AN AIDS UPDATE 2005
By Lawrence Wilson, MD
© April 2005, LD Wilson Consultants, Inc.
Overall,
recent
news about AIDS is very encouraging.
The death rate from AIDS is declining and it is no longer considered an
epidemic disease in some nations.
A
recent National Research Council Report found that the AIDS epidemic has not
spread to the general population at the rate predicted by many experts. HIV infection and AIDS is still largely
confined to male homosexuals, intravenous drug users and malnourished, urban
poor people. Some people are
clearly more susceptible to AIDS than others.
There
are reports of new strains of AIDS, which do not involve the HIV virus. This would make them very difficult to
detect and to screen out of blood products. However, natural methods work very well with AIDS, including
nutritional balancing programs.
Prevention. Health authorities continue to say that
condoms permit safe sex. However,
condoms have a failure rate of about 14%.
To say a condom is safe is about like saying that a revolver with only
one bullet in it is safe to play around with and point at your friends.
PROSTITUTES
AND AIDS
Striking
new information concerns female prostitutes in Western nations. It was thought that they would become
the vectors by which AIDS would spread to the heterosexual population. A single prostitute could infect dozens
of men, who would then infect women.
However,
the rate of infection for prostitutes is only between 5% and 10% in New York
and Los Angeles. Also, there are
three striking facts about the infected prostitutes. With few exceptions, they are intravenous drug users. Among non-drug using prostitutes, HIV
infection is almost unknown.
Secondly,
in literally only a handful of cases have prostitutes apparently infected their
clients. Only about 3% of AIDS
cases are attributable to prostitutes.
In most of these cases, the client and the prostitute were both drug
users.
Finally,
cases of tertiary transmission are very rare. This is the case where a healthy man is infected by a
prostitute, and then infects his wife or girlfriend. Reports do indicate that women infected in this manner often
fare worse than their husbands, although the exact reason for this is not clear.
HEMOPHILIACS AND AIDS
Another
interesting finding is that hemophiliacs infected with HIV do not develop AIDS
as often as homosexuals. It is
estimated that about 90% or 15,000 hemophiliacs were infected with HIV between
1981 and 1984.
One
would expect to see about half of these people develop AIDS by now, because
that is the proportion of homosexuals who develop AIDS within 10 years. However, only about 1500 cases have
been reported. Also, younger and
healthier hemophiliacs develop AIDS at a fifth of the rate of older and less
healthy hemophiliacs.
Again,
it appears that a strong immune system plays a role in the development of
disease. Homosexuals as a group
take more antibiotics and have more infections than hemophiliacs. This may weaken the homosexuals' immune
system.
RECOVERY FROM AIDS
There
have also been several reports of recovery from AIDS. Well-documented cases have appeared in several health
magazines. Not only did symptoms
improve, but blood tests actually changed from HIV-positive to HIV-negative and
remained negative on subsequent tests.
One such report was in the September/October, 1991 issue of New Age
Magazine.
These
reports fly in the face of the myth that AIDS is a progressive, incurable
disease. They reinforce the
concept that AIDS is indeed influenced by the status of a person's immune
system or other factors.
The
medical establishment so far has largely ignored these cases. The cases of recovery that I have seen
or read about all involved avoiding AZT and other standard drug treatment for
AIDS. Instead, the person used
natural methods including herbs, vitamins, ozone therapy and mental/spiritual
healing methods to strengthen the body.
CONCLUSIONS
The
conclusion one must draw from all of the above information is that HIV
infection is not like other sexually transmitted diseases. It does not strike randomly. Those who are most susceptible appear
to have specific risk factors that facilitate transmission of the disease
and/or cause suppression of the immune system.
These
factors appear to include: 1) anal intercourse, 2) blood transfusions, 3)
regular use of recreational and addictive drugs, 4) repeated use of
antibiotics, antivirals, steroid hormones or other immune-suppressive drugs, 5)
multiple infections, 6) malnutrition, and 7) other immune system
disorders. As a result, the
epidemic is not spreading evenly throughout the general population as was
predicted.
These
findings mean that any individual can do a lot to minimize the risk of HIV and
AIDS. Indeed, studies in
Switzerland and Italy demonstrate that eliminating drug use and malnutrition
among infected drug users slows the rate of progression to AIDS threefold
compared with those who continue malnourished and on drugs.
Drug
use (including AZT, which can suppress the immune system) and malnutrition are
powerful factors that suppress the immune system.
These
reports also indicate that, as a society, eliminating risk factors is
potentially an excellent way to control AIDS. It is probably far better than giving out free condoms,
legally protecting homosexual behavior, and betting on an elusive drug
cure. For more information one can
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