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| India overtakes South Africa in HIV cases | ||
| 2005-04-21 | ||
| PARIS — India has now outstripped South Africa as the country with the highest tally of people living with Aids or the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the head of the Global Fund said here yesterday. Richard Feachem, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said "the official statistics show India in second place and South Africa in first place." But, Feachem said, "The official statistics are wrong. India is in first place." "The epidemic (in India) is growing very rapidly. It is out of control. There is nothing happening in India today that is big or serious enough to prevent it." The UN agency UNAIDS' latest official figures for the national prevalence of HIV/Aids were published in July 2004, giving the estimated incidence as at the end of 2003. South Africa had the highest total of any country in the world, with an estimated 5.3 million infected adults and children in a range of 4.5 to 6.2 million. India's total was put at 5.1 million, but the range estimate was far wider — 2.5 to 8.5 million — to reflect the many unknowns about the state of the pandemic there. "India has to wake up and India has to take this very, very seriously," Feachem said yesterday. Without action, "millions and millions and millions of Indians are going to die." He added, "the epidemic will grow faster, much faster, in (India's) Hindu population than in Muslims," as circumcision is an acknowledged protective factor against the Aids virus.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #16 Lex, the hotel bars in Jo'burg aren't what they used to be. How's a reporter going to get a good story without a good hotel bar? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-04-21 7:40:02 PM |
| #15 Let's see: no MSM correspondents in Afghanistan. None in South Africa. None in Ukraine or Venezuela. Could it be that all the stories to be reported from those places might lend support to the neocons' worldview? |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 6:35:03 PM |
| #14 :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-21 6:31:19 PM |
| #13 True, Frank. I keep forgetting that the world we inhabit is merely a reflection of the cosmic Struggle Against Bush. |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 6:29:49 PM |
| #12 hee hee! I've seen the little pathfinder Chihuahuas they drop little glowing piles. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-04-21 6:25:57 PM |
| #11 Tutu is a special chihuahua - a pathfinder - so he yaps in advance. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-04-21 6:15:12 PM |
| #10 Not true...Desmond Tutu still surfaces in the MSM to condemn US actions in various liberation and peacekeeping operations... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-21 6:12:54 PM |
| #9 Funny, isn't it, how South Africa has disappeared from the MSM map? I can't recall a single article in the last year in the NYT or WaPo or the Guardian about So Africa. Poor South Africans. If only Bush were to pay attention to them, the MSM chihuahua brigade would come a-yappin' in Bush's wake. |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 6:07:53 PM |
| #8 Lol! There is an alternative RB Award - for truth-tellin - your nomination is secured, heh. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-04-21 6:04:18 PM |
| #7 That does it. Fergit that stuff 'bout peace love 'n' understandin |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 6:02:38 PM |
| #6 Okay, that does it - now you've forfeited the RB PC-Winkie Award for 2005. And the Nobel Peace Prize? Pfeh. Forget it. ;-) |
| Posted by: .com 2005-04-21 6:00:33 PM |
| #5 South Africa, post-apartheid: -- 10% of the population has AIDS -- 30% of the adult female population's been raped -- 50% of the workforce is unemployed -- Jo'burg is the most dangerous peacetime city on the planet Where are all the MSM stories about the utter disaster brought about by the overthrow of white minority rule? |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-21 5:56:40 PM |
| #4 looks like they have something to trade with China |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-21 5:52:54 PM |
| #3 That it is totally preventable is what makes this so sad. One case is to many in that instance. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-04-21 5:28:04 AM |
| #2 India has a population of over a billion, which is indeed larger than the whole of Africa. In contrast, South Africa has less than 50 million people, so it is nowhere near the disaster for India that Africa is facing (Not yet anyway) |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2005-04-21 4:48:15 AM |
| #1 Granted this is off the top of my head, but doesn't India have a population greater than all Africa? What's the percentage of infected peoples respectively? not how many, just a representative percentage to get the correct picture per demographic. I recall a politicly incorect saying that due to superstition, distrust of "Western" medicine, and tribal ways, that Africa would be largely unpopulated by 2050. From this, it seems that India, may solve it's overpopulation problem, as well as Africa. Just not in a pleasant way. I suppose it beats war, starvation, or genocide. But not much. |
| Posted by: Threque Uloluns4886 2005-04-21 12:26:19 AM |