December 1st is World AIDS day. With the Bush administration on its way out there is hope that we might begin to think big about preventing and even curing AIDS. What’s the best way forward? Investing in science or communities? Or both? Today on GRITtv journalist and author Linda Villarosa, activist and editor of POZ magazine Laura Whitehorn, Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, and Rep. Barbara Lee discuss recent breakthroughs in AIDS treatment and what they mean for policy.
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NYT on AIDS policy in South Africa.
“A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people earlier this decade if it had provided antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients and widely administered drugs to help prevent pregnant women from infecting their babies.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11…..=1&hp
By GRITtv on November 26th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Stop taking toxic recreational drugs and depressing your natural immune system and you won’t get the so-called “AIDS.” You inherit HIV from your mother. Read a book called “Inventing the AIDS virus” by Peter H. Duesburg. Search the Internet for terms, “AIDS reconsidered.” You would think that after more than twenty years of a fruitless search for a vaccine for the so-called AIDS, you might suppose that the medical researchers might want to reconsider the validity of their original theory. But no, Stupidity Marches On. And the dollars keep flowing in…
By Oval12345678akaJamesKSayre on November 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
don’t own a mirror?
By perris on November 26th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Oval said: ‘Stop taking toxic recreational drugs and depressing your natural immune system and you won’t get the so-called “AIDS.”’
Yawn… Here come the flat-earth people.
If only it were that simple.
By DeanOR on November 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
WE’LL BE LIVE IN JUST A MOMENT WITH REV. BILLY AND SAVITRI D
By GRITtv on November 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pm