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Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread
Researchers in Madrid are claiming that they have discovered that a type of wax found in olive skin can help to slow the spread of HIV. "Their work shows that maslinic acid - a natural product extracted from dry olive-pomace oil in oil mills - inhibits serin-protease, an enzyme used by HIV to release itself from the infected cell into the extracellular environment and, consequently, to spread the infection into the whole body. These scientists from Granada determined that the use of olive-pomace oil can produce an 80% slowing down in AIDS spreading in the body."
The pastor of your church is a moron, and I can only assume, by extension, that you are a moron too. As to why AIDS gets lots of funding, well, perhaps it has something to do with an incredible crisis in Africa that I'm thinking neither you or your braindead religious leader care much about (or possibly even know of).
Sometimes I wish there was a cure of retarded religious flunkies. They're one of the true threats to health and harmony.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I have been HIV positive for 3 years, although I don't have full-blown AIDS yet. Many mazing developments and new treatments have been found in the past few years, and I have faith that some day, we will be able to find a cure. But for now, there is a much more effective method for preventing HIV infection. You can nearly eliminate the risk by abstaining from sex outside of a trusting marriage between two people who have practiced celibacy. If that's not an option for you, at least avoid high-risk sex and make use of STD testing (keep in mind that someone may be HIV+ for several months before tests start showing it.) Avoiding intravenous drug use and low-quality tattoo or piercing parlors can further reduce the chances of catching this horrid disease.
All arguments and bigotry aside, if your pastor was correct then AIDs wouldn't be the problem it is today.
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Looking at this map of AIDs infection per African country in 2001, you can see that some countries are closing in on having 40% of their population infected.
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Now, these figures are hard to estimate, but this site provides some figures on the number of people whom have experimented with same-sex partners http://www.avert.org/hsexu1.htm. Lets take 10% as a figure, for example - that's still a quarter of the number required to make your Pastor's comments anything but pure BS.
Just look at the stats: this disease is killing a huge number of people, the people who are among the poorest and least educated in the world. There are literally millions of kids who are born HIV infected. These kids right now have little chance of even reproducing. What life they do have is plagued by sickness.
As a Christian you should be the first to empathize and want to do something to help these people. You should be he first people cheering news articles such as this one. Unless of course the Trollish race got the philosophies of Hitler and JC muddled up..