THE SOCIAL TERRORIST, The Day AIDS Became A Global Threat! A Novel by Joseph P. Chaddock

THE SOCIAL TERRORIST
Written by Joseph P. Chaddock 1
The Social Terrorist

T TH HE ED DA AY YA AIID DS SB BE EC CA AM ME EA AG GL LO OB BA AL LT TH HR RE EA AT T
Written by Joseph P. Chaddock,
Table of Contents
Foreword: Dr. Phillip Goudeaux, Senior Pastor Prologue: .. 2 3-6 7-17 18-25 26-30 31-48 49-52 53-59 60-70 71-80 81-88 89 90-109 111
.... The AIDS Conspiracy Fallen Beauty Queen ................. ...... .... ..
Chapter One: Chapter Two:
Chapter Three: I AM a Social Terrorist?
Chapter Four: The World Discovers Operation H2 Q Chapter Five: Chapter Six: The Great AIDS Hoax The Thin, Tall Bald Man
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Chapter Seven: The CNN World Interview Chapter Eight: The Final Conquest Conclusion:
The FACTS OF LIFE Have Changed
Dedication to Nelson Mandela ...

The ORPHANS OF AIDS Picture Gallery .
A word about the Author, Joseph P. Chaddock

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Hosanna Publishing
Foreword
By Dr. Phillip Goudeaux Welcome to Joseph P. Chaddocks new book titled THE SOCIAL TERRORIST: THE DAY AIDS BECAME A GLOBAL THREAT. In this insightful and educational book, you will come face to face with one of the worlds greatest political, medical and social-economical threats of our society today. This is not some boring book filled with statistics. Rather this book, written like no other book, is a chilling mystery novel that will allow you to interact with the real victims that are impacted by HIV/AIDS who we dont always see or hear about. AIDS affects every one of us in some capacity or another. In this book, Dr. Chaddock shares solid educational recommendations and suggestions that will assist us with minimizing the spread of AIDS. This book is a cry for government officials, religious leaders and society as a whole to drop their differences, band together and make the necessary changes to work toward the solution. I pray that our hearts be filled with compassion; knitted together open to receive information that would help us work toward a positive solution. Dr. Phillip G. Goudeaux, Sr. Pastor Calvary Christian Center, Sacramento, CA
Written by Joseph P. Chaddock,
Prologue
New York City, Sometime in the not too distant future The story that raced across the Associated Press wire broke quickly and immediately hit every major news network: Two Bulgarian scientists are found murdered in South Africa. Documents tying them to perpetrating the biggest cover-up of all-time were discovered. It claims they manufactured an AIDS-type virus in the 1970s and are the ones responsible for deliberately infecting countless numbers of unsuspecting people with AIDS at random intervals. AIDS is a Global Killer that continues to raise more questions than provide answers. Entire medical journals, dissertations and novels have been written concerning the Origin of AIDS, and still, no one knows for sure where AIDS come from. ALTHOUGH no one believes it is possible someone so twisted would intentionally do such a heinous thing, this new situation still raises the question: Not so much where did AIDS come from? But more importantlywhere AIDS is really going?
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The police investigating the murders make this statement: All we know for sure is that we are living in the most extreme time in history when suicide terrorists strap bombs upon their bodies and kill countless thousands of innocent people. The same society of people also design rogue computer viruses and release them into the worldwide web causing senseless mayhem and damage, shutting down entire main-frame systems around the world. Moreover today with the threat of Eco Terrorism, Bio Terrorism and Suicide Bombers, anything is possible! There have been stories before of an AIDS cover-up, but none perhaps as sinister as the one that looms like a silent tsunami on the horizon of society. Like the cruel-handed slap of fate, AIDS has already wiped-out entire generations of adults and has left over 18 million innocent children orphaned in its wake. Sadly AIDS has created the very first FATHERLESS GENERATION in history, whose parents are all dead only because of AIDS. Jake Card news-reporter, lands the biggest story of the millennium I have often imagined that the biggest story of my career may possibly be about a natural disaster, so detrimental that it could obliterate entire blocks of the human population. But what I have never considered is that it would be from a completely preventable disease that we have known about for over 30 years and managed to ignore until it gained a voice loud enough to be heard, demanding attention. I was working in the situation room in our New York office on the day the story came across the AP wire. As an action news-reporter not many stories shock me, but this one was hard for me to believe. and it sent ripples of fear that pierced through my body. This is the Big One. Definitely wrath of God, end of the world type stuff here. I thought to myself as the impact of what this meant began to sink in.
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News Flash: AIDS HAS FINALLY EXCEEDED OUR CAPABILITY TO RECOVER FROM ECONOMICALLY, AND HAS BECOME THE WORST DISASTER EVER TO STRIKE SOCIETY. Our worst fears are now confirmed true: AIDS has become the greatest health and economic crisis known to man of any totally preventable disease. On that day, the shattering economic News spread quick and sent the stock market crashing by over 2500 points, as reports from pharmaceutical companies came in declaring that the 30 year search for an AIDS vaccine is over. No longer will the cure be sought. Backlash from their announcement causes mass pandemonium. As if AIDS isnt already bad enough, suddenly all systems of social/sexual protection from the disease stop leaving 400 hundred million people vulnerable to infection. In the blink of an eye powerful nations that once flourished are now left in ruins. All major cities are affected leaving no one unscathed. Everywhere you look its like seeing a suicide bombers disaster-zone. But this time ground zero is not one isolated incident, it is worldwide. Global Transport, World Trade and other services are all interrupted. Its as if someone dropped a Social A-Bomb called AIDS that made a direct hit upon the entire world all in one shot. The stock market crash is considered the worst in history and is compared to Black Friday and the Great Depression of 1929 all rolled into one. I am sent by my managing editor to write a feature article for ITS TODAY Magazine. Im to investigate the biggest story of humanity, to see if anyone can answer the largest health and economic pandemic ever to strike man. How in Gods name could we have been so foolish? How did we let something so totally preventable run its course right under the noses of our trusted top government officials, bringing this cataclysm upon society known for all ages as? T TH HE ED DA AY YA AIID DS SB BE EC CA AM ME EA AG GL LO OB BA AL LT TH HR RE EA AT T!!
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So, where should I begin to try and make sense of such a terrible disaster? My plane ticket will fly me to Central Africa where the search for an answer begins. God help us all!

T TH HE ED DA AY YA AIID DS SB BE EC CA AM ME EA AG GL LO OB BA AL LT TH HR RE EA AT T
The AIDS Conspiracy
Chapter One
The flight is long and I finally land at the Nairobi, Kenya International Airport. It is a hot and sweaty summer morning. Its the kind of steamy heat that sticks to you like cotton candy making my clothes melt right to my skin. I quickly depart from the plane and gaze over at the most magnificent sunrise I have seen in my entire life. It leaves me momentarily breathless and I am absorbed into the pleasure of its beauty for one brief moment, temporarily forgetting why I came here. On closer examination I am distracted by strange looking spirals of rising smoke billowing on the distant horizon. Although the air is hazy, the smell is distinct, and I wonder what that strange black smoke could mean.
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As I make my way off the tarmac, I see what appears to be a fast approaching line of embassy vehicles making their way in my direction with sirens wailing and lights flashing. I begin thinking about how nice it is of my editor to arrange a five star welcome for me. Its about time he began to appreciate me. I quickly discover that the entourage is not for me at all, but for a dignitary who just arrived by Lear Jet on the tarmac next to mine. Who is all the fuss about? I ask. They inform me that it is former South African President, Nelson Mandela. I recall how in 1990 Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and elected president of South Africa after serving 27 years of imprisonment for his role in ending Apartheid. The freedom fighter is once again speaking out for human rights and is actively involved in the fight against AIDS. Of course my first thought, being an action news reporter, is that there must be a story behind this unscheduled visit. So I quickly make my way over to his driver and ask if I could have a moment of his time. Hello, my name is Jake Card. I came to Africa to investigate the story behind the two murdered Bulgarian Scientists. After this brief introduction I am quickly accepted and granted a first-class meeting with Nelson Mandela, who invites me to ride along with him in his limousine. He says I must attend the United Nations Summit today and be his personal guest. I did not refuse. I tell him the whole reason I came to Africa is to find an explanation regarding AIDS. How is it able to spread so quickly across the entire world, that it has become a global threat that edges on crushing the worlds economy like a bag of cheap pretzels?
Sitting alongside Nelson Mandela is the deputy director to Secretary General Kofi Annan, Arish Monk. The focus is shifted in his direction and he gives me a full-on stare through heavy thick rimmed glasses. He is a dignified man who is well informed on world politics and about the present situation concerning the global threat of AIDS. He introduces himself politely. My name is Arish Monk; I am the director of Community Health Relations for the United Nations and the World Health Organization. He shakes my hand and inadvertently gives me a light shock. It reminds me of a static electricity-zap that you get from walking across a carpet and then touching an object. His grip is somehow reassuring and makes me believe he and I will become friends. He continues by saying, For decades the United Nations warned governments repeatedly about the danger of allowing AIDS to grow out of control in society. AIDS was once thought to be moving in a manageable direction, until the pharmaceutical conglomerates took control. Now today, it is a worldwide catastrophe. He adds, Since the AIDS epidemic began in the 1980s over 30 million people have died and more than 70 million are living with HIV and AIDS. Of the 7 billion people living on the earth today, nearly one half billion people are living in immediate danger of AIDS infection. Moreover, one in every 10 black people around the world is now infected with the disease. As the pandemic reached massive proportion in 2006, the need for an immediate global response became vital; however, no one responded in time. Now we are faced the greatest economic crisis know to man.
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In 1981 what was first interpreted as a common health threat quickly became the greatest health and economic crisis known to man of any totally preventable disease. Now in the United States there is already an excess of one million HIV and AIDS cases. In 2006 the average wholesale cost of medication was about $14,000 per year for each HIV patient and approximately $34,000 for a person with full blown AIDS. The cost to treat the infected with Anti-retroviral drugs became a whopping $17 billion dollars that was spent each year just on treatment. That was when the expense to treat the Worlds 40 million AIDS-infected people exploded; and in 2006 quickly threatened our ability to recover from economically. The Worlds economy became unstable and later crashed with little hope for recovery. At that time doctors were introducing high-cost Anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) as the only way to extend the life of their patients, but seriously miscalculated that by extending the life of a person with HIV/AIDS they were not only extending life, but also were lengthening the number of years that an infectious HIV contagion could pass the disease from one person to another. More and more HIV-positive people were living well beyond the original scope of the virus; and with a new lease on life these people became unaware that they were not just living longer and feeling better, but that they were still contagious and spreading the deadly disease to others. Completely unaware, they are exacerbating this horrible Social Terrorist problem even farther.
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That era was quickly named the Social Terrorist Syndrome, and it marked the beginning of the end where AIDS-infected people intentionally began infecting innocent groups of people without rhyme or reason. When the advice from social health groups fell on deaf ears for there to be an increase in Post-HIV/AIDS education that have HIV/AIDS how to live within the boundaries of their status was ignored, this was when the disease spiked out of control. Motivated by the most derogatory of all hate crimes; The Social Terrorist whose ambition like all terrorists is to target random groups of innocent people and without warning and will strike at any time and any place. The only difference being that these terrorists use disease as their weapon. What made their actions so dangerous was that at one time a person could have HIV for about 10 years before it turned into full-blown AIDS. Until early in 2005 a new strain of HIV was detected. It became highly resistant to drug therapy and seemed to progress to AIDS in several months causing great concern, MAKING NO ONE SAFE! As I listen I become increasingly grieved at the bleak outcome that looms over society, and for the first time sense the desperate condition that now faces humanity. Will we be alright? I question. I mean, theres still hope, RIGHT? He pauses for a brief moment never breaking eye contact, We even offered this dire warning on AIDS during the African Congress in 2005. The Doomsday scenario warned that the worst of the epidemics impact was still to come. It offered a disturbing window on the future death toll across the World, with the cumulative number of people dying from AIDS increasing more than four fold.
