What often happens in this topsy turvy world, is that antibodies are mistaken for the enemy. Antiretrovirals are friendly fire to the body's natural processes. Those who decline antivirals don't get sick because they said no, thank you. Without giving people a chance for their body to do it's job, the "treatments" cause the beginning of the end.

The well meaning AIDS medical establishment carries out the edicts of the CDC, the WHO, UNAIDS, and NIH because if they don't, they will be sued and/or lose their licenses.

The medical establishment is handcuffed. When they are free from the dictums of a government-pharmaceutical collusion, the truth will come out. Healthcare will be about Wellness, and AIDS will close it's tired eyes.

-- The Editor

As many as 1 in 300 HIV patients never get sick and never suffer damage to their immune systems and AIDS, experts said.

-- Maggie Fox
Reuters (17 08 2006)

"Elite" HIV patients mystify doctors
17 August 2006
(Reuters [Maggie Fox])

As many as 1 in 300 HIV patients never get sick and never suffer damage to their immune systems and AIDS, experts said.

Most have gone unnoticed by the top researchers, because they are well, do not need treatment and do not want attention, said Dr. Bruce Walker of Harvard Medical School.

But Walker and colleagues want to study these so-called "elite" patients in the hope that their cases can help in the search for a vaccine or treatments.

So far Walker and colleagues have not been able to find out why certain people can live for 15 years and longer with the virus and never get ill.

Some even appear to have weak immune responses, he noted. "Is it just that these people got infected with a wimpy virus? The answer to that is no," Walker said.

"Some of the people know who infected them," he added, and in those cases, the person who infected the "elite" patients always went on to become ill.

A few years into the AIDS epidemic, researchers identified people who were called "long-term non-progressors." These were patients infected with HIV who did not become ill.

Many have become ill as the years have gone by, and required treatment.

Walker said a few of the long-term non-progressors were now classified as "elite" patients. But the difference is that the "elite" status is clearly defined by how much virus they have circulating in their blood.

Walker has tracked down 200 elite patients and has now joined up with other prominent AIDS researchers to find at least 1000 "elites" in North America and as many as possible globally.

His team wants to take blood and DNA samples to see what might be different about them. Confidentiality is promised.

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