(YF3c) AIDS AND OTHER CONSEQUENCES OF HOMOSEXUAL SEX

In our climate of political correctness of love without justice, freedom without responsibility and the delusion that we can do what we like and escape the consequences of our actions, it may seem harsh to say that AIDS is God's punisment for the sin of sodomy and that there is no cure for AIDS and that God will not grant one. ******* God is Love. He grants forgiveness to those who repent and do penance. The main reason militant homosexual activists want a cure for AIDS is so that they can continue to commit sodomy and engage in other perverse sexual practices and avoid the consequences of those acts. God loves all sinners, including practicing homosexuals, more than we can imagine. God will not love sin and will not help people commit sin. Granting a cure for AIDS would encourage the sin of sodomy, whose main consequence is spiritual death, which is worse than physical death. Evil, death and sin are synonymous. Granting a cure for AIDS would result in more rather than less evil. Therefore, no matter how much the militant homosexual activists rage against God and against the government for not getting rid of AIDS (the biological consequence of sodomy) there will be no cure for AIDS. ******* As of this date, 06-12-25, this folder contains 16 items. ******* item 1 AIDS HAS A "CURE"; IT'S CALLED ABSTINENCE ******* item 2 SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN AGAINST AIDS: ABSTINENCE ******* item 3 AMERICAN SYPHILLIS RATE CLIMBS FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR WITH MASSIVE SURGE AMONG HOMOSEXUAL MEN ******* item 4 MUSEVENI DENIES CONDOMS REDUCED HIV IN UGANDA ******* item 5 ALARMING STATISTICS FROM AMERICAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL ******* item 6 LESBIANS AT HIGHER RISK FOR BREAST CANCER ******* item 7 LESBIANS AT HIGHER RISK FOR HERPES INFECTION ******* item 8 NEW RESEARCH SHOWS DANGERS OF CONDOMS IN HIV PREVENTION ******* item 9 HIV/AIDS UP IN USA, POLICY EXPORTED TO AFRICA ******* item 10 PREVENT AIDS BY EDUCATION FOR CHASTITY AND RESPECT FOR SACREDNESS OF HUMAN LIFE ******* item 11 HIV, AIDS CASES RISE AMONG U.S. GAY, BISEXUAL MEN ******* item 12 VATICAN CREATES NEW FOUNDATION TO HELP AIDS PATIENTS ******* item 13 MORE AFRICAN COUNTRIES ADOPT UGANDA POLICIES AGAINST AIDS ******* item 14 THE POLITICS OF AIDS ******* item 15 LOS ANGELES BILLBOARDS SAY AIDS IS A 'GAY' DISEASE ******* item 16 WE MUST FEARLESSLY POINT OUT THE UNHEALTHY CONSEQUENCES OF THE 'GAY' LIFESTYLE ************************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 1 AIDS HAS A CURE; IT'S CALLED ABSTINENCE ******* From: DFJosephMD@aol.com ******* Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:41:12 EDT ******* By Phil Valentine 2003 World Net Daily ******* As provocative and implacable a statement as this might be, you know in your heart it's true. To understand the race to find a cure you must also understand how long a cure for any virus has eluded researchers. ******* Almost since the dawn of medicine, man has been looking for a cure for viruses. An Egyptian carving dating from about 1500 B.C. depicts a priest with a shriveled leg, a characteristic of recovery from paralysis caused by the polio virus. It wasn't until the 1950s that a vaccine was developed. Mind you, that wasn't and isn't a cure. It's an inoculation, a way of preventing the disease before it strikes. ******* The flu virus has a similar history. The name influenza was first given to a disease that caused an epidemic of fevers in Venice around 1300 A.D. The disease was thought to be caused by an "influence" of an odd alignment of the planets. It was centuries later that preventive immunization was developed. Some might call that a cure, but it only works if you're immunized before you get the disease. The point is that we've searched for many hundreds, if not thousands, of years and we've not yet found what could be called a real cure for viruses. We haven't even found the cure for the common cold. Well, sometimes the answer is as simple as using a little common sense. ******* Scientists know that developing something that will prevent a viral disease is about the best you can hope for. If you don't have a vaccine, containment is the name of the game. When a particular virus breaks out, you isolate those who have the disease in order to keep it from spreading, thus allowing it to die out. Why, then, do you think researchers would treat AIDS any differently? ******* The truth is, AIDS is without a doubt one of the most preventable deadly diseases in the history of this country. We know exactly how it's transmitted. We know exactly who is most at risk. We know exactly how to prevent it. We don't need a vaccine. The spread of AIDS is almost wholly the result of reckless behavior. There are indeed horror stories of people contracting AIDS through blood transfusions, but those cases are extremely rare (about 0.5 percent of all AIDS cases). That's not to say that we shouldn't have compassion for people afflicted with this disease. We most certainly should. People find themselves with all sorts of ailments due to bad choices, and kicking them when they're down serves no purpose. We should treat them with compassion just like anyone else who is dying, but it only serves to perpetuate the problem if we continue to condone the behavior that causes it. ******* Our country's approach to the AIDS problem (it's not an epidemic, by the way) has been to throw good money after bad in search of an elusive cure while failing to condemn the very behavior that's at the root of the problem. Passing out condoms at school in an effort to stop the spread of AIDS is like handing out low-nicotine cigarettes as a means of stamping out smoking. Both send the wrong message: that the behavior is OK as long as you're "safe." Cities across the country do the same with needle exchange programs instead of attacking the basic problem of intravenous drug use. Come exchange your dirty needle for a shiny, new, clean one, they beg. It's easy to cry that our need to save lives is immediate thus justifying programs like needle exchange, but short-term solutions have long-term consequences. You don't patch a roof with cardboard. It may get you through one rainy day, but it doesn't solve the problem. Nor does the patchwork approach solve the AIDS problem. ******* WHEN A PLAGUE WAS REALLY A PLAGUE ******* Bubonic plague devastated Europe beginning in the 17th century. Long before Alexandre Yersin discovered the cause of bubonic plague in the late 1800s, humans had already figured out how to prevent the deadly disease. Although they didn't know that rats transmitted the disease through fleas, they deduced that unsanitary conditions caused it to flourish. Once they became more sanitary, the plague disappeared. They learned that the disease was a result of their behavior, and they modified that behavior to rid themselves of the disease. ******* AIDS is no different, and we