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**Swidemaiskikemu** · 06-03-2006, 09:23 PM

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Questionable government figures say that 6.4 per cent of Ugandans have HIV/Aids.
And yet we are supposed to trust the higher numbers?

You have a very selective interpretation of what it means for figures to be "questionable."

Not everyone is sad about the escalating epidemic. In a roadside timber yard near Kampala's Mulago Hospital, coffin makers report that business has never been better. "Three years ago, I sell 15 coffins a week. Now it is 20 adult coffins and seven children's coffins," says Lawrence Kiwanuka, the jovial boss of an expanding workforce of 25 carpenters. "I think the Aids deaths are really more than the government says." So is he happy more people are dying from Aids? He laughs: "That is a very difficult question." Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Here's the program in Botswana That's a red herring. How long as the program been in place? What percentage of the population had AIDS before the program was put in place? How much funding does the program receive?

Uganda is a case where the balanced program (correlated with a reduction of HIV cases) was replaced with an AO program (correlated with an increase in HIV cases). Botswana is a case where you're throwing around figures without any attempt at drawing a correlation beyond "this is their stated program, these are the results, my oracular knowledge says that AO would have produced better results, praise Jesus."

06-03-2006, 09:23 PM	#4
Swidemaiskikemu Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	Originally posted by Ben Kenobi Questionable government figures say that 6.4 per cent of Ugandans have HIV/Aids. And yet we are supposed to trust the higher numbers? You have a very selective interpretation of what it means for figures to be "questionable." Not everyone is sad about the escalating epidemic. In a roadside timber yard near Kampala's Mulago Hospital, coffin makers report that business has never been better. "Three years ago, I sell 15 coffins a week. Now it is 20 adult coffins and seven children's coffins," says Lawrence Kiwanuka, the jovial boss of an expanding workforce of 25 carpenters. "I think the Aids deaths are really more than the government says." So is he happy more people are dying from Aids? He laughs: "That is a very difficult question." Originally posted by Ben Kenobi Here's the program in Botswana That's a red herring. How long as the program been in place? What percentage of the population had AIDS before the program was put in place? How much funding does the program receive? Uganda is a case where the balanced program (correlated with a reduction of HIV cases) was replaced with an AO program (correlated with an increase in HIV cases). Botswana is a case where you're throwing around figures without any attempt at drawing a correlation beyond "this is their stated program, these are the results, my oracular knowledge says that AO would have produced better results, praise Jesus."
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