- UNAIDS and Micronutrient Therapy
- Posted by GMCarter
Forwarded message.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Drive to tackle ravages of Aids puts renewed
focus on the key importance of good nutrition
By James Morris and Peter Piot
Financial Times; Jul 10, 2004
From Mr James T. Morris and Mr Peter Piot.Sir, On the eve of the XV
International Aids conference starting tomorrow in Bangkok we
recognise that turning the tide on the epidemic requires a
comprehensive strategy. We need to address the link between nutrition
and Aids.Sub-Saharan Africa is home to three-quarters of people living
with Aids and, in southern Africa, life expectancy has plummeted. Up
to 60 per cent of today's 15-year-olds will not reach their 60th
birthday if urgent action is not taken.Aids has exacerbated the hunger
endemic to many sub-Saharan African countries, compounding the effects
of poverty, conflict and instability. More than 7m farmers have
already been lost.The relationships between food insecurity and Aids
in many parts of the world has become increasingly clear over the past
decade, along with the acknowledgment that Aids is much more than a
health problem. Aids is both a cause and a consequence of widespread
hunger and malnutrition. A nutritious diet containing adequate
protein, energy, vitamins and minerals is vital for people with HIV to
maintain strength and help keep opportunistic infections at bay.The
World Health Organisation recently urged a renewed focus on nutrition
as a fundamental part of comprehensive packages of care at the country
level. Clean water and sound nutrition are also critical to maximise
the effectiveness of anti-retroviral treatment.While food is clearly
not the panacea, many families affected by Aids in resource-poor
settings cite food as their greatest need. We need to listen to them.
James T. Morris, World Food Programme Peter Piot, UNAIDS
Copyright The Financial Times Ltd
- Posted by PaulKing
"Aids is both a cause and a consequence of widespread hunger and
malnutrition."
As we have been saying all along "AIDS' is a new name for poverty not a
viral std.
Hunger does not transmit a virus and therefore cannot be a 'cause' if
'AIDS' were an std.
Glad that is clear now.
- Posted by PaulKing
Only the poor get so called 'AIDS'.
Japan, Canada, Holland, Denmark - Lots of sex - Almost no 'AIDS'.
AIDS=POVERTY not an std.
- Posted by David Canzi -- non-mailable address
In article <7fe45cea1d81fc4c133bc988059e8a3c@localhost.talkab outhealthnetwork.com>,
PaulKing <aimulti@aimultimedia.com> wrote:
Rock Hudson was poor?
--
David Canzi "Do not let superstition inhibit your actions."
-- Jeane Dixon, horoscope for Virgo, May 17, 1990.
- Posted by GMCarter
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:36:04 -0400, "PaulKing"
<aimulti@aimultimedia.com> wrote:
Nonsense. AIDS is a separate distinct entity. However, there are CLEAR
relationships with poverty.
I agree, though this is a truly syntactically challenged statement.
Hunger does not transmit viruses. However, it does induce behavior
changes. Men will go to work in a mine, far from their wives and
families. Women and men may seek to undertake sex work to earn money
(a serious problem that arose after horrific fallout from structural
adjustment programs). People may get into drugs from despair and/or
from the desire to make money selling them. Needles may be shared.
From this poverty arises the opportunity for viruses like HIV to move
through populations.
Malnutrition accelerates HIV disease progression. HIV, even in the
context of a good diet and available food, uses up bodily resources,
damages digestive function and this explains in party the observed
decline in micronutrient status of an array of vitamins and minerals.
A simple multivitamin then it is little wonder, can delay progression
significantly.
George M. Carter
- Posted by GMCarter
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:37:47 -0400, "PaulKing"
<aimulti@aimultimedia.com> wrote:
LOL. Where is your data for THAT idiotic statement???
- Posted by PaulKing
Take a look at the stats for America.
African Americans have 200 times the chance of getting 'AIDS' as
Caucasians.
Hispanics have 150 times the chance.
In the rest of the World we see highly sexually active countries like
Japan, Holland, Denmark and Canada with NO AIDS but poor countries like SA
with high 'AIDS'.
'AIDS' is so clearly poverty renamed.
If it was an std the picture would be almost the reverse.
Do you really thing African American are having sex 70 a day?
If so I'm off to the tanning parlour.
George, you are such an idiot and so blind to the facts.
It is quite amazing.
- Posted by GMCarter
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:02:54 -0400, "PaulKing"
<aimulti@aimultimedia.com> wrote:
Denmark does have AIDS. Happily it is low. Probably because they have
more discussion of safer sex practices, access to condoms, etc.
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/global?page=cr10-da-00
Among MSM, the rates can be high in other countries. For example,
"Sex between men remains an important aspect of the epidemic in most
Western European countries, with studies indicating HIV prevalence
levels of 10-20% among some groups of men who have sex with men. In
Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands, it is the most common
mode of HIV transmission. Meanwhile, the resurgence of other sexually
transmitted infections in Western Europe points to a revival of
high-risk sexual behaviour-especially among young men who have sex
with men. Studies at sexually transmitted infection clinics have found
HIV prevalence of 15% among men who have sex with men in Amsterdam and
10% in London. The prevention programmes that had achieved notable
success in limiting HIV transmission in the 1990s, especially among
men who have sex with men, appear to have been shifted to the back
burner in many high-income countries."
see http://www.eu2004.ie/templates/docum...le.asp?id=5855
In other words, you make stuff up as you go along.
George M. Carter
