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Germany's development minister said Friday the Group of Eight member states had agreed on a program worth more than $60 billion to combat the spread of HIV/AIDs in Africa.

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STONERS
June 8, 2007, 4:37 a.m.
That's just awesome...
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evelyna
June 8, 2007, 9 a.m.
Who wouldn't let me in Nutscape yesterday and the day before.
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beachboy6000
June 8, 2007, 10 a.m.
Now if Bono would stop going to great lengths to avoid paying taxes they would have had a few million more.
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Dionys
June 8, 2007, 12:15 p.m.
How long until Bush attaches "abstinence only" conditions to the US contribution, I wonder.
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djrevelky
June 8, 2007, 1:42 p.m.
Hmm...$60Billion down the drain. All of it will go to sex education and none of it force governments to quit telling lies about it. As long as they think you can cure AIDS by having sex with a virgin there will be an AIDS epidemic.
Instead of teaching about monogamy they will teach about condoms. Same boring stuff.
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TOtheMOON
June 8, 2007, 2:34 p.m.
I will always continue to feel any money towards saving a life from HIV/AIDS (especially children) - or any disease - will always have my blessings.
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invest07
June 8, 2007, 2:56 p.m.
Africa is not our problem.
Every Lib I talk to says that Africa's problems were caused by European colonialism. So we should leave Africa to the Europeans to solve.
We have enough problems of our own.
Don't send them a dime of our tax dollars.
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BOMANI07
June 8, 2007, 4:43 p.m.
AFRICA IS NOT DYING OF AIDS... is the title of a new article appearing in the prestigious London Spectator newspaper. Read in detail of the failure of the horrendous AIDS Pandemic to have any negative impact on African populations from newly-introduced killer STD's. Read the full story...
http://www.whatisaids.com/rollingstone.htm
http://www.libtv.com/7MAC/investigations/index.htm
Despite the overwhelming amount of propaganda to the contrary, a mass of available evidence shows that what most of us have been told about HIV and AIDS is not real science. In this book on AIDS The Establishment Confesses it's a Hoax! Can we get real and examin the facts for once?
http://www.libtv.com/7MAC/media/AIDS_Hoax_excer...
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aceofspades1
June 8, 2007, 6:15 p.m.
Peter Benchly, the author of Jaws was an advocate of benign interference in the life threatening problems such as disease, starvation etc, that plague many parts of the world. His justification for this philosophy is that it is just natural population control in areas that would not do it for themselves or were outgrowing their ability to sustain their populaces on their own.
Not a very altruistic philosophy, but one that works .
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aceofspades1
June 8, 2007, 6:22 p.m.
boman said
Despite the overwhelming amount of propaganda to the contrary, a mass of available evidence shows that what most of us have been told about HIV and AIDS is not real science. In this book on AIDS The Establishment Confesses it's a Hoax! Can we get real and examin the facts for once?
I AM SICK TO SH*T of all the posters who, because they read an article somewhere they become the greatest scientists on earth & cast doubt on years of scientific research by qualified people.
This applies to global warming WTC conspiracies, this crap Boman repeats.
Just pick & choose the scientific facts that you wish - & go on living in Wonderland.
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FRICKANDFRACK
June 8, 2007, 7:54 p.m.
So easy for our "altruistic" leaders to confiscate my property and give it to their favorite charities yet again,and I have to ask where in our Constitution can they point to any article that gives them this right.If our esteemed humanitarians want to raise money for their charity of choice hold a telethon but leave my money alone and I will decide on the charities I support.
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FRICKANDFRACK
June 8, 2007, 8:53 p.m.
"I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. [To approve the measure] would be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."
-- President Franklin Pierce's 1854 veto of a measure to help the mentally ill.
In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
-- James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)
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FRICKANDFRACK
June 8, 2007, 8:53 p.m.
"I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit."
-- President Grover Cleveland vetoing a bill for charity relief (18 Congressional Record 1875 [1877]
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Sideways_28
June 8, 2007, 9:25 p.m.
dionys, abstinence is not necessarily a religious ideoligy, monogamy and abst. before marriage are but not just abstinence. as for the scientific proof of safe sex, well, that's not all that scientific, but abstinence is with out a doubt the best choice for the stop of spreading the virus. In Africa and the U.S.
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nostalgia
June 8, 2007, 11:29 p.m.
Many groups and international agencies are distributing condoms in Africa. What they have failed to do is adequate education and getting tribal elders to understand the importance. Condom use runs counter to the common taboos and customs in many tribes - they simply throw away the free condoms
An Australian study done to look at the links between circumcision and AIDS also turned up an interesting statistic
A group of HIV researchers strongly argue that the major cause of HIV infection in Africa is unsafe health care, especially non-sterile injections. They have published letters and articles in the HIV/AIDS medical literature to build their case. Only about 30% of the HIV epidemic in Africa would be attributed to heterosexual contacts. Most are caused by unsafe medical procedures. If their hypothesis is correct, then a large number of studies (trying to prove that intact men with normal anatomy are the reason for the high incidence of HIV infection in Africa) would be invalidated.
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Bixx
June 9, 2007, 1:04 p.m.
Aids is a disease that effects everyone. What many ppl do not understand is the Govt in Africa. The Govt itself does nothing to Aid in the prevention of Aids or HIV. The people rely on outside private non-profits to come in and educate, test, offer drugs. The disease is rampamnt in Africa. Aids " No Question" needs attention where it be Africa or America. Aids has no boundries. Anything that projects " Hope and Effort" is a positive to this war - unsung.