-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: South African AIDS Death Rate Heading For One Per Minute Date: Saturday, November 25, 2000 2:27 PM South African AIDS Death Rate Heading For One Per Minute By Jeremy Lovellhttp://uk.news.yahoo.com/001122/80/aprl5.html 11-24-00 CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Within five years, one South African will die of an AIDS-related illness every minute unless action is taken now to curb AIDS and treat its victims, an insurance industry official said on Wednesday. "By 2005 there will be six million people infected with HIV/AIDS and there will be more than 1,600 deaths a day in South Africa," Wayne Myslik of Lifeworks told a seminar at which the industry's statistics were released. "South Africa has the fastest growing epidemic of any country in the world. One in every five adults in this country is already infected and the infection rate is rising at 2,000 a day," he added. Myslik said that although many individuals knew how serious the situation was, the country was hiding its head in the sand. Business must act promptly to tackle the pandemic or face collapse. He said Lifeworks, founded by the insurance industry to investigate the AIDS crisis, had designed a simple computer programme to show the corporate sector what it must do in terms of treating the disease and changing employees' lifestyle to prevent infection. The AIDS Impact Calculator -- available free on the company's web site www.lifeworks.co.za -- gives company finance managers a computerised shock by showing exactly what will happen to profits if nothing is done. Enter the gross annual payroll and two other figures, the type of work the company undertakes and where in the country it is located, and the Calculator shows the net savings that could be made by treatment, education and early awareness of AIDS Myslik said some 40 percent of the payroll of companies in South Africa was spent on ill health and its after-effects. Lifeworks has calculated that absenteeism due to HIV/AIDS costs firms 15 percent of their payroll a year, other illnesses 17.5 percent and disability 10 percent. Companies are standing by, apparently helpless, and in some cases doctors are refusing to treat serious ailments such as tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases -- which plague the Western Cape -- if a patient is HIV positive, he said. But drugs, no longer extremely expensive, are available that can delay the development of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) to the extent of giving people a normal, active and productive lifespan. Education in the workplace and the home about lifestyle and sexual behaviour is vital, as is removing the stigma attached to the disease so that it can be caught early and treated rather than left to fester undetected until too late. "As the single most important strategic issue facing our economy, the fact that the relative effect of HIV/AIDS is larger among the economically active than the total population means that HIV/AIDS will affect every single medium and large business by 2020," Lifeworks said in a statement.. 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