This story covers the non-coverage of the AIDS epidemic in Africa.  The question of diet and gluten intolerance and poor immune response popped into my head, naturally…and I have to wonder about it with what is going on with these folks.

Why are the grandmothers okay?  That is, why are they healthy while the younger generations becoming ill? It struck me while watching the move “Philadelphia” with Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks that Tom Hanks’ partner in the movie, Antonio Banderas, was not infected with AIDS.  Why?  Why were some becoming ill and others not?  What weakened one’s immune system?  What strengthened the others?

I see this over and over with each passing generation.  Our DNA is altered by chemicals/toxins in the environment, becoming weaker with each generation.

Here’s a really good piece on AIDS in Africa and all the devastation.  It’s an older piece, but lots of good background here.   The first video on here is only six minutes, but wow does it pack a lot in.  The second video is equally informative about the TB connection.

It is disheartening that vitamins are dismissed in this article.  Granted, the person pushing them might have been looking for profits, but without extra vitamins, I would not be recovering.  When the body is toxic and the immune system is under attack, the ability to absorb vitamins is seriously impaired, making it imperative for the person to take extra amounts to counteract it.  Diet probably has more do to with recovery than any drug.  The body performs miracles every day with chemical-free food, chemical-free water, and chemical-free air.  To dismiss these factors does a grave disservice to the ill.  Drugs alone cannot cure someone.  This approach by Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) bothers me in that they are pushing Western medicine which places little importance on diet and promotes vaccination.  I also wonder about the genetically modified food in Africa and its impact on the gut and therefore, their health and ability to fight off AIDS.

So…I couldn’t shake the feeling of the stealth push for more drugs from Big Pharma…and I started getting that “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” feeling…

….so I went searching to see if there was a link….yup.

My first thought was to delete everything I had written…but no, there is good info here, but I just ask my dear readers to keep the drug pushing stuff in perspective.

Here’s a piece by greenpeace on warning the Africans of GMO’s.

There was plenty of non-GM food available including surpluses in other parts of Africa, but the White House ignored appeals by the World Food Programme and the EU to donate cash to African countries to buy surplus food from the region which would have supported local farmers rather than US-based GM multinationals.

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At the time Dr Chuck Benbrook, a leading US agronomist and former Executive Director of the Board on Agriculture for the US National Academy of Sciences said: “There is no shortage of non-GMO foods which could be offered to Zambia by public and private donors. To a large extent, this ‘crisis’ has been manufactured – might I say, ‘engineered’ – by those looking for a new source of traction in the evolving global debate over agricultural biotechnology. To use the needs of Zambians to score ‘political points’ on behalf of biotechnology strikes many as unethical and indeed shameless.”

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As  a side note~~I was watching TV recently where they talked about a huge white diamond taken out of Africa, worth I think he said $35 million.   I cynically told my sister, “and that money went right back to Africa, didn’t it….?”