Questions:
1. What evidence is there for the assumption that HIV is
the cause of AIDS, and what consequences would result for
the emergence of symptoms and their diagnoses?
This question contains the related questions:
a) What is the cause of immundeficiencies that lead to
AIDS and ultimately to death?
b) What are the most efficient options to react to these
causes?
c) Why is HIV/AIDS transmitted heterosexually in black
Africa (south of the Sahara), while it is supposedly
transmitted homosexually in the industrialized countries?
2. What role can treatment play in developing countries?
The following related issues should be considered:
What possibilities of treatment are suitable for developing
countries?
For AIDS patients?
For HIV-positive patients?
For prevention of mother-child transmission?
In preventing HIV infections through work-related injuries?
In preventing HIV infections after rape?
3. Therapeutic prevention of HIV/AIDS?
Discussion should always consider the social and economic
context, especially poverty and other frequently occurring
diseases as well as the limited infrastructure in developing
countries.
(C. Köhnlein and C. Fiala: Report on the 1st meeting at
the invitation of South African President Mbeki; C. Fiala:
AIDS in Africa, the way forward; Koehnlein-Kiel@t-online.de
/ christianfiala@aon.at).
Answers:
Furchgott and Ignarro secured evidence for the first time
in 1987 (Nobel Prize, 1998) that cell systems of the human
organism are controlled by nitric oxide gas. During the
following years it was demonstrated that immune cells
eliminate microbial disease pathogens within cells by
producing nitric oxide (NO) gas. It was found that there are
two types of immune cells: those that produce NO gas and its
derivates and those that produce no NO gas but stimulate
formation of antibodies to inhibit microbial disease
pathogens outside the body cells. These revolutionary
findings have resulted in revising many disease theories
held as correct up to the present. Immunological disease
phenomena that had previously been interpreted as causal
results of "HIV", based on prevailing immune-system
theories, can now be explained based on the pioneering new
research data without contradiction or assumption of a "HIV"
infection. These new findings fully justified the critical
questions of President Mbeki on HIV/AIDS and have
far-reaching consequence for medicine, society, politics,
and economics.
There must be a balance between NO gas-producing immune
cells and those that do not produce NO gas. This balance in
cellular and so-called humoral antibody immunity can be
disturbed by non-infectious as well as infectious factors,
as either can lead to an acquired cellular immunodeficiency
(AIDS). Over-stimulation of the immune cell’s NO gas
production that that is either too strong or lasts too long
leads to inhibition of NO gas production in the immune cells
and increased activation of antibody-producing cells in its
place. The result can be an uninhibited rise in
intracellular microbes such as fungi, parasites,
mycobacteria, and viruses (opportunistic disease pathogens)
within the body cells that would normally be eliminated
without symptoms by cytotoxic NO gases. This clinical
disease diagnosis is defined as AIDS.
Oxygen respiration of certain cell systems can be blocked
by simultaneous over-stimulation of NO gas production and
counter-regulation of certain cell biology. These cells can
switch to energy production independent of oxygen, and this
can lead to tumor formation. This process was already known
in 1924 (the Warburg phenomenon). Yet it can only be
explained by the NO research findings. Nerve and muscle
cells can also suffer degenerative damage by disturbing
oxygen respiration for the same reason. AIDS in the defined
sense is a rare form of disease in Western countries with an
annual incidence amounting to 0.001 – 0.002% of the entire
population.
The large group of AIDS patients in a numerical sense
affects a minority of anally receptive homosexuals. The
causes of NO over-stimulation in this risk group are:
inhalation of organic nitrogen gases (poppers) as sexual
means of doping, abuse of antibiotic chemicals that become
metabolized into NO and nitrosamines; acceptance of foreign
protein as the result of unprotected anal intercourse that
can lead to NO over-stimulation analogous to NO
over-stimulation by microbial antigen protein and antigen
toxins in case of multi-infectiousness if cell
detoxification is interrupted.
Intravenous drug addicts are the second-largest risk
group, and their cellular immune balance is disturbed by
drug intoxication itself, by frequent microbial infections
resulting from contamination of used needles, toxic
additives to the drug substances, low and lack of nutrition
related to bodily consumption resulting from drug-dependent
lifestyles. Those potentially affected in this risk group
amount to about 5% of the total population of intravenous
drug users. In relatively rare cases the children of
drug-dependent mothers are affected as a result of the
mothers’ chronic intoxication. The cell respiration
disturbance related to it in immune and non-immune cells
causes these newborns to suffer maturity damage in cell
immunity. Hemophiliacs are a further risk group that has
injected commercially obtained but highly contaminated
coagulating protein that results in surviving NO
over-stimulation (as animal experiments have shown).
Multi-transfusion receivers with a serious basic disease
are another small risk group in numerical terms. On average
they have received 35 storage units of foreign blood.
A 10-year clinical study in Canada involving several
thousand patients already published in 1986 that more than
30% of surgical patients indicated immune anomalies that are
viewed today as disturbances in NO gas-producing immune
cells and as a preponderance of non-NO gas-producing immune
cells.
Already during the 1960s it became known that
organ-transplant patients developed entirely identical
diseases after treatment with immunotoxic drugs. These
appeared from the late 1970s among homosexual patients. They
were classified as AIDS from 1982 on. The same
AIDS-indicator diseases, inhibition of NO gas production in
immune cells, and predominately mature non-NO gas-producing
immune cells as well as opportunistic infections (AIDS)
developed in the same form among patients with blood-cell
cancer treated with pharmaceutical substances from the
substance class to which the AIDS medicine AZT and related
substances belong. Immune cells responded to entirely
different types of triggers with NO gas production as well
and in cases of over-stimulation with inhibition of NO gas
production. These can be toxic and pharmatoxic substances,
malnutrition or lack of nutrition, foreign protein intake,
infections, inflammations, lack of hormone regulation,
emotional stress, and many others.
