56,000 new AIDS cases in US per year
Posted by: Ken Mettler | 08/02/2008 9:44 AM
The Center for Disease Control (CDC), who spends $750 million of taxpayers dollars on AIDS prevention annually, reported today that they have under-reported the number of HIV cases for at least the past 10 years. Now the figure is 56,000 new cases this year which is a 40% increase over prior estimates.
This is an issue that affects all of us, either via our family's health or our pocket books.
Roughly 1 million people living in the US are infected with HIV. Globally, 33 million people are infected. Congress recently appropriated $50 billion dollars, primarily to Africa, to fight AIDS. (Like we have an extra $50 billion lying around). The spending legislation that Congress approved had a clause in it that allows HIV POSITIVE PERSONS TO NOW IMMIGRATE INTO THE US! How completely foolish can they be.
The following are quotes from the CDC: "...there is a severe impact of this epidemic among gay and bisexual men in the United States..."; "More than 28,000 of the new infections are among men who have sex with men...."; and "AIDS spreads rampantly in prisons.".
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This is an issue that affects all of us, either via our family's health or our pocket books.
Roughly 1 million people living in the US are infected with HIV. Globally, 33 million people are infected. Congress recently appropriated $50 billion dollars, primarily to Africa, to fight AIDS. (Like we have an extra $50 billion lying around). The spending legislation that Congress approved had a clause in it that allows HIV POSITIVE PERSONS TO NOW IMMIGRATE INTO THE US! How completely foolish can they be.
The following are quotes from the CDC: "...there is a severe impact of this epidemic among gay and bisexual men in the United States..."; "More than 28,000 of the new infections are among men who have sex with men...."; and "AIDS spreads rampantly in prisons.".
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