Genocidal duo's body count comes to light

According to a study published by Harvard University AIDS specialists the surplus deaths caused by the HIV denialist policies of former South African President Thabo Mbeki and his quack doctor and health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang stand at more than 350,000 lives lost. More than 350,000 impoverished South Africans lost their lives because of the genocidal policies Mbeki and Tshabala-Msimang enforced in the country. These policies, driven by the conviction that HIV is not the cause of AIDS, meant that even rape survivors were unable to access postexposure prophylaxis. That in a country were rape is endemic, and where the HIV prevalence stands at about 20 percent or thereabouts. I reviewed the moral implications of these policies here. Medical doctors were forced out of their public sector hospital jobs by ANC ministers, for no other reason than that they provided rape survivors with postexposure prophylaxis, in violation of the monstrous government policies Mbeki and his health prevbention side-kick implemented.

What I can't get my head around is that nobody in South Africa seems to think these days that it might be a good idea to hold both Mbeki and Tshalabala-Msimang personally accountable for these policies, and to prosecute them on genocide charges. Why do politicians seem to get away with murder (that's what their omission to act when they should amounts to)? Even in the USA these days a discussion has begun on whether the Bush administration officials responsible for war crimes (including the torture of enemy combatants) should be prosecuted. Not so in South Africa.

I can't help but wonder whether even black people have got used to the idea that their lives just are not worth enough to bother... How else could one possibly explain the South African people's inaction on this issue? Indeed, how else can one explain that someone with a proven track record in terms of maximising the number of black lives lost to ideological fanaticism remains the official representative of the AU in Zimbabwe. Mbeki, here too, happily goes over the dead bodies of an ever growing number of black people in order to support his fellow lunatic Robert Mugabe.

North Korean health care products

Eish, this is neat. I was on my usual daily shopping trawl on the net to pick up basic health care items, you know, like cancer treatments, viagra, also something against schizophrenia. And, it's not easy at all, to get the necessary equipment or drugs that can help with those issues. Fair enough, viagra is the easiest bit, but still, tad bit pricey, so I naturally shop for serious discounts.

Comrade Kim Jong Il, the current paramount leader of the great great nation of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, has been painfully aware of my unsuccessful searches and decided to do something about them. He set up a commercial website featuring state of the art health care products that will be able to deal with the ailments just listed, as well as many others. In fact, the stuff they're selling is so brilliant that some of of the products deal with a whole range of diseases in one go. I cannot recommend them highly enough to you. My personal favorite is the Portable Semiconductor Laser Curer. This amazing health care tool is a laser, basically, but this one cures. What you got to do is to plug it into one of your nostrils and simply laser into the opening for something like 15 min (make sure the battery is fully charged, of course). If you do that, it'll cure for you, and I quote, 'treatment of stenocardia, hypertension, diabetes, cerebral thrombosis, cerebral haemorrhage, schizophrenia, bronchial asthma and canker'. I'm sure it's just a typing error and they meant to say 'cancer'. I tried it, and I can tell ya, ever since I started using it I didn't get cancer, so it seems to be a decent prophylactic, too. My diabetes is also gone, my asthma is seriously retreating, but my schizophrenia takes a while longer to fix it seems (I secretly increased the treatment from Monday this week to 20 min, so I'm sure I'll be cured of that problem, too).

Another tool will be of great interest to geologists and all those of us suffering from the 'harmful influence of transient geomagnetic variations', which causes things like 'hypertension, cerebral thrombosis, neuralgia, inflammation, diarrhea, insomnia, constipation, etc'. I understand that etc means anything those transient geomagnetic variations have caused you. So, the top scientists in North Korea have developed a truly fantastic tool, the Portable Magnetic Treater! Thank goodness for that! All you got to do is press it on the spot where the pain occurs until the pain is gone. I tried it the other day on the spot where my leg was amputated fairly recently, and guess what, it grew back over night. Amazing stuff. Just remember to press the Portable Magnetic Treater on the spot that causes you problems. The etc means it'll help you whatever the problem. I just luv this piece of hi-tech equipment. True genius.

