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AIDS conference chief lashes out at world leadersVIENNA (AP) - The head of an international AIDS conference says world leaders lack the political will to ensure that everyone infected with the disease gets treatment.
Julio Montaner—the president of the International AIDS Society and chairman of the AIDS 2010 conference—says the G-8 group of rich nations has failed to deliver on a pledge to guarantee so-called universal access.
Montaner also accused governments from some Eastern European states of indifference to the dire situations in their countries and said their absence at the Vienna meeting was "irresponsible to the point of criminal negligence."
He spoke Sunday shortly before the opening ceremony of the weeklong conference that is expected to draw thousands of experts, advocates and policymakers.
In reality, not everyone who gets aids contracts it because they willingly took a sexual risk. Do you believe in death panels? Because essentially you are saying that we shouldn't treat people because they willingly accepted aids. Regardless, should the G-8 nations not live up to their promises regarding aids treatments? Sure it's expensive, but what is money when compared to human life? The poorest in wealthy countries are also the fattest in their countries (especially in America). Africa is where the aids epidemic is the most widespread and devastating. Those nations are poor, and many are run by dictators and corrupt governments. We should be making every effort to help these people and to keep our word and provide universal aids treatments. So essentially, poor Africans deserve to die because they chose to contract aids? Many contract aids via rape. In a class I took last semester we looked at African cultures, and in many of them the witch doctors tell them the cure for aids is to have sex with a virgin. So people should be deemed as "unworthy" for treatment because they all has risky sex with aids infected individuals? So then you do support death panels?
Matthew 25:41-45
Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.'
It always makes me laugh when conservatives like to tote the religious line ALL ****ING DAY but don't understand give the slightest effort to undersatnd its message.
No they don't, but giving money to fund aids relief does.
Actually infection rates are decreasing and slowing down.
No they don't, but giving money to fund aids relief does. It's also true that there's no ****ing way Jesus would have liked conservative's lack of compassion and social welfare.
You know the risks, you get it, too ****ing bad.
The world can't keep paying for the irresponsible, irrational, immature and selfish behavior of people.
Besides, this has far less to do with "helping people" as Julio Montaner claims, and more to do with the free flow of cash into "Aid" organizations.
Nothing is stopping people from giving to CHARITIES, which is the Christian way of caring. Gov't funded slush funds.... no, that is just pure failure.
Except that charities cannot negotation reduced or at cost retrovirus deals.
Except that charities cannot negotation reduced or at cost retrovirus deals.
AIDS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAIDS is now a pandemic. In 2007, it was estimated that 33.2 million people lived with the disease worldwide, and that AIDS killed an estimated 2.1 million people, including 330,000 children. Over three-quarters of these deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa.
so after hurricane katrina, some of you would not have cared if only private charities had helped, or if no other countries offered assistance for the oil spill, and if the government did nothing during the pig flu outbreak, no money should have been given by governments after the asian tsunami,as private charities should be able to deal with it?
the aids pandemic in africa is so much bigger than those 4 events.
AIDS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and you think the red cross can just make that go away if you give a few dollars a month?
I'll care about Africans when poverty and every social ill in the US is fixed first.
and you expect to get that done through private charity?
I'm a realist when it comes to poverty and the social ills in the US. I believe that no amount of government and private charity will be able to cure them. However, the effort should be made first in the US then anywhere else in the world.
so you think nothing can be done in the US, but refuse to help where it can make a difference.
I don't see Africans paying in taxes to the government here, so why should our tax dollars go to help them?
That's ridiculous, of course they can.
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