NotAIDS! Essay
July 25, 2007 (updated September 15, 2007)

AIDS has become the foundation of cottage industries on every continent. Some would even say that the AIDS industries are self-replicating.

Through a concept of death threats inducing fear, anyone having or who had any one of 60 different conditions, including pregnancy, who then is shown to have antibodies to 2 or more proteins left over by cellular processes of that condition, is said to be HIV positive.

If you're pregnant the state forces the test on you and your child, and if you're gay, you are told "knowing is beautiful," or some other load of crap, and you should test until you're positive!

Sometime in your 30s your 27th HIV test will shock you, coming back positive. Then you're told you should adhere to a lifetime of poisonous pharmaceuticals that will kill you anyway in about 10 years.

If you don't take the meds they push on you, you will suffer the horrors of stigma, and need to wear the AIDS label the rest of your life, and finally 30 or 40 years later, you'll die from something you would have died from anyway, and your life is none the richer for having known about HIV, and you wish you never took the damn test in the first place.

The AIDS concept has infected all levels of government, and caused mass hysteria in all corners of the globe. Through brilliant marketing campaigns, public agencies who are supposed to protect the people are hijacked, and become complicit in taking money from the populace to put in the hands of pharmaceutical firms.

NGOs, or "non-profit" community "health centers" target the unsuspecting gay to brand him with the scarlet letters. Epedemiologists salivate at the the thought of a disease to track and a conference to attend where the next Big Idea will be delivered in a white paper to earnest listeners in the audience.

Ignominous zealots can't wait until you test positive so they can grow their budgets and study HIV-associated car accidents in remote corners of the globe. There, they will announce in a press release that another drug was taken off the market in the West but is working gangbusters on hungry and pregnant mothers in Africa.

Of course the only affliction associated with HIV is the madness inherent in dosing millions of healthy people with toxic pills when what they really need is nourishment and clean water.

They'll write volumes about the importance of preventing MTCT (mother-to-child-transmission) even though they've never actually seen HIV nor been able to get a good look under the electron microscope.

They will ignore the evidence that women who are pregnant, particularly with their second or subsequent neonate, will probably have a false positive HIV test result. Consider this report from the American Medical Association:

“New York health officials are facing an unexpected hurdle in their efforts to identify newborns whose mothers may have exposed them to HIV in utero. A state regulation went into effect in August 1999 that requires hospitals and birthing centers to test within 48 hours all women who present for labor and whose HIV status is unknown. Under the new requirements, babies are routinely screened at birth with the same test if their mothers decline it.

But such tests are not always accurate and used appropriately. Preliminary health department data for August through November 1999 showed that screening with a rapid HIV test identified 32 HIV-positive women. After using a confirmatory test, however, 17 women were later determined to be HIV-negative. In the meantime, 13 of the 17 babies were started on preventive antiretroviral treatment. Babies treated with zidovudine, the standard preventive therapy, can develop anemia.

The long-term effects of the drug are unknown. A pilot study conducted for research purposes last summer [1999] at a Bronx hospital found an "unacceptably high number" of false-positives", said Montefiore Medical Center epidemiologist Mayris P. Webber, DrPH, who was involved in the study. "One should be cautious in interpreting the results of a small pilot study of 100 women," she said, "but we did find, nonetheless, that out of three positive tests, two were false-positives."

"The predictive value of the test in a low prevalence population can be poor. A study by the New York City Dept. of Health found a 45% false-positive rate..." said Sara T. Beatrice, PhD, the department's director of retrovirology and immunobiology.¹

Will the zealots who invent phony public health threats and ignore real ones tell the children that they killed their moms by feeding them Nevirapine or AZT instead of food, and that they're sorry they've been severely hurt by the drugs and probably brain damaged but at least they were born HIV negative?

Will they describe how their lives have been ruined because AZT caused mitochondrial dysfunction and cerebral abnormalities, and yes, that's right, they won't grow normally or have much chance at doing well at school because of the toxic treatment they were given while most helpless?

