Luanda – The director-general of Eduardo dos Santos Foundation (FESA), João de Deus, said Tuesday, in Luanda, that the number of children that dies of intake of inappropriate water in the world is larger than those killed by war’s Hiv-Aids, malaria and road accident.
João de Deus was addressing in his capacity as host for the 14th FESA events.
He on the occasion cited Maude Barlow, in his book “water-blue covenant” that states that as the ecological crisis deepens, so does human crisis.
Water global crisis, he added, became a powerful symbol of the world’s growing inequality. While the rich drink high quality water, whenever they please, millions of poor people only drink contaminated water, which becomes a true evil of humanity.
To him, in addition to the urgent reflections in the scientific field, there is need for this problem to be addressed, which requires a political public health and ethic approach.
The event comprises four panels and during the four days the participants will tackle such topics as “Water and food for end of poverty”, “Water, sanitation and health for all”.
“Monitoring of indicators associated with the millennium goals”, “Water and climatic changes and natural disasters”, “Water, environmental impact and situation of scarcity” and “The future of water policy and global crisis of environment”, are some of the topics for the event.
Other topics are “Interactive tri-party dialogue between Government, civil society and science, aiming at mitigating and managing disasters”, “Cooperation for adequate management of trans-frontier hydraulic basins” and Preservation of natural ecosystems in the integrated management of water resources”.
“The role of underground waters with strategic water reserves”, “The importance of steering plans on water and sanitation in the success of the implementation of respective projects” and “Water for energy, energy for water” as well as “The financial model for construction of hydrometric monitoring infrastructures, supply of water and sanitation”, are other topics for the meeting.
According to the note, the event will receive addresses from Angolan, Portuguese, Brazilian, Italian, British, American, German, Canadian and Spanish lecturers and will include the topics “Public-private partnership in water management: experiences and opportunities”, “Institutional reform and regularisation as fundamental factor of water and sanitation services”, “Water, juridical reflexes of national and international institutional scope” and the “Role of tariffs in water services”.
To learn more about HIV/AIDS and poverty watch House of Numbers.
Click here to see Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize Winner for discovering HIV discuss clean water being key for the body and that HIV may be able to be cleared naturally.
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Story source: http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/sociedade/2010/8/38/Inappropriate-water-kills-more-than-war-Hiv-Aids,e0f9dd10-f390-418e-87af-91a6841231d7.html
Showing posts with label AIDS Truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIDS Truth. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Meharry, ministers team up to fight HIV/AIDS in Nashville
Federal grants to support programs
By Andy Humbles • THE TENNESSEAN • June 7, 2010
HIV and AIDS isn’t an easy subject for churches.
Two federal grants, one to Metropolitan Interdenominational Church and one to Meharry Medical College, are designed to put churches and faith leaders in a position of leadership in the battle against HIV and AIDS.
Both are recipients of a Capacity Building grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Each grant will total nearly $2 million over five years.
Metropolitan Interdenominational and Meharry will operate independent models, but each with a heavy emphasis to equip clergy with the skills and expertise to establish successful HIV and AIDS prevention programs.
The grants are designed to involve health providers and Historically Black Colleges and Universities as well.“The church needs to be involved on several levels,’’ said the Rev. Sherman Tribble, pastor of New Visions Baptist in Donelson. “One is spreading the news that’s it’s an equal opportunity disease. Anyone who is human has the possibility of getting it.
But that there is also healing and hope. Who can say that better than the church?’’
It’s the third time Metropolitan Interdenominational has gotten a CDC grant. The church has been active in HIV and AIDS prevention for about 25 years now. Its first CDC grant was for four years and the second was for five. It’s Meharry’s first CDC grant of this kind.
The goal is to ultimately decrease AIDS and HIV numbers among African-Americans, which statistically has higher rates of infection in this country.
Metropolitan Interdenominational and Meharry work independently, but there will be collaboration.
