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World's Richest Man just a Useful Idiot?
Re: World's Richest Man just a Useful Idiot?
by Sixstrings » Fri 24 Jan 2014, 08:05:37
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', 'B')illy's pontifications on poverty are totally worthless.
From what I can see, his foundation is for real and spending 5% of its worth every year. He's doing a lot for tuberculosis, tropical diseases, and HIV. The US government, thanks to George Bush, did the most to halt the global HIV pandemic.
Gates Foundation alone is doing more than most national governments.
Meanwhile, the Russian government and Russian philantrhopists (do the oligarchs give much charity?) are not doing enough in Russia:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')cientists in Siberia say they've discovered a new and extremely virulent strain of HIV in Russia.
Though rates of HIV infection have been falling worldwide, Eastern Europe and Central Asia remain the only regions on the planet where HIV prevalence is clearly "on the rise," says the United Nations. According to RIA Novosti, 52 percent "of the HIV-positive people that live across that area are in Russia."
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Lack of funding for HIV prevention and low coverage of HIV treatment services are fueling the high rates of AIDS-related deaths and rise of HIV infections as well, says a 2012 U.N. fact sheet on the issue.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/new-hiv-russia_n_4138219.html
Gates foundation has given money to fight HIV and TB in Russia:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/search#q/k=russia
But the Russian government seems to be fighting organizations that want to help, shutting down even HIV prevention information:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Russia's Free Speech and Public Health Crackdown
the Russian authorities have taken what is an ongoing assault on HIV prevention to the next level by moving to silence public health advocates whose only infraction has been to spread life-saving information online and to criticize the government for its own failures.
Russia is home to one of the biggest populations of injecting drug users, and one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in the world. It is estimated that there are just under two million injecting drug users in Russia. In some regions, more than 80 percent of people living with HIV in the country contracted the virus through injecting with contaminated equipment.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eka-iakobishvili/russias-free-speech-and-p_b_1265805.html
I'm not knocking Russia here, our president Reagan famously ignored HIV too -- but these problems don't get better when ignored. Infectious disease is a global problem, it's *infectious*, and evolves the more it spreads, so it's not okay for any nation to just ignore it and block outside help.
Somebody has to do something. At least Bill Gates is.
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Re: World's Richest Man just a Useful Idiot?
by Quinny » Fri 24 Jan 2014, 08:27:29
Bet those missionaries with their new gospel and way of life felt pretty good about themselves SS.
Bear in mind EdWeek are usually pretty pro Gates and hardly socialist!
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html?intc=bs&cmp=SOC-SHR-GEN#.UuEGpcJsQ64.facebook
Bear in mind EdWeek are usually pretty pro Gates and hardly socialist!
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html?intc=bs&cmp=SOC-SHR-GEN#.UuEGpcJsQ64.facebook
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Re: World's Richest Man just a Useful Idiot?
by Sixstrings » Fri 24 Jan 2014, 09:03:28
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'B')et those missionaries with their new gospel and way of life felt pretty good about themselves SS.
Bear in mind EdWeek are usually pretty pro Gates and hardly socialist!
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html?intc=bs&cmp=SOC-SHR-GEN#.UuEGpcJsQ64.facebook
Bear in mind EdWeek are usually pretty pro Gates and hardly socialist!
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html?intc=bs&cmp=SOC-SHR-GEN#.UuEGpcJsQ64.facebook
I'll take a look at that. But my thing is, this total anti-Americanism and poo-pooing of anybody doing anything is just too much.
I'm just asking for perspective.
Do any of you care that a new super virulent strain of HIV has evolved in Russia? Because Russia is not doing enough about it? Nope. You don't care. Not enough to make a post about it, but Bill Gates' foundation is aware of it, ready to give money to do something about it, yet he's somehow a bad guy.
What about krokodil heroin, which started in Russia, and now people in frickin' Arizona are doing it -- the most horiffic drug mankind has ever thought up, that concoction is holy sh*t gruesome.
