that
> most of Southern Africa seems to be the population that is succumbing to
this
> so-called epidemic of AIDS, and so soon after the fall of apartheid no
less.
>
> Even here in the United States, the impending changes in the population
> whereby the  people of colour will soon become the majority is in itself a
> great source of concern for the caucasian population.
> Yes, this is indeed a very eye opening article. However, the saddest part
of
> it all is that Africa alas!, does not seem to be endowed with sons and
> daughters in  leadership positions who truely care for their brethren such
> that they can then go about the business of seeing to it that we are not
the
> subjects of genocide disguised as philantrophy from the very people who
have
> always been the perpetrators of our misery and doom in many and varied
forms.
>
> Jabou Joh
>
> In a message dated 6/2/2001 7:34:48 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> <<
>  WWW.aidspanelreport.com
>
>  Best regards,
>  Modou sidibeh
>
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