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Author Re: Social Stigma !
Alex

2005-03-29, 6:22 pm


Hey creepie,

Stop using my e-mail address.

I fully understand that you want to be me, because it must suck being you.

Alex


"Bong" <avdeelen.REMOFE@wanadoo.nl> schreef in bericht news:3apggaF6ci11vU1@individual.net...
>
> "Alex" <bannie2020@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:42448470$1$69136$dbd49001@news.wanadoo.nl...
>
> 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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