Chronic infectious and inflammatory processes,
malnutrition or lack of nutrition, as well as contaminated
drinking water play the most vital role in developing
countries. The reasons for this lie in general living
conditions for which Western countries bear a historically
shared responsibility.
Under the conditions given, a much higher exposition for
microbial disease pathogens exists in developing countries
for embryos in the mother’s womb, newborns, children, women,
and men than in developed industrialized countries. Microbes
outside the body cells are inhibited or eliminated by
antibodies and other endogenous mechanisms as well as a
variety of cells in the immune-cell network. If they manage
to get inside the body cells, according to new findings,
they can only be inhibited effectively or eliminated by a
functioning NO gas resistance. This applies especially for
fungi, parasites, mycobacteria, and a number of viruses.
Chronic infections develop if cytotoxic NO gas no longer
suffices. This means a constant irritation of the NO gas
stimulation. The cells must be protected from potential
damage and accelerated death by endogenous gas production.
Sulfurous protein, vitamins, and enzymes (antioxidants)
fulfill these tasks. These must be accepted or synthesized
from nutritional components. The antioxidants are called
this because they constantly have to neutralize nitrogen
oxide (NO) and its derivatives as well as reactive oxygen
species (ROS). If the antioxidants are exhausted, because
nutritional intake of antioxidants and/or components to
synthesize antioxidants is lacking or one-sided and/or
chronic infections and inflammatory processes cause too high
use of antioxidants, NO gas production and formation of
reactive oxygen molecules can no longer be neutralized
sufficiently. Increased cell deterioration and/or
cell-biology counter-reactions occurs in immune cells and
non-immune cells that lead to secondary inhibition of NO gas
production. Under this conditions opportunistic infections
can occur as a result.
This vicious circle of a high exposition for chronic
infections and inflammations, anti-oxidative
undernourishment and malnutrition, as well as disposition
for opportunistic infections is well known as nutritional
AIDS in developing countries. (W.R. Beisel, 1992; J Nutr.
122:591-596; W.R. Beisel, 1996; J Nutr. 126: 2,611-2,615).
The primary causes of this form of AIDS in developing
countries, regardless of gender, concern unborn babies in
their mothers’ wombs, newborns, children, women, and men.
These primary causes usually differ basically from the
primary causes of most AIDS-indicator diseases in the risk
groups of Western countries.
AIDS in Africa is no more a result of transmitting a
so-called AIDS pathogen sexually in Africa than it is in
Western countries. There is no such AIDS pathogen. Nor would
it be either sufficient or necessary to understand the
disease processes. The assumption of such an AIDS pathogen
stems from a not too distant time when one had not yet
understood the fundamental processes in immune cells and
non-immune cells. Even in AIDS cases where primarily
infectious processes are a co-deciding cause for failure of
NO gas resistance in the immune cells, sexually transmitted
infections play no exclusive role. The sexual channel is
only one of the possible means of access for infections.
Most chronic infections are not transmitted sexually (for
example, lung tuberculosis, miliar tuberculosis, malaria,
worm infections, and numerous other tropical infections.
This also applies for secondary opportunistic pathogens,
mainly fungi, parasites, mycobacteria, and
cytomegaloviruses, as well as other herpes viruses. The most
common AIDS indicator disease, PC lung infection,
demonstrates this point. It is triggered by an airborne
fungus pathogen.
The scientific reduction of thought to homosexual or
heterosexual transmission of a so-called AIDS pathogen has
veiled the actual causes of developing opportunistic
infections. All are caused by inhibiting NO gas production
in immune cells and non-immune cells as well as by
blockading the oxygen respiration of certain cells. HIV/
AIDS medicine has not been able to explain to date why the
identical diseases of pharmacotoxic AIDS and nutritional
AIDS develop entirely independent of any "HIV" pathogen,
while ( despite analogous excessive toxic, pharmatoxic,
infectious, and nutritive immune stressors or massive
administration of immunotoxic foreign protein in other human
cases ( the AIDS-indicator diseases only develop if a
so-called AIDS pathogen has been transmitted sexually or via
the bloodstream.
Numerous experimental and clinical studies have
established that the antioxidant and sulfurous detoxifying
protein in the immune cells are sharply reduced, and that
the immune cells which predominate, produce no more NO gas,
but that antibody production is increased among
"HIV-positives" at the earliest possible moment of "HIV"
seroconversion, when the "HIV test" shows a positive result.
This fact proves that the immune cells of these patients
cannot be disturbed by a so-called AIDS pathogen, such as
that claimed by HIV/AIDS theory, but that the immune cells
have inhibited NO gas production due to a shortage or total
lack of antioxidant detoxifier molecules. The not NO gas
producing TH2-immune cells are moving mainly outside the
bloodstream, where they can take over the stimulation of
B-lymphcells for antibody production.
However, the reduced number of immune cells is only
measured in flowing blood as a alleged proof for destruction
by "HIV" viruses. This AIDS definition even applies in the
USA if no clinical symptoms are at hand but only the number
of T4 immune cells in the blood stream has fallen below a
certain level and the "HIV" test shows a positive reaction.
This obscure diagnostic procedure (AIDS without the clinical
syndrome or "AID" without "S") has raised the officially
recorded count of "AIDS cases" in the USA since 1 January
1993 by more than 100%. This AIDS definition has not been
accepted in Europe, and the AIDS case numbers are dropping
accordingly.
Just as questionable as these definitions is the
diagnosis of AIDS diseases in Africa. The Bangui AIDS
definition of 1985, which is in use today with variations,
enables AIDS diagnosis by appearance based on unspecified
symptoms such as coughing, fever, diarrhea, etc., if they
last longer than one month. Such symptoms are frequent in
developing countries in case of chronic inflammatory and
infectious processes. These cases, recorded as AIDS without
diagnostic standards, are reported to the World Health
Organization in Geneva. Based on the summary judgment of the
assumed "spread dynamics of HIV in Africa", the HIV/AIDS
cases are projected, and the data gained is offered to the
world press as the current status of the "HIV/AIDS pandemic
" in Africa. Given this completely obscure HIV/AIDS data,
the international mass media paint this picture of the
"dying continent of Africa" without referring to the
slipshod method of data gathering. These practices have led
to the manipulated world opinion that 90% of all HIV/AIDS
infections occur in Africa.
