Few people realize that the familiar HIV/AIDS global statistics are actually estimates. For example, UNAIDS estimated that the Republic of South Africa (RSA) had 140,000 HIV/AIDS deaths in 1997. However, after tabulating all deaths for 1997, the Republic of South Africa attributed only 6,635 deaths to HIV/AIDS. Such discrepancies are rarely noted. The Republic of South Africa (RSA) stands as the exemplar of these discrepancies. It is reputed to have the world's largest AIDS epidemic with an estimated 5.6 million people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) in 2008. Such PLWH estimates, as with the estimates of HIV/AIDS deaths, are highly questionable. HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction clarifies the reasons behind these discrepancies by describing two common misunderstandings of HIV infection that contribute to poor mathematical modeling outcomes. Unfortunately, the health authorities in the Republic of South Africa grant more validity to computer-generated estimates than to their own empirical death counts. HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction discusses why these modeled estimates, and the HIV sero-prevalence surveys upon which they are based, are simply implausible. Fully referenced, HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction presents and compares raw numerical data on: ● the tabulated number of HIV/AIDS deaths in the RSA; ● the number of AIDS cases detected by RSA disease surveillance systems; ● UNAIDS/WHO estimates for AIDS deaths in the RSA; and ● UNAIDS/WHO estimates for the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the RSA. The total cumulative numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in the United States and the cumulative totals for the continent of Africa are also presented for purposes of comparison, and to place the African and RSA data within appropriate epidemiological context. Overall, these data span from 1981 to 2009. Altogether, these data, plus additional information detailing the nature of HIV infection and heterosexual HIV transmission rates, explain why the hyperbolic mathematical estimates and HIV antibody test surveys - the primary sources of HIV/AIDS data in Africa - are simply implausible. Contents: 118 pages, 20 tables, several side boxes, and 240 references.

HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction

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Jennings, Chris

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"The theory that AIDS originated in African monkeys arose from an incident of laboratory contamination." ● The scientific literature is clear: (1) New York City is the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic; (2) the theory that HIV came from monkeys is a fallacy; the theory that AIDS originated in African monkeys arose from an incident of laboratory contamination; and (3) the African AIDS epidemic-as-holocaust never manifested. "The first Africans diagnosed with AIDS were residents of Belgium." ● Fully referenced, based on a forensic review of over 3000 scientific and medical journal articles, this book redefines global concepts for the prevalence and distribution of HIV infection. For many readers, each page will be a revelation as the Author not only deconstructs many myths and misconceptions, but also describes how the current misconceptions came into being."The first documented case of international HIV transmission occurred between New York City and Copenhagen."HIV/AIDS - The Facts and the Fiction has an adjuvant companion book, HIV/AIDS in South Africa - The Facts and the Fiction, which provides numerical substantiation to some of the assertions presented in HIV/AIDS - The Facts and the Fiction. Together, they redefine global concepts for the prevalence and distribution of HIV infection, and have powerful implications for HIV/AIDS funding, research prerogatives, and global health care interventions. Chris Jennings (Harvard, B.A., Biology 1976/77) excels at writing scientific books that fulfill the needs of professionals while rendering the science accessible to the average reader. His prior book, Understanding and Preventing AIDS: A Book for Everyone, was favorably reviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine ● adopted for staff education by Massachusetts General Hospital, the hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); and Walter Reed Army Medical Institute ● sold in medical bookstores ● purchased by innumerable city and state health agencies ● and utilized as a textbook at colleges, nursing schools, and public health schools.Contents: 218 pages, 20 tables, innumerable side boxes, and 500 references.

HIV/AIDS - The Facts and The Fiction

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