know so much more about its cause than those Europeans knew about the plague. It is inexcusable that we have such knowledge at our fingertips yet we refuse to take the behavioral steps necessary to rid ourselves of AIDS. And unlike the plague, which wiped out a third of the population in England around 1665 (now that's an epidemic), AIDS is far from being such a destructive force in America. Despite assertions from the "Blame Reagan" crowd in the '80s, claiming that he was responsible for the spread of AIDS, it didn't wipe out the United States nor was it ever a threat to do so. Those frantic alarmists screamed that we were all going to die from AIDS unless the government found a cure. We didn't find a cure, and we're still here. ******* Even the scientific community got caught up in the exaggeration. In 1986, the National Academy of Sciences predicted that 50,000 people a year would be dying of AIDS by 1991. The New York Times reported in 1987: "Federal scientists project that by the end of 1991, total cases will reach 270,000 with 179,000 deaths." The actual number was just under 30,000. In the last 20 years, 457,667 people have died from AIDS. That's an average of less than 23,000 per year. Keep in mind that AIDS deaths have been on the decline for several years. ******* The death toll due to AIDS in 2000 was 14,370. By comparison, 31,224 died of blood poisoning in 2000, while 553,091 died of cancer, 69,301 died of diabetes, 65,313 died of the flu and pneumonia, and 710,760 died of some sort of cardiovascular disease. Heck, 37,251 people died of nephritis, for crying out loud. (That's kidney disease, by the way.) When was the last time you saw a celebrity sporting a nephritis ribbon at an awards show? To put it another way, cardiovascular disease accounts for about 30 percent of all deaths. AIDS accounts for 0.6 percent. In case you missed the decimal point, that's point six percent. Even at its peak, AIDS accounted for no more than 2 percent of annual deaths. That's a far cry from an epidemic. If it is, in fact, an epidemic, why don't we hear about the septicemia epidemic that kills twice as many people each year? ******* THE HETEROSEXUAL MYTH ******* Contrary to the PR campaign launched by the AIDS lobby, this disease will never be a problem for the vast majority of us. Let's look at the real numbers. The latest data show that only about two-tenths of one percent of the American population has AIDS. Less than three-hundredths of one percent of the population has AIDS and is heterosexual. ******* The fact remains that, by far, the highest risk categories are gay men and intravenous drug users. Those two categories make up at least 78 percent of the AIDS cases. Of the small number of heterosexuals with AIDS, 99 percent contracted the disease from someone who was either gay, bisexual or an intravenous drug user. ******* So, it's clear where the risk lies, but the AIDS lobby would have you think that everyone is at peril of contracting AIDS. They have perpetuated a myth that AIDS is infecting the heterosexual community at alarming rates in order to galvanize support in the federal government for more and more funding for AIDS research. In his book "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," Michael Fumento points out that heterosexuals are in less danger of contracting AIDS than they are of dying from shark attacks, being hit by lightning or accidentally drowning in the bathtub. ******* We know what causes AIDS. More important, we know that the most effective way to rid our country of AIDS is to stop the risky behavior. Instead, those at greatest risk want the government to spend every dime it takes to find a cure. That's akin to someone with lung cancer continuing to smoke while admonishing the government for not spending enough on cancer research. ******* Surprisingly, there have been precious few studies gauging the average life expectancy of a gay male. Paul Cameron of The Cameron Group conducted a "study" a few years back and determined that the average homosexual's life expectancy was 42 years. Before you go spouting that statistic, be forewarned that his methodology was highly questionable. He scanned obituaries from gay newspapers and compared the average age of death with those of men in regular newspapers. As you might imagine, all sorts of variables come into play. ******* First of all, gay newspapers tend to cater to the more radical homosexuals, thus the more promiscuous. They would certainly run a greater risk of dying from AIDS than their not-so-promiscuous counterparts. Second, the editor has control over which obituary gets printed. A 75-year-old gay man dying of cancer is not news, whereas a 32-year-old man dying of AIDS is. Guess who makes the paper? It is also impossible to determine that every male in the regular newspaper was straight. Needless to say, the Cameron study is far from reliable. Bill Bennett, who cited the Cameron statistics on TV and in an article, later recanted after learning the circumstances of the study. ******* Having said all that, it stands to reason that if gay men are subject to the same diseases as straight men and are also at much greater risk of AIDS, their life expectancy is, naturally, going to be less than that of heterosexual males. How much less is still a mystery, but, without question, the gay lifestyle is a risky one. How risky? Let me put it to you this way: At the height of the AIDS problem in the early '90s, your chance of contracting AIDS from a single act of unprotected heterosexual intercourse was 1 in 715,000. The odds for a homosexual were 1 in 165. And no wonder. AIDS-infected men had, on average, 1,100 sexual partners! ******* THE BUG CHASERS ******* Probably the sickest and most disturbing aspect of the whole AIDS issue is a phenomenon known inside the gay community as "bug chasers." These are homosexual men with a death wish. They seek out AIDS- infected men with whom to have sex. An article published in Rolling Stone magazine claimed that 25 percent of all new AIDS cases are bug chasers, although some experts say the number is much lower. Rolling Stone stands behind its numbers. ******* A gay man who went by the name of "Carlos" in the article said bug chasers contract the disease as the ultimate sexual thrill, as demented as that may sound. "His eyes light up," a passage from the article reads, "as he says that the actual moment of transmission, the instant he gets HIV will be the 'most erotic thing I can imagine.'" Carlos goes on to say that should he become "positive," he would enjoy spreading the virus to a new partner. "I'm murdering him in a sense, killing him slowly, and that's sort of, as sick as it sounds, exciting to me," he said. ******* It's kind of ironic, isn't it, that while these nut cases from ACT UP disrupt church services and even halt trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for a short period, some of the people they're trying to help are purposely seeking out the disease. This