The chief of a watchdog organization working to combat the spread of HIV and AIDS has launched a campaign to demand a government investigation of – and action over – the homosexual behavior that has been linked to more than 25 million deaths over the last 30 years, likening the problem to smoking, which was blamed for 100 million deaths in the 20th century.
Although statistics on the diseases linked to homosexual activity notoriously are hard to obtain, a report from the International Journal of Epidemiology estimated from a review of the "gay" population of Vancouver, B.C., that HIV/AIDS costs homosexuals up to 20 years of their lives on average.
And the U.S. government is spending, according to a Congressional Research Services report to Congress, in the range of $20 billion a year for treatment and research, with a small fraction for prevention that, analysts explain, includes testing but largely doesn't address the behavior itself.
That's even though when another threat to lives and livelihood – cigarettes – were suspected of imposing such a cost, Washington mandated exhaustive studies, imposed draconian advertising limits, demanded warning labels and imposed outright bans in many circumstances. It said the behavior, smoking, could be changed.
"It's a public health question," Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, told WND. "We've got to get beyond the gay politics and get back to the behaviors. We know there are high risks."
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He recent publicly demanded a federal government review of the problem and action regarding it. He issued the call to action at a recent Reclaim Oklahoma conference and he later explained the idea to WND.
"We need to pull this information together," he said. "We would, if it were from any other behavior, where one in five men who practice come down with this awful disease called AIDS."
On his website, LaBarbera explained that homosexual behavior is like the behavior of smoking, which the U.S. government investigated and addressed directly by requiring warnings and other limits.
"Men who have had sex with men since 1977 have an HIV prevalence 60 times higher than the general population and 800 times higher than first-time blood donors," LaBarbera wrote, citing a federal report that touched on the issue.
Although statistics on the diseases linked to homosexual activity notoriously are hard to obtain, a report from the International Journal of Epidemiology estimated from a review of the "gay" population of Vancouver, B.C., that HIV/AIDS costs homosexuals up to 20 years of their lives on average.
And the U.S. government is spending, according to a Congressional Research Services report to Congress, in the range of $20 billion a year for treatment and research, with a small fraction for prevention that, analysts explain, includes testing but largely doesn't address the behavior itself.
That's even though when another threat to lives and livelihood – cigarettes – were suspected of imposing such a cost, Washington mandated exhaustive studies, imposed draconian advertising limits, demanded warning labels and imposed outright bans in many circumstances. It said the behavior, smoking, could be changed.
"It's a public health question," Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, told WND. "We've got to get beyond the gay politics and get back to the behaviors. We know there are high risks."
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He recent publicly demanded a federal government review of the problem and action regarding it. He issued the call to action at a recent Reclaim Oklahoma conference and he later explained the idea to WND.
"We need to pull this information together," he said. "We would, if it were from any other behavior, where one in five men who practice come down with this awful disease called AIDS."
On his website, LaBarbera explained that homosexual behavior is like the behavior of smoking, which the U.S. government investigated and addressed directly by requiring warnings and other limits.
"Men who have had sex with men since 1977 have an HIV prevalence 60 times higher than the general population and 800 times higher than first-time blood donors," LaBarbera wrote, citing a federal report that touched on the issue.
When it comes to combating cigarettes, the government not only restricts, taxes and bans smoking, it also funds and encourages anti-smoking messages and advertisements," LaBarbera said. "Given the immense health risks of male homosexual sex, shouldn't the federal government do a comprehensive study on the matter, tax sodomitic establishments like bathhouses, and educate the public and especially young people about the dangers of 'gay' sex?"
That smoking costs dearly isn't disputed. According to Health.com, researchers at the University of Bristol in England determined that for each cigarette, a smoker loses approximately 11 minutes of lifetime.
"That means that 10 cigarettes a day for 10 years takes more than nine months off your life."
The report also reveals tobacco "was responsible for the deaths of 100 million people in the 20th century."
Additionally, a Washington Post report said on average, smokers lose about 10 years of lifetime. "The pioneering epidemiologist Richard Doll, who's now 91, and his colleagues found that almost half of all persistent cigarette smokers were killed by their habit, and a quarter died before age 70," the report said.