‘Clergy Circles’’
A primary component of the Capacity Building grant has been to hold summits and forums all over the country on HIV and AIDS prevention strategies that will attract clergy to attend. The goal is to establish “clergy circles,’’ who will participate in a five-part curriculum based program.
The summits can attract 100-150 clergy and from those events hopes are about 30 will continue in the clergy circles.
“At the end of the curriculum-based program we hope we have established a level of commitment that will be sustainable,’’ Sanders said.
The present grant will continue establishing clergy circles with more intent on drawing from a regional area.
At the end of the last grant cycle Metropolitan Baptist had worked in 23 states, with programs established in Birmingham, Chicago, Clarksville, Savannah, Ga., Memphis and more.
The outreach is called MICTAN (Metropolitan Church Technical Assistance Network).
Sanders and MICTAN staff have most recently worked on establishment of a regional project in Rochester N.Y.
Another component of the church’s Capacity Building grant goes toward a relationship with divinity schools to help train future clergy. Metropolitan Interdenominational has primarily worked with the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington D.C. and American Baptist College in Nashville.
The church, with a congregation of about 350 on Sunday, has been active in numerous causes, including AIDS and HIV work.
One is a primary care clinic for HIV positive persons, funded by the church and Health Resource Service Administration under the Health and Human Services Department. The Capacity Building money does not go to the primary care clinic.
Project SAVED
Meharry’s model, named Project SAVED ((Strengthening Access Via Empowerment and Diligence), has a 22-member advisory committee of ministers, health care providers and historically Black College leaders to work in an 11-state Southern region.
These advisers will engage their communities in the 11-state region around the HIV and AIDS issue to develop new prevention programs, activities and testing opportunities.
Southern region states are Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Dr. Jacqueline Hampton, is the director of the Community Outreach Core at Meharry’s Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research. Hampton is the Project SAVED director and sought and attained the grant.
"We should see more communities addressing the issue,’’ Hampton said. “When you see more communities addressing HIV, hopefully you see decreased incidents.’’
Hampton felt Meharry’s location, the work its Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research has done and connections made with them ideally situated it to launch Project SAVED.
“We would have been remiss if we didn’t apply for the grant,’’ Hampton said. “What were trying to do is to grow the sphere of influence. We’re trying to penetrate areas that haven’t been penetrated.’’
Advisory committee members will engage other community stakeholders to train and enhance Core team members represent other areas of the region and travel to meet and conduct workshops.
One adviser is Sheila Dennie, the program coordinator for the National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center at Meharry, which is a separate program from Project SAVED.
“The community engagement model adds validity to the voice of the community,’’ Sheila Dennie, an adviser.
Tribble is among local pastors on the advisory team Meharry has established.
“Sometimes those from the medical community don’t have access to people in the faith community and sometimes we don’t have access to the medical community,’’ Tribble said. “It’s rare for a medical school to get involved … We may see it one way and other service providers see it another. But we’re all doing our part."
Source: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100607/DAVIDSON/100607058/Meharry-ministers-team-up-to-fight-HIV/AIDS-in-Nashville-
Note: House of Numbers premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in 2009.
Click here to read the Tennessean Review of HoN
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Remembering AIDS 2000 – Hope and Controversy in Durban
by Joe DeCapua
While much attention is being paid to South Africa as the host of Africa’s first World Cup, the nation also made history 10 years ago when it hosted the 13th International AIDS Conference. It was the first time the world’s largest AIDS gathering was held in a developing country and it changed the way future conferences would be held.
The theme of the 13th International AIDS Conference was “Break the Silence.” And at the opening ceremony in Durban, performers chanted “No” to the fear and reluctance to talk openly about HIV/AIDS, which had already killed millions.
Monumental task
The conference – known as AIDS 2000 – faced many obstacles. Could an African country host an international conference attracting thousands of participants? Would South Africa’s high crime rate scare people away? Would the idea of focusing more on the social aspects of the disease be successful?