is all further evidence that AIDS is a behavioral disease, exactly what Cardinal O'Connor in New York has been preaching and the exact reason ACT UP and other AIDS activists are mad at the Catholic Church. It's time for ACT UP to GROW UP. Take responsibility for your own actions instead of expecting someone else to come behind you and clean up your mess. If you're engaging in risky behavior, stop it, but don't expect me to pay to facilitate it. ************************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 2 SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN AGAINST AIDS: ABSTINENCE ******* by: Pia de Solenni ******* This item was published in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, October 14, 2003. It may have been slightly modified. ******* Every 14 seconds a young person is infected with HIV, according to a U.N. Population Fund Assistance report recently released. Given that the Catholic Church provides 25% of HIV/AIDS care world-wide, many of these young people will be cared for by the Catholic Church. No state, government, or individual matches this commitment. Yet the BBC in its program "Sex and the Holy City," which aired last night, all but implicated the Church and Pope John Paul II in the spread of HIV throughout the world. ******* The Catholic Church's well-known teaching on condoms appear to baffle BBC producers and their ilk because it is based on moral teaching that has become irrelevant for many. At the same time, however, the wisdom of this precept has been confirmed by science. Or perhaps it's better to say that science has not been able to confirm the wisdom of condoms. ******* In June 2000, (lest we forget, while Bill Clinton was still president) the U.S. National Institutes of Health sponsored a workshop to survey the scientific evidence on condom effectiveness. The final report, released on July 2001, concluded that the consistent and correct use of male condoms provides an 85% reduction in HIV/AIDS transmission between women and men. The same report revealed a lack of adequate data to confirm that condoms protect against other sexually transmitted diseases. ******* Assuming a scenario in which condoms are used consistently and correctly for every sexual act, there's still no guarantee that the condoms themselves are in fact effective against HIV infection. According to the CDC, only latex or polyurethane condoms provide a barrier against HIV. There are many other type of condoms available throughout the world. In 2002, Tanzania reportedly rejected 10 million condoms provided by UNFPA because they were defective. Quite simply, they leaked. Fortunately for the Tanzanian people, the government tested the condoms before they were distributed. UNFPA apparently thought it was enough to provide the condoms without any type of quality control. ******* While the BBC and condom advocates would suggest one type of behavior change, namely correct and consistent condom usage, the Catholic Church proposes another type of behavior change: abstinence, monogamy and fidelity. Here again, science weighs in on the side of religion. Botswana and Zimbabwe are ranked among the top countries world-wide for HIV prevalence. Yet both countries are condom-friendly and make condoms readily available. In 1991, Uganda also had an HIV infection rate of more than 20%. By 2001, however, the rate was only 6%. ******* A 2002 Harvard study conducted by anthropologist Edward C. Green and Vinand Nantulya, an infectious-disease specialist, revealed the cause of the discrepancies between Uganda's HIV infection rate and those of other heavily infected countries. Uganda had begun a program focusing on abstinence and fidelity instead of condoms. While the rate of HIV infection in every other country continued to escalate, Uganda's fell dramatically. (Lest there be any concern over the researchers' religious zeal, Mr. Green describes himself as a "flaming liberal" who does not attend church.) ******* Science doesn't stop with HIV infection. CDC and NIH data confirm that condoms offer little or no protection against human papilloma virus, which has been linked to cervical cancer in women. In the U.S., 75% of the population of reproductive age is estimated to be infected with HPV and more women die from cervical cancer than from AIDS. ******* When the Catholic Church proposes abstinence and monogamy, perhaps to the dismay of the BBC, the church is not being anti-science, but rather affirming what science already tells us. Nor is the Catholic Church alone in this view. Evangelical Christians and Muslims reflect the same perspective. ******* According to the BBC, the program "Sex and the Holy City" investigates "how the Pope who tried to act in the best interests of women came to be accused by his opponents of ruining so many lives." The health experts showcased by the BBC would do well to familiarize themselves with the relevant scientific data and the BBC would do well to put into practice the principle of truth in journalism. Although the data confirms something taught from a religious perspective, by no means does it render the science invalid. Only bias could create an incompatibility between religion and science. Only unadulterated bias would do so at the risk of millions of lives. ************************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 3 AMERICAN SYPHILLIS RATE CLIMBS FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR WITH MASSIVE SURGE AMONG HOMOSEXUAL MEN ******* WASHINGTON, November 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The syphilis rate in the United States rose in 2002 for the second consecutive year, following a decade-long decline that led to an all-time low in 2000, according to new data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The overall increase occurred despite continued declines in syphilis among African Americans and women. The increase is due to large increases in reported syphilis cases among men, particularly "gay and bisexual men" according to a report from the Centers for the Disease Control (CDC). ******************************************************************************************************************* ****** MUSEVENI DENIES CONDOMS REDUCED HIV IN UGANDA ******* POSTED: OCT 29, 2003 ******* Panafrican News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire ******* Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Contrary to claims by various scientific reports that condoms helped Uganda reduce HIV/AIDS prevalence by 13% percent over the past 17 years, the country's President Yoweri Museveni has insisted behavioural change did the trick. ******* Museveni enumerated various measures taken to reverse the prevalence of the killer disease from 18% when it was first diagnosed in 1986 to the current 5 percent, ******* Addressing the 11th international conference of People Living with HIV, Museveni, dismissed condom use, saying his government's expenditure on product was far below other countries, especially