HIV

AND WILL THEY SAY nobody could have foreseen the weakness of the levees?

For the first time, Washington D.C. has collected data on H.I.V. and found that in the nation's capital, the "modern epidemic"—as the Washington Post calls it—is now primarily one affecting blacks.

The numbers most starkly illustrate HIV's impact on the African American community. More than 80 percent of the 3,269 HIV cases identified between 2001 and 2006 were among black men, women and adolescents. Among women who tested positive, a rising percentage of local cases, nine of 10 were African American. [...]

The District's AIDS rate is the worst of any city in the country, nearly twice the rate in New York and more than four times the incidence in Detroit, and it has been climbing faster than that of many jurisdictions. [...]

—Study Calls HIV in D.C. A 'Modern Epidemic'; More Than 80 Percent Of Recent Cases Were Among Black Residents

And big propz must go to the woman who dares try and change the world, as well as shout out the truth as she lives and sees it:

A Palestinian doctor and 5 Bulgarian nurses have been found guilty of intentionally spreading HIV to Libyan children and are slated for execution by the Libyan government. They have been jailed since 1999 on charges that they spread the HIV virus deliberately to more than 400 children at a Benghazi hospital. Western nations, themselves not always to be trusted when it comes to accusations against Muslim nations, blame the infections on unsanitary conditions at the hospital and believe Libya is using the nurses and doctors as scapegoats to avoid dealing with their own problems. In this case, the opinion of Western nations is not based on crap that Bush got from Chalabi, but is for once based on reality and Libya is guilty of ignoring reality.

This is not only a travesty of justice, but of science as well since all scientific evidence exonerates the Palestinian doctor and Bulgarian nurses. Libya is about to execute innocent people because they refuse to listen to science.

According to one of the world's most respected scientific journals, Nature, all scientific evidence shows the nurses are innocent. From the article:

In 1998, outbreaks of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were reported in children attending Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi, Libya. Here we use molecular phylogenetic techniques to analyse new virus sequences from these outbreaks. We find that the HIV-1 and HCV strains were already circulating and prevalent in this hospital and its environs before the arrival in March 1998 of the foreign medical staff (five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor) who stand accused of transmitting the HIV strain to the children.

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