Anger at US ban on AIDS scientists

[Panono]

The US government came under scathing attack from senior members of the medical establishment yesterday for blocking scientists from attending the International Aids conference which opened in Bangkok.

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The US government has sent only a fraction of its usual contingent of scientists, pleading cost - 50 instead of the 236 who attended the last event in Barcelona in 2002.

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Earlier, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (Jama) had also unexpectedly spoken out. Catherine DeAngelis said that Marc Bulterys, the co-author of a Jama paper who worked for the government's Atlanta-based Centres for Disease Control (CDC), had not been allowed to accept an invitation to fly to Bangkok to talk about it.

"It stymies the ability of scientists to discuss and learn from each other," said Dr DeAngelis. "It is wrong."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,1259156,00.html

[donsu]

1. this is a criminal act by the bushgang

some more from the article:

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The Department of Health and Human Services, headed by the health secretary, Tommy Thompson, was yesterday accused of actively preventing certain US scientists and doctors who had a contribution to make from travelling to Bangkok.

Many suspect that behind the action lies a rift between the US and Aids activists who oppose America's approach to the global pandemic.
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and here is another article about it:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1258589,00.html

Experts attack Bush's stance in Aids battle

The US faces condemnation this week from leaders of the worldwide struggle against Aids over the Bush administration's reliance on sexual abstinence as a response to the intensifying epidemic.

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Under the influence of the Christian right, Bush has adopted the so-called ABC approach to Aids prevention - A for abstinence, B for being faithful and C for condoms. But condoms are to be promoted only for use by 'high risk groups' such as prostitutes and drug abusers, with sexual abstinence the objective for all unmarried young people.

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Bush's policy was laid down earlier this year in a 100-page document entitled 'The President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief'. It is backed by a $15 billion commitment over five years and targets 15 countries, 12 in sub-Saharan Africa. References to condoms - for decades heavily promoted in the US drive for population control in the developing world - make clear that they are to play a marginal role. They can be distributed 'near areas where high-risk behaviour takes place' such as brothels, but they are not to be promoted for the general population, which should receive 'a clear message that the best means of preventing HIV/Aids is to avoid risk altogether'.

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The US delegation to Bangkok will be led by Randall Tobias, former chief executive of the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilley, who was appointed global Aids co-ordinator by George Bush last autumn. The number of US delegates has been cut back and there are signs that Tobias is adopting a mollifying, low-profile role in the run-up to November's US presidential election. But the administration will stick to its controversial stand. At a recent meeting in Washington, Tobias told sexual health experts: 'Whatever historians of the future write about President Bush's plan, they can never say it was the "same old, same old".'
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so.... the religiously insane and corrupt US corporations will cause the death of the world....

and all we can do is watch.

[AndyTiedye]

2. The BFEE Has Always Had a "Bring It On" Attitude Towards AIDS

One would almost think that AIDS was another case of MIHOP.