NotAIDS! News
December 30, 2008

In memoriam: Christine Maggiore
by The Editor

When the rabid AIDS promoters hit the media channels and the Internet gloating over the death of leading HIV "rethinker" Christine Maggiore, it will be in the sadistic manner of which only AIDS-lovers are capable, and they will twist the truth into a scary fable meant to coax you into taking your meds.

Yet, it would be prudent to resist any temptation to believe their false assumption that Christine Maggiore succumbed to an "AIDS-related" illness, specifically, HIV-related pneumonia. If she tested negative, after testing positive, and her son tests negative, how is that HIV-related? Even if she was HIV positive, on what basis is her death attributed to HIV?

In an international study of bacterial pneumonia outcomes, conducted in part by the University of Alberta, researchers conculded that pneumonia doesn't appear to harm HIV-positive patients any more than those who are HIV-negative.

There was also negligible difference in the mortality rate; total deaths among the HIV patients was 3.5 per cent (two of 58 patients), and 4.8 per cent (seven of 174) among the HIV-negative patients.

Mourners and revelers alike, consider the following, as noted on Medicine.net.

Currently, over 3 million people develop pneumonia each year in the United States. Over a half a million of these people are admitted to a hospital for treatment. Although most of these people recover, approximately 5% will die from pneumonia. Pneumonia is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.

The latest numbers from the CDC put pneumonia as the 8th leading cause of death in the United States as of the last offficially available government numbers from 2005.

NotAIDS! Commentary

November 30, 2008

"Coming of age"

by The Editor

This year's aptly themed World AIDS Day, for those in the AIDS industry, a high holiday, certainly has different meanings among different people.

A headline grabbed me this week and it is telling of the ludicrous corner these people have backed themselves into. 

With the red ribbons of World AIDS Day observance everywhere, the newsflash reminded me that my entire adult life has been in the shadow of AIDS and promised death, and 3 decades of AIDS research have come full circle. 

It is obvious they don't know what they're doing.

The headline stated backwards that viral load has no statistically significant impact on CD4 counts, according to the research.

The backdoor actual headline described the researchers' inabilty to detect a link between what they term "virolgic failure" and CD4 T-cell counts.

Over 1600 antiretroviral newbies were monitored over intervals across a six month span.  What they found is obvious to those with real life experience outside the lab.

Suppression of what is improperly dubbed "viral load" - a misappropriated lab DNA count exxaggerated by laboratory magnification - is pointless.

Success of suppression means no DNA count. But this count does not measure virus particles, only DNA litter, remnants from unknown acttivty that has never been proven to be HIV activity.  read more »

NotAIDS! has been saying for some time that many of the same immunosuppresive symptoms attributed to HIV can be a misdiagnosis of intestinal or other parasite infections.

Research has been published here that shows identical proteins and surface proteins are expressed by various parasites as by HIV, such as p24, gp160.

Not long ago, there was a splashy announcement in the mainstream press that "HIV lives in the gut" and hides out in the lymphatic tissue.  Interesting, since intestinal parasites hang out in the same neighborhood.

How coincidental that Irritable Bowel Syndrome affected a great many gay men in the 1970s, but this "syndrome" - a eupheism for intestinal parasites - disappeared suddenly around 1981, and was replaced with something called GRID - Gay Related Immune Deficiency -, ultimately becoming known as AIDS.

To fit the HIV/AIDS model, any disease occuring in the presence of a silly little antibody to an even sillier little retrovirus named unimaginitively,  Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is "coinfection." 

Keeping this in mind, divert for a moment and ask yourself, when you have the flu, or  a cold, is it said that you are "coinfected" with mononucleosis or meningitis - which you had when you were in college and for which you still have antibodies?  read more »

NotAIDS! Opinion
March 22, 2008

A comment on the press release, Poor Sanitation Threatens Public Health by the UN and WHO

Over the last two years, NotAIDS! has featured numerous articles on the twin health problems whose parent is poverty, malnutrition and sanitation.

