7 naked Aids activists storm Boehner's office

Rep. Barney Frank most aroused... 

at least 7 naked #AIDS activists inside Boehner's office protesting budget cuts, >50 right outside office in hallway twitter.com/VOCALNewYork/s…
— VOCAL-NY (@VOCALNewYork) November 27, 2012

International AIDS Conference held in US for 1st time in 22 years. Obama skips it for fundraiser...

 Do you remember when we had a President who really cared about aids? On the other hand, AIDS activists have been heckling Obama.



Via Bloomberg:

For all the dignitaries on the schedule at the International AIDS Conference this week in Washington, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gatesand former President Bill Clinton, it’s the absence of one that has activists talking.

With the conference being held in the U.S. for the first time in 22 years, President Barack Obama is out of town campaigning and raising money for his re-election. His only presence is a 50-second cameo in a three-minute video welcoming delegates. Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s only appearance is in a video message to a meeting on the sidelines of the conference on the role of the faith community.

“It’s a huge missed opportunity,” said Matthew Kavanagh, head of policy for Health GAP, an advocacy organization on AIDS. “The people who are touched by HIV in this country and who care about HIV are potential core constituents for the president.”

Adding to the ire of activists is Obama’s proposed 2013 budget, which would cut funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, an initiative started by President George W. Bush, by seven percent compared with 2010 levels.

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Obama Lies to Crowd After Being Heckled By Aids Activists

President Obama is forced to alter his speech after being heckled again by Aids activists. He makes the claim Republicans will cut Aids funding. The Aids Healthcare Foundation calls Obama out for that lie.

"The assertion that the Republicans would do worse on AIDS than the current Democratic leadership is simply incorrect," said Weinstein. "After all, it is Republican Senators Coburn and Burr who have introduced bills to solve the nation's ADAP crisis and increase treatment slots for global AIDS patients--- bills which have stalled largely due to lack of Democratic support." AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the largest global AIDS organization. AHF currently provides medical care and/or services to more than 137,000 individuals in 23 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia Pacific Region and Eastern Europe. www.aidshealth.org

Then, he claims he has increased Aids funding, but is was a measly 2.5% and that was after President Obama's first budget proposed a $6.6 billion cut in Aids funding.

Last year, with the help of then-Senators Biden and Obama, Congress reauthorized the US global AIDS, TB, and malaria programs (commonly called PEPFAR) at $48 billion over 5 years. A modest estimate to extend that level of funding over six years to match the new initiative would be $57.6 billion. The President’s current proposal only calls for $51 billion for the same programs – a $6.6 billion cut. This means there will be dramatic reductions to funding for AIDS, TB, malaria, and still very little left over for vital expenditures like maternal and child health and health system strengthening.

The Obama administration took further steps to reign in Aids spending this year.

US officials have asked some AIDS clinics overseas to stop enrolling new patients in a US-sponsored program that provides lifesaving antiretroviral drugs, in a bid to stem the rising costs of one of the most ambitious US assistance programs, according to interviews with doctors and official correspondence.

Here is the video of President Obama lying through his teeth.

Obama gets heckled by Tea Partiers Liberals

President Barack Obama got heckled at a fundraiser Wednesday night. The hecklers were liberal AIDS and gay rights activists. Obama seemed irritated and claimed Republicans will cut AIDS funding if they take over. The truth is President Bush increased AIDS funding dramatically. It is President Obama who cut AIDS funding by $6.6 billion.

Raw Video: Obama Heckled on AIDS at NY Event

The global HIV industry is too big and out of control

Are we spending too much of our limited health care dollars on AIDS? I am not advocating that AIDS is not a big problem. This is especially true on the African Continent. However, when the Mainstream Media, Hollywood and several very loud activists groups hype an issue for years, we can lose our perspective. We should spend our dollars where we can save the most lives. Instead, we spend disproportionate amounts on the "issue of the day."

Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so

By MARIA CHENG – 1 day ago

LONDON (AP) — As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.

They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease's spread has largely been curbed in much of the world, Africa excepted.

"AIDS is a terrible humanitarian tragedy, but it's just one of many terrible humanitarian tragedies," said Jeremy Shiffman, who studies health spending at Syracuse University.

Roger England of Health Systems Workshop, a think tank based in the Caribbean island of Grenada, goes further. He argues that UNAIDS, the U.N. agency leading the fight against the disease, has outlived its purpose and should be disbanded.

"The global HIV industry is too big and out of control. We have created a monster with too many vested interests and reputations at stake, ... too many relatively well paid HIV staff in affected countries, and too many rock stars with AIDS support as a fashion accessory," he wrote in the British Medical Journal in May.

Paul de Lay, a director at UNAIDS, disagrees. It's valid to question AIDS' place in the world's priorities, he says, but insists the turnaround is very recent and it would be wrong to think the epidemic is under control.

"We have an epidemic that has caused between 55 million and 60 million infections," de Lay said. "To suddenly pull the rug out from underneath that would be disastrous."

U.N. officials roughly estimate that about 33 million people worldwide have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Scientists say infections peaked in the late 1990s and are unlikely to spark big epidemics beyond Africa.

In developed countries, AIDS drugs have turned the once-fatal disease into a manageable illness...

Read more here.