Posted by Editor - August 02, 2004:
In Reply to: San Francisco has eight AIDS deaths in first quarter of 2004 posted by Editor on March 21, 2004 at 18:06:53:
San Francisco has 92 new AIDS cases in the first half of 2004.
Why is this number significant?
In an epidemic, one would expect numbers to be going through the roof, now AIDS service organizations are having trouble justifying their existance. Prevention programs supposedly don't work, so the numbers must mean something else.
Last year total new AIDS cases were at 492.
in year 2002: new AIDS cases were at 516.
in year 2001: new AIDS cases were at 566.
in year 2000: new AIDS cases were at 614.
these numbers are going DOWN. San Francisco Department of Health officials are scrambling for funds and have announced a syphillis alert to try to get people into health clinics. AIDS is obviously not the "cash cow" it once was... not even in the so-called epicenter of AIDS, San Francisco, where only four years ago SF Health Department epidemiologist Dr. Willi McFarland claimed the city was at "sub-Saharan African levels of transmission" of HIV rates, almost a laughable claim if not for the serious subject.
These pages are PDF documents, you need Acrobat Reader to view these reports, or you can have them mailed to you.
http://www.sfdph.org/PHP/RptsHIVAIDS/qrtpt062004.pdf
See Table 5. AIDS Cases by Transmission Category and Year of Diagnosis, San Francisco, 1980-2004
The same scare tactics used by the SF health department have been used in Seattle - see
this article: The AIDS Scare That Wasn’t.