We have a monumental task ahead of us. And there’s not a second to look back to our yesterdays, to look back at our fears and frustrations. We have no other choice but to go forward and to keep our minds on acting firmly on the knowledge we already have; and of uncovering new ideas and new knowledge on what should be done.”
AIDS 2000 chairman, Professor Gerry Coovadia, speaking on opening day, July 9th, 2000. Today, Dr. Coovadia, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, considers the legacy of the conference.
“Without exaggerating its impact, it certainly is considered one of the landmark AIDS conferences in the world. And that includes those that have been held recently. And I think the reason it is considered a landmark conference is that quite a number of issues came to the fore,” he said.
Denial
Controversy surrounded the Durban AIDS conference even before it opened. President Thabo Mbeki was at the center of it, skeptical a virus was the cause of HIV/AIDS. He said his position was based, in part, on a World Health Organization report that outlined the many health problems facing South Africa and other nations on the continent. Mbeki also said poverty was a major contributor to poor health.
It seemed to me that we could not blame everything on a single virus. It seemed to me also that every living African, whether in good or ill health, is prey to many enemies of health that would interact one upon the other in many ways within one human body,” said Mbeki.
Critics feared if President Mbeki appeared to doubt the link between HIV and the disease, people would not practice safe sex and use condoms.
“One of the questions I’ve asked is: are safe sex, condoms and antiretroviral drugs a sufficient response to the health catastrophes that we face?”
The debate and anger over the issue drew the attention of former South African President Nelson Mandela, who spoke at the closing ceremonies.
“So much unnecessary attention around this conference had been directed towards the dispute that is unintentionally distracting from the real life and death issues we are confronted with as a country,” said Mandela.
He said it would be wrong for the controversy to overshadow the goals of the 13th international AIDS Conference.
“This is not an academic conference. This is, as I understand it, a gathering of human beings concerned about turning around one of the greatest threats humankind has faced. And certainly, the greatest after the end of the great wars of the previous century,” Mandela said.
Professor Coovadia recalls Mbeki’s denial of the virus link and its consequences. “He disputed the efficacy of some of the (antiretroviral) drugs, which is in a way just as bad or even worse - because it prevented access to drugs, which could have been affordable at least to South Africa,” he said.
In the end, the words of Nelson Mandela became a battle cry for many at the Conference. “In the face of the great threat posed by HIV/AIDS, we have to rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save our people…. Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportion is unfolding in Africa,” he said.
Professor Coovadia said Mandel’s words affected him personally.
“I came as close to weeping as I possibly could. And I think more than that, you may not remember, there was an absolute, unqualified and spontaneous standing ovation for what Mr. Mandela said.
However, Coovadia describes the fight against HIV/AIDS during the Mbeki administration as the “worst years.” He says government policies delayed needed treatment and misinformed and confused the public.
Coovadia now serves on President Zuma’s 26-member National Planning Commission.
Many consider AIDS 2000 as the first major conference to put a human face on the epidemic. UNAIDS estimates about 60 million people worldwide have been infected with HIV since the epidemic began about 30 years ago. About 25 million have died from HIV-related illnesses. The vast majority of those living with and dying from HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa.
The next International AIDS Conference, the 18th, will be held in Vienna July 18th through the 23rd.
Watch House of Numbers to see more on the 2000 AIDS Conference and the AIDS debate.
The theme of the 13th International AIDS Conference was “Break the Silence.” And at the opening ceremony in Durban, performers chanted “No” to the fear and reluctance to talk openly about HIV/AIDS, which had already killed millions.
Monumental task
The conference – known as AIDS 2000 – faced many obstacles. Could an African country host an international conference attracting thousands of participants? Would South Africa’s high crime rate scare people away? Would the idea of focusing more on the social aspects of the disease be successful?
