Wednesday, December 12, 2007

AIDS Warrior

Sounds to me like he wages it, not cures it:

"AIDS prevention funds debated; Role of abstinence key in Africa plan" by John Donnelly/Boston Globe December 12, 2007

WASHINGTON - At a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee yesterday, several specialists testified that, unless the numbers of new infections drastically decrease, treatment programs will not keep pace.

Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, said after the hearing:

"This is a major challenge that frankly we don't know how to deal with. Condoms are critical for these couples. Marriage was not made for abstinence."

Prevention campaigns targeting these couples could include a mix of strategies, said specialists - including pledges to abstain, health counseling sessions, and consistent use of condoms.

Piot, who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1975 in then-Zaire and who has worked on AIDS since the mid-1980s, said he still believes that fighting the virus depended on using several intervention strategies at once:

"You need to combine interventions. I'm deeply suspicious of the search for a magic bullet."

And I am DEEPLY SUSPICIOUS of THIS MAN!

You need to watch
EndGame, readers!

Also see:
AIDS Crisis: Good or Bad?

The Viruses of Africa