The lack of adequate caloric and nutritional intake, and the basic lack of potable, parasite-free drinking water because of insufficient sanitation systems in Africa and in other areas of the world, such as India, China, and many developing nations, has more to do with immune deficiency everywhere than an engima called HIV.

Indeed, NotAIDS! has published vitriolic opinions against the policies and diatribe of the United Nations (UNAIDS, UN Health) and the World Health Organization (WHO) for their dogged misplacement of financial and political support of the behemoth that is the AIDS industry.

In editorial fairness, the wisdom in the press release republished here is lauded. Hopefully it signals a shift toward common sense dictating policy rather than meddling into people's sex lives or trying to circumsise the African continent.  read more »

Joint News Release WHO/UNICEF

Poor sanitation threatens public health

6 in 10 Africans remain without access to proper toilet

20 MARCH 2008 | GENEVA --

Sixty-two per cent of Africans do not have access to an improved sanitation facility -- a proper toilet -- which separates human waste from human contact, according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation.

A global report will be published later this year, however, preliminary data on the situation in Africa was released today as part of World Water Day 2008.

The Day, built around the theme that “Sanitation matters," seeks to draw attention to the plight of some 2.6 billion people around the world who live without access to a toilet at home and thus are vulnerable to a range of health risks.

"Sanitation is a cornerstone of public health," said WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan. "Improved sanitation contributes enormously to human health and well-being, especially for girls and women. We know that simple, achievable interventions can reduce the risk of contracting diarrhoeal disease by a third."

Although WHO and UNICEF estimate that 1.2 billion people worldwide gained access to improved sanitation between 1990 and 2004, an estimated 2.6 billion people - including 980 million children – had no toilets at home.

If current trends continue, there will still be 2.4 billion people without basic sanitation in 2015, and the children among them will continue to pay the price in lost lives, missed schooling, in disease, malnutrition and poverty.  read more »

NotAIDS! News
February 17, 2007

False positive HIV tests can cause catastrophic trauma to a pregnant woman, leading to depression, suicide, elective abortion, or the unnecessary administration of highly toxic substances like AZT or Nevirapine to the newborn and/or mother.

Women in New Jersey have suffered a civil rights defeat in the State of New Jersey when the legislature recently passed a bill that forces each pregnant woman and her newborn to be tested for HIV.

Despite the fact that only two infants tested positive in 2006 in New Jersey, and none in 2007, the State opted to blast personal liberty and violate civil rights with a law that is both unncessary and cruel.

Women who are pregnant have a high "false positive" rate, and when specificity and accuracy are evaluated in the general population, all HIV tests are of questionable value.  read more »

NotAIDS! News
January 29, 2007

Clean drinking water, a luxury most of us take for granted, is sadly unavailable for a billion or so of our brothers and sisters around the world.

NotAIDS! has published various charts and editorials about the shameful lack of attention to the world's most solvable health problems.

Having enough food to eat isn't a question for most people of the West, many of whom are overweight, and a frightening majority of whom are obese.

But in developing nations, and amongst the lower income in the cities and towns of the rich West, malnutrition is shockingly common.

In a surprising shift towards common sense, some important voices are joining the call to correct these gross imbalances.

The Associated Press recently published an article by Maria Cheng, "Experts Call for Rethinking AIDS Money." She quotes some of the statistics NotAIDS! has graphically represented over the past two years, data which has been available for some time, but for some reason until now hasn't been sexy enough for the likes of celebrity ambassadors such as the always-sunglassed Bono.

As the charts show, easily curable conditions cause the most premature deaths, like parasites in untreated drinking water, or malnutrition.

Dr. Richard Horton, editor of Lancet, a British medical journal, had this to say, "We have a system in public health where the loudest voice gets the most money. AIDS has grossly distorted our limited budget."  read more »