Muammar Al Khadafi

As Britain's HIV and AIDS epidemic continues a Parliamentary Select Committee report has - yet again - totally neglected to address the central issue, even though their own findings clearly point to it.



"In the United Kingdom, two groups—MSM and those from black African communities—are at highest risk of acquiring HIV. Of those diagnosed in 2010, just over 3,000 (45%) were MSM, and just over 1,700 (26%) identified as black African.[39] The majority of infections diagnosed in 2010 amongst MSM were acquired within the United Kingdom, whereas the majority of those newly diagnosed in the black African community were infected abroad.[40] Of those diagnosed with HIV and seen for care in 2009 (the latest year for which figures are available), 43% were MSM, and 33% were from black African communities."



In case we have any doubts, they've included a graph showing cases from 2000 until 2009 - which clearly shows a rapid acceleration in the number of cases among Black African Heterosexuals within the UK.



Most were infected abroad - meaning either on visits/holidays or, most likely, were quite probably already infected when they arrived in the UK to begin with.



Lax border control contributes greatly to the rising HIV epidemic within the UK, it is as simple as that.

And, it is a costly epidemic - the select committee report gives a total spend of £792million per year on treatment. That's a huge amount of money at a time when we're supposedly in a time of austerity, and it is a burden which grows year on year.



There is no cure, as the report itself is entitled, so HIV and AIDS present a long term, ever growing, drain on the NHS.



But, no, closing our borders, or requiring some form of testing prior to entry into the UK, is not among the reports recommendations.



Instead we are told that we should be providing free, lifelong healthcare for any asylum seeker and foreigner, whether failed or not.



"Charging people for their HIV treatment and care is wrong for public health, practical and ethical reasons. We recommend that HIV should be added to the list of conditions in the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989, for which treatment is provided free of charge to all of those accessing care, regardless of residency status."



There, free healthcare. Just turn up here with HIV or AIDS, the British taxpayer will foot the bill for your treatment via an already overburdened NHS.



Human rights rulings await, if they've not already taken place. Deporting someone with HIV will breach their human rights because they'll not have access to medical treatment in their home country.



You know that will happen, if it hasn't already.



The change proposed by the select committee report will make us even more of a mecca for those from abroad who have the HIV virus.



Free treatment for years awaits if you can get into Britain.



It won't reduce the number of HIV cases here, it will increase them as it will transform us, more than we already are, into the doctor of first choice for the entire world.



If we are in any way serious about controlling HIV - and for that matter TB - within the UK then the best possible treatment would be to prevent it from becoming Britain's problem to begin with by strengthening our borders.



We will continue to labour under ever increasing epidemics, which can in large part be attributed to the importation of infected people, until the day that we stop importing those people and stop giving them every encouragement to come here.



Select Committee Report - Here

Samuel L Jackson, famed for roles in Pulp Fiction and a few Star Wars movies among other things, has spoken of his shock after visiting an African village devastated by the AIDS epidemic sweeping the third world.

The visit, to observe work carried out by charity Artists for a New South Africa, saw Jackson visit an area ravaged by AIDS and HIV.

"We found a village where there were no adults. All the parents had died of AIDS. The fathers would go off and work in the mines, solicit prostitutes, come back, sleep with their wives and infect them. They all died" he told Londons Evening Standard magazine

Shocking stuff, who can fail to agree on that, AIDS has become very much a scourge of third world populations.

Despite this however, we in the West continue to import many people from these regions into our own society, ignoring the obvious problems of HIV infection and cultural factors which ensure high transmission rates.

Avert informs us that "In 2010, there were 6,136 new diagnoses of HIV, contributing to a cumulative total of 114,766 cases reported by the end of December 2010. As of December 2010, there have been 26,791 diagnoses of AIDS in the UK, and 19,912 people diagnosed with HIV have died".

A little later they also tell us that "...since 1999 heterosexually acquired HIV has overtaken as the largest exposure category. Heterosexual sex accounted for 42 percent of HIV diagnoses in 2010 and sex between men accounted for 38.5 percent, compared to 1995 when 31 percent were a result of heterosexual sex and 58 percent of new HIV diagnoses resulted from sex between men"

"Most of the new diagnoses among heterosexuals are in people who probably acquired HIV in other countries, particularly Africa. However, the number of infections probably acquired from heterosexual sex within the UK increased from 157 in 2000 to approximately 416 in 2010".

That's looking telling, but here's the clincher.

"Despite comprising less than 1% of the total UK population, black Africans accounted for 28% of new HIV diagnoses in 2010".

Transmission via heterosexual sex figures are stunning. From 1995 to 2010, 8050 Whites in the UK are estimated to have been infected via heterosexual activity (compared to 28,182 whites via homosexual activity).

For Black Africans in the UK contracting the virus via heterosexual sex the figure for the same period stands at 33,229.

Close on four times as many Black Africans here, who make up only 1 or 2 percent of the UK population, have contracted HIV from heterosexual sex since 1995 than people among Whites who make up most of the population.

During that entire time period, White HIV diagnoses only just stayed higher overall than Black African ones - 39,700 compared to 35,917. Whites actually become a minority if Black African, Black Caribbean, and Black other are counted as a single group, which seems fair since White is seemingly used as a catchall to include non British White groups.

Africa may well be ravaged by AIDS and HIV, but our insane immigration policies ensure that Britain too will suffer under the weight of this epidemic.

As we open our borders to every country in the world, we also open our borders to every single problem which besets the people of those countries.

Terrible as HIV in Africa is, our actions make sure that the same terrible problem increasingly exists here.

With the mass movements of people inevitably comes the mass movement of infection and disease, we import not just people but also whatever illness they happen to be carrying.

The figures, not just for HIV in the UK but also for many other diseases, reveal the true extent of epidemics from abroad which we have made our own.

There's no fiction there, the impact on our nations health is a devastating fact.

Avert HIV Diagnoses by Racial Group - http://www.avert.org/uk-race-age-gender.htm