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Half Of New Greek HIV Cases Are Self-Inflicted To Receive €700 Per Month Benefits, Study Finds
Update: it appears the WHO made a modest misrepresentation:
In September 2013, WHO/Europe published “Review of social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European Region”. The report incorrectly states that, in Greece: “HIV rates and heroin use have risen significantly, with about half of new HIV infections being self-inflicted to enable people to receive benefits of €700 per month and faster admission on to drug substitution programmes”.
In fact, what is accurate to say is that slightly more than half of the Greece’s new HIV cases are among those who inject drugs. WHO recognizes that there is no evidence suggesting that deliberate self-infection with HIV goes beyond a few anecdotal cases. The statement is the consequence of an error in the editing of the report, for which WHO apologizes.
That clears that up. However as of this posting, nobody has issued any retractions on the surging incidence of suicides, although that should at least be bullish for undertakers.
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When one reads the following stunning, and tragic, excerpt from the World Health Organization's recent report "Review of social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European Region: final report" what can one say but... Grecovery.
From the WHO:
Case study: countries’ experiences of financial crisis - Greece
Suicides rose by 17% between 2007 and 2009 and to 25% in 2010, according to unofficial 2010 data (398). The Minister of Health reported a further 40% rise in the first half of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010. Suicide attempts have also increased, particularly among people reporting economic distress (610). Homicide and theft rates have doubled. HIV rates and heroin use have risen significantly, with about half of new HIV infections being self-inflicted to enable people to receive benefits of €700 per month and faster admission on to drug-substitution programmes. Prostitution has also risen, probably as a response to economic hardship. Health care access has declined as hospital budgets have been cut by about 40% (398) and it is estimated that 26 000 public health workers (9100 doctors) will lose their jobs (611). Further cuts are expected as a result of recent negotiations with the IMF and European Central Bank.
But at least they have the Euro.
h/t @timmyconspiracy
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Just those Goldman boys doing God's work again!
Oh wait...
Raped And Murdered By The Illustrious ""EURO"" ...
Wastin away again from havin AIDS and stuff
GREECE, WOW.......... """AUSTERITY DRUG"""
(Is It ANOTHER GOLDman Invention???)
The drug of preference for thousands of homeless Greeks forced on to the streets by poverty and despair, shisha is described by both addicts and officials as a variant of crystal meth whose potential to send users into a state of mindless violence is underpinned by the substances with which the synthetic drug is frequently mixed: battery acid, engine oil and even shampoo.
Worse still, it is not only readily available, but easy to make – tailor-made for a society that despite official prognostications of optimism, and fiscal progress, on the ground, at least, sees little light at the end of the tunnel.
"It is a killer but it also makes you want to kill," Konstantinos, a drug addict, told Vice. "You can kill without understanding that you have done it … And it is spreading faster than death. A lot of users have died."
For Charalampos Poulopoulos, the head of Kethea, Greece's pre-eminent anti-drug centre, shisha symbolises the depredations of a crisis that has spawned record levels of destitution and unemployment. It is, he said, an "austerity drug" – the best response yet of dealers who have become ever more adept at producing synthetic drugs designed for those who can no longer afford more expensive highs from such drugs as heroin and cocaine.
But we can still the "Euro" a success right? right?
Its time to take advantage of the ability to migrate freely within the European Union. My advice, move to England and take advantage of the generous welfare benefits. Might want to take advantage while you can before all the East European Roma suck up all the available welfare rentals.
because currency devaluation is the solution? right?
Devaluation is not a solution. It is a band-aid that politicians use to cover up their crooked schemes, corruption and general pandering to the irresponsible actions of the ignorant public in an effort to "buy" votes. Devaluation works because it eases people into their new reality of being able to afford less and less. The Greek people were "eased" into this by 35-40 years of loose monetray policies, high expectations of government support and tons of jobs being handed out in the public sector which were moslty unnecessary and corrupt in nature. You do not/cannot correct 40 years of errors in 2. It simply cannot happen.
Most here know that failure is baked into the system and it is also the reason why you will never really see a "10% surplus" ammendment passed in any country on a permanent basis. You need to run a suprlus just to break even. There is always some reason given to go into debt and always some croney economist who will predict "growth" in the coming years in an attempt to cover up/paper over/justify the deficits. HORSE POOP!
People have reached the point to where they see contracting AIDS as a means to life/live in the year 2013 and you're defending this with the great ideals of the Euro? If you cannot grasp the gravity of this, there is nothing else to say.
Willful spreading of dis-information! Makes me wonder what else on ZH might be bullshit?...
http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/hivaids/n...
redefining the phrase "The Gift".
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKgqx2yVdP8
Hooray for taking the name of hookah tobacco and assigning it to a killer drug.
I knows, but average monkey don't care for etymological origins. Imagine being a regular non-druggie hookah-smoking Greek yute asked by a friend if he wants to go smoke some shisha these days...
This story is FALSE!!! Way to fact check assholes!
http://www.thepressproject.net/article/51860/WHO-Fail-Claim-that-50-of-n...
