An Aids Update -1994

AN AIDS UPDATE 2005

By Lawrence Wilson, MD

            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.
            The implications of this are that a lowered immune system, due to drug use or malnutrition, seems to play a very important role in AIDS transmission.

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 subscribe to Rethinking AIDS, 2040 Polk Street, Suite 321, San Francisco, Ca. 94109.

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