Thus in the USA, Europe, and Africa there are differing
factual bases treated in public opinion as HIV/AIDS. To this
extent, in view of "the limited infrastructure in developing
countries", it only makes sense to raise questions according
to the cause, therapy, and prevention of AIDS if the real
biomedical core of the problem is cleanly separated from
manipulation of HIV/AIDS medicine and their profiteers by
propaganda.
As to the question about the "consequences resulting from
the emergence of symptoms and their diagnoses", knowledge of
the real background facts in Africa means that the actual
causes of patients’ diseases are diagnosed incorrectly or
not at all. It also means that patients and their family
members are placed in mortal fear, excluded, and submitted
to hopelessness. There is no proof to support the "HIV
causes AIDS" disease theory, but there is an overwhelming
abundance of evidence against it. Nobody has actually
isolated the "HIV", and the existence of such a virus was
concluded by unspecified molecular markers after
manipulation of immune cells from the blood of homosexual
AIDS patients. These immune cells were stimulated with
highly oxidized substances that, as one knows today, trigger
reactive NO gas production. Since the cells were greatly
decreased by detoxifying molecules containing sulfur, a
portion of the cells perishes. This phenomenon then
interpreted as destruction by the hypothetical HIV. Another
portion of the cells reacted with cell-biology
counter-regulations. These include formation of regenerative
protein and export of oxidized stress protein from the
cells. Both molecular markers were seen as exclusive proof
of the presence of "HIV", although the same molecular
markers could be provoked in numerous other cells under the
same laboratory conditions.
All cell experiments that have supposedly detected
isolation of the "HIV" are based on evidence of such
unspecific markers after stimulation with such highly
oxidizing substances in cell cultures. Nobody has been able
to demonstrate cell-free HIV in the blood serum of
"HIV"-positives or AIDS patients without such biochemical
manipulations, although they should multiply a billion-fold
according to the HIV/AIDS theory prevailing since 1995.
According to the findings of NO research, HIV researchers
have confused cause and effect. This knowledge is supported
by the fact that the discoverer of the patented "HIV" test
of 1984, Dr. Gallo, manipulated cell cultures of AIDS
patients with hydrocortisone. The hormone hydrocortisone
blocks cell splitting including reproduction of viruses
potentially existing that can only reproduce with host cells
in synchronized manner. Hydrocortisone also inhibits NO gas
production but promotes formation of regenerative protein.
Two of Dr. Gallo’s external colleagues, who had worked
with him on cell experiments, published in 1987 that the
"HIV" sought in AIDS patients’ immune cells based on
molecular markers (regenerative protein, export of stress
protein from the cells in the form of so-called virus-like
cell particles) had been demonstrated especially well after
adding hydrocortisone to the cell culture. These data
referred to experiments in Dr. Gallo’s laboratory during
1984 when setting up the "HIV" test. Yet Dr. Gallo, who had
deliberately kept a secret of this hydrocortisone effect in
his publications, had to admit the fact after a reproach at
the 1998 press conference of the international World AIDS
Congress in Geneva.
Dr. Gallo he has been unable to explain to this day why
the splitting of host cells is blocked after adding
hydrocortisone (as any physician from clinical application
knows about hydrocortisone) but the "HIV" reproduced
especially well with hydrocortisone present. NO research
provides this explanation: unspecific molecular markers,
allegedly proof of "HIV" existence, are nothing else than
regenerative protein and cellular waste exported from
oxidative cells under stress from cells in so-called
virus-like cell particles as the byproduct of cell-biology
counter-regulation. Thus these markers have nothing to do
with "HIV".
Dr. Gallo misinterpreted the protein released after
oxidizing stimulation from the immune cells of AIDS patients
that were cultivated jointly with human leukemia cells. He
identified it as "HIV" protein. Using this human cell
protein, Dr. Gallo equipped the test substrate for his
patented "anti-HIV" antibody test. This test substrate,
which had been adjusted to especially high antibody amounts,
reacted with antibodies in blood serum of people whose
immune cells form a particularly high level of antibodies.
This is true above all for people whose immune cells no
longer produce NO resistance gas but increasingly stimulate
synthesis of antibodies instead. A "HIV"-positive test
result means nothing else than that the test person has
particularly high amounts of antibodies in the blood, and
these react accordingly with foreign human test protein.
Since there are no antibodies in human blood that react only
with protein against which they were originally formed, the
"HIV" test demonstrably reacts to many different antibodies.
In Africa, antibodies in the blood serum of test subjects
reacts positively in the HIV test, though the antibodies
formed originally against antigen protein from tuberculosis,
malaria, and PCP fungi pathogens as well as many other
pathogens.
Hence there are no "HIV" infections either by sexual
transmission or via the bloodstream. So-called mother-child
transmissions are transmissions of maternal antibodies to
the child and/or toxic damage to the child’s immature
immune-cell formation in the mother’s womb and/or
immune-cell anomalies after birth by toxic medication
treatment. They can also be the result of the mother having
a chronic infection that was transmitted to the child.
So-called professionally caused "HIV" transmissions or
transmission by rape are anecdotal reports. There is no
validated proof case of this in all the HIV/AIDS literature.
These horror stories are based on the pseudo-logic of the
HIV/AIDS theory and serve as alleged confirmation of the
"HIV" infection for the general public. Consequently there
is also no treatment or prevention against the putatively
real "HIV" as the alleged cause of AIDS.
