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"Alex" <bannie2020@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:42448470$1$69136$dbd49001@news.wanadoo.nl...
> "Moira de Swardt" <moira.deswardt@wol.co.za> schreef in bericht
> news:9-Sdnbukms8BvdnfRVn-uQ@is.co.za...
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> However, it doesn't take a whole lot to see that this so-called
> HIV epidemic makes no sense statistically. Or that the extent
> of this "epidemic" is very easy to overstate. Or that misdiagnosis
> is very, very easy.
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> Alex
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/...storyId=4507049
A new report from South Africa shows a 57 percent increase in AIDS deaths
over the last five years. But there is continuing debate over the real
number of AIDS deaths in South Africa, where social stigma keeps people from
listing AIDS on death certificates.
http://www.statssa.gov.za/news_archive/3feb2005_1.asp
The data cannot provide the number of deaths due to HIV/Aids. It does,
however, provide information on the number of cases where HIV/Aids is
directly recorded on the form as the cause of death.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/stor...1410619,00.html
South Africa told to admit size of Aids crisis
The South African government is still in denial over the scale of the Aids
crisis, it is alleged today following revelations that the true death toll
is three times the official figures.
Researchers backed by the South African Medical Research Council have
discovered that most Aids deaths are misclassified because of the stigma
attached to the disease. Death certificates omit any mention of HIV/Aids,
giving the final HIV-related infection such as tuberculosis or pneumonia as
the cause of death.
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