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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / AIDS / November 2007'Experts' call for more HIV testing
In a desperate attempt to get the number of HIV cases moving in an upward direction again, HIV 'experts' have called for more 'HIV testing' to be done. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7113535.stm>: ----- Begin Quote ----- More than 300 European health experts are calling for earlier HIV testing to tackle increasing infection rates. [...] One proposal being considered is for wider testing for people considered to be low-risk. ----- End Quote -----  Signature<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/> Moible: +447939991519 "Martin" <martin@hiv-poz.co.uk> wrote in message > In a desperate attempt to get the number of HIV cases moving in an > upward direction again, HIV 'experts' have called for more 'HIV [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > One proposal being considered is for wider testing for people > considered to be low-risk. An attempt to get the white heterosexual population thinking everyone is at an equal risk. > In a desperate attempt to get the number of HIV cases moving in an > upward direction again, HIV 'experts' have called for more 'HIV > testing' to be done. > > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7113535.stm>: > ... Just a remark: "... high-profile Aids campaigns in the 1980s" Thats interesting, SanHolo tried to tell me, the campaigns where high-profile from the beginning of the 1990s, which made figures collapse. Obviously absurd. Max >> In a desperate attempt to get the number of HIV cases moving in an >> upward direction again, HIV 'experts' have called for more 'HIV [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >Obviously absurd. The whole case for HIV is absurd. Here in the UK in the 1980s HIV was considered so important that the government sent a leaflet to every home to terrify people about the 'virus.' Skip ahead twenty years and we find the number of people 'diagnosed HIV+' in the UK is tiny. Does that mean the leafleting campaign worked and persuaded people to 'take precautions' when they have sex? Certainly not. The UK has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the world, and STD rates are at an all-time high. HIV is so unimportant here that now government campaigns about 'safe sex' don't even mention it. Signature<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/> Moible: +447939991519 > In a desperate attempt to get the number of HIV cases moving in an > upward direction again, HIV 'experts' have called for more 'HIV > testing' to be done. > > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7113535.stm>: > ... The article is a classical example of misinformation. Germany's AIDS cases drop since 1994. Since 1998 the epidemics is over and the rate of decline since 1998 stabilized at about 1.5% each year. In other words, we had about 600 cases in 1998 and we have about 500 cases per year now. This is fact (according to WHO)! Moreover we should be aware, we can not measure the number of new infections. We can only measure the number of positive test results. Robert-Koch-Institut (RKI) provides the 'number of ascertained first diagnosis' but this number obviously is not the number of new infections. What is published as 'number of new cases' is a _very_ rough estimate. A few percent change in this very rough estimate should not make us nervous. The total number of HIV cases, as published by RKI is the same in 1998 as today, thus we don't have an increase in HIV - this is fact according to the renown RKI! So, Martin, you are perfectly right, this article is propaganda. Max P.S. The situation is very similar in the huge european countries.
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