Yet there are effective prevention and treatment
possibilities for pre-AIDS and AIDS. Besides compensating
for undernourishment and malnutrition as well as the
treatment sought for infectious and noninfectious causes of
disease and avoidance of specific risks, a suitably dosed
antioxidant compensatory therapy is indicated. This calls
for proteins containing sulfur and other additives as well
as amino acids (glutathione, cysteine, homocysteine,
arginine, etc.), vitamins, minerals, trace elements, plant
polyphenols, natural protease inhibitors such as polyanions
based on sea algae and cartilage preparations, prostaglandin
modulators made of fish oils (omega-3 fatty acid) or, in
difficult cases, selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors, if
necessary difluoromethylornithine as a polyamine inhibitor,
and gamma globulin (Hässig et al., 1998, medical hypothesis
51: 59-63) in case of opportunistic infections. Non-toxic
therapeutics recognizes many possibilities of balancing a
disturbance of cellular immunobalance without blocking
cellular respiration by AZT and related substances. Within
recent years orthodox HIV/AIDS medicine too has begun to
rediscover the possibilities of consistent antioxidant
protection and liver protection for patients with acquired
cellular immunodeficiencies. In this sphere, developing
countries have an abundance of potential options by using
sea products as food supplements, building up a license-free
plantation economy for phytotherapeutics, and recollection
of ethnomedical experience.
An incredible waste of resources has occurred in Western
countries since 1984 in connection with the largest capital
investment in medical history based on the objectively false
disease theory "HIV causes AIDS". Poor countries can hardly
afford the luxury of crippling the will of their people to
survive through irrational sex and death fantasies instead
of investing their meager resources in improving general
living conditions. This also includes comprehensive
continuing education of medical staff to the state of
medical knowledge in 2000 instead of 1984. The history of
Western medicine has demonstrated that the prevalence of
chronic inflammatory and infectious processes could be
reduced drastically and continuously up until the middle of
the previous century prior to introduction of
chemotherapeutics, antibiotics, and mass immunization (L.A.
Sagan: The Health of Nations: True Causes of Sickness and
Well-being. Basic Books, New York, 1987). Meanwhile,
fundamental findings of Western medical research into NO,
cell symbiosis, and other areas have gained significance in
other important spheres of preventive and therapeutic
medicine outside official HIV/AIDS medicine.
Sooner or later these findings will also prevail in the
broadest sense in AIDS prevention and therapy. Scientists,
physicians, and others involved (particularly in the news
media) have benefited 16 years from the massive capital flow
to research and combat "HIV"/AIDS. They have been outraged
by the South African government’s critical questions about
the cause, treatment and prevention of AIDS, reacting out of
ignorance or unwillingness to learn.
However, discriminating against physicians and scientists
as AIDS dissidents, who have only drawn rational conclusions
from validated medical-research findings based on the best
available knowledge, their consciences, and their sense of
duty, is an unacceptable violation of general human rights (
especially for the patients involved. What would happen if
the South African government would maintain the "HIV causes
AIDS" disease theory that has become scientifically obsolete
in the meantime and approve recommended mass poisoning with
AZT and related toxic pharmaceuticals? It would actually
trigger the catastrophe suggested to the Africans by
interested physicians, mass media, politicians, and drug
concerns as well as the large army of profiteers as the
stream of capital flows to exploit the self-staged archaic
fear of a plague. After having overcome the racist mania of
Apartheid, it must become the historic mission of the South
African government to resist the HIV plague mania and to
develop its own African way to improve general living
standards and standards for prevention and therapy.
Such "HIV"-positives have survived in Western countries
by resisting mass fear hysteria, recognizing risks of
disease, and using a broad range of natural food-supplement
resources and antioxidant medicine. Meanwhile, the
"HIV"-positives who trusted the highly toxic so-called
antiviral pharmaceutical substances and chemo-therapeutics
have fallen victims to HIV/AIDS medicine. According to
official government statistics published by the German
public-health authorities in 1985, for example, each German
with "HIV" must have been infected until 1995 and died of
AIDS until 2000. These figures, projected by the
semi-logarithmic Weibull statistical method, have never been
corrected. Instead, the country’s mass media have bought
these and many other absurd claims as medical facts.
The same health-care authorities officially stated that
0.0015% of the population was newly registered as "HIV"/AIDS
cases in 1999, and that it still concerned people from the
same risk groups. The same leading news media failed to
report on this result "of the fatal sex epidemic
transmittable to anybody". Instead it promptly reported at
the World AIDS Congress on 9 July 2000 in South Africa that
"Almost half of all young women there are HIV-positive at
age 20, and 58% of them are by age 25. Among men, the
infection rate reached its apex at age 32, since 45% had the
fatal virus in the blood" (Der Spiegel, 3 July 2000). A
similar numbers game ( the same horror stories about
epidemic, sex, and sensation spread in the USA and Europe
during the past two decades ( projected at the moment to
South Africa, the country that should serve as a strategic
beachhead for the pharmaceutical firms in all other
developing countries. The director of the Epidemiological
Institute of Johannesburg, Dr. Williams, is quoted as the
only verifiable source of the assertion on the alleged
epidemic nature of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: "The sudden
increase in tuberculosis cases among gold miners turned the
attention of epidemiologist Williams to Carletonville.
Within 10 years the number of tuberculosis patients had
almost quadrupled; TB frequency was 100 times greater than
in Western industrial nations. The researcher knew: lung
disease often comes as the result of a HIV infection. Tests
confirmed his suspicion. Every third miner was already
infected with HIV, as were 37% of all adult women". (Der
Spiegel, "Fluch der Jungen", 3 July 2000).
What Europe’s largest news magazine with the advertising
slogan "Spiegel readers know more" failed to tell its
readers was that orthodox HIV/AIDS researchers at America’s
Harvard University had established in a comprehensive 1994
study that "results with the anti-HIV antibody test ELISA
and WB should be interpreted with caution in case of serial
tests with people who came in contact with tuberculosis
pathogens or other mycobacterial species. ELISA and WB
cannot be viewed as sufficient for a HIV diagnosis in AIDS
endemic areas in Africa where the prevalence of
mycobacterial disease is very high. There is a very high
rate of false-positive ELISA and WB results in HIV tests"
(Kashala et al., 1994, in J Infect. Dis. 169: 296-304).
