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U.N. Downsizes AIDS Estimate

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Posted on Nov 20, 2007

Finally, some good news in the world (relatively speaking):  AIDS scientists at the United Nations are ready to announce that they have been overestimating the scale of the viral epidemic for quite some time now, and that the spread of AIDS has actually been decelerating over the last decade.


The Washington Post:

AIDS remains a devastating public health crisis in the most heavily affected areas of sub-Saharan Africa. But the far-reaching revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers who disputed the U.N. portrayal of an ever-expanding global epidemic.

The latest estimates, due to be released publicly Tuesday, put the number of annual new HIV infections at 2.5 million, a cut of more than 40 percent from last year’s estimate, documents show. The worldwide total of people infected with HIV—estimated a year ago at nearly 40 million and rising—now will be reported as 33 million.

Having millions fewer people with a lethal contagious disease is good news. Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS.

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By ChaxC, November 20, 2007 at 1:25 pm Link to this comment
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John,
That almost sounds Zappa-like.

I got a girl with a little rubber head
Rinse her out every night just before I go to bed
She never talk back like a lady might do
An’ she looks like she loves it every time I get through
-Frank Zappa
Ms. Pinky
Zoot Allures

“That’s when the Devil, he farted
An’ she went right over the cliff
Whoa . . . Tinsel Time!”
-Frank Zappa
Titties & Beer
Zappa in New York

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By John Borowski, November 20, 2007 at 11:28 am Link to this comment
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I’m shocked; don’t the thirty three million people that have aids read what the bible says about fornicating? If I wanted to fornicate I would buy a plastic blow-up doll. (There is nothing in the bible about plastic). My friend tells me not to buy one because he was cheated. He blew her up in the bedroom and bit her on the teat. She farted and flew out the window never to seen again.

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