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HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'

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HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
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HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 17, 2013 at 4:50 am
This happening in England!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729684

Quote:The Children's HIV Association surveyed 19 doctors and health professionals working with babies and children in England; its members had reported hearing anecdotal evidence of HIV patients deciding to stop taking their anti-retroviral drugs because their pastors had told them to do so.

Among 10 doctors who said they had encountered the problem in the last five years, 29 of their patients had reported being put under pressure to stop taking medicine and at least 11 had done so.

Only anecdotal so would need validation.



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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 17, 2013 at 7:49 am
The ignorance of religion persists, so long as the world continues to spin it seems.
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 17, 2013 at 8:42 am
Men who are trusted as authority figures posing to know more about serious medical matters than medical experts. Children put at dire risk as a result. If true, then deeply shocking but sadly not unsurprising (as contradictory as that sounds).

At least the results are recognised as being a cause for alarm. In some other country, that advice might be considered normal enough to be not even worth reporting.
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 17, 2013 at 10:19 am
For what it's worth, Jack T. Chick released a tract a few years ago set in an AIDS ward, (presumably in the early 1980s since it's exclusively populated by gay men, either that or Jack's reclusiveness is working against him), and something like this happens; a nurse harasses her charges in an AIDS ward and gets two of them to convert to Christianity. About the only reason she doesn't ask them to give up their meds is because I don't even think Jack even knows that AIDS and HIV are treatable now.
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 17, 2013 at 10:30 am
Quote:Later, after his mother had experienced what he believed was a miracle cure, Oliver stopped taking his medication, and his condition quickly deteriorated.

He has since gone back on his medication and said he believed he needed to combine his drugs with his belief in faith healing.


<sigh> Would the world be so much worse off if this fool did not live to reproduce?
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 17, 2013 at 10:57 am
The world would be even better off if the Pentecostal ministers all took up residences deep inside landfills.
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 17, 2013 at 2:31 pm
Now I'm really really pissed off.
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 17, 2013 at 2:47 pm
There's a word for desperately ill people who rely on God in place of medical science. We call them 'corpses'.

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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 18, 2013 at 12:19 am
(August 17, 2013 at 4:50 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: This happening in England!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729684

Quote:The Children's HIV Association surveyed 19 doctors and health professionals working with babies and children in England; its members had reported hearing anecdotal evidence of HIV patients deciding to stop taking their anti-retroviral drugs because their pastors had told them to do so.

Among 10 doctors who said they had encountered the problem in the last five years, 29 of their patients had reported being put under pressure to stop taking medicine and at least 11 had done so.

Only anecdotal so would need validation.

Did it work for any of them, or did you just assume it didn't?
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
August 18, 2013 at 1:30 am
The article does not mention if it worked for any of them, probably because it didn't. And a miracle cure for HIV? Gawd if that shit were legit the media would be exploding.
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