Petrelis Files

SF Weekly: Sometimes HIV Scares Are About Money

HIV superinfection and the local sexually active gay male community are two aspects of the cover story this week in the SF Weekly. Basically, the article reports on the state of superinfection research, data and networks of gay men, including those working in AIDS Inc and the general community.

Read it if you want, but I found it a definite yawner, except for a nugget of truth-speaking from an educator at the Stop AIDS Project, a group that has done more than its share of waving around one study, or cherry-picked HIV and STD data to create alarmist, and bogus, sub-Saharan levels of HIV infections in order to secure more federal and local funding.

From the SF Weekly:

> But is there a more sinister reason the hype about superinfection won't die down?

> It is no secret that funding for AIDS research has drastically decreased in the last several years, especially for new studies not related to vaccine research.

> "Sometimes it's beneficial when funding becomes constricted to wave one study around to make a brouhaha -- sometimes these scares are about getting money," Michael Cooley of the San Francisco STOP AIDS Project says.

I'm shocked! Shocked that gambling is going on in this casino owned and operated by a vast AIDS industrial complex dedicated to keeping itself alive, more so than people with HIV. This quote from Cooley at Stop AIDS will be shared with funders the next time his group invents a scare and wants more money.