We have a monumental task ahead of us. And there’s not a second to look back to our yesterdays, to look back at our fears and frustrations. We have no other choice but to go forward and to keep our minds on acting firmly on the knowledge we already have; and of uncovering new ideas and new knowledge on what should be done.”
AIDS 2000 chairman, Professor Gerry Coovadia, speaking on opening day, July 9th, 2000. Today, Dr. Coovadia, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, considers the legacy of the conference.
“Without exaggerating its impact, it certainly is considered one of the landmark AIDS conferences in the world. And that includes those that have been held recently. And I think the reason it is considered a landmark conference is that quite a number of issues came to the fore,” he said.
Denial
Controversy surrounded the Durban AIDS conference even before it opened. President Thabo Mbeki was at the center of it, skeptical a virus was the cause of HIV/AIDS. He said his position was based, in part, on a World Health Organization report that outlined the many health problems facing South Africa and other nations on the continent. Mbeki also said poverty was a major contributor to poor health.
It seemed to me that we could not blame everything on a single virus. It seemed to me also that every living African, whether in good or ill health, is prey to many enemies of health that would interact one upon the other in many ways within one human body,” said Mbeki.
Critics feared if President Mbeki appeared to doubt the link between HIV and the disease, people would not practice safe sex and use condoms.
“One of the questions I’ve asked is: are safe sex, condoms and antiretroviral drugs a sufficient response to the health catastrophes that we face?”
The debate and anger over the issue drew the attention of former South African President Nelson Mandela, who spoke at the closing ceremonies.
“So much unnecessary attention around this conference had been directed towards the dispute that is unintentionally distracting from the real life and death issues we are confronted with as a country,” said Mandela.
He said it would be wrong for the controversy to overshadow the goals of the 13th international AIDS Conference.
“This is not an academic conference. This is, as I understand it, a gathering of human beings concerned about turning around one of the greatest threats humankind has faced. And certainly, the greatest after the end of the great wars of the previous century,” Mandela said.
Professor Coovadia recalls Mbeki’s denial of the virus link and its consequences. “He disputed the efficacy of some of the (antiretroviral) drugs, which is in a way just as bad or even worse - because it prevented access to drugs, which could have been affordable at least to South Africa,” he said.
In the end, the words of Nelson Mandela became a battle cry for many at the Conference. “In the face of the great threat posed by HIV/AIDS, we have to rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save our people…. Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportion is unfolding in Africa,” he said.
Professor Coovadia said Mandel’s words affected him personally.
“I came as close to weeping as I possibly could. And I think more than that, you may not remember, there was an absolute, unqualified and spontaneous standing ovation for what Mr. Mandela said.
However, Coovadia describes the fight against HIV/AIDS during the Mbeki administration as the “worst years.” He says government policies delayed needed treatment and misinformed and confused the public.
Coovadia now serves on President Zuma’s 26-member National Planning Commission.
Many consider AIDS 2000 as the first major conference to put a human face on the epidemic. UNAIDS estimates about 60 million people worldwide have been infected with HIV since the epidemic began about 30 years ago. About 25 million have died from HIV-related illnesses. The vast majority of those living with and dying from HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa.
The next International AIDS Conference, the 18th, will be held in Vienna July 18th through the 23rd.
Watch House of Numbers to see more on the 2000 AIDS Conference and the AIDS debate.
Monday, April 26, 2010
House of Numbers DVD Pre-orders Now Available -- Shipping July 20, 2010
House of Numbers is 89 minutes long, but for every minute in the documentary there exists nearly four times as much footage that could not be included in the optimum time-frame for a feature-length film. Drawing on this resource, the special Deluxe Edition explores in greater depth and more exacting detail the issues raised in the Standard DVD. This previously unseen footage brings into sharper focus the controversies and the cast of characters comprising the HIV/AIDS narrative; making it compelling viewing for anyone engaged by this fascinating and fateful "anatomy of an epidemic."