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The Anti-retroviral drug therapy that was available became far too expensive for most Africans who live on less than $1 daily and lack access to modern health care. If by 2025 people are still becoming infected by HIV, it will not be because there is no choice; it will be because collectively, there is insufficient political will to change behavior at all levels of society, from the institutions, to the community, to the individual to stop the forces driving the AIDS epidemic. Before continuing he grimaces then quickly adds, AIDS experts in 2006 estimated then that in order to change the course of AIDS it would cost $15 billion a year to fight and prevent AIDS globally. But here we were already spending more than $17 billion in the U.S. just to treat infected people each and every year. Wealthy countries spent less than $5 billion on global AIDS abatement each year which is why we were unable to break the AIDS stranglehold when we had the chance to. Even with that dire warning in 2005, there is still no change and AIDS thrives. He continues but with a troubled look on his face, AIDS is the Social Leprosy of the 21st Century. And the figures speak for themselves, AIDS has already killed more people than all the wars and disasters in the past 50 years combined. Media attention toward more socially acceptable diseases like avian-bird flu, cancer and diabetes diverts peoples attention away from learning the whole truth about AIDS. Yes, of course, these other diseases are of great public health concern, too.
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But because they did not transmit the same negative stigma that AIDS does from social stereo-types, those other diseases are given more media importance in warning the masses. Now, because we dropped our guard against the AIDS pandemic in 2006, the endemic nature of the disease has reached cataclysmic proportions. The soft-spoken man bursts out passionately, Its just all too sad, damn it! AIDS is a socially oriented and self-perpetuating disease that is completely and totally preventable. Its uncontrolled presence makes no sense at all. Yet, it is here. Entire communities have been torn apart by what appears to be as serious a situation as the world has ever faced, with no clear answer in sight. I thank him for his comments and agree with him that these concerns should not be taken lightly. Mr. Mandela, I ask, Do you have any further information about the two murdered scientists? He nods saying, Yes. Weve just discovered more on the deaths of the two Bulgarian scientists. It appears that the charges against these men of conspiracy to make an insidious AIDS Dooms-Day Virus and infect the whole world, is false. The truth is these scientists had in fact discovered the first proven AIDS Protocol. They were ready to release their breakthrough onto the worldwide market when they were murdered to keep their discovery from reaching the private sector. We are not sure who would be behind such a terrible thing but are investigating the matter fully.
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We arrive at the United Nations Summit and I am escorted to the visitors section as a VIP observer. All the Heads of State and the Presidents of countries are present, as well as the European Union and the newly elected World Congress led by Nelson Mandela. A thin, tall bald man stands up and addresses the assembly, The United Nations Summit is now in session. Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the World Congress and the honorable Mr. Mandela, the official touted, Welcome to the Kenyan, World Summit. He slams down the gavel with an echoing loud CRACK. Please be seated. He continues, We have no other alternative at this time except to go ahead with Operation H2 Q. I ask one of the dignitaries who is seated next to me what Operation H2 Q is. He says, Operation H2 Q is a behavioral modification extreme in approach by attempting to curb the sexual appetite in humans. He continues by saying, It is similar to what prisons do to curb the sexual urges among their inmate population. They put salt peter type drugs into the water supply to stop the uncontrolled sexual urges among the inmates. Operation H2 Q would introduce the same type of drugs into the entire worldwide water supply as our last chance effort to slow down the sexual urges of people and halt AIDS. Doesnt that violate a persons rights? I ask. Without skipping a beat he continues, If the AIDS virus maintains its present course, then hundreds of millions of unsuspecting people will contract the virus in the next few years. Our evidence shows these drugs are safe for long term use and that they do work. With the world economy in total ruin we have no other alternative. The Chairman asks, Does anyone have any questions at this time?
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I raise my hand, My name is Jake Card, from ITS TODAY Magazine, what is your basis for this drastic action? The Chairman refers my question to Arish Monk who went on to explain. We first learned about these techniques during the actions of the Nazi concentration camps when Hitler tried to suppress the sexual urges of the Jews to prevent them from procreating. When the outcome did not produce fast enough results, the German dictator resorted to more desperate measures and began to annihilate the Jews as a race of people by murdering 6 million of them in the Great Holocaust. Now to preserve the admonishments of mankind our only recourse, in order to stop the worldwide spread of AIDS, is by using every method possible - even drastic measures such as these. Wait a minute, I jump in, you mean to say every method possible? I dont intend to sound disrespectful; however, I am concerned when I hear us on the border of taking human lives and attempting to control them in a similar manner to that of animals. Mr. Card, you must understand that desperate situations call for desperate measures for the good of the rest of us. We are running out of options. I do understand we need to act immediately but where do we draw the line? Are we actually resorting to taking advice from Hitler? We arent dealing with mad-cow disease where we can just slaughter the infected. There has to be another way. When is Operation H2 Q planned to go forward? I question.
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The thin, tall bald man interjects, Every municipally treated water supply in the world is being retro-fitted for supplemental action to take place immediately.
I chimed in sharply, Something else must be tried before the long term consequence of behavioral modification forces us to open another Pandoras Box of behavioral changes that bring even greater health threats.
Arish Monk nods his head and replies, After the meeting is over we will leave here. I have some people I think you should meet and a few things you should see, it might help you to understand. There is another, safer, alternative, but not as many are for it.
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Fallen Beauty Queen
Chapter Two
We leave the Summit and I bid farewell to Nelson Mandela and thank him for his kindness. Mr. Monk escorts me to what he explains to be a sanctuary for women, called Haven House. Some of our most prominent women in the world now live out their last days here at this home. The young woman I want you to meet was once the Beauty Queen of South Africa but is now forced to live out the rest of her days in quiet seclusion, he says. He takes me to a small, rustic looking cottage located in the back and knocks gently on the door. After several attempts a frail, bony woman eventually answers. At one time she must have been very beautiful, but now she is gaunt from disease.
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Good afternoon, please come in. She invites politely. My name is Marissa Longwe. We enter in to the neatly kept home instantly noticing the overwhelming smell of fresh flowers throughout every room. As she leads us past a dining room and into the large sitting area comprising most of the cottage, I cant help but notice how beautifully decorated each room is. You have a very nice home; do you grow these flowers yourself? I comment. Thank you, for this I am grateful. The flowers really help to lift my spirits and remind me of some beauty life does hold. She directs us to a generously over stuffed sofa where Arish and I take our seats.
Marissa, this is Jake Card from ITS TODAY Magazine in the U.S.A. He is putting together an article on this AIDS situation to help shed some light on the worldwide state of shock people are now in. I am hoping you will share your story so that people can begin to realize this is a problem that could have been prevented and can still be prevented from going any further. Arish leans back allowing Marissa to begin. She starts by telling me the story of her once beloved husband and how he died a most horrible and painful death. When I first met Tony he was a charming and outgoing man. He sang in the church choir and everyone was convinced he was the right man for me. We married only a short time after meeting and were the happiest couple alive. After several months I began to notice he was always sick and at the same time refusing to discuss his problem. Whenever I showed concern about his illness he would get angry.
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Even though he looked perfectly fine physically he took strange named medicines several times a day. He managed to convince me that he was alright and not to worry. BIG MISTAKE! That was when I discovered it was all one great big lie. One day Tonys doctor called and told me he needed to see him right away but declined to tell me anything or even to discuss my husbands medical condition with me. Tony would be gone sometimes for hours at a time, but wouldnt tell me about his activities. Then, just twenty months into our marriage I began to get sick and went to see my own doctor. I tested positive for HIV. She pauses to look me straight in the eye, measuring my reaction. Then plunging back into her story she says, When I confronted my husband he told me he infected me because he loves me. This time as she pauses, the look in her eyes tells me that she needs to tell me her story almost as much as I need to hear it. I later learned he was gay and was secretly living an alternative lifestyle on the down low and had been having an affair with one of the men in the church. A man I had known from church was my husbands partner. Men who discreetly have sex with other men while in sexual relationships with women are said to be on the down low (or "dl" for short). Often these men do not consider themselves gay or bisexual, and their female partners are not aware that they have sex with other men. I hated him for what he did to me, yet I still loved him and was determined to honor my vow. So, I took care of him. He was sick and what he had done to me was cruel, but I could not leave him. At times, I thought of paying him back wishing to cut out his heart.
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But instead I found myself praying for him. He later died a horribly painful death from AIDS. Reaching for a tissue, she pauses then wipes away a fresh wave of tears. Please, continue I urge.
Having the disease in itself is terrible enough. But the hardest part of being infected is having my own friends shun me and keep their distance. All of a sudden people I had known for all my life began to treat me differently.
I couldnt hold their children, hug them or even shake their hand. All of which at one time caused my own health to deteriorate and decline at a rapid rate until I became suicidal. My situation with Tony really messed up my ability to trust people for a long, long time. Marissa stands up slowly and walks toward the window with her arms crossed against her chest. I was shocked when I began doing some research on AIDS and discovered 80% of new HIV infections in women worldwide occur in marriages or long-term relationships with their trusted primary partner. I mean, can you believe that? I always thought I was safe from getting any STD, let alone AIDS, as long as I was only being intimate with my spouse. The problem is that he needed to think that way also before marrying me! She hesitates for a brief moment regaining composure, tucking a lose strand of hair behind her ear and continues, The social stigma surrounding AIDS causes many people like myself to live out our days in rejection and fear. In our culture there is an unwritten code-of-silence, and we dont dare break it: men refuse to tell their wives their activities and women are afraid to get tested because their husbands would not approve.
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As she spoke, my eyes hardly ever left hers. Even when they welled up, my eyes were struck by the honesty and passion that this young woman expressed. Not only was she crying, but she was crying out desperately trying to be heard. And I felt it was essential that I hear her as best as I could. I listened to her every word until my heart was bursting with compassion for them all. And when she stopped, I took her hands in mine, and she cried. I felt so humbled by how good my life was compared to the lives she spoke of. When she was done, she thanked me. I wished I could do more, I murmured. But you did enough, she assured me. You heard me. You don't know how many nights I worried that no one has ever heard us. If we die and no one notices, what does that say about the arrogance of those who did not give us a second thought? It's one thing to not be able to send dollars and skills to those who have great needs. It's another to pretend they don't even exist, don't you think? Marissa quietly moves back to her seat as a young, African-American lady walks in to the room, sits next to Marissa, greets us and admits her story is painfully familiar. She is trembling to the point of tears when she tells me her name. My name is Sarah and I too, have done some research on this disease. Did you know that AIDS is the number one cause of death for African-American women aged 25 to 34? She admits, I should have been more careful myself; although, my boyfriend never mentioned anything about having a life-threatening virus, even though we were having unprotected sex. One day, I too tested positive for HIV. She shuffles slightly reaching for a tissue.
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When I confronted him he admitted he was infected with HIV, but didnt want to use a condom because he didnt want to die alone. Can you believe that guy? What a joke, right? I had him arrested for intentionally infecting another person with HIV through unprotected sex. He was a Social Terrorist, and the initial felony charge carried only an eight year prison term, maximum. But he got off due to a technicality. Any other terrorist would have been sentenced with murder spending life behind bars. Sarah wipes away her tears, smiles and quietly makes her way back to her seat. She continues to say, The Social Terrorist is part of the reason why AIDS is so out of control today. I look over at Monk and he lowers his head in shame, while in agreement he nods. I am not familiar with this term, Social Terrorist and I just learned about this today. What do you mean? My interest sparks even more as I turn toward Monk again. Well, youre familiar with religious terrorists, nationalist terrorists and cultural terrorists; this is the same concept with the Social Terrorist. The terrorist inflicts fear to intimidate their target in order to achieve their goal. But the only difference is these terrorists inflict disease. In the case of AIDS, the Social Terrorist is the person with the disease, who knowingly has sexual relations with another person in order to achieve their goal: infecting others. It is Societies worst nightmare: a sexual terrorists dirty bomb. The laws governing sexual activity that should protect society are very vague and are loosely enforced. Prostitution, child abuse and pornography are often seen with a blind eye. Monk pauses as the Director of Haven House enters the back door and sits in a chair opposite of us.
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Nodding his agreement the Director of the facility continues to add, This form of Social Terrorism has become quite common for men and women to knowingly spread the deadly virus to their sexual partners.