Long needles, Short condoms (In Greece)
Nothing like "mainlining" some human immunodeficiency virus for breakfast.
Next up the bubonic plague suppository for the illutrious Obamaphone.
Cash For Clunkers.
Human style.
Win win.
Stimulate high tech health sector, like car dealerships. Stim the lobby paying big pharma, like thd auto manufactures, and kill off the surplus humans buy incentivizing them at a cheaper rate then the Bank/state security forces would cost.
Krugman would appro ve.
Greece was already crumbling under its own debt weight when Goldman Sachs came along and helped them falsify their economic reports for entry into the EU. Entry into the EU assured Greece that their debt burden will be chronic and constant with no hope of effectively restructuring nor the self-reassessment needed to fix their own economic problems. It would have been far far better for Greece to have not sought admission into the EU and concentrate on Greek survival in terms they could live with. Iceland decided for the betterment of Iceland and its citizens. Now the worst is behind them. In Greece, the worst is yet to come.
Take note, Americans. we are paying the same people for the same Greek solution. If you believe that the US can continue to provide welfare for half its citizens and expand health care at the expense of the working class, Greece has an island they can sell you.
Yeah, and a shiite load of Merxicans already put a huge down payment on the island that's idyllically called Obama.
Desperate Crazy Madness Of Crowds, Coming very soon to a USA near you.
"Stupid is as stupid does" Forrest Gump
@SheepDog1
This is what will solve the too many humans per Job!
Well, it looks like the eugenics plans are working. People are giving themselves fatal diseases that will kill them in a few years in exchange for money.
On top of that, the hospitals can't even provide care for them, so these people are sure to die within the next 3-7 years.
This is going to be an interesting decade.
Hmm, seems like another opportunity to get people dependent on subsidized ART. Bullish for big pharma.
It is genocide. If you try to fight back against the leftist elites - they will target your group as right wing nazis and send out assasins on motorocycles. The Greeks need to get out of the Euro and EUSSR.
Oh and the story today is the Greek govt is going to build a mosque with taxpayer money because muslims might be offended because there is no mosque. These people have been fighting back against Islam for 1400 years,
Politician #1: "Let's dangle 700 euros/month in front of people so we can weed out the stupid ones by getting them to give themselves HIV."
Stupid voters: "Fuck you, you evil asshole."
...
Politician #2: "Let's give people with HIV 700 euros/month to help them out."
Stupid voters: "That's the humane thing to do!"
...
Never mind that the policy is the same in both cases. When it comes to stupid voters, it's really hard for actual outcomes to trump stated intent.
HIV = Jamie Dimon
No matter how bad ones situation is, that is Sick!
As Gerald Celente has said
When peeps have nothing to lose ............they lose it!
Not try to be funny
It's a Greek tragedy!
Absolutely, hopefully Americans wake up before we hit this point and hunt down those responsible. No wonder Golden Dawn is becoming so popular there.
Now if the banksters could get infected....
"Prostitution has also risen.....probably as a response to economic hardships".....ya don't say....no they do it because they like sex...
Bookers got all the money...and its probably for a new XBox anyway
just be sure to cook the soylent green before eating...
"You know. When I was a kid food was food. Before our scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil. Decimated plant and animal life. Why, in my day you could buy meat anywhere. Eggs, they had. Real butter. Fresh lettuce".
-Sol
fucken nuts
I don't get it. Instead of killing themselves they should take out some of the people that got them into this mess. You know, go out with a bang and with some glory instead of gory.
King Leonidas said it best ".. fucking Boy-lovers"
Maybe that's the plan. AIDS give them some time to sharpen their swords while getting paid along the way
Gay for pay?
I don't fucking buy it. This sounds like bullshit.
Need to take those needles and start pricking the pricks.
The version in Russia is resistant to known ant-virals.
Nature never fails! This is Darwinism at work!
"Free" money is the most addictive and dangerous drug of them all.
Why would you get money for having the HIV?
How much do you get for Syphilis? Toe fungus?
Funny how some special diseases have an almost reverant cachet. Got the AIDS? No worries, we'll burn 100 billion trying to find a cure for ya! No one know, sadly, how to prevent getting AIDS. Cancer? Well, that's not as important as the Heroic Disease called AIDS. And those that somehow get it.
Soon you'll find that people everywhere are quitting their shitty jobs just so they can go on government benefits that pay five times more.
Oh wait, that too has happened.
I feel like Doctor Evil.
"I will create an overly complex health care insurance exchange system, which will drive insurance premiums beyond the affordable range for 90% of the population and completely disrupt the economy. Unless the government pays me $100 BILLION DOLLARS!"
Dr. Evil, that too has already happened. Secondly $100 billion isn't a lot of money anymore. The Fed prints $85 billion a month and hands it to banks.
Somebody should tell them that the Greek Stock Market is soaring. Everyone knows that means the economy is doing well.