the developed world. ******* "In comparison with other countries per capita expenditure on condoms, We spend far below other developed countries, which emphasise use of condoms in their fight against the disease," Museveni said Sunday evening. He did not give figures or name the other countries with higher expenditures on condoms. ******* "As a poor country with no resources readily available to procure condoms we begun with laying emphasis on behavioural change by raising alarms of awareness that we are endangered," Museveni told the conference attended by over 800 participants. ******* However, HIV/AIDS activists disagreed with Museveni saying he might have forgotten the large quantities of condoms donated by humanitarian agencies in his country that has lost considerable percent of its labour force to the dreaded disease. ******* European countries attribute their continued low HIV prevalence to widespread condom use than behavioural change. ******* At least 50 percent of the two million Ugandans diagnosed with HIV have died since the detection and recording of the incurable diseases statistics started in 1986. ******* Uganda also has also recorded a substantial reduction of HIV prevalence among pregnant women from 30 percent in 1986 to 2.6 percent presently. ******* Museveni said that upon understanding and analysing the mode of infection, his government conducted alarmist campaigns using all modes of communications. ******* This was followed by the use of advice, counselling and urging all cushions of society to shun promiscuousness. ******* "As opposed to other cultures that tend not to appreciate their own problems and keep quiet ending suffering silently, we come out public using all sorts of forums. ******* "I had to impose it on my people to use forums like political rallies, church congregations, school assemblies, sports festivals to always talk about HIV/AIDS. ******* "This approach helped us to keep our population aware and hence the present day results due to behavioural change," Museveni emphasised. ******* He cautioned those living with the incurable disease not to go about infecting others because of stigma, saying this was criminal before the God. ******* "It is criminal to infect others. You think your are not seen and the law will not catch up with you, but we are all answering to the almighty for all our deeds," Museveni told the gathering of people living with HIV/AIDS. *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 5 ALARMING STATISTICS FROM AMERICAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL ******* From: "D.Fernandes" ******* Subject: Important Info ******* Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:40:44 -0700 ******* Some alarming statistics from Centre for Disease Control US, re American Youth and HIV/AIDS/STD infections can be found on the following web sites. ******* http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/msm.htm ******* http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/youth.htm ******* http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/2000SFMSM.htm ******* http://www.familyaction.org/PDFs/h-parenting.pdf ******* Deanna *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 6 LESBIANS AT HIGHER RISK FOR BREAST CANCER ******* From: DFJosephMD@aol.com ******* Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 05:46:40 EST ******* http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/1998/sep/98093004.html ******* SAN FRANCISCO - Lesbians appear to be at a higher risk for developing breast cancer than normal women reveals a new scientific report from the San Francisco-based Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), reported on by Reuters. "More research still needs to be done, but the results of this study indicate that there are significant differences between the two groups of women," said a GLMA press release. ******* The study written up in the September edition of the Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association which should go on line in the coming weeks at: http://www.glma.org/j.html ******* (c) Copyright: LifeSite Daily News is a production of Interim Publishing. Permission to republish is granted (with limitation*) but acknowledgement of source is *REQUIRED* (use LifeSiteNews.com). ********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 7 LESBIANS AT HIGHER RISK FOR HERPES INFECTION ******* From: DFJosephMD@aol.com ******* Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 05:46:40 EST ******* http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/1998/sep/98093004.html ******* NEW YORK, January 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new study reveals lesbian women are at greater risk for Herpes simplex virus infections (HSV) compared to other women. ******* The chief researcher in the study, Dr. Jeanne M. Marrazzo from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington told Reuters Health that "Our data indicated that risk of HSV-1 seropositivity was directly related to number of prior female sex partners." ******* Despite having blood results indicative of infection, only 30 percent of women reported having symptoms of the infection. ******* (c) Copyright: LifeSite Daily News is a production of Interim Publishing. Permission to republish is granted (with limitation*) but acknowledgement of source is *REQUIRED* (use LifeSiteNews.com). ******* (c) Copyright: LifeSite Daily News is a production of Interim Publishing. Permission to republish is granted (with limitation*) but acknowledgement of source is *REQUIRED* (use LifeSiteNews.com). *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 8 NEW RESEARCH SHOWS DANGERS OF CONDOMS IN HIV PREVENTION ******* Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:08:56 -0800 ******* From: "Austin Ruse -- Culture of Life Foundation" ******* Dear Colleague, ******* The drumbeat for condoms continues as does the evidence mount that they are not the silver bullet for the HIV/AIDs pandemic. We report today on evidence presented in Washington DC a few days ago by a researchers from Harvard and the University of California – San Francisco. It is vital that this information be distributed all over Africa. ******* Spread the word. ******* Yours sincerely, ******* Austin Ruse, President ________________________________________________________________________ ******* Availability of condoms statistically increase promiscuity and risk of contracting HIV according to medical experts who presented their findings on the "ABC" approach to the HIV/Pandemic in Washington, DC last week. The presentations, hosted by the Medical Institute for Sexual Health, were critical of the insistence by some NGO's and policy makers that the "C" (condom) approach will stem the tide of the pandemic. ******* "20 years into the pandemic there is no evidence that more condoms leads to less AIDS," stated Dr. Edward C. Green of Harvard’s' Center for Population and Development Studies. Citing data on condom availability