Will they tell them they've zapped their bone marrow and killed off most of their healthy blood cells, but they got the HIV!

Even the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines² recommends against Nevirapine, the very drug erstwhile do-gooders meddling in the affairs of Africa are pushing on pregnant or nursing mothers.

Symptomatic, serious, and even fatal hepatic events have been observed when nevirapine was initiated in treatment-naïve patients. These events generally occur within the first few weeks of treatment. In addition to elevated serum transaminases, approximately half of the patients also develop skin rash, with or without fever or flu-like symptoms. Women with higher CD4+ T cell counts appear to be at highest risk.

In a recent analysis, a 12-fold higher incidence of symptomatic hepatic events was seen in women (including pregnant women) with CD4+ T cell counts of greater than 250 cells/mm3 at the time of nevirapine initiation when compared with women with CD4+ T cell counts less than 250 cells/mm3 (11.0% vs. 0.9%).

In female patients with CD4+ T cell counts greater than 250 cells/mm3 or male patients with CD4+ T cell counts greater than 400 cells/mm3, nevirapine should not be initiated unless benefit clearly outweighs the risk (DI).

These public health predators who wiggle their way into lands where they have no legitimate business ignore the desperate needs of women and children needing drinkable water that is not parasite infested, and food to put some flesh on their bones.

Of course there are the advertisers who see dollar signs in the AIDS, and perpetuate the AIDS concept in the gay community of the West. After all, pharmaceutical companies raked in half of a trillion dollars in 2006, 10 billion of that from the top AIDS drugs. Everybody is a pill-receptacle - in goes the pills, out comes the money.

Any illness can be said to be immunity-related, hence the brilliance in the marketing campaign. The WHO reports that over half of all deaths in children under 5 years of age are from undernutrition. Diarrheal disease as a cause of death in children under 4 years of age outnumber deaths attributed to HIV by a factor of 44 and malaria and TB combined outnumber HIV deaths by 12 to 1.

Similar numbers worldwide for adults prove that the best way to improve the quality of life and reduce disease-related morbidity is improved sanitation, nutritional adequacy, and clean drinking water. These improvements were made in the developed world a long time ago.

The question begging an answer is why the developed world doesn't focus their aid efforts on these basic improvements for the developing world instead of the expensive ADIS drugs that do little more than further pad the pockets of wealthy corporate barons, while decreased viral loads have no impact on the health nor quality of life of millions, who continue to go to bed hungry, or remain sick from parasites in their drinking water.

AIDS is a convenient syndrome for a now quarter-century-old concept that was invented by erstwhile scientist, Robert Gallo, after an initial paranoid report by Dr. Michael Gottlieb who saw a rare fungal pneumonia in five unrelated men in 1981.

Despite the fact that none of these men had sexual contact with each other, maximum attention was focused by Gallo and his NIH epidemiology zealots on their homosexuality.

So titillated by gay men and their sex practices, that a practice they ignored, common to each of the five men, was the frequent use of amyl nitrate and intravenous drug use. Is there significance that AIDS in the 1980s was largely defined as PCP pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma?

Not long after 1989 when poppers were ruled illegal in the United States, the rate of AIDS diagnoses underwent a sharp downturn.

It is important to note that the downturn would have been much more dramatic if it weren't for the CDC redefinition of AIDS in 1993 to include around 30 other illneses, including diseases which had been around for decades, like cervical cancer and lymphoma.

So there was this dip in the life expectancy of KS patients. In fact, the early response, despite what the dermatologists and oncologists may say, was to overtreat these patients with chemotherapy. This hurt patients in terms of their life expectancy, because they were treated aggressively for their visible KS lesions.

-- Dr. Stephen Follansbee

1. Shelton DL. New York state physicians slam rapid perinatal HIV test. amednews.com. 2000 Mar 13. ama-assn.org/amednews/2000/03/13/hlsa0313.htm.
2. Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents, October 10, 2006, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
   

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