condition. Pasquarelli, who is facing numerous
charges of threatening and harassing public health officials and journalists,
has for years maintained that HIV doesn't exist and that 'Aids is over'.
Meanwhile, in South Africa, fiery anti-apartheid leader and Aids denialist
Peter Mokaba has died at the age of 43 from acute pneumonia. He opposed
the use of antiretrovirals and always denied he had Aids himself.
Drink blamed for Eire's HIV crisis
Ireland is heading for an HIV crisis among heterosexual men and women,
according to the National Disease Surveillance Centre (NDSC). New HIV
cases rose by 299 last year in Eire, bringing the total to 2,645. The
NDSC said that more than twice as many heterosexuals as gay men contracted
HIV last year and blamed unsafe sex for the increase. Dr Mary Cronin blamed
alcohol abuse as a major factor: "It causes uninhibited behaviour
and safe sex is often the last thing on people's minds."
Over 50s - the new Aids risk group
Complacency about sexual health and condom use is putting older people
at greater risk of Aids, researchers in Australia have reported. A survey
of 2,650 people aged over 50 found that almost half the women and more
than a third of men never used condoms. The research mirrors recent studies
in the US which found that rates of HIV infection among older people were
increasing, while youth infection rates were falling.
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