Video summary of the anti-HIV movement whose proponents cite a growing body of evidence that that HIV may be a coincidental retroviral traveler. No other retrovirus is said tocause human illness, and 95% of people who test positive for HIV do not have AIDS. AIDS is a moniker for a syndrome of one or more infections. These infections are described as opportunistic, which is how one could describe any illness: infections usually occur when the body's natural defenses are compromised.
Interestingly, symptoms once attributed to AIDS, like "wasting" or KS lesions (human herpes virus-8) or PCP [known as Pneumocystis (carinii) jiroveci Pneumonia] rarely occur or if they do rarely are fatal. Pneumonia is more often than not misdiagnosed as its symptoms are generalized and subacute, whether or not the person is HIV+.
Furthermore, "PCP has been documented recently in persons who are mildly immunocompromised, including those with chronic lung disease" (Contini C, Villa MP, Romani R, Merolla R, Delia S, Ronchetti R. Detection of Pneumocystis carinii among children with chronic respiratory disorders in the absence of HIV infection and immunodeficiency. J Med Microbiol 1998;47:329–33.}
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The interesting thing was that in the first few years of the epidemic, if you look at what happened to people with Pneumocystis as their first manifestation of AIDS, their life expectancy stabilized or improved a little bit over the first few years of the epidemic.
With KS, exactly the opposite was the case. Early in the epidemic, people with KS had a better prognosis than later, after the first couple, three years of the epidemic. This was because the oncologists were just blasting the KS patients with chemotherapy and further depressing their immune system, and so their life expectancy went down.
-- Dr. Stephen E. Follansbee
From "THE AIDS EPIDEMIC IN SAN FRANCISCO: THE RESPONSE OF THE COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS, 1981-1984, Volume II, 2000, xv. Interviews Conducted by Sally Smith Hughes, Ph.D. in 1996
Producer's biography: Gary Null PhD has been featured in Time magazine, The New York Times and countless other newspapers and magazines across the country. Time magazine called him “The New Mr. Natural”.
The New York Daily News wrote, "Radio's leading health and fitness expert offers a panorama of alternative approaches for staying healthy.” Gary Null PhD, a nationally syndicated talk show host & producer of PBS television specials, is a consumer advocate, investigative reporter, New York Times best-selling author and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Gary believes that, "You must be empowered before you can be whole," and he empowers all who will listen with life-changing information that promote heath and wellness.
Review: In "AIDS, Inc.", Dr. Null blows the lid off the wealthy AIDS industry and shows how greed and corruption have hampered progress in fighting the epidemic or its underlying causes. For this important film, documentary filmmaker and health expert Gary Null traveled to more than 30 countries over an eight-year period to interview these industry critics. This is the first film on AIDS that brings the most compelling of their arguments together in one place. -- UPSTAGE MAGAZINE read more »
"The Blood of Yingzhou District", a documentary examining China's 'AIDS orphans' by Chinese American director Ruby Yang, has won an Oscar for best short subject documentary.
79th Annual Academy Awards
Editor's note: It is sadly fitting in a year when the senseless loss of life in Iraq is at all-time high, two films with Oscar nominees contain the word, "blood" in their title. The plight of orphans in Yingzhou District and Anhui Province is all too real, but one is wrongly led to believe there's an HIV crisis in south China.
-- The Editor
About 6 million people in East China's Anhui Province are threatened by blood flukes - better known to Chinese as "god of plague" because of the heavy death toll it caused half a century ago.
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