Recently in Tripoli, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were convicted of intentionally infecting 426 Libyan children with the HIV virus. Although its allies say the medics were tortured to make them confess, global AIDS experts say the outbreak at the Benghazi hospital began before they arrived. But no one except for the accused can say for sure!
So far around 50 of the HIV-infected children have died, fueling popular anger and fear that greater waves of Social Terrorists activity are still to come. Indeed, no one is safe!
Moreover, An HIV-infected man was found guilty on five counts of aggravated sexual assault, one count of attempted aggravated sexual assault and one count of sexual assault for failing to disclose his condition and irresponsibly engaging in unprotected sex with seven women. Cases like these rarely to go to court and even more rarely, is it heard about by the public.
Without rhyme or reason AIDS quickly became a virus and disease that can affect anyone regardless of race, sex, age, religion or sexual orientation. HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) is an equal-opportunity infectious disease that knows no boundaries. The perception that certain groups or people are immune to it is insanely false.
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Today AIDS has already exceeded gigantic proportions and is on a direct crash course with society. World Health experts fear the worst is yet to come, and that AIDS cases will triple killing countless millions of innocent people. Over 70 million people have already contracted HIV, the virus that produces AIDS and 30 million people have died.
Since AIDS first appeared in society, researchers have spent billions of dollars searching for that all-elusive AIDS Vaccine. Yet today, they are no closer to finding an AIDS vaccine than when they first started. Anti-retroviral drug therapy is far too expensive for most people to use and is by no means a cure for AIDS. . Gazing in my direction he adds, It is still unclear to me why these people, these Social Terrorists acted in such a hateful manner. But no matter their reason please note that this type of aberrant behavior is gaining appalling momentum. The Social Terrorist is all around us
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I Am a Social Terrorist?
Chapter Three
While visiting Haven House the U.N. deputy secretary calls Mr. Monk and informs him that Operation H2 Q has taken center stage and they are desperately moving ahead as planned. On speaker-phone I could hear the other man speaking rapidly with great concern, Its the social/sexual behavior of people that has fueled the AIDS pandemic and caused the human race to live by the rules of Social Terrorism. Monk listens and replies sharply, Yes, social terrorism is alive and well. But its what we do about it today that will change how it influences society for the remainder of our lives. Wouldnt you agree?
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What these scenarios demonstrate is that while societies will have to deal with AIDS for some time to come, the extent of the epidemics impact will depend on our immediate response and investment now. Today innocent people are contracting AIDS when apathetic people who have the disease intentionally bring personal bodily harm to others; clearly this Social Terrorist problem is sharply on the rise. Arish Monk takes me to a hospital to meet a social care worker, his name is Mortyn Stiles. He has treated AIDS patients for 20 years. He is a lay-minister of the local church. Mortyn has seen it all (where treating AIDS patients was concerned) from the perspective of broken social promises made by corrupt governments to the personal issues of faith in the church. He is a caring man that gives of his life to help other people and is frustrated to the point of tears because the patients he dedicates his life to help are growing worse day by day. He now has personal doubts about the benevolent actions of a loving God. He states, I have seen more people die from AIDS over the past twenty years than anyone else I know. It hurts like hell. He sighs and continues, They seem to just keep getting worse until they painfully and horribly die. I hear the echoes of their haunting cries while I am trying to sleep, God, where are you when I need you? I called out to you, but I ended up more sick.
The social stigma surrounding AIDS is not friendly. In many ways is considered a losers disease. Family members and friends reject them and they end up dying all alone.
But God hears the cries of the broken-hearted, each and every one of them!
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I am by no means an expert on God, but I remember some things my mother once told me, I felt compelled to comfort Mr. Stiles, Sir, I think healing has everything to do with our having personal faith in Jesus Christ, I said. He offers me a reassuring wink as if to say, oh yeah, I do remember, he then says, Yes, youre right. I too am a Christian. It takes us beyond our disjointed view of a god of our own understanding. Yes, faith, hope and love? Thank you for the reminder. Mortyn Stiles then takes us into one of the critical care hospice wards. Its a room that should hold 30 patients, but instead is over-loaded with over 100 dying people. Every kind of disease imaginable is there: cancer, TB, yellow fever, malaria, HIV and AIDS. Some of the tiny beds have two patients in them, with people in temporary make-shift cots jammed between the rows. Some of the patients are even tucked under the beds, as if somehow forgotten. Patients are stacked up in the hallway just waiting to get inside the ward. Most will die before they are ever seen by a doctor. But this is not any ordinary hospital ward. This is a critical care hospice ward where people are sent to live out their last remaining days and hopefully receive some comfort from years of painfully suffering with AIDS. This is the ward where even the doctors dont have answers. The stench of death is thick and it stuck to me. I could hardly look upon the distorted faces of the suffering and the dying, and as I walk among the beds I wonder which ones would die today. Even as bad as it is still its hard for me not to stare
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It was while I was in the hospital that a gaunt frail broken shell of a man reached out from his bed and grabbed onto my arm. He looked me straight in the face, and from a weak and scratchy voice said, TELL SOMEONE. The look on my face must have alerted the doctor on duty, who said, Sir, AIDS is not transmitted in that way. You are safe to touch him. His raspy scratch voice echoed in my head haunting me for days. The nurse says that more than nine thousand people die with AIDS in hospitals just like this one each and every day; the number is staggering. I ask her how common these types of wards have become and she sighs deeply rubbing the back of her neck. The AIDS pandemic became full-blown before we even knew what hit us. Since AIDS became so pervasive, these wards are now standard procedure for all hospital operations today. One new HIV infection occurs every three seconds of every minute of the day; thats about 28,000 people per day throughout the world. We previously spent all our time worrying about the bird flu, mad-cow disease and even cancer but none of those are now the top killers of the human race today. As we leave the hospice ward I am told that the hospital morgue has been turned into a one-stage tagging station, where the dead are photographed and finger printed. Their pictures are posted on a hospital AIDS website called Last Rites. As I look to the back of the hospital I see what appear to be two flat-bed tractor trailers, filled with dead bodies, driving away from the hospital. I ponder how much this disease has reduced human dignity to its lowest form. I still havent grasped how most of North America and the rest of the world happened not to see this coming. I cant imagine for the life of me why we didnt act then, before the problem grew to such huge proportions. I made a pledge to myself at that moment that these peoples life story is going to make it in my article; somehow people will know that now is the time to act.
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Are you all right? Monk asks with concern. Yes, despite the circumstance, Im great. I know now that this story is the most important one I will ever tell. Exhausted, I sink into the car leaning my head on the head rest gazing out the window. While we drive toward our hotel we pass an old factory with tall fiery smoke stacks. Its tremendously huge and looks like an old converted nuclear facility with endless plumes of black smoke rising up as high as the heaven. I ask Mr. Monk about the billowing smoke stacks and he tells me, Due to the mass amount of AIDS-related deaths people can no longer afford to bury the dead, so the unclaimed bodies are cremated. The trucks we saw leaving the hospital, filled with all those dead bodies, are on their way there now. Then I remember the morning I landed here and when I got off the plane, the distinct smell in the air and the black plumes of smoke on the horizon. It was AIDS victims being burned.
This is truly a waste of human life, I thought; how sad.
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The World Learn About Operation H2 Q
Chapter Four
We arrive at the Crown Plaza Hotel in downtown Nairobi and Mr. Monk receives a phone call. This time it is from Winnie Mandela, the previous wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela. She too heard about Operation H2 Q. Monk, I must see you at once; its a matter of national security. He agrees and mentions he has a new friend, Jake Card, and could he come along? She consents and adds, I will have my private jet pick you both up at the airport tomorrow evening. Arish thanks her and ends the call.
We are both tired from the long, emotionally exhausting day and check into our rooms saying good night for the evening. Once I am in my room I strip down and hop in the shower trying to shake some of the haunting images that kept racing through my mind. Operation H2 Q? he cheated on me? number one cause of death among African-American women? Social Terrorists? personal faith in Jesus? a new HIV infection occurs every three seconds? Last Rites My whole head was spinning.
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I give my head a shake, thinking about my own family back home, and how hard it would be to see them in the same condition of the others that we saw today. I reach over turning off the light as I climb into bed pulling the covers up tightly around my face, as if to somehow hide. Even though my body is tired, I find it hard to sleep after seeing the chilling images of AIDS patients being consumed in plumes of black smoke. However, I cant help but feel their lives have not been lost in vain but, that each twisted plume of black smoke is a freshly scented prayer, ascending up to heaven to register its charge against humanity. God, surely you have seen our signal and have heard our cry how much more, Lord? I lay there for an hour or so then begin to pray Jesus, help me portray the senseless tragedy of these lost lives in a meaningful way that makes people wake up to the real danger of HIV and change the course of AIDS Before I can say more, I drift off into a fitful sleep. I manage to get a few hours of sleep still getting off to a late start the following day. I meet up with Mr. Monk in the hallway as we prepare to leave to the airport for our appointment with Winnie Mandela. I am really looking forward to meeting with her.
We make our way down to the Hotel Lobby and walk right into a chattering sea of prostitutes filling the lower lobby and lined down the street. I try and pass by the prostitutes, but they become bold and make brazen up-front gestures to have unprotected sex at a discount price. I close off my mind to their propositions and walk right past them grimacing at what they were doing to their lives.
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Outside, a taxi pulls up and Mr. Monk says, Let's get in. What you are witnessing here, Mr. Card has created a huge social problem in Africa as well as around the world. Men prefer to have sex without using condoms and women have become desperate enough for money to feed their family that to comply. The custom of having unprotected sex among prostitutes is no longer questioned and it is happening not just in Africa, but all over the world. It has become one of the social strongholds as to why AIDS is out of control. Many view this behavior as the dangerous deeds of Social Terrorists. But some of them look so young, I comment feeling slightly queasy at the thought of their possible ages. They are. Here is something you may not know about your own country: in the United States, teen girls account for half of all HIV cases reported among the ages of 13 to 19 years old. Thats 50 percent, meaning that girls are having sex at very young ages without the proper knowledge to base such a decision. I had no idea it affected so many youths, I said rubbing my hand through my hair, I have a niece in that age bracket. We leave the Nairobi Airport after boarding the Lear Jet and land in South Africa in less than 90 minutes nestling down gently between soft blue canopies of beautiful Jacaranda trees. Ah, I said, Theres no place quite like South Africa.
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We are immediately picked up by private limousine that takes us directly to Winnie Mandelas Foundation Headquarters. Its about 3 pm and I am given a high-security clearance and then introduced to Madame Mandela. This is Jake Card, says the aide, He has been sent here on a fact-finding mission from the United States to find out how AIDS has become a global threat and was able to crash the worlds economy. Winnie Mandela smiles and says, Mr. Card, on behalf of the South African people, let me welcome you to our facilities. Please, let us know how we can assist you in your success while you are with us. Seated alongside Ms. Mandela is the entire Mandela Cabinet, including Condoleezza Rice. I take a seat gestured to me as Ms. Mandela stands up and addresses the assembly. Men and women of Africa; it has recently come to my attention that within a matter of a few days there will be released upon every man, woman and child a supplemental drug put into the water supply designed to alter the sexual urges in men and women. This water treatment ploy is a slap in our face and an atrocity against human dignity. Its called Operation H2 Q.
It was first used by the German Nazis in the concentration camps in Auschwitz, but was later discontinued because of questionable reasons. She continues, As I have previously said, there are other avenues we must try first in order to bring about modified social behavior against AIDS which our governments have criticized and denied.
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Our position is the same as it was during my speech in 2005 at the International Conference on AIDS ICASA. I said the scourge of AIDS was the result of the erosion of cultural values: respect for virginity until marriage.
