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Published Date: 19 July 2008
ROCK star Annie Lennox has launched a scathing attack on the South African government for the way it is dealing with the AIDS crisis.
The former Eurythmics singer, who is due to appear at the Scottish Parliament next month as part of the Festival of Politics, said the South African administration's response to the pandemic was a debacle and the crisis was similar to the concentration camps of the Second World War.

Following some mercy work the 53-year-old undertook recently, she said she was appalled by the situation in the area.

The singer said the issue of HIV/Aids in southern Africa was a question of human rights. She reportedly said: "When it comes to the pandemic, it is on such a scale that unless you have a direct experience and have visited the country and seen for yourself, it's almost beyond imagination."





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  • Last Updated: 19 July 2008 10:38 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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joppa jock,

Huntingdon 19/07/2008 13:14:26
No doubt Annie Lennox is sincere in her concerns, but what is it about famous show-biz personalities that makes them think we should all sit up and take notice when they decide to spout about Aids, poverty and hardship in Africa. We all know the problems exist, but we also know that corruption is rife throughout the continent with too many of their leaders more interested in lining their own pockets than being concerned about their people.
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Gere,

Scotland 19/07/2008 18:05:39
Problem is Mbeki though the graduate of a British University does not believe HIV is the causative agent of AIDS.

His health Minister, a Doctor Tshabala Msingman stated at the Montreal conference a few years ago that AIDS is caused by poverty. She advocated garlic and beetroot as being effective against AIDS.

Now you know why she is known internationally as Dr Beetroot.

Mbeki is reported to believe that AIDS does not exist except as a slur against black people, infering that they cannot conyrol themselves.

Anti-white Racism plays a part in Africa's tragic AIDS situation!
3

t0msawyer,

UK 22/07/2008 07:34:48
Hundreds of Doctors, Professors and others in the medical profession are questioning the so called link between HIV and the eventual death from AIDS. Many of them from Western Universities

For decades people on the African continent have died from wasting diseases caused by poor diet, malnutrition and repeated parasitic invasion, its just that now when they die they are labeled Aids victims.
The sad thing is the causes are preventable but the governments need to get there acts together. Personally I don't believe any African needs a white westerner to tell them how to live there lives.
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Gere,

Scotland 22/07/2008 14:40:06
Post #3

No sane, mainstream medical practitioner doubts HIV is the causative agent of AIDS!
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t0msawyer,

uk 22/07/2008 19:41:07
I guess no 'sane medical practitioner' would have thought thalidomide was dangerous, or what was that thing in Japan called, they kept looking for a virus when it was later discovered to be the drug the patients were receiving, forget the name now but I'll try and dig it up.

Your lazy put down is symptomatic of a lazy brain.
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t0msawyer,

uk 22/07/2008 20:25:44
Subacute Myelo-Optico-Neuropathy (SMON)in Japan
the diarrhea-fighting drugs prescribed for problems of the digestive tract - the early symptom of SMON were later shown to be creating the polio like symptoms.
Thats the one!

'Insane' medical practitioners were brushed aside while the stampede went on to spend 15years looking for a non existing virus.

 

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