The Standard DVD Pre-order price is $19.95 and will include English Closed Captions, Spanish and German subtitles, and Stereo and 5.1 surround sound. The special features will include the HON theatrical trailer along with promo material we have released on the internet, such as the Luc Montagnier's extended interview.
The Standard DVD Pre-order price is $19.95 and will include English Closed Captions, Spanish and German subtitles, and Stereo and 5.1 surround sound. The special features will include the HON theatrical trailer along with promo material we have released on the internet, such as the Luc Montagnier's extended interview.
The Deluxe DVD Pre-Order price is $39.95. This includes the Standard DVD along with Two Additional DVDs with the following special features:
Behind-the-scenes Photos
Extended Interview Clips
Extended Interview Clips
23 Featurettes:
HIV Testing:
o HIV Testing 101
o The History and Evolution of HIV Testing
o The Morphing Fine Print of
HIV Test Package Inserts
o The Changing Criteria of Western Blot Testing
o Deciphering Test Results for False Positives
o Examining the “Gold Standard” for
HIV Diagnostic Tests
o HIV Testing in High Risk Versus
Low Risk Populations
o HIV Testing Campaigns
AIDS:
o The Bangui Definition - A Closer Look
o Bangui Redux: Abidjan and Caracas
o The Growing Family of AIDS Marker
Diseases and Indicators
o The Clinicians' Dilemma: Dr. Anthony Fauci and
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
o 1993 - CDC Adds the CD4 T-Cell Count Marker
o 1997 - CDC Tables 11 and 12
Addition by Subtraction
"Why I Began Questioning HIV" -
Five Skeptic's Stories
o Dr. Kary Mullis
o Rian Malan
o Neville Hodgkinson
o Dr. Rodney Richards
o Dr. Christian Fiala
A Second Look
o Profile: Dr. Robert Gallo
o Profile: Dr. Peter Duesberg
o History of Fabricated Scares and The CDC
o The Incarnation Children's Center:
A cautionary Tale
Currently we are offering NTSC, all region DVDs and will be providing PAL format shortly.
If you have any questions, please e-mail us at sales@houseofnumbers.com.
If you have any questions, please e-mail us at sales@houseofnumbers.com.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Blogger Review of House of Numbers
As someone who has followed the scientific debates regarding the cause of AIDS since the early 1990’s, I have reported on many of the controversies and inconsistencies with the existing causation hypotheses. Yes, that is right, there are multiple perspectives as to what causes the syndrome labeled as AIDS, even from within the well funded scientific orthodoxy. This, the film reveals.
Young filmmaker Brent Leung has done a remarkable job of allowing the scientists on all sides of this debate to describe their viewpoints in their own words so that the viewer can decide for himself the credibility or lack thereof of the information presented. How refreshing it is for a documentary film to treat its audience as if it is intelligent and capable of drawing reasonable conclusions, rather than being preached at as if we are all little children.
The calls for censorship of this film are outrageous. Beware those with conflicts of interest who appear offended for the mere suggestion that “they should wash their hands after cutting on cadavers before going into the next room to deliver babies.” Have we learned nothing since the time of Ignaz Semmelweis, much less Galileo?
House of Numbers is an important film at a time where we are rapidly running out of resources to chase a disease that may not actually be a disease at all. Yes, billions of dollars of potentially misallocated research funds are at stake, but so are the lives of potentially millions of immunocompromised inhabitants of planet earth.
If it is possible that conflicts of interest have covered up and prevented other avenues of research into immune dysfunction be explored, wouldn’t you want to know it?
Watch online Movie Trailer free House of Numbers English Hollywood Film.The film Directed by Brent Leung.
In my opinion, a good documentary film reveals many facets of its subject matter in ways that elevate interest throughout. A great documentary film allows its audience to draw its own conclusions. I sat riveted by House of Numbers. Three times. Dare I be so bold to posit that this may be the film to ignite a renaissance of scientific freedom and inquiry devoid of politics and economics?
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