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News Release
For Immediate Release: December 1, 2009
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

World AIDS Day – Will the Truth Ever be Told?

(Harrisburg) – Today is World AIDS Day, but the truth about HIV/AIDS continues to be suppressed. Is it because it is politically incorrect to point to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) statistics that reveal that men who have sex with men (MSM) is the largest population which contracts the virus, asked the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide pro-family group.

“As homosexual groups cry louder for more funding on AIDS research, millions of children around the world die – not from AIDS, but from more common Third World Country childhood diseases – pneumonia and diarrhea. Donors have responded to those with the louder voices – homosexual activists and their allies – and ignored the plight of children with curable disease,” noted Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

As donors concentrate on sending funds to fight “glamorous diseases” such as AIDS, they have ignored children who die of treatable diseases. In 2007 Africa’s two most populous countries, Nigeria and Ethiopia, saw the deaths of 540,000 children under the age of 5 from pneumonia and diarrhea. That same year 237,000 people died of AIDS. Yet AIDS received the most funding. This year the U.S. is spending $750,000 in Nigeria and Ethiopia for HIV/AIDS, while only spending $35,000 for child and maternal health.

“We can’t forget what Matt Foreman, former Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said during his February 8, 2008 speech at the Creating Change Conference in Detroit. He acknowledged that with the large number of people in the country living with HIV being homosexual that HIV is a gay disease. With his statement why is it still politically incorrect to mention that,” questioned Gramley.

The CDC states, “MSM made up more than two thirds (68%) of all men living with HIV in 2005, even though only about 5% to 7% of men in the United States reported having sex with other men. Additionally, the CDC acknowledges that MSM is the only group in the US where new HIV infections have increased steadily since the early 1990’s.

“Why is it that the children in Third World Countries whose deaths could be prevented for pennies a day are being ignored while millions are spent on a disease that is so politically correct that no one wants to talk about the causes?” again questioned Gramley.more than two thirds

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