Comments on: What We’re Reading 10/26/09 http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/26/what-were-reading-102609/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Debbie K http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/26/what-were-reading-102609/#comment-565679 Debbie K Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:29:03 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=9843#comment-565679 Thanks once again, Robyn, for this excellent collection of timely articles important to the issues of our movement. I would just like to highlight Jamie Drummond's article & restate something that I have said before. For those who may be new to our movement, Jamie Drummond is one of the unsung heroes of ONE. Without his brilliant strategizing & planning behind the scenes, much of the success of DATA, which eventually would simply become ONE, wouldn't have occurred. He has quietly stee(red) our movement in ways that have been productive & effective for Africa, saving millions of people's lives in the process, and for that, I could never find the words to sufficiently thank him. Thank You, Jamie Drummond.~ ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie www.mpwn-uganda.org Thanks once again, Robyn, for this excellent collection of timely articles important to the issues of our movement. I would just like to highlight Jamie Drummond’s article & restate something that I have said before.

For those who may be new to our movement, Jamie Drummond is one of the unsung heroes of ONE. Without his brilliant strategizing & planning behind the scenes, much of the success of DATA, which eventually would simply become ONE, wouldn’t have occurred.

He has quietly stee(red) our movement in ways that have been productive & effective for Africa, saving millions of people’s lives in the process, and for that, I could never find the words to sufficiently thank him.

Thank You, Jamie Drummond.~

ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie
http://www.mpwn-uganda.org

]]> By: BLBS http://www.one.org/blog/2009/10/26/what-were-reading-102609/#comment-565672 BLBS Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:30:10 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=9843#comment-565672 I guess my prior comment isn't going to make it through moderation, so I'll try a simpler version: what you wrote about Ben Goldacre's column on the film "House of Numbers" isn't true. He does not say or even suggest that "its stirring of a debate about AIDS and disease in the developing world may not be an entirely bad thing." There is not even any evidence that it is stirring any kind of debate along those lines, unsurprisingly, as the conclusion of the film is that HIV tests "prove nothing." The film isn't about whether poverty exacerbates the AIDS crisis, the film claims poverty causes AIDS in the absence of HIV infection, which is completely untrue (it also claims poppers cause AIDS in gay men, a theory promoted by Peter Duesberg which was shown to be bunk two decades ago). I hope you can correct or at least acknowledge that your characterization of Ben Goldacre's column is inaccurate, if only for the sake of basic journalistic integrity. I guess my prior comment isn’t going to make it through moderation, so I’ll try a simpler version: what you wrote about Ben Goldacre’s column on the film “House of Numbers” isn’t true. He does not say or even suggest that “its stirring of a debate about AIDS and disease in the developing world may not be an entirely bad thing.” There is not even any evidence that it is stirring any kind of debate along those lines, unsurprisingly, as the conclusion of the film is that HIV tests “prove nothing.” The film isn’t about whether poverty exacerbates the AIDS crisis, the film claims poverty causes AIDS in the absence of HIV infection, which is completely untrue (it also claims poppers cause AIDS in gay men, a theory promoted by Peter Duesberg which was shown to be bunk two decades ago).

I hope you can correct or at least acknowledge that your characterization of Ben Goldacre’s column is inaccurate, if only for the sake of basic journalistic integrity.

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