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From the NY Times:

KAMPALA, Uganda — On the grounds of Uganda’s biggest AIDS clinic, Dinavance Kamukama sits under a tree and weeps.

Her disease is probably quite advanced: her kidneys are failing and she is so weak she can barely walk. Leaving her young daughter with family, she rode a bus four hours to the hospital where her cousin Allen Bamurekye, born infected, both works and gets the drugs that keep her alive.

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But there are no drugs for Ms. Kamukama. As is happening in other clinics in Kampala, all new patients go on a waiting list. A slot opens when a patient dies.

“So many people are being supported by America,” Ms. Kamukama, 28, says mournfully. “Can they not help me as well?”

The answer increasingly is no. Uganda is the first and most obvious example of how the war on global AIDS is falling apart.

The last decade has been what some doctors call a “golden window” for treatment. Drugs that once cost $12,000 a year fell to less than $100, and the world was willing to pay.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    its not a war on AIDS…

    its a ‘war’ to reduce the global population, mainly of the darker peoples who sit on resource-abundant land.

    biological/chemical warfare.

    Smallpox used against the Natives

    then using brothers in Tuskegee as guinea-pigs with Syphiliss

    now you got these Vaccines, sheeeeetttt…. the medical/drug industry is BILLIONS of dollars per year industry, so if people are healthy they gonna take a profit loss you feel me… its bout commerce/money.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    ps: After World War II, Hitler’s Nazi scientists were ‘adopted’ by the United States.

    ————> “Operation Paperclip”

    oh yeah, shout out to Margeret Sanger, creator of Planned-Parenthood. ;)

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    true soularflarez but whether or not all the pestilences and diseases and plagues and “natural” disasters are created by man, the bible already foretold this to happen and sadly this is just described as the “birthing pains” leading up to the end. what will the CDC put out next? don’t know.
    it’s time for people to get in order, get their affairs in order b/c you have been warned, you are seeing it all play out in front of you. there is no turning back once the end has begun. man cannot and will not be able to fix this. won’t be any running, no hiding, no place left untouched by the effects of it

    also, while black folks are busy hopping in and out of bed thinking the free clinic will suffice w/ hiv pills for their pockets here better watch out. what’s starting in one place will be here soon too. the evil in power don’t care anymore about your azzes than it does the for the rest of the world

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    SoularFlarez, AGREED!
    If these mas amounts of AIDS cases were ‘cured’ or prevented there would be NO profit.

    Incase some of you havent noticed, Doctors aren’t trained in PREVENTION, they are trained in 1st through the final disease stages, hence the LONGER you remain ill, the more money can be raked in for you. Prevention is only taught AFTER ‘treatment’ has run its course and oh my…there is ALWAYS medication and follow-ups prescribed for further prevention, often times for LIFE. (cha-ching!)

    Im just saying thats my take on it…feel free to refute…

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    awww…that’s a shame…I hope they do something about it. However, once again there is always a let down.

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