HIV Doesn't Cause AIDS?

HIV Might Be Harmless?

The internet is a source of limitless information and ideas.

More often, now, I am discovering ideas and opinions, expressed by people, that make me stop and consider what I believe to be reality.

I came across some YouTube videos, and from there some articles, which suggest HIV does not in fact cause AIDS.

The suggestion is that what we, as a society, have been told about this awful disease is wrong.

The World Health Organisation states that HIV does lead to AIDS. This is what Wikipedia has to say about HIV and AIDS. Here is what the Center of Disease Control and Prevention has to say.

The above links can give you more accurate and succinct information than I could. They tell the tale of what we have all been told about Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

However, there are those who believe differently.

Those people, who include very well educated individuals, and even a Nobel Prize winner, believe HIV and AIDS are two different entities with no cause and effect relationship. The idea is that those who develop AIDS would develop AIDS, with or without the presence of HIV. HIV, they say, is a virus, no more or less than any other virus.

The idea, if I understand it correctly, is that a person's lifestyle - poor nutrition, excessive use of illicit drugs, poor hygiene and regular unsafe sex with many different partners can lead to a state of poor health which then declines into what we know as AIDS, where the immune system fails. This same lifestyle can see a person being infected by HIV, as well as any number of sexually transmitted diseases. Because there is a correlation between HIV and AIDS, it does not necessarily mean that one causes the other.

If someone develops any number of diseases, for example Tuberculosis, and does not have HIV, it is treated within the context of that disease. But if the person also has HIV, it is seen as AIDS.

In any other case, if you have anti-bodies to a disease you are said to have immunity to it. But if you develop anti-bodies to HIV, you are said to be infected and it is assumed disease progression will follow.

This is where it gets tricky. What these individuals also suggest, is that there is such a large number of people who were diagnosed with HIV and then going on to develop AIDS, not because of HIV but because of the toxic drugs they are prescribed when diagnosed with HIV.

So HIV doesn't cause AIDS, but the treatment does...?

There are so many layers to this theory, I fear I am not being clear enough, so I have included links and videos to better articulate this idea.

But what if it is true? What if we have all been misled, and thousands upon thousands of people have died needlessly, waiting for a cure...when the cure might be simply not to take the traditional treatments.

I really don't know what to think. There are a lot of studies showing HIV and AIDS to both be detrimental and that seem to detail a real link between the two. But is it possible that these studies have been carried out with assumptions or poorly understood factors being involved? Or does the fact there is more money to be made from a treatment rather than a solution have something to do with this possible misunderstanding?

Have a look at the videos, read the articles and see what you think.








Virusmyth

Wikipedia

Christine Maggiore


I don't have any answers, but I do think it is good to think for ourselves and not simply believe what we are spoon fed by the media or Pharma companies.

Whatever you find yourself believing, don't take chances. Use condoms and be sensible.

It's World AIDS Day tomorrow. Please support and think of those people who are living with HIV and AIDS, their friends and their families.

It would be nice to think HIV was benign, that it was all a huge mistake, and that so many people had simply been misdiagnosed. Nice, because then people wouldn't have to worry about dying, or losing a loved one, to a disease with no cure.