But it also found that "kicking the cigarette habit had equally dramatic effects … someone who stops smoking by age 30 has the same average life expectancy as a nonsmoker, and someone who stops at 50 will lose four, rather than 10, years of life."
There's evidence that homosexuality's link to HIV and AIDS also is costly.
"In the U.S., recent research has identified HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of death among men aged 25-44 in the states of New York, New Jersey, California, Florida and Massachusetts, and 64 out of 170 cities having reported at least 25 AIDS-related deaths," said the Journal of Epidemiology. "Similarly, in Europe and Canada HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of death in middle-aged men in several urban centers. Deaths attributable to HIV have led to an enormous burden on adult and childhood mortality in developing areas of the globe, such as sub-Saharan Africa."
According to the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, men who have sex with men account for more than half of the many thousands of new HIV infections in the U.S. each year, and the rate for infection for that "MSM" population is "more than 44 times that of other men and more than 40 times that of women."
WSYR Television in New York said on this year's 30th anniversary of the identification of HIV and AIDs, more than 60 million people have been diagnosed with HIV and 25 million of those are dead, "as there is no cure."
USA Today described the origins:
That smoking costs dearly isn't disputed. According to Health.com, researchers at the University of Bristol in England determined that for each cigarette, a smoker loses approximately 11 minutes of lifetime.
"That means that 10 cigarettes a day for 10 years takes more than nine months off your life."
The report also reveals tobacco "was responsible for the deaths of 100 million people in the 20th century."
Additionally, a Washington Post report said on average, smokers lose about 10 years of lifetime. "The pioneering epidemiologist Richard Doll, who's now 91, and his colleagues found that almost half of all persistent cigarette smokers were killed by their habit, and a quarter died before age 70," the report said.
But it also found that "kicking the cigarette habit had equally dramatic effects … someone who stops smoking by age 30 has the same average life expectancy as a nonsmoker, and someone who stops at 50 will lose four, rather than 10, years of life."
There's evidence that homosexuality's link to HIV and AIDS also is costly.
"In the U.S., recent research has identified HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of death among men aged 25-44 in the states of New York, New Jersey, California, Florida and Massachusetts, and 64 out of 170 cities having reported at least 25 AIDS-related deaths," said the Journal of Epidemiology. "Similarly, in Europe and Canada HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of death in middle-aged men in several urban centers. Deaths attributable to HIV have led to an enormous burden on adult and childhood mortality in developing areas of the globe, such as sub-Saharan Africa."
According to the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, men who have sex with men account for more than half of the many thousands of new HIV infections in the U.S. each year, and the rate for infection for that "MSM" population is "more than 44 times that of other men and more than 40 times that of women."
WSYR Television in New York said on this year's 30th anniversary of the identification of HIV and AIDs, more than 60 million people have been diagnosed with HIV and 25 million of those are dead, "as there is no cure."
USA Today described the origins:
"Few people took note when, on June 5, 1981, doctors reported that a strange and deadly new disease had turned up in five gay men in Los Angeles. Doctors, too, were perplexed by the illness, which turned its victims into prey for exotic microbes. All five suffered from Pneumocystis carinii, a fungus that feasts on the lungs; candida, another fungus that nests in the mouth and throat; and cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common cause of infection in transplanted organs.Normally, the immune system thwarts these microbes, which survive only in transplant patients, cancer patients and others whose defenses are down. But these men seemed to have as little resistance to hungry microbes as the stump of a fallen tree. In effect, they were decaying before their doctors' eyes."
Money already is being thrown at the problem, according to the research of the Fair Foundation.
Its research reveals that National Institutes of Health allocates $225,656 for research and related work for each HIV/AIDS death, but only $13,803 for diabetes research for each death from that. That was followed by $11,595 for prostate cancer research for each each from that.
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Money already is being thrown at the problem, according to the research of the Fair Foundation.
Its research reveals that National Institutes of Health allocates $225,656 for research and related work for each HIV/AIDS death, but only $13,803 for diabetes research for each death from that. That was followed by $11,595 for prostate cancer research for each each from that.
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