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The AIDS Conspiracy in Africa


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Do you think HIV/AIDS is real? Could it all be a conspiracy theory by the developed nations to curb the population of Africa? Greg Crompton investigates why many Sierra Leoneans are questioning the validity of HIV/AIDS and how this has allowed the virus to spread at an alarming rate.
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12 responses // The AIDS Conspiracy in Africa

  • Interesting pod, but seems to be cut short?
    KasiaC
  • Thank you for this short film. I would not think otherwise but to say it is a thought provoking topic.

    I sincerely hope that the people of Sierra Leone takes this illness seriously. However, I believe America has something to do with this virus. It is a conspiracy that went very very wrong. It appears to be planned scheme to depopulate the world more so, Blacks and others. However, people were mixing and inter-marrying. So it no longer become an illness of the black but everyone. When HIV/AIDs was discovered the lies that came out about monkeys in Africa it was unbearable to hear as an african. The theory that the population was growing more that the world could provide for seems to be what prompted this conspiracy. However, HIV/AIDs do exist I hope Sierra Leoneans believe.
    darobin
  • This would only play about three minutes into it for me. I'll try again later. Seems good so far.
    covelogibbs
  • No, there is no AIDS conspiracy in Africa. The connection with monkeys has been established - the green monkey carried a harmless (for itself) form of the virus which was transmitted to people when they were bitten by green monkeys, and the virus (which is a retrovirus) began mutating once it found itself in the organism of a new species. The same phenomenon has occurred with another variant of the AIDS virus that was in the chimpanzee organisms, and the virus entered humans not only through bites but also through humans consuming the undercooked flesh of chimpanzees - and this continues in certain parts of central Africa. One must also remember that the AIDS virus has been found in samples of tissue from humans who died in the fifties and even earlier, at a time when technology and bio-engineering could not possibly have tampered with the structure of any kind of virus, let alone a virus as small as the AIDS virus.
    Vierotchka
  • Furthermore, Africa is the least populated continent (barring Australia), it doesn't suffer from over-population, although its cities do know that phenomenon because of migration of rural people to the cities.
    Vierotchka
  • practice safe lunch, use a condiment
    phukna
  • Sorry. The the vid was cut short due to my lack of access to internet in Sierra Leone. I have sent a DVD to Current support. The full vid should be up soon.
    gregcrompton
  • That sounds quite frightening to me. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the doc.

    steflef2002
  • well done greg, i wondered why it suddenly cut out at the end, am looking forward to the ending. very interesting how some of those who don't believe were journalists/news casters. the wrap around shot of the HIV/AIDS sign was stoking. the cutting between interviews, voice-over and filler shots was stoking.
    buraianrai
  • I can also only get this to run for about three minutes... but what there is so far is good and fairly shocking... and I lived in Freetown for 18 months.

    You might want to also look at official rates from the HIV/AIDS Secretariat in comparison with the (much higher) rates that the medical profession anecdotally feel to be more likely. You could talk to the Shepherd's Hospice at Alleyntown which offers palliative care to those suffering from HIV/AIDs related illness. You could also speak to any one of a number of medical professionals at Freetown's hospitals where voluntary testing is done. At Lumley I remember the ratio of men to women being quite telling... women being the ones going for testing while men feared doing so.

    It would also be interesting to speak to sex workers who have HIV/AIDS but do not tell their clients (clients who pay more for unprotected sex).

    From the little I know of this topic it seems that the lack of basic health education in Sierra Leone, which would have taught the concept of an immune system, has created the conditions in which it is very difficult for the population to grasp the concept of the illness. One of your interviewees touches on this. People do not die of AIDS, they die of TB or a common cold.

    It's fascinating to start looking at this in Sierra Leone where the war contained the virus due to the closure of borders and reduced movement of people for ten years in which the virus raged across southern Africa. Great idea! Are you making a follow up?

    Charly
    CharlyCox
  • Very thought-provoking and revelatory in respect of the popular perceptions in Sierra Leone. I have heard that the talk in some South African "former townships" is that "the white man puts the HIV virus inside condoms so never use them"! Education, education, education!
    TheRedHatMan
  • incredibly romptifying.
    sarsonscampbell

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