Are 26 million Africans dying of AIDS?

From: New African | Date: December 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

1st December is "World Aids Day". In the run-up to it, the Aids Establishment has been issuing some dubious figures about a "pandemic" of Aids in Africa. TV documentaries to be broadcast on, or before, 1 December have been lined up in Britain and elsewhere to reinforce the Establishment line. But how accurate are these figures? One African doctor calls it "the biggest lie of the century". Joan Shenton, the award-winning British TV producer and journalist says "it's all bad science". Fortunately, the evidence on the ground in Africa so far doesn't support the "pandemic" figures. BAFFOUR ...

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