Dr. Jaquelynn McCandless's Mali AIDS/LDN-HAART trial - help needed

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This really doesn't have anything to do with autism or the 'environment of harm' per se - except for the the LDN connection to autism, Dr. McCandless's standing and renown in the community, and the fact that ALL "alternative health" things (EOH is sort of 'alternative health' - as no one else is paying any attention to the stuff that is on EOH..) are all connected on some level - and that REAL SCIENCE on any of them should be encouraged.. Read on for more.As many of you probably know, there is currently a trial of LDN use in AIDS patients going on in Mali Africa. Dr. Jaquelynn McCandless are basically funding it with their own retirement funds - and need $40,000 more to complete it.. This 'plea' has been posted on the lowdosenaltrexone list, and here is a copy of it. I'm not sure if this violates FB TOS (although there are plenty of support/funding groups on FB already - one I know of quite well). But the authenticity of this can certainly be checked easily with others on the lowdosenaltrexone list. Here's the message:--Yahoo lowosenaltrexone message URL: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/lowdosenaltrexone/message/89070)Date: January 1, 2010Subject: File - A Personal Plea from the Editors of ldninfo.orgWe recently heard very moving and exciting news from Jaquelyn McCandless about the progress of the trial of LDN for HIV/AIDS which she and her husband Jack Zimmerman are helping to conduct in Mali.Early word is that the group taking HAART plus LDN is doing extraordinarily well. It's evident that the trial will tell us a great deal about the effects of taking LDN for HIV in Africa and in other developing areas around the world.The trial has been very difficult to run, given the poverty and unpredictable conditions in Mali, the challenge of finding trial participants who fit within the appropriate CD4 range, the need to pay all the local physicians and staff on the project, etc.Jaquelyn and Jack have personally put in more than half of the $350,000 needed to fund the trial -- this comes directly out of their own retirement savings. In addition, about $40,000 more is needed to finish the trial. Jaquelyn reports that they are finding it difficult to raise more funds. We strongly feel that it is time for all of us to show our support for this trial, which may be pivotal in helping to demonstrate the efficacy of LDN to the world medical community. Beyond the issue of HIV/AIDS, upon completion this will be the largest human trial to date of LDN for any disease.We also owe it to Jaquelyn and Jack to help support them in this time of need, to give them a boost at a moment when things look especially difficult -- with 9 months left to go in the study to complete all the testing.We are reaching out to you -- the 7,300 members of the LDN Yahoo Group -- to join us in supporting the Mali trial.If only a third of us were to give $20, the resulting donation to Jaquelyn and Jack's fiscal sponsor, The Ojai Foundation, would be more than enough to provide the remaining funding for the trial. Since some of us can send more and all of us want to see this study completed, the goal seems realizable!Please write a generous check now and mail it today. Together we can help complete this trial and give Jaquelyn and Jack the support they need to see it through to completion and publication -- benefitting all of us, and potentially the millions of those suffering from HIV/AIDS throughout the world.Make your check out to: The Ojai Foundation, Africa Project(Please give whatever you can afford -- many of us can give $50 or even $100.)And mail to:The Ojai Foundation, Africa ProjectPost Office Box 999Ojai, California 93024We are writing our own checks and mailing them now -- please join us.Thank you for kindness!With gratitude, Gluck, MD Gluck, MEd, RDTwww.lowdosenaltrexone.org