Heterosexual AIDS Pandemic Threat Was Myth

Heterosexual AIDS Pandemic Threat Was Myth

RUSH: From the UK Independent, the headline: "'Threat of World AIDS Pandemic Among Heterosexuals is Over, Report Admits' -- A quarter of a century after the outbreak of AIDS, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared." May I give you people a little hint? There never was one. It was made up. I know, Snerdley, you think I'm going to get in trouble. There never was a global heterosexual AIDS pandemic. It was a threat. It was a myth. "In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major AIDS organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de [sic] Cock, the head of the WHO's department of HIV/AIDS said there will be no generalised epidemic of AIDS in the heterosexual population outside Africa. Dr. de Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading the battle against the disease, said understanding of the threat posed by the virus had changed.

"Whereas once it was seen as a risk to populations everywhere, it was now recognised that, outside sub-Saharan Africa, it was confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients." Sex workers? Is that like prostitutes? Is that what they mean? Or people that work in sex clinics? I think they mean prostitutes. So this little liberal organization here led by Dr. De Cock, he's saying that after 25 years, it's now recognized that outside sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS was confined to high-risk groups, including men who have sex with men. Not women who have sex with women. Well, it doesn't say that. It says men who have sex with men and injecting drug users and prostitutes and their clients.

Dr. De Cock said, "It's very unlikely there will be a --" if my name is De Cock and I ran this organization, I'd change it. I would change my name. "It is very unlikely there will be a heterosexual epidemic in other countries. Ten years ago a lot of people were saying there would be a generalised epidemic in Asia -- China was the big worry with its huge population. That doesn't look likely. But we have to be careful. As an epidemiologist it is better to describe what we can measure. There could be small outbreaks in some areas. … AIDS still kills more adults than all wars and conflicts combined." Even the Iraq war. Yes, it's hard to believe, ladies and gentlemen, but AIDS kills more people worldwide than the Iraq war. I'm not making it up. This is what Dr. De Cock says of the World Health Organization.