Sadly tho my erectile dysfunction issue cannot also be resolved with that same laser. I pressed the Portable Magnetic Treater for a long time, but no, it seems the etc didn't cover that irksome problem. Bummer. But there's help on the website. Amazing product, it's called Neo-Viagra-Y.R. Like all the other website products it deals with all sorts of problems in one go. This one is particularly cool, and should prove quite helpful to all those of us that are getting on in their years. Especially if our partners are a bit on the tiresome end of things. What this product does, as I said, among many many other things, is to prolong sexual intercourse. So, if you take it, it's not just that you can go on and on and on, but that you will go on and on and on. Again, pretty amazing stuff. You got to control yourself, obviously, because at one point you just got to stop and eat a bit, watch may be the news, sleep occasionally, things like that. The good news is, if the prolonged sexual activity this product triggers causes you a stiff shoulder (no pun intended), Neo-Viagra-Y.R. helps with that problem, too. Of course, you could also deploy the Portable Magnetic Treater. The choice is entirely yours. That's the nice thing about these multi-functional products!

By the way, if you decide to go to that website you will also discover something pretty shocking about capitalism. At the moment at least the Great Leader offers us incontrovertible evidence (photo in top right-hand corner) that the old Mercedes E Class actually isn't the old Mercedes E Class, but a North Korean limousine called 'Junma'. These German bastards really dared to steal the design of the Junma. Pretty incredible stuff! I'm glad that information is in the open now!

On that cheerful note, I leave you to browsing this funny site, the official Economic Website of the DPR of Korea, aka North Korea.

And, if you think, only the North Korean leaders are somewhat nuts, which no doubt they are, there's usually good company for them among the ranks of the South African government. On the same level of idiocy as the portable laser curer is that country's Minister for the Optimal Prevention of Health (MOPH), Manto Tshabalala Msimang. Just to remind the world that she still exists and is up to no good, Manto decided that African traditional medicine doesn't have to prove itself according to the scientific method. She said, 'We cannot use Western models of protocols for research and development. We should guard against being bogged down with clinical trials.' Indeed, and there's a good reason for this, according to Manto 'some of the medicines have been used by traditional healers for thousands of years..'

Quod erat demonstrandum! Now we know indeed.

ADDENDUM 02/03/08: My friend Ray Smith tells me that canker actually exists, so perhaps the laser curer really is meant to deal with canker and not cancer and I got it all wrong :).

HIV/AIDS: The ANC facilitated genocide seems to be swinging back into higher gear

Interested observers will know that South Africa is currently run by the ANC's President Thabo Mbeki (who informed interviewers repeatedly that he doesn't know a single person who died on AIDS in his country, and who expressed doubts that HIV is the cause of AIDS).

His Minister for Health Prevention is Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (who offered at one point in her illustrious career beetroot, the African potato and garlic as a means to prevent AIDS). They both continue to conspire against millions of HIV infected South Africans with a wide array of truly idiotic statements and every effort to slow down the roll-out of antiretroviral treatments as good as is feasible (ideally without getting caught).

Eventually they were forced by mostly court decisions to stop the HIV related genocide that they were quietly organising and presiding over. Still, things happen even to truly nasty people like the Pres and his sidekick Manto. Manto, who would fit nicely into Scotland, given her interest in booze, had to be taken out of action to get a new liver (as her old liver truly couldn't handle the amount of alcohol she's guzzling). While she quickly jumped the queue to get a new liver (makes sense, who else would assist so kindly in executing Thabo Mbeki's genocidal activities), her Deputy Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge took over. She is an old hack of the South African communist party and so a member of a party belonging to the triparty alliance making up the government of the country. Being not an ANC cadre she didn't have to insists that the earth is flat, pigs can fly and AIDS is a conspiracy against Black people organised by the CIA and the international pharmaceutical industry bent on selling poisonous AIDS drugs to South African Blacks. There was no need for her to peddle 'African solutions' such as beetroot, African potatos etc etc (as Manto suggested in between a couple of drinks during one of her conference appearances).

Well, Madlala-Routledge worked tirelessly toward getting AIDS ttreatment programs off the ground while Tshabalala-Msimang jumped the liver transplantation queue. It was only a matter of time until she would be cancelled by Thabo and his sidekick, and today she was. The pretext was that she went to (would you believe) an AIDS conference in Spain even though Thabo the Pres explicitly refused her travel. Stupidly Madlala-Routledge seems to have dragged her son and various hangers-on along so this had all the make-up of a junket trip. A good pretext to fire her. Here's a statement on her dismissal from the South African HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Society that I received a few minutes ago. I would normally encourage you to write to the SA High Commission or Embassy in your country and ask that you criticise her dismissal, but what's the point, thhe High Commissioners and ambassadors would report back to Thabo the Pres who is the bloke who fired her in the first place... welcome to the ANC owned rainbow nation in action.

