A Closer Look at Alternative AIDS theories & HIV Drugs for Pregnant Moms

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A Closer look at

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Aids theories

UK South Africa Times,

28.11.2000

While the conventional wisdom

surrounding the killer disease

is widely reported, LARA SMITH

examines the alternative perspective.

President Thabo Mbeki has been widely criticised for expressing views

which question the safety of anti-retroviral

drugs such as AZT and which challenge the dogma that the Human

Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) is the sole cause of

Aids.

However, few of his critics seem aware of the reasons why some scientists

and researchers are sceptical about AZT and the very

existence of HIV. " Buried deep within the secretive and well-guarded dogma

that Aids is a plague caused by the lethal virus

known as HIV, there is a time bomb of potentially explosive contrary

information. " says Professor Gordon , Emeritus

Professor of Public Health at Glasgow

University.

" Almost everything you have been told about Aids and HIV is either a

series of half-truths or complete nonsense " write

British investigative reporters Ransom and Day in

World Without Aids.[ www.credence.org]

Ransom and Day - among other journalists and scientists - dispute the

1984 claim by virologist Dr Gallo that he had

isolated a virus believed to cause Aids, at the time a relatively unknown

deadly disease. Gallo was convicted of science fraud by

the Office of Research Integrity in 1992 for his claim to have discovered

HIV. He also had to retract claims in the 1970s that he had

identified the first human retrovirus (the same virus family that HIV

allegedly hails from) while researching leukaemia, after

independent experiments failed to replicate or

verify his discovery.

Aids was first introduced into the public psyche in the early 1980s,

when Gottlieb, an immunology researcher at the

University of California Los Angeles, discovered a phenomena of immune

deficiencies among male homosexuals. All were heavy

users of recreational drugs. Further examination by the US Centre for

Disease Control found the same low T-cell count and

immuno-deficient health disorders among heroin addicts

and haemophiliacs.

By late 1982, hundreds of articles were appearing about the new disease -

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids). Crisis

Today some 24 million Africans have been diagnosed with HIV and 20

percent of the South African population is believed to be

HIV-positive. According to Lifeworks - an organisation founded by the SA

insurance industry to investigate the Aids crisis - by 2005

there will be six million South Africans infected and one South African

will die of what is considered an Aids-related disease every

minute.

Unlike the US, where 94 percent of Aids cases are still either gay men

or intravenous drug users, in Africa infection is

indiscriminate. Everyone is at risk - male, female, homosexual,

heterosexual, young, old, despite the fact that many African

societies are sexually conservative.

The dissident theory is that Aids in Africa is the result of a weakened

immune system caused by multiple factors including poor

nutrition and lack of hygiene, a lack of medicines to treat common

diseases like tuberculosis, malaria and cholera, and sexually

transmitted diseases such as syphilis. This link between poverty and Aids

is one that Mbeki has been vocal about and which has

raised the ire of the mainstream Aids

establishment.

Ransom tells of a community in Tanzania, " who would otherwise be written

off by WHO and associate organisations as HIV AIDS

candidates just waiting to die " , yet is " amazingly alive and well "

following the introduction of clean water, nutrition and basic

medicines to treat cholera and malaria.

Many conditions such as weight loss, chronic diarrhoea, fever and

persistent coughs, the result of malnutrition and poor sanitation,

" are now lumped together by the WHO as Aids. " says

Ransom.

Diagnosis.

There are some 60 medical conditions - unrelated to any virus - that can

cause an HIV-positive diagnosis on an Aids test, he adds.

And, in the same way that the quality of medical care in the UK is often

linked to a patient's survival, so the results of an HIV-test

vary from country to country. Much of this has to do with the cost of the

tests - the cheaper they are, the less reliable the result will

be. In Africa, a lack of resources means that the cheapest, least

reliable tests are more likely to be used.

Thus a person testing positive for HIV in South Africa could test negative

in a wealthier country like Canada. Also if someone falling

into a 'high-risk' category - such as a gay man - visits the doctor with

symptoms that could be just flu, there is a greater chance

that they will be sent for an Aids test than a 'low-risk' person. Because

their immune system may be compromised as a result of

the flu virus (or malaria or TB), the person could

test HIV-positive.

" I say people across the globe are being misdiagnosed on a daily basis

with HIV, and if they are then given conventional

treatment . some of them will eventually die. "

says Ransom.

Which introduces the second argument in the dissident case: that the

antiretroviral drugs, and specifically AZT, are responsible for

more deaths than the disease itself.

