Bush and HIV/AIDS
Izzy Sommers, MD[retired]
7-140 Elmview Street, West
Welland, ON L3C 4K7, Canada
TELEPHONE: 905-788-2237
EMAIL: canadizzy@yahoo.ca
Thursday, December 1, 2005
The Editor, The Welland Tribune
228 East Main Street
Welland, ON L3B 5P5, Canada
TELEPHONE: 905-732-2411
EMAIL: tribune@wellandtribune.ca
RE: Wake up folks...
Dear Editor and Staff,
Today is WORLD AIDS DAY. The problem is urgent. There are now over 40 million infected people worldwide. Death rates are high and not declining except in 2 countries, one of which is Brazil. The antibiotics do not kill the AIDS virus. A vaccine is yet to be developed. Thousands die daily. The threat is the economic breakdown of even the most civilized countries. In less wealthy nations, economic and social breakdowns are already occurring. The World Health Organization, Health agencies of the United Nations, and Health officials in practically every country in the world agree. They recommend the use of condoms, along with a universal educational programme, as the only effective way presently known to slow down the infection rate. Brazil is particularly proud of it’s programme involving governmental condom advice and universal education of it’s citizens. It has one of the only set of results, in the entire world, showing a decline in the incidence of the deadly disease.
Therefore, it is particularly illogical for President Bush, controller of the wealthiest country in the world, to promise aid with the proviso that birth control and condom advice not be given. His recommendation is abstinence. In the face of valid and extensive studies which show that recommendation of abstinence NEVER stops the spread of HIV/AIDS, this seems completely inappropriate. I hesitate to accuse the powers that be of stupidity or of misinformation. I hesitate to say that this is equivalent to malpractice or malfeasance in the medical and legal sense. I’m not sure I would hesitate to say that Bush is following his evangelistic tendencies and his divine direction, which are apparently that which led him to the Presidency of the USA and the Invasion of Iraq. Surely, it is not a willful and purposeful recommendation designed to allow HIV/AIDS to spread unhindered. Even by Evangelistic standards, that would be devilish, eh?
Thank you for listening.
Sincerely,
Izzy Sommers.
7-140 Elmview Street, West
Welland, ON L3C 4K7, Canada
TELEPHONE: 905-788-2237
EMAIL: canadizzy@yahoo.ca
Thursday, December 1, 2005
The Editor, The Welland Tribune
228 East Main Street
Welland, ON L3B 5P5, Canada
TELEPHONE: 905-732-2411
EMAIL: tribune@wellandtribune.ca
RE: Wake up folks...
Dear Editor and Staff,
Today is WORLD AIDS DAY. The problem is urgent. There are now over 40 million infected people worldwide. Death rates are high and not declining except in 2 countries, one of which is Brazil. The antibiotics do not kill the AIDS virus. A vaccine is yet to be developed. Thousands die daily. The threat is the economic breakdown of even the most civilized countries. In less wealthy nations, economic and social breakdowns are already occurring. The World Health Organization, Health agencies of the United Nations, and Health officials in practically every country in the world agree. They recommend the use of condoms, along with a universal educational programme, as the only effective way presently known to slow down the infection rate. Brazil is particularly proud of it’s programme involving governmental condom advice and universal education of it’s citizens. It has one of the only set of results, in the entire world, showing a decline in the incidence of the deadly disease.
Therefore, it is particularly illogical for President Bush, controller of the wealthiest country in the world, to promise aid with the proviso that birth control and condom advice not be given. His recommendation is abstinence. In the face of valid and extensive studies which show that recommendation of abstinence NEVER stops the spread of HIV/AIDS, this seems completely inappropriate. I hesitate to accuse the powers that be of stupidity or of misinformation. I hesitate to say that this is equivalent to malpractice or malfeasance in the medical and legal sense. I’m not sure I would hesitate to say that Bush is following his evangelistic tendencies and his divine direction, which are apparently that which led him to the Presidency of the USA and the Invasion of Iraq. Surely, it is not a willful and purposeful recommendation designed to allow HIV/AIDS to spread unhindered. Even by Evangelistic standards, that would be devilish, eh?
Thank you for listening.
Sincerely,
Izzy Sommers.
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