The struggling economy benefited from preferential access which textile exporters had to the United States until this facility was withdrawn over human rights concerns in 2015.
The country exports sugar and many Swazis work in South Africa and send their earnings home.
According to UNICEF Swaziland has the highest HIV prevalence rate in the world. The HIV-Aids virus has killed countless Swazis who have left behind thousands of orphans. Some 210,000 people, our of a population of 1.2 million, are estimated to be living with HIV. BBC online article 14th December 2016
The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name of course is AIDS. David W Dunlap
A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa. Nelson Mandela
What I know and what I am presenting on Wednesday is that it is a man-made virus. There is no question in my mind that these viruses are man-made biological weapons, if you will, or they were developed for cancer research models ... for the Department of Defense. So I know that they were man-made ... I leave it you to figure out whether it was an accident, whether these viruses got out accidentally, or whether they were intentionally deployed as some people would have us believe and some of the evidence shows. Dr Len Horowitz, In Lies We Trust
There is now no doubt that Doctor Gallo officiated the development of these AIDS complex viruses. His group at Bionetics combined Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Sarcoma viruses from various species of animals nearly 15 years before he was credited by the Department of Health and Human Services for having discovered the cause of AIDS, a similar retro-virus. They said this would lead to a cure. ibid.
Similarly, US legislators learned in 1999 the little reported fact that Gulf War troops, as many as 200,000 were unwittingly used in AIDS vaccine experiments wherein portions of the AIDS virus, HIV, were recombined with a pathogenic mycoplasma, isolated, tested, and then patented by Dr Shyh-Ching Lo of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for the American Registry of Pathology in Washington DC. The patent is reprinted and discussed in this author’s book, Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse. Dr Len Horowitz
I’m doing everything with everybody. Freddie Mercury to Paul Gambacini
Far more than a medical problem, AIDS is a socio-political imposition. Dr Jonathan Mann, assistant of Dr Gallo and later AIDS Tsar for World Health Organisation
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat competitive world in which I spent my life. Anthony Perkins, cited Independent on Sunday 20th September 1992
It was this rare pneumonia that first alerted the Centers For Disease Control in Atlanta Georgia that something very odd was going on. Horizon: Killer In The Village, BBC 1983
In 1981 there was a sharp increase in the number of requests [for drugs]. ibid.
Pneumonias in Los Angeles, some cancers in San Francisco, both in New York, and all it seemed were gay. ibid.
AIDS is new so why is it here? Why now, and why them? ibid.
The AIDS virus is one of the simplest life-forms on the planet. It belongs to an unusual family called retro-viruses. Horizon: AIDS: A Strange and Deadly Virus, BBC 1986
This integration occurs when the short chain of virus genes meets the DNA of the infected cell. The human cell is taken over. ibid.
It seems the AIDS virus can mutate to evade the body’s defences. ibid.
When the AIDS epidemic struck it was assumed that American science would soon discover the cause of this terrifying new disease. Horizon: Gallo Exposed, BBC 1989
When the AIDS virus was isolated it gave rise to a test around which was to grow a multi-million-dollar industry. Dr Gallo himself is recognised by NIH and by the US patent office as the discoverer of the virus and the originator of the test. ibid.
Dr Gallo now accepts that the two viruses are the same and that his test was in reality based on the French virus, and that it was probably a contamination. This raises the question of who really discovered the cause of AIDS. ibid.
HIV is able to pass under our immune radar. Thousands of virus particles can infect human cells. Initially without a person even being aware. They then quietly multiply undisturbed ... HIV has a particular strategy that’s beaten our attempts to produce a vaccine. HIV mutates at an alarming rate. As it copies itself it is continually changing. Horizon: Why Do Viruses Kill? BBC 2010
AIDS: represented a potent brew of sex, death and sexuality. Pandemic: A Horizon Guide, BBC 2012
AIDS has killed more than thirty million people. Professor Alice Roberts, Sex: A Horizon Guide, BBC 2013
AIDS Is The Wrath Of God, Says Vicar. The Sun headline
It’s Spreading Like Wildfire. The Sun headline
HIV exploits its ability to mutate more than any other virus. Untreated, HIV can make ten billion new virus particles in one person in one day ... One of the most destructive pandemics in history. Pandemic: A Horizon Guide, BBC 2012
He [Tony Lance] treats himself using probiotics like yoghurt. There is such an overwhelming body of evidence that HIV causes AIDS, I really want to understand how Tony has reached his opinion ... As a scientist I find Tony’s views hard to understand. Professor Sir Paul Nurse, president Royal Society, Horizon: Science Under Attack, BBC 2011
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My doctor said, Look, if you don’t take these drugs you are going to be dead in two years. So he handed me the prescriptions. And on my way out the door to the car I passed by a trash-can. I ripped them up. Threw them in. And never went back. That was thirteen years ago. That was the last time I went to the doctor for anything HIV-related. Tony Lance
A man-made disease which was created at Fort Detrick; there’s no question in my mind about that. The World Health Organisation went out to give these smallpox vaccine shots to the innocent blacks, and AIDS is vector-borne, AIDS is a cancer. They don’t want to come up with a cure until the population of Africa has been diminished substantially. Anthony J Hilder, Lucifer 2000
AIDS is murder. It’s a designer disease. And it is a programme to mass murder people upon the planet to reduce the population. Anthony J Hilder
Vaccine Failure Is Setback in AIDS Fight: Test Subjects May Have Been Put at Extra Risk of Contracting HIV ... Multiple surprises have reminded researches how much they still don’t know about HIV’s biology. The Washington Post 21st March 2008
[Arthur] Ash tragically died of AIDS in 1993, but he left us with the memory of arguably the greatest Wimbledon upset of all time. Hall of Fame: The Upsets
I remember in 1992 after I first tested positive I became involved in an organisation called Women at Risk. There were eleven of us at the time on the board and involved with the group. All of us except three were on the medications. In the year and a half I was involved with Women at Risk every single woman in that organisation on the drugs died. Every single one except the three of us who weren’t taking them. Christine Maggiore, tested HIV positive 1992
Globally, UNAIDS has estimated that as many as 42 million people are infected with HIV. House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic, PSTV 2009
Most of the developing world uses only a screening test to confirm HIV diagnoses. There are no confirmatory tests. ibid.
In 1987 the CDC made two mind-boggling changes in the definition of AIDS which are in effect today: you can be diagnosed with AIDS without ever having a HIV test; you can be diagnosed with AIDS if you tested negative for HIV. ibid.
In 1994 Audrey Serrano tested HIV positive. While initially healthy she was prescribed AIDS drugs which nearly killed her and left her scarred for life. ibid.
I found a research community in disarray over the most fundamental understanding of HIV. ibid.
Public health surveillance of AIDS and HIV infections ... It should be emphasised that the surveillance definitions for AIDS were not intended to be reliable indicators of HIV infection. Dr J Chin, World Health Organisation article
The Big Chill: How Heterosexuals Are Coping with AIDS. Time magazine front cover