You won't read about this in Russia Today or any of Putin's state media. But it's real. And what Russia does has a real impact on the rest of the world. Russia ignores that new heroin problem, it explodes, and sure enough now it's in the US and UK.
Russia cracks down on HIV awareness free speech, because its regime would rather sweep under the rug than look bad, and Russia isn't doing enough to contain the IV drug use and HIV spread, and sure enough now we got new virulent strains evolving.
What if HIV evolves to airborne, in Russia, while you guys are going on about how bad Monsanto and Bill Gates are?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]HIV Epidemic Plagues Russia as Government Rejects Prevention Methods
Hidden from the outside world and abetted by policies that critics say promote infections rather than curbing them, the HIV scourge plaguing Russia is one that even the poorest countries have begun to subdue.
As Putin puts the final touches on preparations for the $48 billion Winter Olympics in Sochi and strives to expand Russian influence in international affairs, 1.3 million of his countrymen have the life-threatening virus that causes AIDS, according to the Russian Federal AIDS Center.
Unchecked Outbreak
Among the top 20 global economies, only India, with a population almost nine times bigger than Russia’s 143 million, has more people living with HIV, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, known as UNAIDS, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Forbidden Treatment
Russia trails in curtailing HIV infections because it forbids or refuses to fund approaches that have worked elsewhere, says Michel Kazatchkine, the UN secretary-general’s special envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The country bans methadone, a treatment the World Health Organization recommends to curb heroin use and thus prevent infection from contaminated needles, under a 1998 law that prohibits addictive drugs.
“There is a climate of suspicion about everything that comes from the West -- and the U.S. particularly,” Kazatchkine says. “I don’t see much progress coming in Russia unless it changes quite radically. It’s so shocking. The nation’s HIV policies result in death and suffering that could be avoided.”
Injecting Krokodil
Pokrovsky, the Russian AIDS center director, disagrees. He says anti-drug efforts don’t stem HIV. A medical doctor who diagnosed the first HIV case in the then-Soviet Union in 1985, Pokrovsky, 59, has fought the virus for three decades.
He says efforts to stop heroin abuse in the 2000s prove his point. A government crackdown pushed addicts onto intoxicants such as krokodil, which users inject more frequently than heroin, increasing infection risks. The concoction is based on the pain reliever codeine mixed with gasoline, iodine, acid and phosphorus, according to the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.
Russia in 2012 sought to stamp out krokodil by making codeine prescription only. Users switched to other homemade mixtures, and some now shoot up eyedrops. Drug abusers are frequently turned away from hospitals and often arrested and imprisoned, charities that work to counter HIV say.
“These repressive measures are the main means of combating drugs here in Russia and the main measure to prevent HIV, too,” Pokrovsky says.
‘Closed Door’
Russia has also stymied international aid groups that fight HIV. In 2009, the government was set to take over and expand programs, including needle distribution, sponsored by the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The Health Ministry backed out, leaving the programs unfunded, says Nicolas Cantau, the fund’s project manager for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
“Suddenly, everything was wrong,” recalls Cantau, who says the challenge was ideological, not medical. “Everything that the Global Fund had supported was not good; harm reduction didn’t work. We ran into a closed door.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-13/russian-hiv-surge-shows-scourge-sochi-games-swagger-can-t-mask.html
Quinny, this "everything the US does or any American does is bad and ulterior motivated" attitude is what is causing people to die and a new HIV pandemic to go unchecked in Russia. Russia shutting the world out and not cooperating just causes its problems to spill over here too.
A new strain of HIV does not care what country it spreads to. Infectious disease doesn't have an ideology, or an opinion about Americans or Putin.
After reading the above article, now I know how this krokodil thing got started -- they wouldn't listen to the rest of the world, refuse to do methadone treatment, and THAT is what created krokodil as addicts resorted to that and NOW that crap is in Arizona, United Kingdom, and just googling news I see it's spread to Mexico now too.
But nevermind, let's get back to how bad Bill Gates is, for donating money to fight infectious disease.
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