Like many other leading media, Der Spiegel, has been
informed several times in writing of the untenable nature of
the HIV/AIDS claim in Africa based on enclosures from
scientific publications. But it has not changed its
deliberately false coverage. Already in 1985 the ELISA test
had admittedly only been accepted as a "HIV" diagnostic test
by Western countries due to "the 90% false-positive HIV
results". According to Western testing guidelines, a second
positive ELISA test result must be confirmed by a positive
test result in the so-called WB test. In Africa, as a rule,
only the ELISA test is carried out, if any, on cost grounds,
and indeed using two test antigen proteins. Such
HIV-positive test results do not count as confirmed positive
results in Western countries.
Since 1992 the WB confirmation test has not been allowed
as a "HIV" confirmation test any more in Great Britain,
since this is considered too unreliable. There are no
binding international standards for "HIV" tests. However,
the biomedical truth is that any "HIV" test is
false-positive, and none of these tests can show antibody
bond against "HIV", since nobody has provided proof that the
test substrate of the "HIV" test contains "HIV" protein.
On the other hand, any informed person knows the specific
causes for tuberculosis and other infections among itinerant
workers under African gold-mine labor conditions and living
conditions in the residential camps of these workers. To
understand these diseases, as recent medical research has
sufficiently explained, there needs to be no "HIV" infection
or HIV-positive test results among people in Africa who have
come into contact with the endemic tuberculosis pathogen.
Does the South African government really want to deliver the
South African people over to the obscure practitioners of
international epidemic speculators and "brutality typical of
concerns in the pharmaceutical sector" (Der Spiegel, 26 June
2000). The years of experience in Western countries has
taught that preventive and therapeutic recommendations were
not understood and could not have been implemented to target
groups properly during recent decades without basic
communication of medical research’s changing knowledge.
Medicine and health-care policy are always part of tacit
system know-how that must be counterchecked by transparency.
However, during the past two decades counterchecking by
institutionalized medicine and medical opinion leaders
speaking in trade journals has failed in the case of
HIV/AIDS medicine, since the self-styled "HIV-retrovirus"
researchers have been originators of the epidemic hysteria
and at same time chief experts deciding on release of
immense amounts of research money as well as publishers on
HIV/AIDS in the specialized media (Lang: Challenges,
Springer, New York, 1998, pp. 361-741).
The South African government will have to find a more
than rhetorical response to the extremely dangerous
challenge of the World AIDS Congress in its own country that
is known to have been sponsored by the international
pharmaceutical concerns. Most of the unscrupulous mixture of
deliberate medical perjury, distortion of scholarly based
counter-analyses, malicious personal discrimination and
discrediting of a sovereign government’s members may hardly
be able to climb higher in the service of the "brutality
typical of the sector" of economic interests.
"Briefly before the13th World AIDS Conference that took
place in the harbor city of Durban 9-14 July", reported Der
Spiegel, "Chief of State Thambo Mbeki also caused annoyance
and confusion. He sought to speak to scientists who
championed the long refuted thesis that AIDS is not the
result of an HIV infection but the consequence of drug and
alcohol abuse, poverty, and underdevelopment. As the Boers’
racist regime was forced to abdicate in 1994, the country
still had a chance to stem the epidemic. Yet the national
AIDS plan broke down due to an authority free-for-all,
mistrust for white experts, and a lack of political will to
lead. In his five-year term in office, the country’s first
black president, the globally respected Mandela dedicated
less public time to the South African AIDS topic than he did
to a PR meeting with the Spice Girls, Naomi Campbell, and
Michael Jackson. Prominent black leaders had indeed already
warned in 1990 that AIDS could "ruin the fulfillment of our
dreams", indeed a health-card paper written by the then
still exiled African National Congress (ANC) had conceded
that almost 60,000 freedom fighters could be infected, yet
none of the returnees were tested. And only once, at the end
of 1998, did Mandela make AIDS the topic of a detailed
speech ( at an economic forum in Switzerland. Every fifth
new South African mother was already HIV-positive at the
time. Meanwhile 22.4% of all newborns countrywide are
infected. The epidemic rate among women under 30 even lies
at almost 26%. Nonetheless, in no year since the ANC’s
takeover of power has the national AIDS budget even been
fully spent. At the same time the health minister refuses
AZT "on cost grounds", though it would reduce the
probability of HIV transmission to the newborn by half" (The
Spiegel, 3 July 2000).
Even though thoroughly informed, the editorial board of
Der Spiegel ( one priding itself on having the most serious
journalistic reputation ( suppresses the following important
fact in its coverage: Highly toxic AZT blocks maturation of
antibody-producing immune cells in bone marrow (G.J.
Rosenthal and M. Kowolenko, Immunotoxicological
Manifestations of AIDS Therapeutics; J.H. Dean et al., eds.
Immunotoxicology and Immunopharmacology. Second Edition,
Raven Press, New York, 1994, pp. 249-365).
The newborn will be protected against extracellular
disease pathogens during the first months of life by
antibodies transmitted from the mother. Newborn antibodies
measured by the "HIV" test are therefore antibodies of the
mother. About 12% of newborns with "HIV"-positive mothers in
Western countries react positively in these tests. In the
sense of HIV/AIDS theory, this finding means that 88% of
newborns should have accepted no antibodies in the mother’s
womb via the common circulatory system, although the
mother’s "HIV" should have increased a billion times a day
and the mother’s antibodies may have had to survive for
years against the "HIV" in the blood serum. On the other
hand, 12% of newborns should have accepted the mother’s
"HIV" antibodies and react positively to the "HIV" test.
