Take Control of Your Treatment Don is a 38-year-old gay man who has been HIV positive for 15
years. He has watched many of those around him succumb and die of AIDS.
Yet Don is neither scared nor worried about his supposed ill fate due
to his HIV status. What sets Don and many like him apart? Like a
growing number of scientists, researchers, medical professionals and
activists, he does not believe that HIV causes AIDS.
Of all the people touched directly by the HIV/AIDS disaster, the
ones who have fared best are those who remained skeptical of the
diagnosis. They took responsibility for their treatment, declined to
use the cocktail of prescribed medical drugs, examined their lifestyles
and made such modifications that were necessary to re-establish a state
of homeostasis within their bodies to regain their health.
People test HIV antibody positive for many reasons. Both the ELISA
and the Western Blot tests are used to detect only antibodies to HIV,
but both are non-specific for HIV antibodies and are highly inaccurate.
By being non-specific, the tests can respond to a vast number of
non-HIV antibodies, microbes, bacteria and other conditions that are
often found in the blood of normal healthy people. Since no antibody is
ever specific to any one disease, it is not possible to have a specific
antibody test for disease. An accurate antibody test can only be
constructed and validated by viral isolation.
Many doctors and scientists contend that the lack of viral
isolation for HIV tests completely invalidates HIV tests. To quote the
test manufacturers themselves: "A positive antibody test result is of
itself not an indication of active infection." Everyone should know and
remember this information.
Conditions Cause Positive Test The flu, a recently administered flu vaccine, and pregnancy are
just a few common conditions that can cause a false-positive HIV test
result. Would you, as an expecting mother, want to embark on an
extremely toxic therapy, on the basis of such tests? Would you give
your asymptomatic newborn child DNA terminating drugs if you knew that
70 per cent of children identified as having "HIV" antibodies revert to
HIV-negative within 18 months without medical intervention?
The onus is ours to make informed choices as to the course we follow.
Other problems with the test is that there is no gold standard and
no consistent reading of the results. Therefore a positive HIV test may
only be indicative of the presence of a number of foreign proteins in
the blood. (See below)
After 16 years of AIDS research and broken promises that a cure is
around the corner, HIV positive people who choose conventional
treatment are inundated with an arsenal of medical techniques and
pharmaceutical cocktails prescribed to defeat the enemy within. Since
an early death is still seen as inevitable, all attempts, regardless of
how toxic, considered "compassionate." Therefore a life-long attack is
waged to kill a virus with increasingly more toxic chemicals and immune
suppressing drugs.
How long can a healthy (let’s suppose misdiagnosed) person survive
such aggression? How long can a sick person survive this treatment?
Shaky HIV--AIDS Connection There is still no consensus as to whether HIV leads to AIDS. Luc
Montagnier, the discoverer of HIV, was quoted at the eighth
International AIDS conference in Amsterdam as saying that "All leading
AIDS researchers are now fully aware that HIV is not sufficient to
cause AIDS." This is far from common knowledge and not the information
available for the general public. In fact, there are a great number of
documented cases of AIDS without HIV. Yet orthodox medicine still
maintains that HIV causes AIDS and the pharmaceutical companies
continue to produce highly toxic "anti-HIV" drugs, all at great human
and financial cost.
AIDS by definition is not new and is not a disease. AIDS is a new
name for 29 old illnesses and conditions, including yeast infections,
diarrhea, pneumonia, cancer and tuberculosis. These conditions are
called AIDS only if the person tests positive for HIV antibodies.
The official definition of AIDS has been expanded three times since
1983. With each change the number of AIDS cases grows exponentially. It
is only through the expansions of the definition of AIDS that the
number of AIDS cases has grown.
Causes of AIDS include a number of well-documented stressors that
can suppress the immune system and cause AIDS-defining illnesses:
chemical stressors include recreational drugs (cocaine, heroin,
poppers, marijuana and amphetamines); anitvirals (AZT, 3TC, ddI, d4T
and protease inhibitors); PCP prophylaxis (sulfa drugs); antibiotics;
steroids; vaccinations; pesticides; herbicides and solvents.
Biological stressors can be multiple and/or chronic infections
(gonorrhea, herpes, syphilis, chlamydia, EBV, CMV, TB, hepatitis,
parasites and candida); blood products (transfusions, factor VIII); or
semen.
Mental stressors are chronic fear, guilt, anxiety, sustained stress
and depression (believing death is imminent). The psychological stress
that accompanies the HIV positive diagnosis may well be in itself
immune compromising. Physical stressors include poor nutrition and lack
of sleep and exercise.
If you are HIV positive, research alternative theories on HIV and
AIDS and take charge of your own health. Determine if you have any of
the conditions that may have lead to a false positive HIV test and
follow a detoxifying regimen using herbs, juices and vitamin and
mineral supplements.
If you are ill, ask your doctor, naturopath or clinical herbalist
to treat your illnesses individually instead of treating the highly
questionable "HIV infection" with immune-suppressing drugs.
This article cannot, by itself, create a long-overdue change in
AIDS treatment. It can awaken and inform only one person at a time. But
it is hoped that as more people become aware that HIV need not lead to
AIDS, and take more personal responsibility for their health,
eventually real changes will take root.
Factors Known to Cause False Positive HIV Antibody Test Results
Naturally occurring antibodies
Passive immunization
Tuberculosis
SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus)
Renal failure
Flu
Flu vaccination
Herpes simplex I
Herpes simplex II
Upper respiratory tract infection (cold or flu)
Recent viral infection or exposure to viral vaccines
Pregnancy
Malaria
Rheumatoid arthritis
High level of circulating immune complexes (i.e. Autoimmune conditions)
Hepatitis B vaccination
Tetanus vaccination
Hepatitis
Epstein-Barr virus
This is not to suggest that if you have any of the above-mentioned
conditions you will test HIV positive. What it is meant to show is that
the test is greatly flawed and can cross react with many other
conditions.
References:
1. Johnson, Christine. Continuum Magazine Vol. 4 No. 3 Sept. 1996
2. Duesberg, Peter, PhD. Inventing the AIDS Virus. Regnery Publishing, 1993.
3. McKenna, Joan, TBM Associates, Berkeley, USA, "AIDS: A Different View," conference, Amsterdam, May 1992.
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