The former freedom fighter stresses, Abstinence is the best cure for AIDS. I am disappointed with our Mothers for being overly conservative in educating their children, especially the girls about real-life issues like HIV/AIDS. She goes on to stress, Sexuality in the youth culture must be closely chaperoned by experience. Moreover, to this day African mothers find it difficult to openly discuss the matters of sex with their own children, because we are defined by cultures. We are burying our children by the hundreds Monday to Monday, instead of them burying us. In our culture we used to be told not to engage in sex until marriage. Then the government came along with Billboards of famous people saying - love them enough to talk about AIDS - at the same time openly approving sexual behavior. Enough with mixed messages, its time for ACTION! She explains, The raging debate right now is that Anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) is a money-spinning machine for the pharmaceutical companies, revealing that because of the poor state of the country and the unemployment rate ARVs have become too expensive for the poor; hence the strong belief in abstinence as a tool to fight and reduce the scourge. Offering his contribution to the forum Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka stands up and says, I uphold Ms. Mandelas position regarding sexually transmitted infections in Africa, abstinence is the best prevention for HIV infection.
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Again Ms. Mandela repeats, I urge all Africans to return to traditional family values. A call has gone out for all stakeholders in the fight against the HIV/AIDS virus to do everything possible to bring the traditional institution fully into the HIV/AIDS crusade in Africa. She then introduces the next speaker, Dr. Paul J. Caratti from the African Dream Center, who is also the director for the National Council for HIV/AIDS Education. Dr. Paul Caratti is one of our honorably distinguished associates from the United States who has dedicated his own work to help the people of Africa and the rest of the world to become free from AIDS. Dr. Caratti, will you please give us your opinion concerning this matter? Thank you Madame, Secretary Mandela. Paul Caratti stands, Distinguished guests and colleagues, we have no other alternative but to stand by our original plan and proposal for the control of AIDS by the year 2015. AIDS has become the New Apartheid where discrimination is based not on race, but rather on ones ability to affordably manage the disease. Many of our concerns have been strongly ignored by the United Nations and World Health Organization and we are now presented with this global-endangering scenario. My plan would require the combined cooperation from every world government, religious group and civic leader. Presently one in every 10 black persons worldwide has the deadly HIV/AIDS virus. In some countries, especially South East Asia, the HIV rate has risen to one in 20. It is even higher in some of the lesser developed countries.
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Youths, are our most vulnerable part of society where presently today over 60 percent of the worlds population is under the age of 25, are at risk. In addition to catching AIDS there are more than 30 new sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) youths can catch and 30% of them have no cure. One in every two youths will contract an STD before they reach the age of 25. Many are lifethreatening and have become permanent, leading to death. We already know abstinence is not for everybody. But, then again, neither is AIDS. Dr. Caratti continues, What is needed is a decade of pro-action, not talk. We have launched Global AIDS Day in an all-out effort to call every Tribal Leader, Government, Congregation, Church Pastor and Lay Person into accountability to begin to address the worldwide pandemic of AIDS openly and honestly. Too many pastors have labeled the AIDS-scenario as being strictly a gay and lesbian disease and have said that it is those types of peoples disease. Around the world AIDS has spread faster in the heterosexual community than among the gays (homosexuals). Even though no one knows for sure where AIDS came from, experts estimate that 80% of all AIDS infection is accountable to heterosexual activity. Although at the onset of AIDS this percentage was much higher due to the homosexual rage of the 1980s. Still some uninformed people, both in the church and out, have actually fostered the wrong message about AIDS by cultivating shame, blame, bondage and disgrace in AIDS victims instead of helping them to become free from the stigma of social discrimination. Even today there are many myths and halftruths about how AIDS is contracted and then spread.
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The truth is that the most common way HIV is transmitted is from one person to another having sexual relations with an HIV-infected person that are vaginal, anal or oral. Other ways of contracting the disease are from sharing needless with HIVinfected carriers or from HIV-infected women to their babies before or during birth or through breast-feeding after birth. HIV can still be transmitted by receiving infected blood; although this is now rare. The largest contributor to HIV/AIDS today comes from people (mostly men) having sexual relations outside of marriage with people other than their spouse. Most people still believe you could get HIV/AIDS through casual contact such as shaking hands or hugging, touching inanimate objects, animals, giving blood donations, insect bites, saliva, sweat, vaccines, water and tears. There is no evidence to show that you can contact HIV/AIDS through any of these means. Hospitals should make sure that donors are not infected with HIV before accepting blood from them. The only way to know if you are infected with the HIV virus is to be tested. You cannot rely on symptoms, because they are similar to those of many other diseases. Many people who are infected with HIV do not have any symptoms at all for years and thus, may unknowingly spread the disease to others. Dr. Caratti pauses to look at each person and then continues. The National Council for HIV/AIDS Education has mapped the social trends and variable patterns of the AIDS disease as it spreads socially from one country to the next, much like the falling domino effect.
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One of the things we have learned about AIDS is that whenever you introduce any type of program into society, whether it is Operation H2 Q or Condoms for the Cure, you run the risk of introducing a new standard of tolerance into that culture, which then in turn becomes interpreted and deemed as acceptable behavior based upon ignorance, rather than fact. For example, countries that openly promote the release of billions of condoms upon a vulnerable social/sexual society have indeed modified, meaning changed, the integrity of that society in itself. The message that these types of programs send out to society is ambiguous and it has opened the door to other social behaviors that may not be desirable causing further problems. We need to be honest here and ask ourselves, why does it seem then that AIDS continues to thrive and keep getting worse despite our best efforts to stop it? Could it be that what we are doing to prevent the disease has actually helped to make it worse? I am not pointing a finger, but are we actually safer today from the threat of diseases like AIDS because we have condoms to protect us? Or are we safer because we have learned how to protect ourselves from diseases like AIDS by not contributing to the social/sexual scenario? India's 5.9 million people living with the HIV/AIDS virus has fallen recently. That is rare good news in the fight against AIDS, since India now has the world's highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS. India has been pushing condom use as the key to its anti-AIDS strategy, along with abstinence and loyalty to one's spouse.
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But please note, Indias accomplishment against AIDS is due in part to a combination of increased social modification, greater AIDS awareness and comprehensive AIDS education, including condom distribution. When used among stratified societies both types of programs working together are needed to achieve maximum success. Our desire is to present factually accurate information about the AIDS epidemic and educate people about the nature of the disease by teaching true prevention, regardless of culture. We understand not everyone is ready to practice safer-sex, but our program is seeing tremendous community success by following the ABC program that was first implemented in Uganda. The program is simple: A = Abstain from sexual activities until marriage, B = be faithful to your spouse, and then, only if you cannot do A or B use a Condom. We have a public health responsibility to help people understand the strengths and limitations of each component. For example, although abstinence may be a viable option for many young people, for others it may be an unrealistic expectation. Likewise, even though prospective studies have shown that condoms reduce risk by about 80 to 90 percent when always used, in real life they are often used incorrectly or inconsistently which diminishes their effectiveness.
The issue of prevention, however, should not rest solely on the shoulders of government, as it has a great deal to do with individual choice. But we do need to think beyond the ABC principle. Uganda was once on the brink of completed ad total and Social Genocide. AIDS was running rampant at over 30%.
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And with the whole world watching it became apparent that Uganda had to change or else the nation would soon become extinct. With the cooperation of the government and initiation by religious leaders, Uganda began a serious social reform programs. Since AIDS affected every sector of society, it would take ever sector working together in full cooperation to make the turn. What Uganda discovered was that AIDS can be prevented, treated and ultimately defeated by using education, cooperation and social reform. The nation that was once considered worst as far as HIV and AIDS had suddenly turned the corner. The country that was once the scourge and considered as the armpit of the entire world was suddenly a national role model. Uganda turned their country from over 30% HIV/AIDS infected to less than 6%. What Uganda discovered was that the doctrine of prevention is working together in partnership. They have since become a model for many other AIDSinfected countries to follow suit. But because of differing cultural and social practices not every country is ready to or can they use the Ugandan model for success. For instance today, Swaziland holds the dubious title of being the worst AIDS-infected country in the world and has topped out at over 40%. Today one in 10 children is an orphan of AIDS. One in 10 babies born dies before the reach their first birthday. And one in two youth are either infected with HIV of has AIDS. For countries like Swaziland, we have to think beyond ABC and have begun to use a culturally specific approach. Even though they have the successful model of their predecessor Ugandas success becomes obscured when combined with non-cooperative cultural practice.
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I maintain it is only those who know how to protect themselves against the social pressures of the current sexual revolution will survive.
Simply put, AIDS exists today because it is a social/sexual disease that is fueled by social/sexual behavior and is magnified by cultural interpretation and ignorance.
Indicating that if social/sexual behavior is to blame, then it is not AIDS at all that will kill us but ultimately our own carnal actions. If AIDS doesnt end up being the culprit, then some other form of social/sexual scenario will and no amount of protection could help us then. With the course society is presently on its only a matter of time; that is, unless we change. But change isnt change until theres change!
Moreover, the standard practice of giving away condoms at the behest of pharmaceutical companies to an uneducated and willing society has conversely brought negative consequences upon the society it was designed to protect.
This has helped to pave the way for higher incidences of violent crime such as sexual homicide, rape, rampant drug use and HIV and AIDS.
In the context where men grow up believing masculinity means having plenty of sexual partners, being faithful to your husband does not prevent infection: using a condom requires a willing partner, and in a region where one in five women is physically abused, fear can undermine insistence on protection.
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The messages have been missing the mark. In part, this message came with a mixed signal of widely accepting and endorsing rape and sexual violence against women and girls by the shear encouragement and saturation of sexual imagery everywhere a person looks. Condoms help to stimulate sexual activity with a false security in relationships of two consenting partners. But, the flip side is that entire cultures broaden their tolerance to what is sexually appropriate and moral deterioration sets in.
This may sound harsh or even unbelievable to some, but the fact is that violent sexual crime is increasing and we cant overlook the introduction of condoms as not playing a part at all.
We have examined all the data (evidence) surrounding the rise of AIDS since the Condoms for the Cure was introduced and find that when society fails to include comprehensive condom-sense education as part of the program that the rate of infection has sky rocked.
Even when used correctly, condoms have a 13 percent failure rate against HIV a 50 percent failure rate against gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydeous, and a 100 percent failure rate against genital herpes and HPV human papillomavirus. The one-system, one-way approach most governments have embraced as a remedy to curb AIDS has not produced the kind of healthy results originally intended. This may have actually become the midwife of negative change. We have to consider the dangers of re-infection among HIV-positive people, as well as the possible emergence of new strains of HIV. This would also raise huge concerns about the ability of current treatments to fight a new and possibly stronger version of the HIV virus.
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Dr. Caratti stops to clear his throat and then continues, Yes, let's do something, but lets do it responsibly. Unless we as a society can begin to implement proactive prevention that includes modified social/sexual action, rather than just giving away condoms, then we could easily see the rate of HIV infection over the next several years triple. It seems to me that we have a Category Five storm off our coast and we dont know where its going. Can you please explain more of what you mean, Dr. Caratti? Winnie Mandela asks. Id be glad to, Madame Mandela. In order for HIV and AIDS abatement to work long term, proactive prevention must go hand-in-hand with all other social programs so that the full spectrum of society may benefit.
Today, children are having sex at the age of 10. AIDS responsibility is largely reduced to safe sex condoms, drug and needle distribution programs. People feel that with these programs in place, they have done their part to help with the problem.
Condom manufacturers issue warnings right on their products detailing that condoms are not completely effective in preventing pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases or HIV/AIDS. Yet millions of unsuspecting condom users worldwide are convinced that by using a condom they are fully protected. Recently, a condom manufacturer recalled millions of their product citing them as defective. With these types of diseases we dont have the luxury of being wrong or dealing with defective products.
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Wow I thought. I knew the problem was big, but I had never thought of it in these terms before. There are numerous factors and ranks of institutions at play in this dilemma. I stretched out my hand to avoid a writers cramp before turning back in to Dr. Caratti.
Recently at an AIDS Symposium we learned that STDs, sexually transmitted diseases, are actually very tiny minuscule organisms in size compared to sperm. These super small viruses can get through a hole in a condom much more easily than sperm can. For example, HIV (the AIDS-causing virus) is so small that two million of the disease causing agents could crowd on the period at the end of a sentence.