This assumption means an insoluble contradiction in the
sense of HIV/AIDS theory, since any newborn accepts
antibodies from the mother and logically ( according to
HIV/AIDS theory ( must also accept the "HIV" allegedly
multiplying a billion-fold in the blood serum of the
"HIV"-positive mother. In this logical difficulty, one
treats all "HIV"-positive pregnant mothers with AZT,
although one knows that pregnant mothers in Africa even in
the sense of HIV/AIDS theory could show a "very high rate"
of false-positive results in ELISA and WB HIV tests (Kashala
et al., 1994). If the newborn is negative in the "HIV" test
after birth, one claims that the "HIV" infection has been
prevented through AZT. On the other hand, if the newborn is
positive in the "HIV" test, the newborn will continue to be
treated with AZT.
Nobody really knows with which antibodies the mother and
newborn have reacted positively to the test. Since the
sensitivity threshold of the "HIV" test is adjusted to a
certain amount of antibodies, the so-called "positive HIV"
test means only that the mother and newborn indicate a
sufficiently high amount of antibodies to react positively
to the "HIV" test’s protein. A "negative HIV" test for a
newborn of a "HIV"-positive mother says merely that the
newborn has not accepted enough antibodies from the mother
or has already formed them itself to register a so-called
positive result in the "HIV" test. Yet the "HIV" could still
have been transmitted from the mother to the newborn if one
assumes that the "HIV" exists in the mother’s bloodstream
(demonstrated by the "HIV" test) with which all possible
antibodies can react. Since AZT, due to its biochemical
properties, suppresses immune cells producing newly maturing
antibodies among pregnant women treated with AZT the
probability increases that the newborn accepts fewer
antibodies than would be required for a positive result in
the "HIV" test. The claim that "use of AZT reduces the
probability of HIV transmission to the newborn by half" (Der
Spiegel, 3 July 2000) is based on this effect.
In reality, neither a "HIV"-positive nor -negative result
for the newborn would express something about transmission
of the "HIV" after a "HIV-positive" pregnant woman has been
treated with AZT, even if one assumes that she were actually
infected by the "HIV". Even in this (fictitious) case, the
"HIV" test result would provide only information that more
or less of the mother’s antibodies were transmitted to the
child without being able to know if it concerned antibodies
against (fictitious) "HIV" or an antibody against other
antigens.
However, the biological truth is that AZT, due to its
biochemical properties, could not inhibit "HIV", since the
substance is not integrated in any DNA or any provirus DNA
of a "HIV". Rather it blocks the cell respiration of immune
and non-immune cells and causes secondary DNA damage to
these cells. Thus the logical consequence would be that HIV
would not be inhibited if prescribed to all pregnant women
in South Africa with so-called positive HIV tests (allegedly
22.4% of all pregnant women) as a prophylaxis against
transmission of the "HIV" to the newborn. AZT does not do
what it allegedly should but demonstrably does what the
substance should supposedly prevent, namely promote acquired
immunodeficiency. AZT has caused newborns serious birth
defects and other maturity disturbances. (J. Kumar et al.,
Acquir. Immundef. Syndr. 7, 1994: pp. 1,035-1,039; Moye et
al., 1996, Journal Pedriatics, 128: pp. 58-67)
Administration of AZT is strictly contraindicated for all
"HIV"-positives and AIDS patients, pregnant women, newborns,
children, women, and men including those patients diagnosed
as "HIV-positives" without a "positive HIV" test finding
according to the Bangui definition of AIDS cases. "A
critical analysis of presently available data claiming that
AZT has anti-HIV effects shows that there is neither
theoretical nor experimental evidence confirming that AZT
alone or in combination with other substances has any such
effect" (Papadopulos-Eleopulos, 1998, Curr. Med. Research
and Opinion 15, Suppl. 1: pp. 1-45).
The real active mechanism of AZT is clearly known. AZT
inhibits certain enzymes in cell respiration of immune and
non-immune cells. The result is development of opportunistic
infections (AIDS), certain tumors, and degeneration of
muscle and nerve cells. Even the manufacturer warns:
"Retrovir (Zidovudine = AZT) can be associated with serious
toxic damage to blood-building cells including white blood
cells and serious anemia. Degeneration of muscle cells has
been associated with long-term medication of AZT" (Glaxo
Wellcome: Retrovir (Zidovudine) In: Physicians’ Desk
Reference. Medical Economic Co., Monvale, 1998, pp.
1,167-1,175).
The fact that AZT also inhibits enzymes in microbes has
been misinterpreted as inhibiting "HIV" replication. Since
opportunistic pathogens can adapt better to the inhibiting
effect than the cell systems of patients whose immune
systems have already been weakened, AZT medication will
favor uninhibited development of opportunistic pathogens
(AIDS) sooner or later. Due to their similar action, AZT and
over-stimulation of NO gas have identical effects:
accelerated cell deterioration and/or cell-biology
counter-regulations. However, fixation on "HIV" infection
veils this causal relationship. The AZT manufacturer admits
that "similar pathological changes such as those produced by
HIV illness have been associated with long-term medication
of AZT" (Glaxo Wellcome, 1998). However, symptoms of "HIV"
illness (anomalies of cellular immunity, positive "HIV"
test, and opportunistic infections) can be explained free of
contradiction by NO research findings and without assuming
the existence of "HIV". The test findings of Dr. Brian
Williams ignore the fact that this causal relationship can
be demonstrated as follows:
"The ELISA and WB test results should be interpreted with
caution when conducting serial tests of persons who have
come in contact with mycobacterium tuberculosis or other
mycobacterial species."
"The ELISA and WB HIV test cannot be sufficient for HIV
diagnosis in AIDS-endemic areas of Central Africa where the
prevalence of mycobacterial diseases is very high" (Kashala
et al., 1994, J. Infect. Dis. 169: 296-304).
The lack of a well-informed medical base has had
disastrous effects for South Africa and other developing
countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) based much of
its prognosis on so-called positive HIV test findings by the
director of the Epidemiological Institute in Johannesburg,
Dr. Williams, working with cases of tuberculosis infections
in Carletonville and other areas in South Africa.
