HIV: a few things your doctor might not tell you...
What does being "HIV positive" mean?
"HIV" tests don't look for a virus. These tests look for antibodies.
Usually, having antibodies to something is a good thing, but not with HIV and AIDS. Antibodies associated with HIV are suddenly something to be feared.
There are over 60 factors that can cause a person to test "HIV Positive." Among them: hepatitis, systemic lupus, flu and flu vaccinations, herpes, malaria, tuberculosis, and certain cancers. Sometimes healthy people are given a positive test result and remain healthy for many years without any remarkable ailments.
Being pregnant can cause a positive antibody result. Foreign proteins can cause the body to produce antibodies.
Many diseases can throw off HIV tests enough that some tests are not used in some countries.
The tests are not standardized from state to state, from country to country or even from lab to lab. One could test positive in one place and negative in another.
When a person takes an HIV test, the blood is diluted 51 to 400 times- Only in HIV testing is blood drawn diluted in these extraordinarily high amounts.
HIV stands for "Human Immunodeficiency Virus," yet this "virus" has yet to be isolated.
HIV testing uses a survey to help with diagnosis. The survey asks for such personal information as sexual preferences and history, drug use, as well as your race. In most tests, a person either has one diagnosis or another, regardless of who you are. However, in HIV testing, the test results come back as positive, negative or indeterminate. The profile you submit will determine what kind of result you will be given. This creates an unfair bias toward certain populations and is unscientific.
If you want to know a bit more about HIV tests see these links:
Everyone Reacts Positive on the ELISA Tests for HIV! - from Roberto Giraldo, MD.
60 Factors that can cause positive HIV- antibody test results - from Christine Johnson
How Accurate is the HIV Test? - from Mothering Magazine
Look for the book, Science Fictions - by John Crewdson, a Pulitzer-prize winning senior writer for the Chicago Tribune
- "A scientific mystery, a massive cover-up, and the dark legacy of Robert Gallo."
Patricia Nell Warren reviewed the book for A&U Magazine.
Robert Gallo is not a hero but a liar and cheat. Quotes and exerpts from the book coming soon...
Stories about people who have been diagnosed with HIV only to find out they weren't HIV positive at all.
Mario Roeder, Stanford University researcher, on CD4 T-cells - from 1997:
"The finding that HIV can't replicate in these cells -- and as a result can't directly harm them -- could lead to new weapons against HIV, said Mario Roederer, a genetics research associate at Stanford University School of Medicine. It also adds to the evidence that something other than viral infection destroys HIV patients' T cells. Though Roederer is not an "AIDS dissident," he raises some valid questions.
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