'Statement by the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (9th August 2007)

We are an organisation of over 12 000 health professionals working in HIV care in the Southern Africa region. http://www.sahivsoc.org/ We support the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa (RuDaSA) statement issued on 9th August 2007, National Women’s Day. We believe that Deputy Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has played a fundamental role in bringing civil society and professionals together to support the government’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV/AIDS, on an unprecedented level. She demonstrated compassion and commitment to South Africa’s population, with a respect for science and public health that made us realise what we should demand from all public servants. The manner of her dismissal (on Women’s Day), when so much positive work has been done in the area of HIV, to provide political and public leadership for the first time, is deeply distressing. Furthermore, it comes when we are seeing alarming signs of a return to the rhetoric and confrontation of the past over HIV. The Society has asked for urgent clarification, as have others, as to why the mother-to-child HIV prevention programme (PMTCT) has not been expanded beyond 30% coverage after 5 years, and why more effective regimens have not been implemented. Yet again, court action is being threatened as the last resort to force action on this issue. Fewer than 20% of adults requiring antiretrovirals are receiving them, after more than 3 years of publicly available ART. Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, since her return from sick leave, has not addressed these worrying problems. Instead she has focused on the (unsubstantiated) high price of future antiretrovirals, claims of good geographical ‘coverage’ for PMTCT and ART access, and continued references to South Africa having the ‘largest and most comprehensive response’, without critical appraisal of those who do not access HIV care. For HIV infected people, their families, and their caregivers, this looks like more of the same – the Minister demonstrating antagonism to the one thing that can save their lives – antiretroviral therapy. It is deeply ironic that price is cited by the Minister as an issue in access to antiretrovirals, when it has taken the bravery of activist groups and professionals, rather than her own department, to fight for current affordable HIV care. Finally, we remain deeply concerned that the targets set for the NSP for 2007 look increasingly unrealisable. Since their publication, no plan has been forthcoming on how to attain the ambitious targets set in the Plan. Our country desperately needs trusted and brave leadership in the area of HIV. The deputy minister gave us hope that this was possible. We wish her well, and thank her for giving us hope and leadership. We recommit ourselves to ensuring that government, the elected steward of our health system, is held accountable for decisions regarding health care for HIV-infected people. On behalf of the Executive, SAHCS.'

My darling Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa's Minister for Health Prevention

OK, folks, in line with my 'tradition' of sending a funny weekend type story, here's one sent by a South Africa based correspondent on the latest from South Africa's Ministry for Health Prevention!

Some good news from South Africa - at long last

Here's good news from today's BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. It's a copy-paste job really. I am tempted to go on raving again about human lives lost due to the unimaginable incompetence of the current South African minister for health prevention, Dr (Beetroot) Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and, of course, the country's slightly paranoid President Thabo Mbeki, but what's the point... readers of this blog will know. So, here's the BMJ item:

South Africans to get AIDS plan

Pat Sidley

Johannesburg

The South African government has finally introduced a full and far reaching plan to deal with its HIV/AIDS epidemic. But it will cost the country some 14bn rand (£970m; 1.4bn; $1.9bn) over the next five years. This amount was not planned for in the present budget for the year ahead.

The plan aims to give antiretroviral treatment to up to 80% of people with AIDS who need the treatment; to halve the new infection rate by 2011; and to ensure that all pregnant women who are HIV positive have access to treatment to prevent transmission to their babies. The plan envisages better spending of the large donations that pour into the country, with the intention of strengthening the health system and using health staff more efficiently. The whole process will be properly evaluated and monitored.

Less than a year ago, Mr Mbeki's government followed the president's view that AIDS was a syndrome and that "a virus could not cause a syndrome." Mr Mbeki thought that the extent of disease in the country could be attributed to poverty. He voiced misgivings about white Western experts who claimed that AIDS originated in Africa as though Africans were dirty and immoral. And he presided over a cabinet which approved a product as a cure for AIDS that was later found to contain an industrial solvent (BMJ 1997; 314:450).

The health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who had a liver transplant earlier this month (15 March), has previously advocated the virtues of beetroot and garlic over antiretrovirals and appealed against court decisions fought for and won by the Treatment Action Campaign to compel the government to provide treatment (BMJ 2006,333:167)

Sack Manto - What a Brilliant Idea

What a brilliant idea! South Africa'sMinister for Health (Prevention), Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, has finally got her own fan club, a website calling for her to be sacked ASAP. Tshabalala-Msimang, dutifully carrying out the painfully idiotic views of her boss, the country's President, Thabo Mbeki (who thinks HIV is not the cause of AIDS, and that there is no AIDS epidemic in his country), should have been sacked a long time ago, along with Thabo Mbeki.
So, make sure to leave your vote and support the campaign to get Tshabalala-Msimang sacked.