HIV & AIDS

[Anthony]

I just got finish listening to the President State of the Union Address. It was a very classic speech, but I'm not here to talk about taxes & accountability because the President covered that very well. I'm here to talk about HIV & AIDS research. I'm a black heterosexual male, I do not have HIV, AIDS or any STDs, but that don't stop me from researching HIV infections & finding a cure. I'm gonna keep this short & ask three questions.

Is prevention & treatment or cure?
Is turning HIV infection into a chronic disease a cure?
Are the drugs available to everyone?

It's very easy to research HIV & AIDs without it being scary. Merck, Gilead Sciences, Sangamo BioSciences and Calimmune are the three leading research corporations. Find out each corporations research funding, financial report & SEC filing. Also find out who are the top leading scientist. Research their background & lectures. Research why some developments are successful & some are not. Take a look at Kevin Frost, chief executive of the Foundation for Aids Research & see what he's doing. HIV is destroying the black community & Africa more than any other ethnic group & black folks & Africans show the least bit of concern on the subject, unless our favorite entertainers are singing in a fundraiser. Get involved & take the time to do your research. You don't have to be an expert in the lab.

Yours truly,

Anthony Smith

[Anthony]

It's a lot of Andrea Davis of the world. They may not have HIV, but they're living with STDs & they're not telling their sex partners.

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A former professional wrestler was sentenced Monday to 32 years in prison for having sex with women without telling them he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.

Andre Davis, 29, was sentenced in a Hamilton County court on 14 counts of felonious assault. Davis, who wrestled using stage names including Gangsta of Love and Sweet Sexy Sensation, was convicted in November.

Prosecutors had said Davis violated state law by not telling a dozen sex partners about his HIV status or lying to them.

Davis told the judge Monday that he was a "sex addict" and that his addiction grew worse when he lost his dream of becoming a professional wrestler after getting the HIV test results.

He said sex addiction is probably the worst addiction anyone could have.

"Drugs and alcohol are terrible, but sex is something everybody wants," he said.

Davis, who said he didn't disclose his HIV test results because he didn't want his family to know, said he never intended to hurt anyone.

"I am not a monster," he said.

Assistant prosecutor Amy Tranter had argued during trial that Davis should go to prison for a long time, saying the case was about his responsibility to tell the women his test results.

"He's a manipulative man and a liar," Tranter said Monday.

Davis' attorney, Greg Cohen, had argued that the state law regarding HIV and felonious assault is poorly written because it doesn't require proof that there has been harm or an attempt to commit harm.

Cohen told the judge that his client was sorry for what he had done and that the women Davis slept with also had some responsibility for choosing to have unprotected sex.

The judge, citing medical privacy laws, had prohibited attorneys from bringing up whether any of the women was infected with the virus, which can be transmitted through unprotected sex.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has reported that World Wrestling Entertainment told Davis in July 2009 that it wouldn't hire him because he failed his physical and tested positive for HIV.

Cohen had noted during the trial that a company, not a doctor, told Davis that he was HIV-positive and that he did not think prosecutors could prove that Davis has HIV. But the state law requires those who test positive for HIV to inform their sex partners of that status and it was not necessary to prove that Davis is HIV-positive, Tranter said.

Cohen told The Associated Press that an appeal will be filed.

He said the constitutionality of the law "is probably going to be raised, and there are some legal issues regarding the admission of certain types of evidence."

Davis, who could have received over 100 years in prison, faces similar charges in Warren County, north of Cincinnati.

[Anthony]

I hate to go off the subject but what if a paid federal informant had HIV or STDs? He or she are protected by the federal government. They use aliases, some travel & work other states because they have federal jurisdiction. They know they're not making a difference on the street no matter how big the drug bust maybe. That lifestyle gives them the freedom to operate, they're always so-called working because they're always in the streets & if they're always in the streets than that mean they're in bars, clubs & strip clubs. You not catching a high roller drug dealer in church, maybe someone that can introduce you to someone that's a high roller. They have to maintain a certain street credibility, especially with the ladies, which mean they're sexually active & with the money & cars they're very sexually active because young & old women love money. It's no secret that there's a romance with the high roller drug dealer lifestyle in the black community. Look at someone like Andrew Chambers, who do not have HIV, Chambers was a DEA million dollar informant. Google his & DEA. He worked over 16 years a a super snitch. He traveled all over the world for the DEA, but his home was St. Louis, and his second home Los Angeles. For his snitch work with the DEA, he was paid over $2.2 million. DEA regulations limit informants to a career total of $200,000, but those regulations can be waived. The DEA says its second-highest paid informant has received about $500,000 Since he also worked for the FBI, U.S. Customs Service, U.S. postal inspectors, Internal Revenue Service, Secret Service and state and local police, his total take may have been much more. He lied. He lied under oath on the stand. He lied on the stand repeatedly, beginning the year after his recruitment.

My point of mentioning Andrew Chambers is to show that paid federal informants can make a large sum of money while being protected by the federal government & they have no problem deceiving, manipulating & lying.Look at this paid federal informant in this post & the freedom he has to operate. Here->http://www.whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post/Confidential-Source-557...

A paid federal informant could have several STDs, HIV or both. They could be secretly a bisexual with a very active sexual lifestyle working the streets & colleges. The government don't care about the victims their informants set-up so I know the government don't care about the women that could be affected. As long as the informants do 75% of law enforcement work than nothing else matters just as long as it doesn't add up to a lawsuit against the United States of America & them losing their jobs.

[Anthony]

Gates donates $750 million to fight AIDS, TB and malaria

Davos, Switzerland (CNN) -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum.

The donation comes in the form of a promissory note, not as cash, which the Gates Foundation said "gives the Global Fund the flexibility and authority to distribute funds efficiently based on immediate needs."

"By supporting the Global Fund, we can help to change the fortunes of the poorest countries in the world," Gates said in a statement. "I can't think of more important work."

At a news conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Gates said the funds could be used immediately to "saves lives, whether it is bed nets (to protect against mosquitoes carrying malaria) or TB (tuberculosis) treatment, those are two diseases that don't get perhaps the visibility of the work done in HIV but they are every bit as important."

The investment comes on top of $650 million the Gates Foundation has already contributed since the Global Fund was launched 10 years ago.

The fund has been under scrutiny after controversy over the possible misuse of funds. Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the fund, said Tuesday he would resign in March after leading the organization for five years. Kazatchkine cited the fund's decision to appoint a general manager as part of its "ambitions transformation plan" as the reason for his departure.

Speaking to journalists with Simon Bland, the Global Fund's chair, Gates downplayed the controversy.

The way it had been written about was "pretty disappointing," he said. "If you are going to do health programs in Africa, you are going to have some percentage that is misused."

"The interest is saving lives," Gates said, adding there were "all sorts of things that are going on that far overwhelm any amount of misdirection or whatever it was."