NotAIDS Commentary
March 12, 2007

Bartering goods and services is a practice as old as human society itself. Now, the fish trade gets a new twist, according to a recent report on a high incidence of AIDS in fishing communities across the developing world. The authors claim that oversexed fishermen trade seafood for sex from ragtag prostitutes, and that's how AIDS is spread.

For men who are known as the salt of the earth, and who look forward to seeing their families upon their return, this must be highly insulting. These men want a bath and a meal after a grimy day catching and cleaning fish. Apparently today's fisherman abandons romance, and foregoes more than just a bath and a meal: they can't wait to hit dry land to trade the day's catch for a hot half-hour with a hooker. It is not easy to imagine wanting sex after a day, a weekend, or a fortnight fishing.

Who writes this nonsense¹? And why do they want you to believe that the men and women of the developing world (and gays everywhere) have such extreme libidos?

On March 3, 2007, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization released a report on its website, and a few days later, the a South African Cape Argus picked up the story regarding fishermen trading seafood for sex in sea and lakeside communities across the developing world, thereby spreading the plague of AIDS.

A bit of Internet research reveals that a privately held British natural resource extraction consultancy, MRAG, Marine Resources Assessment Groupis putting forth great effort to paint fishermen into an absurd light. With this fictional picture, they are resurrecting the old stereotype of the uncivilized "natives" - those inhabitants of Latin America, or ASIA, or Africa (they like to call these areas the Third World for all of its imperial implications) as savage as they pronounce that their animalistic and lusty ways are causing AIDS.

Of course, it is far more plausible that the endemic problem of parasites is rampant to these regions and is unsurprisingly being mistaken as AIDS. Parasites cause precisely the symptoms as AIDS - night sweats, excessive weight loss, nutritional deficiencies as the intestines lose their ability to digest the nutrients in food.

(Continue reading.)

A 2003 cross-cultural and interagency study² of primary school students in Kenya showed that proximity to Lake Victoria and exposure from "water-related activities including swimming, fishing, and collecting water was associated with infection."The authors reported that over sixty percent were infected with one or more other helminths. They conclude, "...schistosome and geohelminth infections have important implications for combined mass-treatment programs."

Another example is Imperatriz in western Maranhão state, at the northeast corner of Brazil. A recent paper³ published in the BioMed Central journal, Public Health describes a "diverse population of over 230,000 residents including...river traders and fishing communities... located along the banks of the River Tocantins." The authors found that the city "experiences transmission of malaria along the riverside, and leishmaniasis, leptospirosis and dengue cases...among other communicable diseases" in the adjacent city.

Parasites and fungal infections cause the same CD4 cell deficit as AIDS. While countless millions experience stigma, discrimination, horrible disfiguring side effects of toxic medications, depression, and even suicide, the problems of parasites like helminths, schistosome, go unresolved.



Did you know that the protease attributed to "HIV" uses exactly the same protease enzyme that the fungus/ yeast Candida albicans utilizes? Protease is an enzyme that your cells use to digest protein and build your tissues: hair, skin, nails, flesh, and bones.

Did you know that the MAIN protein marker (p24) attributed to "HIV" is common to other organisms such as Candida? Candida is a family of human yeasts that when allowed to grow unchecked develop into harmful fungal infections. This condition is what causes vaginal yeast infections, thrush, and many times is the underlying cause of IBS - irritable bowel syndrome. Thrush is considered the herald of AIDS. If untreated, Candida can spread to other organs, destroy the body's ability to digest nutrients, and cause AIDS symptoms.

While serious, if treated with lactobacillus, bifida, and other cultures, easily found in supplements at the vitamin section of any store, and careful minimal use of antifungals such as gentian violet, which is recommended by the CDC as both effective and inexpensive, these infections will resolve.


In reality, yeast/fungal infections occur when the body's bacteria are out of balance. Beneficial bacteria, killed off by antibiotics, excessive drinking, drugging, dietary sugar, and excess carbohydrate intake, are necessary to keep naturally occuring Candida yeasts in check. It is unknown why such infections are attributed to HIV, an organism which by itself hasn't even revealed a mechanism for causing illness. It is said that HIV kills t-cells (CD4) but no mechanism for proving this has ever existed.

While AIDS may be a problem for some populations, HIV is not the problem.

Did you know that a key "HIV" protein, p34, is the same protein as a human parasite? Many cases of "AIDS" are actually parasite infections that generally are treated cheaply and effectively with natural foods such as raw wheat germ, psyllium, active cultures, and whole grains.

As the chart shows, parasitic infections with Helminth, endemic to most areas of high HIV prevalence, causes AIDS.

The time is now to be an agent of change. Think and read about what AIDS really is. Treat offending organisms, not an imaginary viral syndrome.

To be continued. Next installment: proteins and proteases.

¹

The Marine Resources Assessment Group, MRAG Limited, is a company registered in England and Wales with Company Number 2912982, VAT Registration Number: 877 7013 92. Among MRAG's "collaborators," as they call their business stakeholders, is the old imperial government of Britain, and the new, but imperially familiar collection of nations called the European Commission, and various industry heavy hitters comprising what is equivalent to a resource cartel.

²

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS AND SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTHS IN WESTERN KENYA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ANTHELMINTHICMASS TREATMENT
by THOMAS HANDZEL, DIANA M. S. KARANJA, DAVID G. ADDISS, ALLEN W. HIGHTOWER, DANIEL H. ROSEN, DANIEL G. COLLEY, JULIUS ANDOVE, LAURENCE SLUTSKER, AND W. EVAN SECOR
from Epidemic Intelligence Service, Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office and Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; Center for Vector
Biology and Control Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 69(3), 2003, pp. 318–323

³

Neglected diseases of neglected populations: Thinking to reshape the determinants of health in Latin America and the Caribbean
by John P Ehrenberg*1 and Steven K Ault*2
Address: (*1) Chief, Communicable Diseases Unit, Area of Disease Prevention and Control, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), 525 23rd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA and (*2) Regional Advisor, Communicable Diseases Unit, Area of Disease Prevention and Control, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), 525 23rd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Email: John P Ehrenberg* - ehrenbej@paho.org; Steven K Ault - aultstev@paho.org
* Corresponding author
Published: 11 November 2005
BMC Public Health 2005, 5:119 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-5-119
Received: 24 November 2004
Accepted: 11 November 2005
This article is available from:
© 2005 Ehrenberg and Ault; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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