"Every other South African youth will die of AIDS’, a WHO
study predicted," reported Der Spiegel. "Every hour another
70 South Africans are infected with the fatal virus. And
nowhere, believes epidemiologist Brian Williams, 55, is the
situation as bad as in the mining city of Carletonville.
Because gold mining offers the ideal breeding grounds for a
virus transmitted by sexual acts. Some 70,000 lonesome men
live in the barracks of the mining companies around the
small town and its black townships. This is the result of a
job-creation policy introduced during Apartheid times. Gold
lies several thousand meters below ground in Carletonville.
Not much more than a gram is gain from every ton of boulders
extracted. If the mining is to pay, itinerant workers must
be shipped to the mining sites. To this day they only see
their families every two to three months. The rest of the
year they live crammed together, 14 men to every 45 square
meters" (Der Spiegel, 3 July 2000).
Every experienced industrial physician knows that the
working and living conditions described are ideal breeding
grounds for tuberculosis and other microbial infections in
view of the low medical standards in African countries.
"The sudden increase in tuberculosis cases among gold
miners made epidemiologist Williams aware of Carletonville,"
Der Spiegel reported further. "Within 10 years the number of
tuberculosis patients almost quadrupled. TB incidence was
100 times greater than in Western industrialized countries.
The researcher knew that lung disease often comes after a
HIV infection. Tests confirmed his suspicion: HIV had
already infected every third miner. Another 37% of all adult
women were also infected. Completely unprepared, the
researcher concluded the extent to which the epidemic had
infected Khutsong’s young people. Among girls the HIV
infection rate rose with a leap at age 15; at age 20 almost
half of all young women were HIV-positive; at age 25 some
58% had been infected. Among men the epidemic rate reached
its apex at age 32, since 45% had the fatal virus in their
blood" (Der Spiegel, 3 July 2000).
These claims on the alleged epidemic rates in South
Africa have been diagnosed with so-called ELISA HIV
diagnostic tests that even in orthodox HIV/AIDS medicine
have recorded 90% false-positives from the outset. Moreover,
the test result depends on the blood’s viscosity, and this
is higher in tropical countries than in Western countries.
Testing preparation and testing technique in African
countries do not qualify as meaningful in Western HIV/AIDS
medical circles, so that people who test "HIV-positive" in
Africa regularly show "HIV-negative" test results in repeat
tests in Western countries. Despite this, these
"HIV-positive" test results are bought by the WHO, Western
HIV/AIDS physicians, and the international news media as
biological facts in order to exert political and economic
pressure on developing countries.
Yet from the viewpoint of scientifically based medicine
with a minimum claim to seriousness, it is crucial to know
for reasons of interpretation what these antibody reaction
tests in case of serial tests in Africa could tell us ( if
anything at all. That is:
if "HIV" tests react positively to antibodies in the
blood stream of test subjects that should only have been
formed against "HIV" after sexual transmission of "HIV" to
people with a healthy immune system.
or if the test subjects in "HIV" tests react positively
to antibodies that have formed in their bloodstream after
primarily latent or manifest infection with mycobacteria (M
tuberculosis, M leprosy, M avium, intracellular),.fungal
microbes (pneumocystis carinii, candida, cryptococcus,
coccidioides, histoplasma, etc.) or other microbes entirely
without a hypothetical infection with "HIV".
The answer to these crucial diagnostic questions can be
demonstrated by comparisons with assertions of HIV/AIDS
theory and the data from NO research as well as findings
actually validated scientifically (see illustration at the
end of this paper).
The research data show clearly that "HIV" tests react
positively to antibodies formed against mycobacteria and
fungus microbes. The assertion of HIV/AIDS medicine that
"positive HIV" test results in Africa should be given equal
diagnostic weight with a fatal "HIV" infection is not
scientifically viable. The assertion of Dr. Williams that
development of tuberculosis among Africans is the result of
a "HIV" infection is without medical foundation. The
biological truth is rather that a mycobacterial tuberculosis
infection leads to antibody formation that could react
positively to test protein in the "HIV" test. The
mycobacterial infection precedes a positive result in the
"HIV" test and not vice versa. If a positive result in the
"HIV" test actually indicates a still active mycobacterial
or fungal infection or another infection cannot be decided
on the basis of a "HIV" test. Specific diagnostic processes
must be used for such a statement. The antibody reaction in
the "HIV" test could involve existing antibodies stemming
from an earlier infection, for the test fails to show which
infection it has identified. To this extent, use of a "HIV"
test is senseless, misleading, and highly unethical.
Scientific and deliberately false assertions on lethal
"HIV" infections in South Africa make perfidious use of
pseudo-evidence of "positive HIV" tests to allot political
guilt to the South African government and to spread
irrational death fears out of vested political and economic
interest.
"Half of the young people will die of the epidemic
because the state has failed to act…" warned Der Spiegel.
"And the major death toll has just begun… A catastrophe of
unimaginable extent looms in countries such as Zimbabwe,
Zambia, Botswana, and South Africa. The land at the Cape was
the last to register the pandemic. At first the disease
seemed to affect white homosexuals above all. That was in
the late 1980s as the Boers still ruled. They regarded the
epidemic as divine punishment for sexual perversion.
Health-care policy measures were not taken. Then the radical
change occurred. A civil war raged in the country’s most
populated state, Kwazulu-Natal. Right-wing white militants
threatened a coup as the blacks celebrated the release of
their hero, Nelson Mandela, after 27 years of imprisonment.
The virus was forgotten. Ten years later it has inflicted
more than one tenth of the population. And almost all
victims are black. Yet the political leadership still reacts
helplessly to the epidemic. Indeed a health-care paper
written by the African National Congress (ANC) had conceded
while still in exile that nearly 60,000 freedom fighters
could be infected. Yet none of the returnees were tested"
(Der Spiegel, 3 July 2000).
