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- Subject: "STRONG FAMILY VALUES" (VII)
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- [Originally posted to misc.activism.progressive]
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- A I D S C A S E S
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- COUNTRY TOTAL CASES CUMULATIVE RATE
- PER 100,000
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- U.S. NONWHITE **93,569** **155.7**
- Malawi 12,074 131.8
- Uganda 21,719 120.9
- Congo 2,405 107.3
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- UNITED STATES **202,843** **81.0**
- Switzerland 1,891 28.0
- France 15,534 27.6
- Spain 9,112 23.2
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- Canada 5,228 19.7
- Australia 2,678 15.8
- Italy 9,792 17.0
- Denmark 842 16.4
- Netherlands 1,799 12.0
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- Belgium 896 9.0
- Germany (unified) 6,708 8.5
- New Zealand 274 8.3
- United Kingdom 4,758 8.3
- Austria 594 7.8
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- Sweden 587 6.9
- Ireland 205 5.9
- Norway 220 5.2
- Findland 88 1.8
- Japan 405 0.3
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- "Sources: World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS (October,
- 1991); U.S. figures: UI.S. Centers for Diseas Control "HIV/AIDS
- Surveillance," December, 1991, p. 9.
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- "The United States has had nearly ten times as many reported AIDS cases
- as Uganda, the nation with the second most cases, and the cumulative
- rate of AIDS is higher in the United states than in any developed
- nation. In per capita terms, we have experienced 3 times as many AIDS
- cases as Switzerland, 10 times as many as the United Kingdom, and 270
- times as many as Japan. While three developing African countries --
- Uganda, Malawi, and the Congo -- have a higher cumulative AIDS rate
- than the general American population, AIDS has been more prevalent in
- the nonwhite U.S. population than [even] in these three African
- nations.
-
- "Though attempts are made to accurately update the number of officially
- reported AIDS cases, the World Health Organization acknowledges
- widespread underreporting. THerefore, while the official world count
- as of October 1991 was 418,403 cases since the disease first appeared,
- the cumulative number of AIDS cases is probably closer to 900,000 for
- adults and 400,000 for infants and children [54]
-
- "The first decade of AIDS that ended in 1991 was just the beginning.
- Millions of people throughout the world, including at least one
- million Americans, are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
- By the year 2000, the World Health Organization predicts that forty
- million people worldwide will be infected with HIV [55]. [a study
- which will be posted with these files recently criticized this (huge)
- figure as possibly under-estimating by a factor of more than two].
- Unless some miracle cure is found, these forty million people will die
- of AIDS. More than 130,000 Americans have died already. By the end
- of 1993, as many as 480,000 Americans will have developed AIDS and as
- many as 340,000 will have died from it, according to the Centers for
- Disease Control[56].
-
- "Until recently, many HIV-positive individuals in the Unites States
- were not classified as having AIDS simply because the definition of
- the disease was outdated. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, after
- criticism from medical groups and AIDS activists, revised its
- definition of AIDS so that these HIV-positive Americans, many of whom
- are women, now receive disability benefits for which they were not
- eligible before. Though the U.S. share of all reported AIDS cases is
- falling, it still amounts to about half of the known cases, despite
- the fact that Americans make up about 5 percent of the world's
- population.
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- Footnotes [like all else here, are from Andrew Shapiro's _We're Number
- One_ (see top or this article)] for part (I) posted yesterday:
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- [54] Still, the figures presented in the chart below provide an
- accurate *comparative* picture of AIDS prevalence in different nations
- since the inception of the disease
-
- [55] Gina Kolata, "10 Years of AIDS Battle: Hopes for Success Dim,"
- The New York Times, June 3, 1991, p. A14
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- [56] Centers for Disease Control, personal communication.
-
- [57] Figures are through October 1, 1991, for all counties except the
- U.S., where figures are current through November 1991. Note: AIDS
- annual figures are updates by WHO retroactively, so 1991 figures are
- provisional.
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- _We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
- World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.
-
- New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
- $10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- [Transcribed by jhwoodar@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Woodard)]
-
- ``America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
- This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
- facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
- ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation.''
-
- -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations
-