in many African counties, Green went on to say that "we are not seeing what we expected: that higher levels of condom availability result in lower HIV prevalence." Dr. Norman Hearst of the University of California --- San Francisco supported this analysis with statistics on Kenya, Botswana, and other countries, which show an increasingly alarming pattern of increased condom sale correlation with rising HIV prevalence by year. ******* Promotion of the "safe-sex" message has reportedly increased numbers of sexual partners. The spread of HIV is a behavioral problem, according to Green, who said that "having multiple sexual partners drives AIDS epidemics. If people did not have multiple sex partners, epidemics would not develop or, once developed, be sustained." He continued, "over a lifetime, it is the number of sexual partners [that matter]…condom levels are found to be non-determining of HIV infection levels." ******* Unfortunately, Hearst stated, we are "raising a generation of young people in Africa that believe that condoms will prevent HIV." This is concerning because condoms are not 100% effective, even when used properly. According to Hearst, "the most recent Met-analysis came up with 80%…but even if it is 90%, over time it’s the question of when, not if…you don't want to give people a false sense of security and A and B are better in the long term." ******* In other cases, often reported by proponents of the safe-sex message, countries such as Thailand saw incidence rates for HIV decrease after the government mandated 100% condom use in brothels. Unfortunately, according to Hearst and Stoneburner, proponents rarely look closer at the data, and in such instances behavior change had much more to do with the decreased rates of transmission. "This is usually attributed to 100% condom use, but visits to sex workers declined by 60%…they did so out of fear and risk avoidance." ******* It is the behavior change advocated by the "A" and "B" approach that is additionally supported by data, such as in the famed Uganda case. According to Dr. Rand Stoneburner (formerly of the WHO and an independent advisor to USAID), "declines of HIV in Uganda are linked to behavior change…[and] include primary risk avoidance with a 65% decline in causal sex." The Ugandan government, which promoted abstinence and faithfulness, helped bring about a 75% decline in HIV prevalence among 15-19 age group, 60% in the 20-24, and a 54% decline overall by 1998. ******* Stoneburner and others believe the change was due to different language used. In Uganda, President Museveni reportedly repeated to Ugandans "you are going to die if you don't stop this!" whereas in other countries, there is little talk of death. Stoneburner pointed out "25% of South Africans don't believe HIV causes AIDS" and in many countries "they do not talk about death links to AIDS." This information proves the unfortunate effectiveness of the "safe sex" message that increasingly places individuals at risk for HIV transmission and STDS worldwide. ******* Copyright---Culture of Life Foundation. ******* Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* Culture of Life Foundation ******* 1413 K Street, NW, Suite 1000 Washington DC 20005 ******* Phone: (202) 289-2500 ******* Fax: (202) 289-2502 ******* E-mail: clf@culture-of-life.org ******* Website: www.colfi.org *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 9 HIV/AIDS UP IN USA, POLICY EXPORTED TO AFRICA ******* Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:44:36 -0800 ******* From: "Austin Ruse -- Culture of Life Foundation" ******* Dear Colleague, ******* The cult of the condom is failing us in America where the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports the incidents of HIV/AIDS is increasing among the group that knows the most about condoms --- gay men. Yet, policy makers continue to insist that condoms are the answer to AIDS in Africa. We report today on the new CDC numbers and statements by policy makers on World AIDS Day in support of condoms. ******* Spread the word. ******* Yours sincerely, ******* Austin Ruse, President ******* Action item: You may access a copy of the CDC report by going to http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasr1402/2002SurveillanceReport.pdf ******* __________________________________________________________________________ ******* CULTURE AND COSMOS December 2, 2003 ******* Volume 1, Number 17 ******* HIV/AIDS increases in US, but failed US approach still exported to Africa ******* in a recent interview with BBC, Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN, argued for increased involvement and resources by developed countries —namely the United States—in stemming the tide of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. In addition, he was disappointed in African leaders that allowed "their people to die because they were too embarrassed to talk about condoms." ******* His statements are among the many promoting additional funding for programs implementing efforts to fight the epidemic via the exportation of US-style prevention, which readily encourages and promotes condom use in high-risk groups. ******* interestingly, it is this very plan that is failing in the US. In the latest "Aids Surveillance Report" published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the statistics on new cases of HIV and those, which eventually transition into AIDs, show stark increases in many of the groups studied. Groups most catechized on the 'safe sex' condom based ideology, such as homosexual men, are those with the highest prevalence rates. Between 1999 and 2002, the estimated number of these persons living with HIV/AIDS had jumped from 100,500 to 125,200, despite the almost constant 'safe sex' and condom message. ******* The United States is often used as an example for countries with high prevalence rates, predominantly due to the decreasing death rates for those persons who had contracted AIDS. In the recent CDC report however, the statistics reveal that these decreases are most often due to an increased life span from advanced drug therapies, not decreasing contraction of HIV. It pointed out that "the number of diagnoses of HIV/AIDS…increased steadily" from 1999-2002, and while there have been declines in AIDs incidence in the late '90s, by 2002, "AIDS diagnoses increased" within the United States. ******* Yet, while the contemporary US based approaches are showing increases at home, others that have shown decreases are interestingly being discredited abroad. ******* As some have pointed out, including most recently Harvard’s Edward Green writing on November 29 in the Washington Post, in African countries "with the highest levels of condom availability—Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa and Kenya—also have some of the highest HIV rates in the world." ******* Despite this trend, as well as HIV/AIDS increases within the US, other initiatives that have worked, such as Uganda's AIDS approach are being