One reason condoms fail in preventing the transfer of AIDS is that latex and polyurethane condoms have tiny intrinsic holes called voids. Sperm is larger than the holes; whereas, the AIDS virus is 50 times smaller than these tiny holes which make it easy for the virus to pass through, says, Dr. C. M. Roland, editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology. To give you an idea of how easy it would be for the AIDS virus to pass through these holes, just imagine a ping pong ball going through a basketball hoop. A rustle of surprise goes through the room as Dr. Caratti presses on. People are people, and they are going to have sex, I understand that. But often times at the end of one of our seminars people will tell us, thank you, we had no idea that we were living at such risk. They tell us they are going to rethink their options and make more responsible life-choices.
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We have seen when community leaders learn the whole truth about the fast spreading nature of AIDS, and are moved by responsibility that they go out to create entire HIV/AIDS-FREE communities on their own. Government wont do it, and we must learn to protect our own selves. However I do not dispute that there are large populations of society that do need condom protection. Or, that most people probably will never respond to an abstinence message; no one is challenging that. No one social program will ever be able to completely eradicate AIDS on its own. Still we find that an abstinence message does reach a large enough sector of society to make the effort extremely worthwhile without sending mixed signals to a promiscuously fragile society. World Health Leaders fear that there shockingly could be millions of brand new HIV/AIDS cases by 2014. Even if our program reaches just one percent of those living at risk of contracting AIDS, then what we are talking about doing will ultimately save countless numbers of people from ever contracting HIV/AIDS in the first place. One percent of 60 million people would spare 600,000 people from them ever contracting this deadly disease. We believe millions of saved lives overwhelmingly justifies and outweigh any costly post-treatment alternative. What Im saying is that by not educating people about the whole truth about AIDS is to deny entire segments of society from receiving 100 percent true AIDS-protection. This means being able to choose on their own whether waiting to have sex is the right choice for them.
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One thing is for sure, if they are not being offered the option of educated decisions but are being told that only condoms are the answer, then that leaves youth and society with only one conclusion: sex-sex-sex. This is a huge mistake. What else is a condom used for except sex? Condoms = SEX, period! After sipping a glass of water, Dr. Caratti turns on a slide projector and explains a new idea. ONE PARTNER Program In many African cultures men are taught right from boyhood that it is a mans right to have as many sexual partners as he so desires. Moreover, that the wife has nothing to say about it. To help win the fight against AIDS in Africa we have introduced the One Partner Program to help men and women understand that marriage is a sacred bond of trust between one man and one woman; that it is a covenant relationship of life-long fidelity.
The ONE PARTNER Program is a double-edge sword that uses both cultural and traditional values to help men understand it is their interpretation of sexual freedom based upon traditional upbringing and cultural values which has allowed AIDS to grow. In some African cultures it is permissible for a man to have multiple wives.
In those scenarios, we are helping those men to understand that faithfulness within the bonds of marriage is what will keep them free from catching and spreading sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS.
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Whenever AIDS is transmitted by means of sexual relations it is unfaithfulness and infidelity to ones spouse, not multiple wives that causes AIDS to grow and remain a social and cultural threat. We do not desire to change Africas culture or deny anyone their sexual freedom. But once men understand that it is their adherence to traditional cultural/sexual practices that is responsible for spreading the AIDS virus, which is killing their own peoples will they begin to rethink their social actions. Unless people are given healthy sexual options for living AIDS-FREE lives then they will follow the path of least resistance. This can not be an option; multiple sexual partners are simply not healthy for Africa or the world. The only modified behavior that works one hundred percent of the time that will keep people 100% AIDS-FREE is abstinence, when it is voluntary and with cultural cooperation. Our aim is to help World Governments recognize the viable benefit of abstinence and for them to acknowledge the clear fact that abstinence programs are just as valuable of a contribution for the deterrent and abatement of AIDS, versus options such as the more costly post-treatment methods. The strategy for AIDS abatement is very much like the rudder of a ship. Although small, when steered correctly, it turns the entire ship in the right direction. AIDS abatement is going to take time, but its a turn we must make together. But which direction is your rudder turned?
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The Great AIDS Hoax
Chapter Five
We leave Winnie Mandelas Headquarters and spend the night in Soweto. Early the next morning we leave Johannesburg and fly by private plane to Cape Town to visit Tygerberg Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in Africa. Once there we are greeted by the director of the infectious disease department who worked closely with the murdered Bulgarian scientists. Hello, my name is Roi Boytin. Welcome to Tygerberg Hospital, let me show you around our facility. Dr. Boytin, I ask. Can you tell me anymore about the two murdered scientists?
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Certainly, he says. We now know that the scientists were working on the most significant scientific AIDS breakthrough of all time. Its all quite hush, hush. We learned on behest of the pharmaceutical manufactures the scientists hired an out of the ordinary lobbyist from one of the independent drug companies that offered them 30 million dollars in Gold Kugerrand Bullion, which is considered the most precious sought after gold in the entire world, to keep the AIDS vaccine off the market for the next 10 years.
When the lobbyist failed to convince the scientists to withhold the vaccine, it appears he murdered the scientists and planted the phony evidence about them creating an insidious dooms-day virus and infecting the world with AIDS. The lobbyist now has the formula and is nowhere to be found. All we know about him is his first name is Stephan, and that he is on the run.
But, why would the pharmaceutical companies want be involved in this and what could they possibly gain? I ask.
Good question, he says, The pharmaceutical companies pulled out of the Race for the AIDS Cure because of the ingenuity of the viruss ability to constantly mutate and stay one step ahead of all the researchers best efforts to find a cure. They finally realized there is less profit to be made by finding an AIDS vaccine than there is in false preventative measures since they are already making so much money on condom sales and overly priced Antiretroviral drugs. Every day the pharmaceutical industry rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. As one of the most profitable industries in human history, they protect their drug patent and their own prosperity as millions of lives are needlessly lost each year for lack of access to essentially affordable HIV/AIDS treatment.
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Moreover, the price charged by drug companies, and the policies pursued by rich countries at their behest, continue to keep lifesaving treatment out of reach for millions of people, especially those most affected in Africa.
As long as they insist on safeguarding their patents and protecting their exorbitant profits, essential treatment will remain out of reach for millions of people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere. He pauses before going on as we round a corner of the hospital. I have heard a little bit about something called topical microbicides being an effective treatment, what about that? I enquire. You are right. It is a topical cream that a woman can apply before intercourse to help protect themselves against HIV and other sexually transmitted organisms. Thus microbicides opens yet another Pandoras Box for women by putting undue pressure on them from aggressive men who believe it is perfectly safe to have unprotected sex. The problem is that governments, such as in the United States, only spend about two percent of the budget on HIV/AIDS research and about only two cents for every one of those dollars goes to microbicides research. It all stems from the same concern what makes the most money? Given the financial stake of the pharmaceutical industry, the idea of relinquishing patent rights may sound fanciful. But it is not without precedent. Sixty years ago, the drug company Merck produced the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.
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Rather than upholding its drug patent so it could earn huge profits on this particular drug, George Merck, the company's head and son of its founder, released the patent so any company could manufacture the drug streptomycin. This decision kept the drug's cost minimal and kept hundreds of thousands of people alive. In 1952, George Merck appeared on the cover of Time magazine above a caption of his own words: Medicine is for people, not for profits.
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The Thin, Tall Bald Man
Chapter Six
As an investigative reporter I couldnt help but notice everywhere I looked the rising incidence of orphan children. I had no idea of knowing part of the economic strain that crushes the worlds economy is due not only to AIDS itself, but also the 18 million orphan children that are affected by AIDS. Moreover, that manipulation from selfish and greedy pharmaceutical companies is as much to blame for the uncontrolled worldwide spread of AIDS as is anything.
Africa has the greatest proportion of children who are orphans. In 2001, 34 million children in sub-Saharan Africa were orphans. The growing number of orphans keeps increasing dramatically everyday and has now reached a staggering 42 million, largely due to AIDS.
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Theyre killing us with kindness, George Praidd a worker from the ORPHANS OF AIDS says. The government offers us literally nothing to take care of these children and complain every time we ask them for assistance. It reminds me of when the Israelites begged Pharaoh for straw to make his bricks. But Pharaoh harshly gave the order, Give them no straw, and double their work quota. We are working extra hard to provide for these innocent children under the most extreme conditions possible, but every day magnum waves of orphan children keep coming despite our best effort.
This is much worse than anything weve faced before. AIDS infections have surpassed a scale unknown anywhere else in the world and if the situation persists, we will be extinct. The pandemic has gotten so bad that recently an AIDS-infected man offered an orange and a crust of bread just to have sex with a young virgin girl, believing that if he penetrates (rapes) a virgin he will be cured from AIDS. Ahh, I cut in, a Social Terrorist. Yes that he is. Still today, too many false myths about AIDS exist, jeopardizing millions of innocent children like these causing three million innocent children to become orphaned and thrown away by society each and every year. Today there are 18 million Orphan Children of AIDS.
Social Terrorists are around for many reasons. In this case it is simply lack of knowledge and selfishness.
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Unless we do something to correct this then many more young children will continue to be raped and their tender bodies sexually assaulted. He looks down rubbing his hands together and then continues with a slight crack in his voice. Even though the government turns a blind eye to assist us, we are partnering with groups like the National Council for HIV/AIDS Education, and African Dream Center. Isnt that the work of Dr. Paul J. Carattis organization? I enquire.
Yes, his organization is making tremendous strides against the AIDS pandemic by reducing the orphan child rate and changing the course of AIDS, he says excitedly. Yes, I thought so. I met him briefly at Winnie Mandelas Foundation. Then, let me call him for you on the phone. Before I could even respond he took the phone in his hand and dialed. Dr. Caratti, this is George Praidd from The Orphans of AIDS Foundation, I have Jake Card with me. He would like to ask you a few questions. He leans over handing me the phone. Dr. Caratti, I want to feature your ideas for social reform and get your personal take on the AIDS epidemic on a live CNN telecast. Would you be available for an interview? Pausing for an answer, I hear him say, yes. That would be great, sir, I will have a film crew come to you. Will tomorrow be convenient? Yes, he says, I can give you the whole morning -- starting at 9 am, see you then.
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Later that afternoon while resting a bit in my hotel room, I receive a phone call from a man I do not know. He says softly, My name is Stephan, and I have information regarding the missing AIDS protocol. I must see you immediately, it is critically important. Yes, go on, I say. I will meet you at the Brass Bull Tavern. Do you know where that is? Yes, Ill find it, I said. I will see you at 6 pm, OK? Yes, I reply, but how will I kno- He cuts in abruptly, -I am a thin, tall bald man that is 64. Click, the phone goes dead. Thinking to myself, this is the strangest day, whats next? By the time I grab a quick shower and a bite to eat, I pull up at the Brass Bull at 6:01 pm the place is crawling with police. I look in my rear-view mirror to see a coroner parking right behind me. My name is Jake Card and I am from the Press, can I see the investigating officer in charge? The investigating officer comes to meet me, Sir, I insist, I must get into the hotel; I have an appointment with a very important man. And whom, may I enquire, is this man? the officer questions.
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All I know is that his name is Stephan and he gave me his description as a thin, tall bald man who is 64. The officer gives me one of those suspicious stares and says, What is your business with this man, Mr. Card? Its personal, I respond cautiously. We will have to take you in for questioning. Please, come with us. He takes me by my arm up the sidewalk to a waiting police car. As I am being escorted to the Johannesburg Police station I crane my neck to look out the window of the car managing to get a good look at the man they are bringing out on the stretcher involved in the homicide. He looks just like the same thin, tall bald man I saw at the United Nations Summit meeting in Kenya when I was with Nelson Mandela. I was sure he was the same person. But how could that be, I thought? What could his involvement to the murdered scientists be? The man I had met was not named Stephan, was he? By the time we reach the police station I am quite curious. The police officer takes me inside and shows me a picture of the man and asks if this is the man I am to meet.
He fits the description of a thin, tall bald man, I reply. The officer asks, sharply, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THIS MAN AT ANY TIME, BEFORE TODAY?