Poison

The drug, say its critics, poisons the immune system, cannot distinguish

between healthy and infected cells and does not address

the underlying problems of a weakened immune system such as

malnutrition, drug abuse or illnesses like malaria. AZT -

Azidothymidine - was first developed in the 1960s as a chemotherapy

treatment for cancer, but was rejected for human use after

laboratory tests found it destroyed the healthy cells of

mice, who all died of extreme toxicity.

Critics claim the drug was reintroduced in 1987 when, under pressure to

find a cure for the disease that was claiming hundreds of

lives, the US Federal Drug Administration ignored conventional scientific

procedure and pushed through its approval for use. Figures

for the US Centres for Disease Control show that the number of people

dying from Aids trebled between 1987 and 1989 after AZT

was approved. By 1994 the death toll had risen to 15 times what

it was before AZT became available.

Critics point to the Concorde Trial of 1993, one of the few independent

trials not funded by AZT's manufacturer Glaxo Wellcome,

which found the mortality rate was 25 percent higher for patients taking

AZT than those who weren't. The toxicity of AZT brings on

the symptoms of Aids: diarrhoea, weight loss, fatigue, vomiting. Although

Glaxo vehemently disputes these claims, on its website

(www.treathiv.com) it admits: " The most common adverse events associated

with AZT are headache, nausea and fatigue ... serious

side effects can occur such as muscle damage and a decrease

in red and white blood cells. "

Critics further point to the harm AZT can do to babies, even though it is

being touted as a means of preventing HIV transmission

from pregnant mothers to their unborn children. In 1984 the Journal of

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes reported that

pregnant women treated with AZT in India showed a " shocking number of

therapeutic and spontaneous abortions, and ... a number

of grotesque birth defects " including holes in the chest, misplaced

ears, misshapen faces, and heart defects.

And a recent study by researchers in the US and Finland found that " AZT

crosses the human placenta and is rapidly incorporated

into the DNA of placental tissue ... even short exposures to

this drug might induce fetal genotoxicity. "

In South Africa in 1988, rape victim Amy Brown miscarried a week after she

was treated with an antiretroviral drug cocktail. Despite

treatment, she tested HIV-positive six months later. The anti-AZT lobby

believes that babies born to mothers with weakened

immune systems - whether due to illness, drug abuse or malnutrition - will

inherit this severely compromised immune system, with

or without HIV. Giving these infants anti-retroviral drugs is likely to

compromise their health, whereas, according to other research

following Glaxo Wellcome's trials, without any medical intervention nearly

80 percent will revert to HIV-negative within 18 months.

Interests

Many people believe the debate about HIV and AZT has been distorted by

vested interests. According to Noseweek, a South

African investigative magazine, worldwide sales of AZT exceeded $2.5

billion in 1997, and the Aids establishment spends about

$3bn a year on travel, conferences, research grants and salaries. However,

no one can deny the seriousness of the Aids pandemic

and the effect it is having on South Africa. Despite challenging

conventional theories, Mbeki and his government remain committed

to fighting the disease, whatever its

underlying causes.

When Copernicus proposed in the 15th century that the sun was at the

centre of the solar system, and not the earth, as was

widely believed, he was ridiculed. Will future generations ridicule us for

ignoring alternative theories because they're contrary to the

mainstream scientific beliefs of today? "

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HIV drugs for

pregnant mothers

spells end for Aids Inc.

By Fintan Dunne

Editor, AidsMyth.com

Aids drugs promoters

hit a middle-class nerve.

Evidence is growing that the promotion of HIV testing/medication of

mothers may be a bridge too

far

for the Aids industry.

On World Aids Day, Irish and British Aids dissidents found receptive

ears to their cautionary notes on this latest Aids hysteria.

Media producers and journalists --well versed on the the dangers of drugs

in pregnancy-- were suddenly keen to hear of the basis

for serious

doubts about the Aids paradigm.

Industry watchers have seen how pharmaceutical interests influenced

senior medical consultants to press for widespread HIV

testing of mothers. As a result, this is the growing norm in the USA

and Europe. The resistance to this trend is spotlighting

anti-retroviral medications very

unfavourably, with reprecussions for Aids credibility.

Meanwhile in the USA, ABC's 20/20 prime time show is sitting on an

explosive doccumentary about Maggiore's

alternative approach to Aids. It is likely to air as

soon as American presidential election issues fade.

Particuarly vulnerable to scrutiny is AZT. Were AZT to be unmasked under

media scrutiny, all combination therapies which include

AZT would be undermined.

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