discouraged. The Ugandan program, similar to other initiatives in additional countries, encouraged marital fidelity and abstinence until marriage to combat the epidemic. When foreign health officials, predominantly from the developed countries including the US, attempted to transition the Ugandan program more predominantly towards condom use, extramarital sex rose. As a result, "health officials worry that infection rates may increase as well," despite the successes under the other programs. ******* Copyright – Culture of Life Foundation and Institute. ******* Permission given for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* Culture of Life Foundation ******* 1413 K Street, NW, Suite 1000 ******* Washington DC 20005 ******* Phone: (202) 289-2500 ******* Fax: (202) 289-2502 ******* E-mail: clf@culture-of-life.org ******* Website: http://www.culture-of-life.org ************************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 10 PREVENT AIDS BY EDUCATION FOR CHASTITY AND RESPECT FOR SACREDNESS OF HUMAN LIFE ******* Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 ******* From: "CNA news" ******* VATICAN CITY, Vatican, December 1 (CNA) - The Vatican Press Office released a message today on the occasion of World AIDS Day, dedicated to women this year, written by Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, which calls for education on the sacredness of human life and in chastity as ways to prevent "one of the most devastating epidemics of our times.” ******* The letter notes that AIDS has killed 22 million people so far and 42 million people currently suffer from it. ******* "I share the concern of the international community", said the Cardinal Lozano, “for the dramatic consequences of this disease on health, life conditions, perspectives, the statute and dignity of women and girls in many regions of the world.” ******* He said that “the impact of HIV/AIDS on women aggravates inequality and impedes progress toward the universality of rights. The more the disease spreads among women, who are the nucleus of the family and of communities, the greater the risk of social devastation." ******* Cardinal Lozano pointed to Pope John Paul II’s Message for the World Day of the Sick 2005 which states that “education with respect to the sacred value of life and the formation and correct practice of sexuality," were necessary in order to responsibly fight AIDS, and he said that observing the virtue of chastity can prevent an increase in AIDS cases. ******* The president of the council indicated that campaign against AIDS can be carried out by "asking industrialized countries to help countries who need it …while avoiding every form of colonialism, and lowering the price of the necessary antiretroviral drugs as much as possible in order to cure those afflicted with AIDS." *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 11 HIV, AIDS CASES RISE AMONG U.S. GAY, BISEXUAL MEN ******* From: stlouisix@msn.com via DFJosephMD@aol.com ******* Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 ******* http://reuters.myway.com/article/20041201/2004-12-01T184723Z_01_N01173960_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-AIDS-CASES-DChtml ******* By Paul Simao ******* ATLANTA (Reuters) - A rise in new cases of AIDS and HIV infection among gay and bisexual men in many U.S. states, reported in a federal study on Wednesday, has given support for concerns the disease is resurgent in the country. ******* The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released in connection with World AIDS Day, said new HIV and AIDS diagnoses in 32 U.S. states rose 11 percent among gay and bisexual men between 2000 and 2003. ******* Rates were stable among most other population sectors, and the overall infection rate rose to 19.7 cases per 100,000 people in 2003 from 19.5 per 100,000 people in 2000. ******* AIDS, which destroys the immune system and leaves victims vulnerable to an array of opportunistic infections and cancers, has killed about half a million Americans and 22 million people worldwide since 1981. ******* Gay and bisexual men are believed to account for a majority of the estimated 850,000 to 950,000 Americans living with HIV, the virus that causes the disease. ******* In the United States public health experts have been warning of a possible resurgence of the epidemic, which eased in the early 1990s following the development of antiretroviral drugs targeting the disease. ******* Since the late 1990s, when U.S. deaths from AIDS stabilized at 16,000 per year and new HIV infections stabilized at 40,000 per year, the disease has shown signs of a comeback, particularly among gay and bisexual men. ******* Between 2000 and 2003, a total of 125,800 people were diagnosed with HIV or AIDS in the 32 states, according to the new report. ******* Forty-four percent of these cases occurred among gay and bisexual men. "Men who have sex with men continue to constitute a substantial proportion of HIV/AIDS cases," said the CDC. ******* It said blacks, who represent about 13 percent of the U.S. population, made up 51.3 percent of all HIV and AIDS cases diagnosed in the same period. ******* New York, California and other states that had not used confidential, name-based reporting of HIV and AIDS cases for at least four years were excluded from the study. ******* A number of health departments across the nation also have reported a worrying surge in syphilis and some other sexually transmitted diseases among gay and bisexual men. Sexually transmitted diseases are known to increase the likelihood of contracting HIV. ******* To combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America, the U.S. government decided last year to emphasize programs that focus on testing and counseling people who are already infected. ******* Some AIDS activists, however, fear the new approach will lead to reduced funding for many programs that emphasize condom use and other safe-sex practices for uninfected people. ******* The CDC, which hopes to cut the number of new annual HIV infections in half within five years, also has recommended routine HIV testing be expanded to include pregnant women, intravenous-drug users and anyone who engages in unsafe sex. ***************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 12 VATICAN CREATES NEW FOUNDATION TO HELP AIDS PATIENTS ******* Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 ******* From: CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY"CNA news" ******* VATICAN CITY, Vatican, December 17 (CNA) - The Vatican's Good Samaritan Foundation for AIDS patients was presented today in the Holy See Press Office and “all men and women of good will, especially those in more economically advanced countries,” were invited by Pope John Paul II “to contribute to the goals of this foundation." ******* Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, underscored that AIDS "is one of the most devastating epidemics of our time," and recalled that more than 22 