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I did not know how to answer him and demand that I be given my Miranda Rights of legal council to be present, asking for my one phone call. I called Arish Monk who comes down immediately. In the mean-time the FBI arranges to take authority of the situation from the South African Government and is on the case. They say, this murder is a matter of National Security and my complete cooperation is expected. About the same time they are telling me this, Mr. Monk walks into the interrogation room. Monk, boy am I ever glad to see you. These gentlemen are sure that I have something to do with this mans death. I try to keep my voice calm. Monk begins to explain, Jake Card has been with me for the entire day and he is completely innocent. They show Monk the picture of the thin, tall bald man and ask him if he has ever seen him before? He freezes in suspended animation as if to catch his breath, but quickly replies, This man I have never seen before, but he looks like one of the United Nations Summit leaders.
The FBI director says, This matter must be kept in strictest confidence until we can clear this up. Monk and Card are released into their own recognizance. Monk composes himself and manages to say, This is all too weird, I thought I would never see the likes of that man again. This place gives me the creeps; lets get out of here, quickly. Monk rushes ahead of me darting quickly out the door.
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The CNN World Interview
Chapter Seven
Morning came too quickly and with a slight headache from all the tension of last night. The News Crew with me is eager to interview Dr. Paul Caratti as am I. Along with Dr. Caratti is Ariel Perei from Jerusalem, Israel, a leading AIDS vaccine expert, as well as the entire National Council for HIV/AIDS Education staff. This is Jake Card, reporting to you live from Cape Town, South Africa for CNN News.
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Dr. Caratti, we are interested in your views about how the AIDS pandemic ran its course right under the noses of our top government officials. Are they ignorant to your prognosis for a cure and can you explain what your protocol is? Yes certainly! He calmly says, AIDS is a Global Killer that continues to raise more questions than provide answers. Entire medical journals, dissertations and novels have been written concerning the origin of AIDS. Still, no one knows for sure where it came from. The best we know is that it seems to have appeared simultaneously on two continents, Africa and the United States in the early 1980s. Uganda and the Congo reportedly discovered the first cases of AIDS in 1981 and at around that same time the disease began to explode within the homosexual communities of Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. They and other early infected were labeled as having a gay cancer or GRID (gay-related immune deficiency), which created the first stigma associated HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency virus). HIV/AIDS quickly became a virus and disease that can affect anyone regardless of race, sex, age, religion or sexual orientation. HIV (the virus the causes AIDS) is an equal-opportunity infectious disease that knows no boundaries. Making no one immune to the threat of the Social Terrorist.
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Some speculate that AIDS may have been introduced into society by the green monkey virus which came from Africa. Others believe it is a curse from God. While other people are convinced it was bio-engineered in some secret diabolical laboratory and was inflicted upon man. Yet, others fully blame the homosexuals for the disease. WHO CAN REALLY SAY? No one knows for sure where AIDS came from. But, experts currently estimate that today only about 20% of AIDS infection is accountable to homosexual activity; although this percentage was higher during the onset of AIDS in the 1980s. Regardless of origin, AIDS is a very serious social/sexual disease that is spread by the social/sexual activity of people from behavior like sex, sharing IV drug needles and is also spread by (MTCT), Mother to Child Transmission.
In some countries it can still be transmitted through tainted blood supplies; although, now that is rare. Today AIDS is a major health threat on every Continent of the globe. It affects mainly the innocent, the orphans, the widows and the weak. If someone still thinks AIDS is strictly a homosexual disease, then all of us will need to apologize to the 18 million innocent orphans of AIDS that are neither homosexual, or IV drug users or the sexually immoral. Also to the 15 million innocent widows worldwide who have HIV/AIDS today. Stopping the pandemic-causes that keep AIDS alive will determine the course of health for generations to come and will halt the worst, completely preventable disease of our time. AIDS is a fight we have to win or it will ultimately destroy mankind.
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The only way to beat AIDS is through voluntary modified social behavior and education. Even though the ratio of people dying from AIDS seems to have subsided millions more are still catching and spreading the deadly HIV virus. What we didnt realize back then was that the practice that doctors used to extend the lives of their patients through Anti-retroviral drugs later proved to be a double edge sword where extending the life of an HIV-Patient actually became the very thing that jeopardized the lives of countless numbers of people of catching the deadly HIV virus unaware. In an effort to develop a sustainable approach to minimize the continuing spread of the disease, we started the HEART Project. Heart stands for: HIV EDUCATION & AIDS RECOVERY TRAINING. For many the concept was new. But without programs like these that teach people who have tested Positive for HIV how to live responsibly within the boundaries of their status continue to infect others with AIDS unaware for 20 or even 30 years . We strongly support the use of ARVs to prevent the HIV virus from turning into full-blown AIDS; but also believe that comprehensive AIDS-management and education need to go hand in hand with Anti-retroviral therapy to minimize the likelihood of spreading the disease in the future. Dr. Caratti hesitates and continues, What two Bulgarian scientists discovered was a combination of both social science and medical ingenuity. They were able to design the first model to merge both healing and modified social behavior in a way to make people realize that they themselves are the only ones that can protect themselves from catching AIDS. But before they could share their scientific discovery with the world they were murdered by greedy men who are making a living off of the people who are dying from AIDS. Dr. Caratti looks toward Ariel Perei to take over sharing in his knowledge of the situation.
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Even though big business pharmaceuticals have abandoned the cause to find a cure, my Firm remains committed to finding an AIDS vaccine. Moreover, I am deeply optimistic that God will help us find such a cure. But until we find a vaccine, the best defense is to learn to modify our sexual appetites, social behavior and protect ourselves by creating HIV-FREE zones. Dr. Caratti nods his agreement before taking over the conversation once again. I agree and concur with Dr. Perei one hundred percent. AIDS is a virus that has managed to infect every sector of society. But until every sector of society is willing to contribute by working together to find the answer, then the results will remain varied. Our research has clearly shown that by 2015 it is entirely possible to reduce AIDS to within manageable standards. But it will require every sector of society pulling together in the same direction. There is an old African adage that fits well with what is happening today: Where the Elephants Fight the Grass Suffers. The Elephants are the big corporate non-governmental organizations giants vying for position that have taken up opposition against each other. Giant pharmaceutical conglomerates claim to have the answer and continue to sell millions of condoms and overly priced ARVs (anti-retroviral drugs) every day. The faith-based organizations whether Christian, Muslim or Hindu are just as committed to finding an answer to AIDS and have instituted social programs for abstinence. But because society is so vastly comprised by differing cultural values and opinions no one single program will ever effectively work on its own.
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The Grass, on the other hand, is the innocent children that are crushed under the heavy feet of these conglomerate giants. These children innocently suffer and have become the victims, while big business fights it out for larger profits. There are many topics of debate that make the AIDS pandemic distinct. However, origin of disease should not be one of them here. Rather cure and treatment. Its not so much where did AIDS come from that should matter here as much as it is our working together to bring an end to this disease -- that should be our primary focus. Agreed! Every minute another ten people die from AIDS and every day 28,000 people contract HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Entire generations of adults have been wiped-out by this totally preventable worldwide pandemic, leaving behind millions of defenseless children to fend on their own. Today there are 18 million orphans of AIDS that have been thrown away into an already overloaded system of abuse, rejection and disease. Our goal is to prevent the next generation of at-risk children from ever being orphaned in the first place. Heres how it works. In Africa the average size family consists of five children and two parents. When the parents catch AIDS and die it leaves another 5 orphan children who must be provide for. When 100 sets of parents die, that leaves another 1,000 orphans and so on. The sheer number of orphans keeps rising each year. Last year 5,000,000 people died from AIDS and caused over 3 million orphans.
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The more at-risk parents that we are able to reach and educate about AIDS, then the more orphan children we can spare. Our goal is to reach 100,000 couples with a message of fidelity and monogamy to help keep them HIV/AIDS-FREE which in turn will spare the next generation of one million orphans from ever happening. Dr. Caratti holds up a large board for the viewing audience to clearly see the numbers. 2 Parents x 5 Children x 100,000 = One Million Spared Orphans.
Annually, this will save hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue for some of the poorest countries in the world where AIDS is worst. Moreover, this is money that could then be used for more important social programs like ending poverty or preventing malaria, which is the number one killer of children in Africa today. This truly is a true win/win situation that has many long term benefits. Not only will we prevent the next one million orphans from ever happening, but we also will avert the economic burden of having to provide for these orphans long term and will prevent thousands of people from dying of AIDS. In addition to caring for orphan children worldwide we created TEEN SMARTZ and the LETS WAIT programs for teens and youth. Many teens today have considered the harsh consequence of catching an STD and are ready to receive the value of an abstinence message. The youth generation today is smart, well advanced beyond their years and are ready, willing and want to make healthy life choices.
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Unfortunately, many teenagers today never make it through their formidable adolescent years to live a healthy and productive life, simply because of complex youth choices. TEEN SMARTZ is one of our programs that is created to assist youths between the ages of 10 to 25, to be able to obtain the vitally essential life skills they need in order to get them though the awkward years of adolescent life and help them reach positive adulthood. Moreover, the program is making a positive difference in the lives of tomorrows future leaders by helping to mold todays youths into positive adults and helping them avoid unwanted life surprises. Dr. Caratti finishes with great emotion. Are you the only expert in this area who feels this way? I ask pleased with how well the interview is going. Dr. Caratti shakes his head and appears glad to have been asked. The Whole Truth about AIDS Read what the worlds leading Expert on STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) Dr. Anthony Fauci, Head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the N.I.H., which is the top governmental office for disease authority, says about AIDS. Again, he holds up a board for the audience to read: There's a lot of misperception today about risk and safe sex. And, unfortunately, that misperception is leading to a sustained and unacceptably high level of sexual infection in this country. Dr. Caratti continues, Our desire is always to present factually accurate information about AIDS to educate people about the nature of STDs, HIV and AIDS, in order to teach the benefits of 100 percent true disease prevention.
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Closing the Gap on Teen-Sex and Sexually Transmitted Disease! If you are the parent of a teen of young adult today, you no doubt are already well aware that times have changed dramatically since you were a youth growing up. In fact youth today are exposed to sexual dangers that were not present when you were a teen. Consequently the risk today of a teen getting a sexual infection (STI) is so great, that youth today are now faced with over 30 different types of Sexual Transmitted Disease (STDs). Today there is a myth among most teens that says, if a youth practices some form of Safer Sex, meaning contraception (using a condom or oral sex) that they are completely and totally protected from the risk of catching an unwanted sexually transmitted disease like, gonorrhea, syphilis, HPV, HIV/AIDS and or unplanned pregnancy. This myth is completely false. On the contrary, while Safer Sex practices have managed to reduce teen pregnancy, its practice has caused the rate of STD infection all around the world to dramatically skyrocket out of control. Shockingly some youth today are engaging in full-contact sexual activity by the age of 12. In fact, recently in the news, a 12-year-old girl gave birth in 2013. Any sexual activity (which is vaginal, anal or oral) means that youth are dangerously exposed to any number of 30 different types of STD. In fact in some western countries the risk of catching an unwanted sexually transmitted disease is so great, that by age 18 One in Four sexually active teens will catch a Sexually Transmitted Disease, including HIV and AIDS. What's more, that the same risk of STD infection critically doubles to One in Two teen, up to 50%, for sexually active teen before a youth reaches 25 years of age. The FACTS of LIFE clearly have Changed!
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We offer teen the HIV?NOT ME! Program, to prepare a generation of healthy young adults that understand fully all of the risks involved in making early sexual choices, who have therefore drawn the logical conclusion that the risk of catching any number of 30 different types of Sexually Transmitted Disease today is far too great; and are therefore willing to wait to have sexual relations until they are ready for marriage. For every year that a teen willingly delays engaging in sexual activity, which is any form of vaginal-anal-oral that one decision closes the gap from them ever contracting Sexual Transmitted Disease. Moreover it significantly reduces the risk of infection from STDs and other sexual concerns, like teen pregnancy.
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Our objective is to reach a generation of youth that are sexually responsible, so they can live a healthy adulthood that is free from the risk of STD infection. Our Objective provides complete and knowledgeable information to youth who want to live sexually-disease-free, based on the personal choice of health, common sense and life-values, rather than sex.
