U N Exaggerates Aids Crisis

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UN Exaggerates AIDS Crisis and Ignores Real Solutions, According to New Paper

Posted By Austin Ruse On December 27, 2008 @ 12:00 am In Pro-Life | No Comments

In a paper just published by the highly respected National Catholic Bioethics Center, noted United Nations (UN) scholar Douglas Sylva accuses the UN of playing sexual politics with the global AIDS crisis, thereby exacerbating the problem.Writing in the current issue of “Ethics and Medics,” Sylva — a Senior Fellow with C-FAM, publisher of the Friday Fa –charges the UN with exaggerating the crisis with highly inflated numbers and then ignoring the most obvious response, behavior modification.

Sylva points out that in 2006 Peter Piot, head of the UN specialized agency on AIDS, announced that “the pandemic and its toll are outstripping the worst predictions.” UNAIDS then believed there were 40 million people infected worldwide. A year later, Piot’s agency announced the number was seven million fewer than thought and that the number of new infections had peaked ten years earlier.

Sylva writes that the discrepancy was because “the UN tested patients at urban sexual health clinics — people who had reason to fear that they were infected — and then extrapolated the findings to the general population. This would be like estimating a nation’s lung cancer rate by testing only chain smokers. Of course the numbers would be too high.”

Sylva charges that “this ordinary deviation from sound thinking in the case of AIDS is joined by the extraordinary: AIDS is unique because, as a deadly pandemic spread mainly through promiscuous sexual activity, it threatens some of the most cherished modern norms concerning sexual liberation. So to promote the most obvious response to such a pandemic — do not engage in promiscuous sexual activity — would in essence be a capitulation, an admission that the dream of consequence-free sexual activity was not only impossible, but perhaps at least partly responsible for the scourge.”

In order to protect the sexual revolution, the UN’s response, followed by elites at major foundations, donor nations and non-governmental organizations, was to introduce what Sylva calls “the lowly condom.” Sylva writes, “The United Nations launched a massive, worldwide, comprehensive sex education and condom distribution campaign. It has been joined by just about every other institution involved in international development: the European Union, individual nations, foundations, and non-governmental organizations. This, despite the fact that any significant level of protection would require condoms to be available in their billions, at all possible times and at all possible places, to be used 100 percent of the time, and to be used correctly 100 percent of the time. Nonetheless, condoms and their many imperfections were sold to the people of the developing world as ’safe sex.’ The nations that embraced this program most emphatically, such as South Africa, saw infection rates continue to soar.”

Finally Sylva charges that the AIDS crisis “has been used as an excuse to ensconce the norms of the sexual revolution in international law, and to establish these norms as new universal rights. The UN has claimed that AIDS is spread because of a lack of human rights recognition for ‘vulnerable’ populations-women prostitutes and ‘men who have sex with men.’” Sylva warns that many of these ideas are found in something called the “International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights,” a document that calls for complete sexual freedom, including adultery, sodomy, fornication and prostitution. The Guidelines have been repeatedly rejected at the UN.


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[CatherineM]

Why is it that people talk about sexual freedom and depravity in the same sentence. True sexual freedom should include the freedom from worrying about catching a disease that can kill you. I'm free because I never have those worries. Monogamy is very freeing.

[Mercy me]

The UN keeps saying this stuff. they collect huge amounts of money to "fix" the problem. And yet the rest of the world never catches on to the fact that they are repeatedly crying wolf.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1740537' date='Jan 1 2009, 12:03 PM']Why is it that people talk about sexual freedom and depravity in the same sentence. True sexual freedom should include the freedom from worrying about catching a disease that can kill you. I'm free because I never have those worries. Monogamy is very freeing.[/quote]
People these days just can't seem to understand that obediance to God is the most truly freeing act of all.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1741218' date='Jan 1 2009, 11:03 PM']People these days just can't seem to understand that obediance to God is the most truly freeing act of all.[/quote]

I made that argument in my Christology class last semester. Had a running feud with a woman who's a Lutheran and seems to want to convert everyone in the seminary to her denomination. She's got a PhD in English and tutors people in writing papers, and I think access to clients is the only reason she goes to school there, either that or to torment me.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1741233' date='Jan 1 2009, 11:30 PM']I made that argument in my Christology class last semester. Had a running feud with a woman who's a Lutheran and seems to want to convert everyone in the seminary to her denomination. She's got a PhD in English and tutors people in writing papers, and I think access to clients is the only reason she goes to school there, either that or to torment me.[/quote]
Why do the Lutherans disagree?

[CatherineM]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1741240' date='Jan 1 2009, 11:39 PM']Why do the Lutherans disagree?[/quote]

We were fighting about how obeying the rules can be liberating. I don't know if all Lutherans would disagree, but this one sure did.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1741241' date='Jan 1 2009, 11:43 PM']We were fighting about how obeying the rules can be liberating. I don't know if all Lutherans would disagree, but this one sure did.[/quote]
Hm, interesting.
Do we have a church of Christian Anarchy hanging around somewhere?

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1741247' date='Jan 2 2009, 05:55 AM']Hm, interesting.
Do we have a church of Christian Anarchy hanging around somewhere? [/quote]
In a matter of speaking, yes. A friend from college is a Christian anarchist, and is involved with a house church.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' post='1741278' date='Jan 2 2009, 02:36 AM']In a matter of speaking, yes. A friend from college is a Christian anarchist, and is involved with a house church.[/quote]

That's that Tolstoy thing? At least they are non-violent. The regular kind of anarchists in Greece are having a field day right now.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1741440' date='Jan 2 2009, 05:20 PM']That's that Tolstoy thing? At least they are non-violent. The regular kind of anarchists in Greece are having a field day right now.[/quote]
I'm not sure of the specifics, but yeah, the non-violent types. My friend kinda confuses me, because he was gung-ho about this monastery for a while, even though he's not Catholic, and is now into Christian anarchy. Yet he still likes to follow a Liturgical calendar, and said he recently came to understand that the Eucharist should be the centre of any service. But still not Catholic.

[Nihil Obstat]

I guess in theory Christian anarchy could function, but not any chance in today's society.
...Also probably wouldn't be the ideal system in any case.

"Anarchy in the UK" anyone? Love that song.

[philothea]

When I got married (20 years ago) the state required an AIDS test...

After a couple years of that, they learned that statistically, people getting married are the least likely demographic of all to have AIDS. Nitwits.

[tinytherese]

Uganda, the country that has had the most effectiveness in preventing AIDS doesn't use condoms but instead abstinence education. You'd think that others would catch on to that. Honestly there is no such thing as "safe" sex. You may be less likely to contract a disease or get pregnant but to be protected from such circumstances is only possible using chastity and NFP.

[CatherineM]

That's interesting about Uganda.