Man, look at Venezuela. That index is the envy of the world. So much so that the Nasdaq is trying to catch up.
Groath, it's what's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Oh, and dessert too.
"Prostitution has also risen, probably as a response to economic hardship."
Can you come up with another reason?
It's curious, is it not, that despite the rampant pumping and naked inflation of all assets, the price of a piece continues to plummet; one would think the price of a pay-for-performance woman would rise as well yet it does not.
Historically, the price of a piece has hardly deviated since Roman times. If you're trying to gauge the bubbles forming, you could do worse than developing a "gold-to-the-price of ass" metric.
Ass, as good as gold, but not as divisible.
I'm confused, is this a bail-in or bail-out?
How does one even go about self-inflicting? You just find a bunch of junkies and share needles w/ tge sickest looking one?
I thought that 50 years of European Socialism was supposed to bring us to Utopia.....na....lets blame bankers and stuff....
Hmmm......Funny how a "few" individuals now translates to "half".....
"Budget cuts in 2009 and 2010 have resulted in the loss of a third of the country's street-work programmes;21 one survey of 275 drug users in Athens in October, 2010, found that 85% were not on a drug-rehabilitation programme.21 Many new HIV infections are also linked to an increase in prostitution (and associated unsafe sex).22 An authoritative report described accounts of deliberate self-infection by a few individuals to obtain access to benefits of €700 per month and faster admission onto drug substitution programmes.22 These programmes offer access to synthetic opioids and can have waiting lists of 3 years or more in urban areas."
Lancet - Volume 379 October 2011
Why does that just sound made up? I know there are people out there chasing a disease, but people going out of their way to catch aids for a welfare bump. That just sounds made up. Besides, is there actually a government in Greece? Or is it the ECB generating more news dreck in a poor attempt to further muddy the shit filled swamp of economic collateral that they are pretending is their's. They need new script writers.
I'm calling bullshit on the news article...yeah here from 1996. This is a rehash of a Wiliam F Buckley jr dialogue and welfare roles.
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/iycultsero.htm
In othernews some guy in Hawaii is bullying the crap out of homeless people with a sledge hammer.
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/19/hawaii_state_representative_smashes_home...
I don't think we should be giving Americans any ideas.
Maybe that's what all this is about? It's just a template for the USA? See what TPTB can get away with?
I'll take AIDS for 700 Chuck.............................................sad if true.
Social Darwinism in action?
Hi, my name is Tyler Durden and I think that checking sources is for losers
Citation 398. Kentikelenis A et al. Health effects of financial crisis: omens of a Greek tragedy. Lancet, 2011, 378(9801):1457?1458.
"An authoritative report described accounts of deliberate self-infection by a few individuals to obtain access to benefits of €700 per month and faster admission onto drug substitution programmes." http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61556-0/fulltext - a quote from the cited article"a few individuals" =/= "about half"
begin quote "A significant increase in HIV infections occurred in late 2010. The latest data suggest that new infections will rise by 52% in 2011 compared with 2010 (922 new cases versus 605), with half of the currently observed increases attributable to infections among intravenous drug users" end quote.
Not bad for a population of 11M
More horseshit news
You want a quick and dirty proxy for social breakdown in your environs, troll your local jail's website regularly. You are looking for DOBs in 1994-95-96 range with prostitution charges. You could be in for a shock.
Aren't Greeks known for buttfucking? And aren't buttfuckers at higher risk for the HIV? Mystery solved folks.
In Greece how do they separate the men from the boys?
With a CROWBAR!!!!!!!!!
In New Delhi people cut their limbs off to make more money begging in the streets. It's like a job.
Welcome to the real world.
If you got nuttin to hide, y'all aint got nuttin' to fear, mayne.
The whole Greek economy has aids as a result of Germany screwing Greece Greek style.
Wonder just how long it will be before this "new drug" becomes the "in thing" on the World drug scene?
"Cheap" is always going to translate to "more popular" amongst any target population, and with the problems we already have with methylamphetamine users, the Western healthcare systems really do not need any extra headaches (in today's times of financial "carefulness").
Thanks a million, EU Bureaucracy.
Europe's Peace Project on track. The Brussels needs to send troops into Greece to maintain Freedom and Liberty. Wait... that was 'Murica's line. Solidarity and Prosperity, then.
We have always been at war with Asia Minor.
Point taken, as a matter of specificity, Asia Minor begins on the shore *opposite* Constantinople
The report is apparently utter bullshit and a misrepresentation from Lancet by the WHO - probably with the aim is to further demoralize Greek citizens, as if their leaders haven't done that enough...
The gist of it:
" But on Tuesday, the WHO said it had overstated the percentage of documented self-inflicted cases, writing, “WHO recognizes that there is no evidence suggesting that deliberate self-infection with HIV goes beyond a few anecdotal cases. ”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/25/report-half-of-new-hiv-cases-in-greece-from-2009-2011-self-inflicted-to-get-benefits/#ixzz2llYIrob5http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/11/who-retracts-hiv-self-injec...
not true