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With so many confusing opinions today about sexual freedoms, it is sometimes hard for youth to know what exactly is safe and is not safe about sex. Our desire is to inform youth with correct accuracy and truth about just exactly what is meant by Safer Sex and to inform youth that the risks of catching a sexually transmitted infection today is far too great of a concern to ignore. Many teens today have questions about things like: is using a condom the right choice for me? Or what is Safe Sex? But to answer what is Safe Sex it is important to know exactly what question the person is asking. 1. Is the person asking how to have Safer sex and reduce their risk of catching a sexual disease? 2. Or are they asking, how to have sex with the guaranteed assurance they will never catch a disease or run the risk of an unwanted pregnancy? Let me read you what a leading health expert says about the effectiveness of condoms and practicing safe sex today: Regarding condoms both user error and manufacturer error existthe only 100 percent safe sex is no oral, anal, or vaginal sex, only abstinence. www.GoAskAlice.columbia.edu That condom expert is correct in saying that abstinence is the only 100 percent safe sex guarantee from catching any sexually transmitted diseases. Thats because all the aforementioned forms of sex have associated risks which some condom advocates have dismissed as not important need-to-know knowledge for the full sexual protection of youths today.
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Even if the risk of sexual infection is minimized to just 10 percent, it would mean that one out of 10 condoms would likely result in failure. But are those sex risks worth jeopardizing the health of our youths by implying to them they are safe and protected while using a condom? Ask most youths (teens) today if they are safe from sexual disease or pregnancy by using a condom and they will overwhelmingly say, YES. So, who can help inform youths about the myths that are most commonly spread? I ask genuinely interested. Doctors speak out about condom failures! He says passionately looking directly into the camera. Dr. Caratti then pulls out a large board with an attention catching statement written on it: Condoms Can Kill? Recently the FDA (food and drug administration) gave a stern warning to condom manufactures to begin warning that condoms are less effective at stopping some sexually transmitted diseases. This new warning would come right on the package that would provide people more precise information on how well or not so well condoms work at providing protection. Dr. Caratti shows another board while saying, Let me recap to show you the positive things we can do to help change the current and impending state of the AIDS crisis, starting with: 1. Helping youths and the sexually active to fully understand the risks and
dangers associated with making sexual choices and help them make healthy sexual choices. 2. Delaying sexual relations for as long as possible, either until they are married or until they are mature enough for the responsibility that having sex brings.
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You would never know it he says, but the largest group of new HIV cases just happens to be youth 12 to 18 years of age. Moreover, half of all new HIV infections happen to youths between the ages of 18-25. Largely due to the promotion of sexual material to underage children that encourages irresponsible sexual behavior. Caratti concludes with, We are Pro Testing and we believe that every person who is or who has ever been sexually active should be tested for the presence of HIV and AIDS to know their HIV status. If you are interested in knowing more about Safer Sex STDs and Condoms then please read the bonus chapter, What is Safer Sex? Or visit our web site: www.GlobalAidsDay.org
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The Final Conquest
Chapter Eight
That next day following the CNN World interview, I receive a surprise call from Arish Monk. He informs me that Secretary General Kofi Annan has just seen the CNN interview with Paul Caratti and that the United Nations has decided to halt Operation H2 Q, indefinitely. He continues by saying it was discovered that the man who killed the Bulgarian scientists was Stephan Braii. He was the identical twin brother of one of the United Nations delegates at the Kenyan, Summit. The thin, tall bald man was convinced that homosexuals were responsible for causing AIDS and wanted all of them to suffer. He later committed suicide. He killed the scientists not for the money but to make sure they would never be cured.
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Monk continued to add how the FBI has dropped their case against me, Jake Card. He also regrets to inform me that the AIDS Vaccine was not recovered and is presumed lost with Braiis death. How convenient, I thought. I finish writing my article for ITS TODAY Magazine and conclude with this: The best long-term method to prevent AIDS will come from informed communities that realize AIDS abatement is now everyones concern.
I decide to print Dr. Carattis Post Treatment Cost of Fighting AIDS VS Prevention as a series of featured articles. As I write the articles I discover how we have all been conditioned to embrace a Post-Treatment Society Mentality in regard to the control of AIDS today. His Post Treatment Cost VS Prevention model is based on the 2010 annual budget and may be higher or lower than projections show. The articles include the following: Article Series #1
The Post Treatment Costs of Treating AIDS VS Prevention AIDS experts estimate it will cost more than $15 billion a year to fight AIDS globally - that price tag will escalate to more than $25 billion per year by 2015. Wealthy countries currently spend less than $5 billion on global AIDS abatement each year.
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The Symptoms of a Post-Prevention Society Mentality are: 1. It wont happen to me, I am always careful; 2. I will deal with AIDS if it ever becomes an issue; 3. I use condoms; therefore, I am protected. If condoms remain the only alternative that continue to be offered to stop the spread of AIDS then it is easy to understand why we will see the greatest increase in new AIDS cases in the next 5 years.
There are two words that should certainly ring true with anyone who is at all concerned with wanting to stop the worldwide pandemic of AIDS, they are Fiscal Responsibility. Article Series #2 HOW HAS AIDS IMPACTED THE GLOBAL ECONOMY? Rising hospital costs and treatment. State clinics/private homecare for AIDS patients/financial burdens on families. Reduced insurance benefits and higher insurance costs and premiums. Insurance companies stand to lose billions by the post-treatment syndrome. There will be fewer doctors in the next five years due to reduced pre-med students enrolling today. But will there be enough medical assistance available? Loss of wages from missing work and out-of-pocket expense for medicines.
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Lost taxable income and revenue to the States and the Federal government. Increases in orphanages around the world (especially in Africa or other third world countries). By 2015 there will be nearly double the rate of orphans reaching 25 million. Huge Social Impact on Families. When the husband and wife die or when one becomes too sick to work there is loss of economic contribution. To name a few!
Perceived Areas of Personal Impact on a Society: Increased drug/alcohol use which leads to increased spreading of AIDS; Changes in personal plans: future, careers, school, lost life opportunities; Loss of respect and personal esteem; Teen pregnancy/abortion and; Higher suicide rate.
Article Series #3 What does the High Cost of Treating AIDS V.S. Prevention look like?
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This then becomes BIG MONEY that can now be used for other more important areas of community service! The actual figures may turn out to be even higher Spending money responsibly to prevent AIDS, dramatically affects the amount of money needed to be spent on Post Treatment practices and will eliminate much of the money already allocated for the Post Treatment practices of HIV/AIDS. But, what will it take in order for governments and world leaders to become interested in a Preventive and Proactive Fight against AIDS? The answer: MONEY! Article Series #4 The cost of failure is clear. The Global HIV Prevention Working Group estimates that if existing prevention interventions were brought to scale, nearly twothirds of the 45 million new infections projected to occur between 2002 and 2010 could be averted. In theory, preventing HIV/AIDS seems simple enough: give people information on how the disease is spread, and the desire for self-preservation will, naturally, make them adopt safer sexual behavior.
The reality has proved much more complex. Almost 30 years after it was first diagnosed, ignorance about HIV/AIDS still persists. Even more challenging is the realization that some of those who are aware of the message are ignoring it or are powerless to negotiate safer sex.
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According to the UNAIDS Epidemic Update for 2005, there is new evidence that prevention programs initiated some time ago are currently helping to bring down HIV prevalence rates in Africa.
Much of the African continent has initiated treatment programs but experts warn that unless the incidence of HIV/AIDS is sharply reduced, treatment will not be able to keep pace with the number of people needing therapy.
HIV prevention opens a Pandora's Box of issues, such as sex and sexuality, and forces people to re-evaluate societal and individual factors that may be contributing to the epidemic.
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Many countries have turned away billions of dollars in AIDS-related relief money simply because the money was offered in part to include some form of social reform. Many countries who have rejected these aid dollars have said that implementing such social changes into the fabric of their culture would invariably cause the loss of millions of dollars of annually generated revenue which comes from night-life activities.
What they fail to realize, is that post-treatment costs will end up costing their country more in lost revenue because post-treatment costs are always more expensive than prevention.
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Article Series #6 The Big LIE about AIDS AIDS is something that only happens to Those Types of People. Those people must have done something bad to deserve it. Other common misconceptions: I dont have AIDS so why should I be concerned? Isnt AIDS a punishment from God? I know it is out there but it doesnt affect me in my world so I dont care. Isnt the government taking care of this, anyway?
AIDS is not only affecting underdeveloped countries, but it is fast reaching into and is rampantly growing in urban parts of our cities today faster than anyone previously imagined. Let us then learn the lesson of AIDS, from what happened in Africa and in other parts of the world today, so we can best protect ourselves now. Lets win this war of AIDS around the world today, so we dont have to fight a much bigger adversary later. Article Series #7
The Abstinence Debate: In a Harvard document, Abstinence, Monogamy Can Help Win the War on AIDS senior research scientist from Harvard says abstinence and faithfulness are more effective than condoms to stop the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Dr. Edward Green of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is the author of Rethinking AIDS Prevention. He says he wrote the book after the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) dismissed his study of effective AIDS prevention program and instead hired another researcher, one who favored condoms, to conduct another investigation. According to Green, officials with USAID and the United Nations have continued to contend that promoting abstinence simply is not practical. He disagrees. "It's hard to argue with success," Doctor Green says, "If you look at the countries in Africa that have the highest levels of condom use -- countries like Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya -- these are not countries with lower HIV infection rates. These are countries, unfortunately, with higher infection rates. So what all these experts are saying, that [promoting condoms] is the only practical thing is just not working." On the other hand, Uganda has become to many the "poster-child" nation for what has been called the ABC approach -- an AIDS prevention program that emphasizes encouraging people to "Abstain" from sexual activity, "Be faithful" in marriage or a monogamous relationship and if one chooses to do neither A nor B, use Condoms. Green says Uganda has been a success story for initiatives that stress abstinence and faithfulness in particular, largely because the churches in the country have helped to promote them. "The faith-based organizations, whether Christian or Muslim, were mobilized in countries like Uganda and Senegal and Jamaica," the researcher says, "so church leaders and religious groups played a big role in targeting those behaviors -- fidelity and abstinence."
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As a result, the Harvard scientist says churches in Uganda and around the world are having a significant impact on the containment of HIV and AIDS. Nevertheless, he notes, many global groups that promote condom use consider churches and other faith-based groups to be obstacles to the fight against AIDS and HIV infection and tend to frown on anyone who supports the efficacy of their abstinence and character based approaches. In fact, Green notes, the U.S. Agency for International Development refused to accept his documented evidence that abstinence and faithfulness work to curb HIV, instead choosing to bring in another researcher -- one predisposed to favor condom-based prevention -- to conduct another study.
Nearly two years ago, Green testified before the U.S. Senate's African Subcommittee about the effectiveness of Uganda's ABC approach. He observed that, in little more than a decade, it had helped bring about a steep decline in the African nation's HIV/AIDS infection rates: they had dropped from 21 percent to 6 percent since 1991.
In his 2003 Senate testimony Green noted, "Many of us in the AIDS and public health communities didn't believe abstinence and faithfulness were realistic goals. It now seems we were wrong." The National Council for HIV/AIDS Education concludes: While we realize that no one social program will ever completely eradicate AIDS on its own, we have found that an abstinence message still reaches a large enough sector of society to make the effort extremely worth-while, without sending a mixed signal to the aberrantly promiscuous. World Health Leaders fear that society is not prepared and there could easily be millions of brand new AIDS cases.
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Even if our program only reached just one percent of those living at risk of contracting AIDS today, then what we are talking about doing will end up saving millions of people from ever contracting HIV/AIDS in the first place. One percent of 60 million people would spare 600,000 people from ever contracting this deadly disease. We believe millions of saved lives overwhelmingly justifies and outweigh the cost of post-treatment crisis intervention.
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The FACTS OF LIFE Have Changed Conclusion

Having HIV or AIDS can be very much a real and frightful thing. If you are one of the more than 40 million people today that have HIV, I hope the doors of treatment and recovery open up widely for you. Unfortunately, Anti-retroviral drug therapy has become too costly for most people to receive any long term benefit from. In fact, in some countries like Malawi only about 2% of the worlds population can afford any type of anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS treatment. Even worse is that a large group of society no longer fear getting AIDS, because they say if they get AIDS they will take ARVS. Unfortunately erroneous strides of foolish thinking may cause many people today that believe that ARVS are a cure for AIDS. However, there are many prices to pay for this, including a lifetime of complex medical regimens associated with acute toxicities. In the last few years, we have learned that there are chronic complications of both ARV therapy and prolonged survival with HIV infection. Some of these complications can be immediately lifethreatening, whereas others have implications for patients' future morbidity and mortality. When it concerns catching AIDS and having to deal with it for the rest of your life, then prevention really is worth more than cure.