Thus it aroused the impression that 60,000 freedom
fighters potentially infected with the lethal "HIV" had
dragged the "HIV" epidemic into the country upon their
return, and the ANC government had looked on idly at "the
death of half of the young people". Yet the same news
magazine had already declared Africa the "dying continent"
in 1991 (Der Spiegel, 17 June 1991). Since then, according
to data from the United Nations, the population in Africa
has increased by more than 100 million people. If the South
African government, under pressure from the international
epidemic speculators, were to adopt the medically and
scientifically untenable HIV/AIDS theory as national
doctrine and approve the mass poisoning with AZT and other
toxic AIDS medicines, this would in fact be "criminal
betrayal of responsibility to one’s own people" (Mbeki:
Letter to world leaders on AIDS in Africa, 3 April 2000).
The World AIDS Congress hops from continent to continent
every two years, invading another country like a plague of
locusts. The horror story of the homosexual scene as the
breeding grounds of the "death virus", transmittable to
anybody through sex, has lost its impact among the Western
public. For example, according to the official 1999 medical
statistics from Germany, a total of about 800 "HIV" people
stigmatized by "HIV" died of AIDS. All of these victims were
treated pharmatoxically. Given the non-event nature of the
mass epidemic predicted for years and effective
counterintelligence independent of the Western mass media,
some 11,000 stars and their supporting cast staged the
HIV/AIDS traveling circus during the millennium year. The
doctors, scientists, health-care officials, media reporters,
and epidemic activists had been lured to South Africa with
sponsoring funds from the drugs firms. There they would tell
the gruesome epidemic saga of the 60,000 demilitarized bush
warriors who had returned to their country untested for the
death germ they were prepared to sow among every other
youth. In return, shareholders wanted to see the turnover of
pharmatoxic products increased with "the brutality typical
of the sector" (Der Spiegel, 26 June 2000).
The turnover figures in developing countries would pay
off in view of stagnating sales in Western countries, even
at the dumping prices offers from the World Health
Organization and the Western pharmaceutical firms. Millions
of poisoned corpses should pay the price for the grotesque
epidemic. The opening strategy should focus on treatment of
"HIV"-positive pregnant women with so-called antiviral AIDS
medicines that inhibit maturing of antibody-producing
bone-marrow cells and in this way fake inhibition of "HIV"
in newborn babies. South Africa, quo vadis? Will the freedom
fighters of the ANC stop the virus hunt? Or will epidemic
Apartheid replace racial Apartheid?
"Not long ago in our own country," President Mbeki wrote
to world leaders concerning AIDS, "people were killed,
tortured, imprisoned, and inhibited from being quoted in
private and in public, because the established authority
believed that their views were dangerous and discredited. We
are now being asked to do precisely the same thing that the
racist apartheid tyrany we opposed did, because it is said,
there exist ascientific view that is supported by the
majority, against which dissent is prohibited." (Mbeki:
Letter to world leaders on AIDS in Africa, 3 April 2000).
Yet today the issue is no longer scientific dissent. It
is hard medical facts suppressed by vested interests. This
specifically concerns the "clean torture" of millions of
defenseless people who have been placed in deathly fear and
should be treated with demonstrably toxic pharmaceutical
substances. These form the diagnostic basis of antibody
reaction tests that demonstrably indicate anything else than
an infection with a fatal "HIV". And it specifically
concerns medical and social standards in developing
countries to improve the state of knowledge in the year 2000
in order to hinder the actual causes of AIDS (in the most
narrow and broadest senses) preventively and
therapeutically. This task of the century will also demand
use of all powers and resources in an intelligent manner and
without the obsession of HIV/AIDS medicine, which simplifies
and compounds the problem facing us in a terrifying fashion.
The speech of President Mbeki at the opening of the 13th
World AIDS Congress in Durban on 9 July 2000 was the right
signal for all independent scientists if the practice of
future health-care policy is not to be determined by
organized disinformation but by sober factual analysis.
"According to predictions presented in Durban by two
American officials, the Bureau of Statistics and the Agency
for International Development (AID), life expectancy in
Botswana is 29 years, in South Africa, Swaziland, and
Namibia 30 years ( the most pessimistic prediction on the
catastrophic development so far. On the other hand, Mbeki
said at the opening of the congress that poverty is the
greatest cause of death in the world and the most important
reason for disease and suffering. At least indirectly he
expressed doubt on the extent of the AIDS catastrophe in
South Africa. In Botswana every third person in the sexually
active population is infected, the highest percentage on
Earth. In South Africa 4.2 million people carry the virus (
every fifth adult ( more than in any other country in the
world. From 2003 on, according to new American studies, the
population in South Africa and Botswana will shrink. Some
70% of the 334 million HIV victims and almost all of the 11
million AIDS orphans of the world live in sub-Sahara Africa.
In Mbeki’s opening speech to the congress ( where more than
11,000 doctors, scientists, and AIDS activists met for more
than six days ( he even disappointed hopes of those from his
area that he would change his controversial position on the
cause and combating of AIDS. He said one could not simply
place all the blame on a virus but avoided comments on the
link between HIV and AIDS. In contrast to the overwhelming
opinion of the scientists, he obviously did not consider
this link crucial. In a letter to the South African
opposition leader Leon, Mbeki repeated his doubts on the
effectiveness of AIDS medicine, which unsettled scientists
all the more. The South African health minister, Dr. Manto
Tschambalala-Msimang, also expressed this doubt. She said on
the second day of the congress that the effect and possible
danger of the drug Nevirapine must be checked carefully
before it could be used in South Africa. The German
pharmaceutical enterprise Boehringer Ingelheim, manufacturer
of Nevirapine, that could greatly reduce transmission of
AIDS from mothers to their unborn children or after the
birth through mother milk, had offered to supply the drug to
South Africa and other developing countries without cost for
five years." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Weitere
Kontroversen auf dem AIDS-Gipfel in Durban 11 July 2000.