The Cobsprcies Surrounding AIDS In Africa

“78% of the 37 million people with AIDS live in Africa.” (UNAIDS, September 2000)

The human immunodeficiency virus, better known as (HIV) which causes AIDS, has brought about a global epidemic far more extensive than what was predicted a decade ago. In the continent of Africa the disease has spread at a frighteningly rapid pace. Africa by far the hardest hit by the epidemic is under attack by the disease. According to 2000 estimates by UNAIDS, a group made up from the World Bank, and World Health Organization, 37 million people in the world have Aids, 28.5 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 19 Million Africans have died from complications of the Aids Virus. There were 6.4 million new Aids infections in 1999, 4 million of them in Africa, 2.8 million dead of Aids in 1999, 85 percent of them African’s, 13.2 Million children orphaned by Aids, 12.1 million of them Africans. It seems that disease is spreading uncontrollably through Africa due to a lack of education, and a strong distrust for the western world. Many Africans believe that Aids is another attempt for the West to depopulate Africa, some are calling it genocide. Theorists are telling African’s that the

The spread of HIV in Africa has been greatly enhanced by a number of conspiracy theories plaguing the continent. It has come to the point where it seems that the intimate denial of AIDS is increasing to a professional denial in much of the African community. Many African doctors and political officials question much of what we consider to be hard factual information here in the US. This is very intriguing and important. If the educated people of Africa are speaking out than the world should be listening. These theories deserve a great deal of research and attention because they are what a vast majority of Africans believe in. We will not have success in preventing AIDS in Africa without an understanding of these theories and the mindset of the Africans.

re is no such thing as HIV, or that HIV is a condition thrust upon them to depopulate the country. After years of apartheid, racism, and lies that does one believe? I want to take a closer look into the facts surrounding Africa and Aids as well as the theories and theorists that the world seems to be ignoring. I think that the truth lies between the two.

One theory contributing to the dangerous denial felt by many Africans is that HIV does not lead to AIDS. Professor Peter Duesberg introduced the world to the theory that HIV does not cause AIDS in 1987. His ideas were rejected by most scientists, but attracted a great deal of attention in the mainstream and gained respect in many different social and ethnic groups. There are many reasons why people readily believe myths or theories about this particular disease. The base of these reasons, in general is denial. However the Africans have more reason than most to believe that the Western world is trying to trick or harm them. To many Africans the issue of AIDS is much more political than medical. Millions of Africans have long memories of Western evils such as slavery, colonial exploitation, Cold War proxy battles and biological warfare tests carried out by more powerful regimes in their homeland.

Another theory believed by many Africans is that aids is a biological weapon gone wrong, or purposely used to destroy them. “Though we can’t say for sure that HIV was man made because we don’t as yet have the hard evidence to prove it, but looking at the circumstantial evidence, it appears like a US biological weapon program gone wrong,” Bafour Ankomah stated (Baffour, New African). An early Aids as biowarfare theory was based on the work of two East German scientists, Jakob and Lilli Segal. The Segal’s claimed that HIV could not have evolved naturally, that is was an artificial splice between two independent viruses. There have been many similar theories since the Segals none of which have been scientifically proven. In fact nearly all of them have been proven wrong. In brief the lack of knowledge of many human retroviruses before the late 1970’s and the compelling evidence for the early formation of HIV virtually eliminate the theory that scientists created the virus to destroy the immune systems of humans. (Tracking the Real Genocide,

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