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Momtezuma Tuatara
02-12-09, 05:14 AM
The Herald yesterday, did a mini version of this article here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6684230/One-in-five-HIV-infections-caused-by-medical-staff.html

This is my letter to the editor:




On page 14 of yesterday’s Herald, we read that one in five HIV sufferers in Africa was infected by medical staff using dirty needles and clinical equipment. The researchers accuse governments of ignoring the problem.

WHO has known of this problem, caused by themselves, since BEFORE 1997 (see attached pdf – they don’t have this one on their website J ). I have a bulging folder of more recent medical articles implicating the WHO vaccination programme, as being THE major source for syringes, which are then resold by EPI staff, for extra income, and then reused time and again. EPI has created a far larger problem than the diseases against which these people were vaccinated, because the data doesn’t count in the natural spread from the needle-induced disease.

Oh yes, it’s all too easy to blame “unsafe sex”.

WHO lauds itself for the number of measles deaths etc reduced, but nowhere in that equation do we see EVER the deaths and disease inflicted by those same needles, which the WHO EPI has never been capable of disposing of properly.

As one WHO 1999 report said, “if unsafe injecting practices transform them into sources of infection with other diseases, they may continue to meet their immediate goals, but they will defeat their ultimate purpose.” *

Is it not ironic that this needle happy, responsibility abdicating organisation, is the very organisation that redefines the word “pandemic” and is now orchestrating the world wide Pigs-might-fly H1N1 vaccine? Is it not ironic too, that because the Western World is refusing to use this vaccine in droves, that at least 600 million will soon be sent to developing countries to create yet more Hepatitis B and HIV?

Remember in 1998, when that total was stated to be 10 million a year? (see below – URL still active)

Oh I forgot. Isn’t their motto “Trust us, we know what we’re doing”?




*WHO 1999 77 (10) “The cost of unsafe injections” M.A. Miller and E. Pisani, page 808


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/10/27/MN52NEE.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/10/27/MN52NEE.DTL)

DEADLY NEEDLES
Fast Track to Global Disaster

Reynolds Holding, William Carlsen, Chronicle Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 27, 1998
In de Quadros' hand was a chilling internal report: 10 million people a year were contracting lethal diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS through the reuse of contaminated syringes.

But an earlier internal WHO study had revealed an even more alarming figure: Every year as many as 1.8 million people infected by contaminated syringes, mostly children, would die -- about one every 20 seconds.

hmmm.. and I recall this post here too:
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showpost.php?p=4523258&postcount=82

Momtezuma Tuatara
02-12-09, 05:18 AM
Global News & News from the region (Hong Kong, Thailand 3x)
(Thursday, 28 October 2004) - Written by Librarian - Last Updated ()
Unsafe injections lead to global disease burden
NEW DELHI: Billions of injections-a vast majority of them unsafe and unnecessary-are being administered to patients globally, leading to serious disease and millions of deaths annually, a government scientist warned here at the International Conference on Harm Reduction this week.

''Roughly 12 billion injections are given each year globally,'' said Dr. Keith M. Sabin, an epidemiologist with the division of HIV/AIDS prevention of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. ''We estimate that 75 per cent of these 12 billion injections are not necessary,'' he added, quoting the World Health Organisation (WHO) figures.


''So, 9 billion unnecessary injections are being administered globally at a rough cost of 50 cents a shot,'' Sabin said.


''Some $4.5 billion is being wasted annually on these unnecessary injections.''


From reported surveys it is known that in Eastern Europe, for instance, an average individual receives as many as 15 injections a year, Sabin noted. In Southeast Asia, the ratio is five injections per year per individual. ''These are largely not needed,'' he said.


In many parts of the world, these injections are very unsafe. ''Equipment is being reused without particularly being sterilised,'' Sabin pointed out.


''In Southeast Asia, nearly 80 per cent of injections that are given are with nonsterilised equipment. The next highest rate is found in Africa, which is a shade under 80 per cent and then Eastern Europe with nearly 70 per cent injections with unsafe equipment,'' he said. ''(As a result), we see ex raordinary high numbers in Africa and Asia infected with all three major blood-borne pathogens
such as HIV, hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV),'' Sabin stated. ''Asia is extraordinarily high for HBV and HCV,'' he added.


According to WHO, in Africa, chronic infections for HIV, HCV and HBV were 22.7 million, 22.5 million and 59.3 million in 1998. Comparable figures for Asia were 7.3 million, 107.5 million and 286.8 million.


''One is certainly fuelling the other,'' Sabin said. ''Unsafe injections are fuelling high prevalence rates of disease and high prevalence of disease is making it more likely that you are going to get a bad needle-stick.''


According to data published in the Bulletin of WHO in October 1999, unsafe injections cause somewhere between 8-16 million HBV cases, 2-5 million HCV infections, and 80,000-160,000 HIV infections annually worldwide.


''The cost of these is about 1.3 million early deaths resulting from chronic liver infections from HBV or HCV, and HIV developing into AIDS and leading to death ultimately, and a loss of 26 million years of life with direct medical costs of well over $500 million annually,'' Sabin concluded.


''This is a problem of tremendous importance and it needs to be addressed on a national level with as many stakeholders as possible participating in the development of a national strategy in the affected regions,'' Sabin said. (Reuters)

http://www.timesofindia.com/070401/07hlth20.htm (April 7, 2001) URL no longer operative.