National Non-Sectarian Council of Pro-Family Activists – www.gendercentral.com

Topic: Newest CDC guidelines for HIV/AIDS testing.

Contact: Rabbi David Eidensohn – Director

Press Release for Immediate Release - September 21, 2006

(Statistics mentioned here are found on the Center of Disease Control website at www.cdc.com, especially Recommendations and Reports Sept 22, 2006 / 55(RR14);1-17)

Rabbi David Eidensohn Director of the National Non-Sectarian Council of Pro-Family Activists attacked the Federal Center of Disease Control’s new plans to contain HIV and AIDS as politically correct but medically unworkable. The New York Times on September 21, 2006 (Associated Press) quoted the new recommendations as calling for increased testing for all Americans between the ages of 13 and 64. The article quoted Dr. Larry Fields, the president of the American Academy of Family Physicians saying, "Are doctors going to do it? Probably not."

"This is a typical day at the CDC," said Rabbi Eidensohn. "Avoid the real solutions for AIDS and invent programs that nobody will implement. Thus more people get sick of HIV and AIDS. We can stamp out the epidemic by putting HIV and AIDS on the state lists of Infectious Diseases. Anyone found infected with a disease on the Infectious Disease List of a state can be quarantined and forced to divulge any people he may have infected. This stops epidemics. There are no other ways to stop epidemics," said the rabbi. "We must stamp out HIV Confidentiality Laws or else we will pay fortunes for ill people and never stop the epidemic, and what of those who die of AIDS? Aren’t we concerned about them?"

Rabbi Eidensohn noted that the Gay Lobby in the eighties got many states to pass HIV Confidentiality Laws that took AIDS and HIV off of the State List of Infectious Diseases. From then on, someone with HIV or AIDS could not be forced to divulge partners, and could not be forced to refrain from unprotected sex. Because testing for AIDS and notification of partners is not mandated by law, many infected people spread the disease and there is no way to stop them.

Rabbi Eidensohn pointed out the grim statistics about our failure to stop AIDS and HIV in America. "CDC statistics show that the amount of people sick with AIDS rose about one third from 2000 to 2004, from 320,177 to 415,193," said Rabbi Eidensohn. "What then did the CDC do? On July 5, 2005, CDC director Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding called for all states to implement ‘confidential name-based surveillance systems to report HIV infections’. This was the wrong response," said Rabbi Eidensohn. "Getting data on the disease is important, but saving lives and eradicating the epidemic is also important; it is the most important issue. The only way to do that is to list HIV and AIDS as regular Infectious Diseases. Why was Dr. Gerberding silent about this, the only effective way to stop AIDS?"

Rabbi Eidensohn notes that the CDC says that "one million people in the United States are now living with HIV, yet one-fourth don’t know they have it." "Thus 250,000 HIV infected people are going around infecting their wives and partners, and the CDC has no good ideas, just bad ones to save America from this illness," said Rabbi Eidensohn. "Two thirds of male HIV/AIDS comes from male to male sexual contact. The CDC is not fighting disease, it is fighting the political struggle of the Gay Lobby to be free to infect without medical hindrance."

"Is being free to infect and be infected a benefit for homosexuals?" asks Rabbi Eidensohn. He responds, "Hardly. The CDC should benefit homosexuals and all Americans by stamping out HIV and AIDS by placing these diseases are on all states’ Infectious Disease List."

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