million people have died since its discovery in the 1980’s and 37,800,000 suffer from it. ******* He also pointed out that between 2001 and 2003 4.5 million children have been orphaned as a result of AIDS, taking the number to 15 million children who have been orphaned by the disease. ******* The Church "has always contributed to attempts to prevent the virus and to help the sick and their families through medical, social, spiritual and pastoral assistance,” pointed out the Cardinal. “Currently, 26.7 % of AIDS medical centers in the world are Catholic." However, he added, "they do not have resources for necessary medicine, and the medicine they have is insufficient for covering the urgent need." ******* "In order to build the foundation," he continued, "the Holy Father has donated 100,000 euros, offering an example of charity that we ask that all Catholics to follow,” and said that this call “is directed above all to all bishops and their dioceses, to priests, religious institutes and foundations that carry out charity work and all men and women of good will.” ******* Contributions can be made by bank transfer or draft in dollars or euros and sent to the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), Vatican City 00120. International checks can be made out to “Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, President of the Good Samaritan Foundation, Palazzo S. Paolo, Vatican City, 00120.” ***************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 13 MORE AFRICAN COUNTRIES ADOPT UGANDA POLICIES AGAINST AIDS ******* Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 ******* From: CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY "CNA news" MADRID, Spain, December 17 (CNA) - A Spanish magazine focusing on African issues, “Mundo Negro” (“Black World”) is reporting that other African countries, especially Ivory Coast, are adopting the anti-AIDS policies of the Ugandan government, which are based on abstinence. ******* In Ivory Coast, 12% of those aged 15-39 are infected with AIDS, and in some areas as many as 20%. Because of the positive results in Uganda, which has seen the number of those infected by AIDS drop significantly in ten years from 15% to 5% thanks to emphasizing changes in lifestyle more than the use of condoms, Ivory Coast has decided to follow suit. ******* Christine Nebout-Adjobi, who is directing the fight against AIDS, told Mundo Negro, “It is very clear that the condom, or the condom alone, is not the solution. We must affect the habits, the profound values of the people, their moral values. In Uganda this is what they have done and it is going very well.” ******* “If you have seen the ads against AIDS on television, which are paid for by our Ministry, the order in which these things are presented is abstinence, fidelity and lastly, the condom,” she added. ******* The anti-AIDS Ministry is working a project to help raise awareness in young people about moral values, including a pamphlet for young people aged 15 to 18 entitled, “The Trivialization of sex is corrupting our society.” ********************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 14 THE POLITICS OF AIDS ******* From: "PFOX" ******* Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:23:21 +0000 ******* Book Review: And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts ******* Award-winning gay writer Randy Shilts tells how angrily the gay male community reacted when he and others told gay males that their promiscuous, unhealthy lifestyle was to blame for the AIDS epidemic: “…with AIDS there was a lot of pressure on writers not to write anything negative about the gay community, not to do anything to indicate the honest truth, which is that the gay community had some role in it. Once the virus got into the community, it didn’t spread by itself. We had a community that was virtually engineered to ensure the rapid proliferation of a sexually transmitted disease, and people didn’t really do anything about it. About 1983 I started working on AIDS full time here at the [San Francisco] Chronicle, and there’s been incredible pressure on me—even to the point of death threats—not to report honestly on AIDS. (Contemporary Authors, Vol. 127, pg. 404) ******* Death threats! ******* Randy Shilts has a most perceptive term for this angry reaction from gays. He calls it: “...the desperation of denial: how, when something is so horrible you don’t want to believe it, you want to put it out of your mind and insist it isn’t true, and how you hate the person who says it is.” (And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts; New York: Penguin Books, 1988, pg. 182. In 1988, Shilts’s book won the non-fiction book award from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered Roundtable of the American Library Association ) ******* In his book, And the Band Played On, Shilts catalogues the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, and the dangerous sexual practices utilized by gay men, to be found in the gay male community. These practices, combined with incredible promiscuity, are the factors which Shilts says caused the gay male community to be “virtually engineered to ensure the rapid proliferation of a sexually transmitted disease…” Not only the usual diseases, like syphilis or gonorrhea, but hepatitis and the “Gay Bowel Syndrome” — amebiasis, giardiasis and shigellosis — and other diseases were continuously epidemic in the gay male community. ******* Unfortunately, the same diseases are peaking once again in the gay male community. Gay magazines, newspapers and websites frequently have articles on this problem (see, e.g., www.gayhealth.com). Shilts sees the ongoing problem of sexual promiscuity as inherent to male homosexuality: “Promiscuity was rampant because in an all-male subculture there was nobody to say ‘no’ — no moderating role like that a woman plays in the heterosexual milieu.” (And the Band Played On, pg. 89) ******* The only compassionate approach we can make is to confront this denial with the truth, spoken firmly, but in love, and to offer help for change. ### A coy of this article is found online at the PFOX website at: http://www.pfox.org/asp/newsman/templates/newstemplate.asp?articleid=183&zoneid=10 ******* PFOX -- Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays, Box 561, Fort Belvoir VA 22060, phone 703-360-2225, pfox_exgays@hotmail.com, www.pfox.org **************************************************************************************************************** item 15 LOS ANGELES BILLBOARDS SAY AIDS IS A 'GAY' DISEASE - United Press International ******* From: Stephen J. Gray [mailto:graysinfo@yahoo.ca] via "Deanne Fernandes" ******* Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 ******* http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060930-061024-2358r ******* LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Stunning passersby, billboards have sprung up around Southern California declaring, "HIV is a gay disease," adding the tag line "Own It; End It." ******* The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday that the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, which paid for the billboards, has declared war on the fact that populations of homosexual men are slacking off in their vigilance against HIV and AIDS. ******* The campaign, which is also running in magazines, is a 180-degree turn from the years of politicking against stereotyping homosexuals as those most likely to become infected. The Times said some AIDS counselors are worried the ad campaign will further stigmatize the disease and stack the deck against research funding. ******* Public health officials have noted that the overwhelming majority of HIV cases -- three out of four -- are among men engaging in sex with other men. ******* The head of the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Michael Weinstein, denied to the Times that AIDS was a "gay" disease. "It is a disease of the immune system," he said. ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 16 WE MUST FEARLESSLY POINT OUT THE UNHEALTHY CONSEQUENCES OF THE 'GAY' LIFESTYLE ******* By Cheryl Clark UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER via Robert A. Jason ******* February 15, 2005 ******* KEY LINES: "Health officials said the New York patient reportedly had unsafe anal sex with hundreds of partners while taking crystal methamphetamine. The drug's stimulating effect and erasure of inhibitions contribute to sex marathons that have increased the spread of HIV, they explained. ******* Medical investigators believe that the New York patient found some of his partners on an Internet Web site." ******* South Dakota man could have aggressive HIV strain ******* Unidentified resident, rare New York case linked ******* An unidentified San Diego resident may be infected with the same rare, aggressive and highly drug-resistant strain of HIV found last week in a New York City man who has rapidly become ill with AIDS, health officials said yesterday. ******* "(The local person's) HIV has a similar molecular makeup as the patient in New York City," said Dr. Nancy Bowen, the San Diego County public health officer who held a press conference about the finding yesterday afternoon in San Diego. ******* It's important to notify the public about a new and possibly supervigorous strain of HIV so people can take extra precautions, Bowen said. But "I don't think it will do anybody any good to get panicked about this," she said, emphasizing that many details are still being sorted out. ******* Several AIDS specialists said it was odd to see public-health officials sound such widespread alarm after only one person became sick. They questioned whether the virus is truly a lethal variety, or whether the New York patient's immune system, extensive use of methamphetamines and genetic makeup might be contributing factors to his rapidly deteriorating condition. ******* But public health agencies and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the announcement was necessary because they haven't seen an HIV strain that becomes drug-resistant and progresses to AIDS so quickly, as in the case of the New York man. ******* Bowen urged people who think they might be infected with HIV to get tested. If infection is confirmed, the individuals should visit a doctor and request a second blood test to determine what genetic strain of the virus they might have. ******* The AIDS virus mutates regularly, changing its molecular structure over time, so blood testing is normally done to make sure each patient's genetic strain is vulnerable to anti-viral drugs being prescribed. If the strain isn't vulnerable, doctors must find other medications. ******* Bowen said the San Diego resident tested positive for the rare HIV strain last fall - after the patient's health provider sent a sample of his or her blood to ViroLogic, an HIV typing reference laboratory in Northern California. ******* There was no alarm until the New York City man recently became ill and was found to have a molecular strain resistant to virtually all anti-viral drugs. His case prompted public health officials nationwide to check with the reference lab for a similar strain among other HIV patients. ******* The reference lab's database then linked the New York strain to that of the San Diego person and an unidentified New York City resident. ******* Researchers don't know yet whether the New York and San Diego strains are an exact match, Bowen said. They also haven't determined if the three individuals know one another. It will take at least a week to decide if the HIV strains are identical, said Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in Manhattan. ******* Federal and California health officials are trying to locate the San Diego resident through the reference laboratory, find his or her doctor and ultimately get in touch with the infected person. They want to see if this individual is ill, to conduct further testing and to notify sexual partners who may be at risk of contracting HIV. ******* If the person was tested under anonymous conditions, in which a name is not given, it could be impossible to locate his or her whereabouts. The patient also may have moved away from San Diego or died. ******* Health officials said the New York patient reportedly had unsafe anal sex with hundreds of partners while taking crystal methamphetamine. The drug's stimulating effect and erasure of inhibitions contribute to sex marathons that have increased the spread of HIV, they explained. ******* Medical investigators believe that the New York patient found some of his partners on an Internet Web site. They are working with men who used the site to reach as many people as possible who might have been infected or are worried about the risk. ******* Yesterday, Bowen reissued precautions for drug users, urging them to not share needles or syringes. She also urged sexually active individuals to abstain from intercourse or to commit to a long-term, mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who has tested HIV-negative. ******* Correct and consistent use of a condom can reduce the risk of spreading sexually transmitted diseases, she added. ******* Bowen said she hopes the finding will prompt "people who are not sure of their (HIV) status but who are at risk to decide that they want to find out. That's one of our main messages." ******* In the past three or four years, about 400 San Diego County residents each year have been diagnosed with AIDS. In January, four new patients were diagnosed, bringing the total number of county residents diagnosed with AIDS since 1981 to 12,237. Of those, 54 percent have died. ******* The New York Times News Service contributed to this report. ******************************************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************************************** HEALTH RISKS OF GAY SEX By Dr. John R. Diggs Jr. M.D.

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