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Alternative to High-Cost AIDS Treatment Our best suggestion for people, who have HIV or AIDS but find traditional Anti-retroviral drug therapy too expensive, is for people to begin their own Internet Search Group. Start your own alternative therapy program by using the Google Search Engine and look for alternative treatments. Search by topic and type in the words: Alternative HIV/AIDS treatment.
Check it out for yourself, several viable treatment options pop up. Personally, I am not a medical expert and cannot prescribe medical advice nor can I recommend any type of treatment that may benefit you. Only you can determine that for yourself. But there are many options available to you.
In 1999 I, Joseph P. Chaddock, was diagnosed with a similar disease to AIDS. I was suddenly without warning stricken by a life-threatening illness and was left on my own deathbed.
A team of five specialized doctors diagnosed me with numerous non-curable diseases including hepatitis C, vertigo, a dying kidney, bi-polar disorder and manic depression and a spirit of suicide. But by personal faith I was later raised-up off my own deathbed and finally overcame that spirit of death and suicide. Since that time I have been healed and delivered from several lifethreatening diseases like cancer and others. I am living, breathing and walking proof for hope! THANK YOU, JESUS!
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Like AIDS, hepatitis C is an auto-immune disease that destroys the liver. For many, just like AIDS, there is no cure for hepatitis C there is only high-cost medical treatment that is so expensive only a small portion of people can afford it; and, like AIDS, I was left to die in a depressed condition without hope!
What is HIV? HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the virus that causes AIDS. Do YOU know your status? The only way to know for sure if you are infected with the HIV or AIDS virus is to be tested. You cannot rely on symptoms because they are similar to those of many other diseases. Many people who are infected with HIV do not have any symptoms at all for years. Thus, may unknowingly spread the disease to others.
The First Thing to Do is Get Tested! HIV does not immediately produce symptoms of sickness and an HIV-infected person may feel well and not display any symptoms of having the disease that causes AIDS. If you are tested for HIV and discover that you are HIV/AIDS-Positive you can still spread the deadly HIV virus or another more deadly strain of the HIV virus to others. There is more than one type of HIV/AIDS virus. Even if you are HIV positive you can still catch another more deadly strain of HIV from another HIV infected person. This can spread to your spouse or friends by having sexual relations of any kind, (vaginal, anal, oral) or by sharing IV drug needles.
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If you are tested for HIV and discover that you are HIV/AIDS-Negative then you can still catch HIV if, at a later date, you come into social/sexual contact with an infected person. Avoiding risky sexual behavior is the ONLY way to stay HIVFREE. Will a condom protect YOU from catching AIDS? Please read the warning on a box of condoms: WARNING: No method of contraception can provide 100% protection against pregnancy or HIV (AIDS) and STDs. Condoms will help reduce the risk of unwanted pregnancies and catching and spreading HIV infection (AIDS) and many other sexually transmitted diseases.
During sexual contact lesions and various body fluids can transmit HIV/AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases known as STDs.
HIV is a highly contagious, preventable social/sexual disease which can occur when an HIV-infected person comes in contact with an uninfected person through sexual relations or IV drug use. HIV is the most deadly of all known STDs and like every other STD it is preventable. The best way to prevent HIV from ever happening is to not have sex outside of marriage, and if you are married be faithful to one partner and to abstain from risky sexual behaviors or by sharing intravenous needles. How does HIV spread? The most common way today that HIV is transmitted is from one person to another through having sexual relations with an HIV-infected person that are either vaginal, anal or oral.
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Other ways of contracting the disease are from sharing needless with HIVinfected carriers or from HIV-infected women to their babies before or during birth or through breast-feeding after birth. HIV can still be transmitted by receiving infected blood, although this is now extremely rare. The largest contributor to HIV/AIDS today comes from people (mostly men) having sexual relations outside of marriage with people other than their spouse. The Myth about AIDS Most people still believe that you could get HIV/AIDS through casual contact like shaking hands or hugging, touching inanimate objects, animals, giving blood donations, insect bites, saliva, sweat, vaccines, water and tears. There is no evidence to show that you can contact HIV/AIDS through any of those means. However, HIV/AIDS can be transmitted through sexual intercourse, through tainted blood (although rare), and from mother to infant. Hospitals should make sure that donors are not infected with HIV before accepting blood from them. Likewise, people should not share needles or syringes, for if the other person is infected with HIV the next user could get the HIV virus. What are the symptoms of HIV?
As previously mentioned, the only way to know if you are infected with the HIV virus is to be tested. You cannot rely on symptoms, because they are similar to those of many other diseases.
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Many people who are infected with HIV do not have any symptoms at all for years. Thus, may unknowingly spread the disease to others. The following may be warning signs of infection with HIV: rapid weight loss, dry cough, recurring fever or profuse night sweats, profound and unexplained fatigue, swollen lymph glands in the armpits, groin or neck, diarrhea that lasts for more than a week, white spots or unusual blemishes on the tongue, in the mouth or in the throat. Pneumonia, red, brown, pink, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose, or eyelids, memory loss, depression or other neurological disorders. If you have any of these symptoms you should be tested to know if you are an HIV-carrier, because you could be spreading the deadly HIV/AIDS disease to others and not knowing it. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO LIVE HIV/AIDS-FREE? Be faithful to your spouse and live a monogamous relationship having only one sexual partner. The actions of the social terrorist are criminal acts against society and humanity that must be stopped. It is only when those who have been affected come forward can we band together to make these hate crimes know to protect the innocent from AIDS. Never share IV needles with another person, even family members. If you are single then learn to abstain from sexual relations (vaginal, anal or oral) until marriage and be faithful to just one partner in marriage.
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More about the author: Joseph P. Chaddock is an AIDS researcher and sociologist. He is the founder of Global AIDS Day, and the National Council for HIV /AIDS Education. He is a gifted speaker and presents a comprehensive and compelling world-view of the AIDS pandemic how the looming presence of AIDS threatens our world today.
While he was in Africa he worked with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, where his personal experience of the African AIDS crisis has personally and permanently influenced his life. Global AIDS Day is becoming the united evangelic voice against AIDS. Our objective is to bring together civic leaders and religious clergy into proactive partnership against HIV/AIDS.
Moreover, we have established the Global AIDS Day Foundation to help not only people who are infected by the AIDS disease but also those who are affected by AIDS. In addition to helping to prevent the worldwide spread of AIDS, we also support several orphanages around the world. Joseph P. Chaddock is the founder of Global AIDS Day and president and executive director for World Storehouse. He also founded the National Council for HIV/AIDS Education. Contact Information: P.O. Box 1057 Jackson, CA, 95642 E-mail: DrPaul@GlobalAidsDay.org Web Site: www.GlobalAidsDay.org
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Sources for the writing of this book: CDC - The Center for Disease Control The Merck PDR Manual The United Nations interview with Kofi Annan World Health Organization WHO The National Council for HIV/AIDS Education Dr. Howard Green An Interview with Winnie Mandela The Sacramento Bee Red Cross Red Crescent Dr. Bill Bray of HopegiversDr. Michael Osterholm Dr. C. M. Roland, editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology Dr. Anthony Fauci Harvard Doc: Abstinence, Monogamy Can Help Win War on AIDS, Mary Rettig and Jenni Parker; Agape Press, March 10, 2005 Alan Guttmacher Institute, New York UNFPA United Nations Population Fund, State of World Population GCFM Global Campaign for Microbicides, March 2006 KFF Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2006 The Well Project UNAIDS Tri-Valley Herald Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig NBC Nightly News Brian Williams Rick Warren Unicef Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld Global Ministries and the United Methodist Church United States Department of Health and Human Services
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FDA Food and Drug Administration Reuters International AIDS Conference
This book was written for The National Council for HIV/AIDS Education
www.GlobalAidsDay.org
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General Dedication
This Book is Dedicated
To the memory of the 30 million people who have died from the scourge of AIDS since 1980 and to the more than 40 million people worldwide who presently have HIV/AIDS and await a cure. Moreover, to the 18 million children who are the Orphans of AIDS and have become rejected by society. To my dear friend Archbishop Desmond Tutu for his inspiration to write an honest portrayal about AIDS. This book would not be possible without the selfless contributions of the Global AIDS Day staff and friends. Most of all, a very special thanks go to Wilma I. Buckie who over the years has given me more love and support than a son deserves.
Especially, eternal loving thanks to my Savior, Jesus.
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Special Dedication
Special Tribute to Nelson Mandelas Son This book is dedicated to the memory of Nelson Mandelas son Makgatho who died from AIDS on January 6, 2005. Makgatho was the eldest and last surviving son of four children from Nelson Mandela's first marriage to Evelyn Mase. Our deep felt sympathies go out to the Nelson Mandela family. The only way to fight the disease's stigma is to speak openly about it. I hope that as time goes on, we realize that it is important for us to talk openly about people who die of AIDS." Nelson Mandela Ntate, in 2005 our team was fortunate to have met you personally. We bless you, Dr. Nelson Mandela for taking the courageous step of disclosing the cause of his son's death. The whole world will again one day thank you for your courage.
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About the Author
People often ask what inspired me to write a book about the serious topic of AIDS Like AIDS, in 1999 I was suddenly stricken by a life-threatening illness and was left on my deathbed. A team of five specialized doctors diagnosed me with numerous diseases, including hepatitis C, vertigo, a dying and diseased kidney, bi-polar disorder/manic depression and a spirit of suicide and like millions of AIDS patients today I was left without hope and all alone. But, by faith I was raised-up off of my deathbed to overcome the spirit of suicide and death. Since that time I have been healed from all those diseases including cancer and I live to encourage others about the true meaning of the gift of hope. Like AIDS, hepatitis C is an auto-immune disease that destroys the liver. For many, just like AIDS, there is only high-cost medical treatment so expensive only a small portion of people can afford it and, just like AIDS, Like AIDS, I was left to die in a depressed condition without hope!
Regards for better health, Joseph P. Chaddock, Ph.D. Global AIDS Day President
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These pictures are all from my trip to Africa that I took in 2004 to provide aid and compassion to the Orphans of AIDS. All of these pictures come from the hard cover book, the Social Terrorist that was published by Hosanna Books. The cost of that book was originally priced at $21.99. But this e-Book is yours free. If you enjoy reading the Social Terrorist please drop me an e-mail at DrPaul@GlobalAidsDay.org
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Since 2006, JOSEPH P. CHADDOCK has lived in the Philippines together with his wife Renah and their seven children. Joseph is an accomplished Journeyman landscape contractor with more than 15 years construction experience. Joseph was Commissioned/Ordained in Jerusalem, Israel in 1999, and helped pastor a large church. He is a skilled writer and has authored numerous books including, JOSEPHS REVELATION; UNVEILING THE DOMINION OF MAN; I FELL FROM THE BIG NUT TREE and the popular novel: THE SOCIAL TERRORIST. Presently he is composing several Christian Music CDs for later distribution in 2013. Joseph earned a B.A. from Westmont College in Sociology. He later received his honorary Ph.D. doctorate from Regent College while working extensively in doing AIDS research for the prevention of AIDS worldwide. Joseph is a different style of missionary, who in addition to hosting religious outreaches of love and compassion, has also contributed programs that address many of our overwhelming social concerns today: like hunger, poverty and disease. Moreover he is the founder of GLOBAL AIDS DAY, MEDICAL SAMARITAN, WORLD STOREHOUSE and THE ORPHANS OF AIDS. All of which have helped to provided humanitarian aid, food, water and shelter to some of the poorest people of more than 21 nations. You can view a detailed listing of his humanitarian work online at:
WEBSITE: WWW.GLOBALAIDSDAY.ORG EMAIL: DRPAUL@GLOBALAIDSDAY.ORG 111
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