WHO admits 'erroneous' claim half of new HIV cases in Greece 'self-inflicted for cash'.

The WHO has mistakenly over exaggerated the data in its recent report on Greece, stating that half of new HIV cases are self-inflicted to receive benefits. The organization has apologized saying it was due to an editing error.

“The sentence should read: ‘half of the new HIV cases are self-injecting and out of them few are deliberately inflicting the virus’,” the WHO (World Health Organization) said in its correction.  


The report is still available online at the WHO’s website and contains the misleading claim on p. 112 of the study. 

A screenshot from the WHO report ‘Review of Social Determinants and the Health Divide in the WHO European Region’

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The WHO report, ‘Review of Social Determinants and the Health Divide in the WHO European Region’, has estimated a “significant” rise in Greece’s HIV rates in the past five years. In its initial report, it said that about half of new HIV infections are self-inflicted “to enable people to receive benefits of 700 euro per month and faster admission on to drug-substitution programs.”
The WHO has admitted that the “erroneous reference” is based on a study published in the Lancet by Alexander Kentikelenis and colleagues in September 2011. The report, at the same time, was referring to the “Ad hoc expert group of the Greek focal point on the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in 2011” (Greek Documentation and Monitoring Centre for Drug, 2011), the WHO clarified. 
Back in 2011 the claim that "some problem users" were infecting themselves for benefits grabbed the attention of health organizations.
The president of the Hellenic Society for HIV and director of the infectious diseases unit at the Red Cross Hospital, Marios Lazana, repeated the claim, but he could not present any evidence to confirm it.
“Theoretically, [this HIV inflectional contamination] could still be there, in isolated cases, but it cannot be proven.” Lazanas told the local Proto Thema daily at that time.
Greece, since 2008 struggling through its most severe economic crisis, has reported a 52 percent increase of new HIV infection in 2011 compared to 2010.  The rise has been “largely” driven by infections among people who have injected drugs in recent years, the WHO said. 
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26/11/13
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Comments (RT readers):

george smith 26.11.2013 15:14

You do NOT get 700 a month if you're a Pensioner in Greece. The LOOTERS TROIKA and their PUPPET GOVERNMENT just like in Italy and Spain and Portugal have made sure they steal all they can and leave the Public with 300 a Month to live on.
Germany is in on the Gig as they are involved in the Looting and ILLEGAL PROFITEERING in to the Hundreds of Billions.
The WHO and the UN are Tools of the Super Wealthy that have raped and Pillaged the world and will continue until they and their Puppet Governments are removed.
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george smith 26.11.2013 15:10

LIES LIES LIES. This is the Biggest Propaganda Story.
WHO?? Yeah they have done plenty of Witchcraft Hocus Pocus across Africa and elsewhere.
The Who is part of the UN you know CONTROLLED by the Globalists and Oligarchs.
REMEM BER THEIRE HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS IN…………IRAQ� �…….LYBIA……� ��….and elsewhere.
Hey that was a gig to rape those countries of their Oil.
Apart from a few Romanian and Bulgarian Prostitutes that cross the Border with their low-life Piimps AIDS is the least of the worries.
The FINANCIAL GANGSTERS the TROIKA are LOOTING all of Southern Europe.
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bigcity 26.11.2013 15:09

and HIV itself is a big fiction. a retrovirus that's never been isolated, never infectious, and never shown to harm T cells. shut down the WHO for promoting US junk science.
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Z Aquarius 26.11.2013 14:47

The world bank is sort of like AIDS. Once you get it you'll need BRICS injections to get rid of it. Greece needs BRICS injections.
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