In de 90er jaren werden in het tv-programma
Catherine een tiental AIDS-patienten gepresenteerd die allen op medicatie zaten - -
uitgezonderd een er van die het zelf deed via voeding.
De medicatie-nemers die er vrijwel allemaal
erg aan toe waren werden uitvoerig aan het woord gelaten over wat ze deden en hoe lang ze
nog te leven hadden en mensen opriepen tot sponsoring van het onderzoek etc, terwijl de
goed uitziende zichzelf via voeding behandelende patiente ook even een minuut aan het
woord kwam over wat ze deed, en dat ze eigenlijk ongehinderd geheel aan het leven kon
deelnemen.
Enkele kijkers hebben schriftelijk
gereageerd op het programma en hun verontwaardiging over het bevooroordeeld interview
uitgesproken. Er is nooit enigerlei reactie of verbetering terug gekomen.
In de jaren 90 maakte Patrick Geryl al zijn
video "Aleen de Natuur Geneest" en demonstreerde daar in dat AIDS patienten meer
problemen hadden van de medicatie die de darmflora etc kapotmaakte en vitamines etc
vernietigde, dan van de AIDS zelf, en binnen enkele maanden genezen waren als ze op het
fruit-groente-dieet gingen, zelfs van de zwaarste vorm van kanker bij AIDS, het Syndroom
van Karposi.
Jammer genoeg heeft ook deze video nooit de
publieke aandacht gekregen, maar wie weet komt het er nog verandering in, want wat zien we
nu verschijnen ?
‘AIDS is bedrog en mensen sterven niet
aan AIDS, maar aan het zg. ‘geneesmiddel’ tegen AIDS..’ Toen ik dat las,
was het alsof ik getroffen werd door de bliksem. Zéker toen ik het hele artikel gelezen
had en bevestigingen onder ogen kreeg van vele artsen die dit meldden. Maar het lijkt
alsof de wereld het niet hoort.. Al luisterende doof is.. Hoe is dit mogelijk..?
What is HIV? What is AIDS? What is being
done to cure it? These questions sent Canadian filmmaker Brent Leung on a worldwide
journey, from the highest echelons of the medical research establishment to the slums of
South Africa, where death and disease are the order of the day. In this up-to-the-minute
documentary, he observes that although AIDS has been front-page news for over 28 years, it
is barely understood. Despite the great effort, time, and money spent, no cure is in
sight. Born in 1980 (on the cusp of the epidemic), Leung reveals a research establishment
in disarray, and health policy gone tragically off course. Gaining access to a remarkable
array of the most prominent and influential figures in the field — among them the
co-discoverers of HIV, presidential advisors, Nobel laureates, and the Executive Director
of UNAIDS, as well as survivors and activists — his restrained approach yields
surprising revelations and stunning contradictions. The HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten,
and this is the first film to present the uncensored POVs of virtually all the major
players — in their own settings, in their own words. It rocks the foundation upon
which all conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based. If, as South African health
advocate Pephsile Maseko remarks, this is the beginning of a wara war to reclaim our
health, then House of Numbers could well be the opening salvo in the battle to bring
sanity and clarity to an epidemic clearly gone awry.
Mensen met hiv hebben eerder
ouderdomsziekten
Oud worden met hiv. Wie had dat gedacht?
Terwijl vroeger hiv een doodsvonnis betekende, hebben tegenwoordig mensen met hiv een
vrijwel normale levensverwachting. Het aantal vijftigplussers met hiv zal de komende jaren
verdubbelen tot ruim 7.500. Oud worden met hiv verloopt echter niet probleemloos. Er zijn
aanwijzingen dat mensen met hiv vroegtijdig ouderdomsziekten krijgen, zoals hartinfarcten
en botontkalking.
A short video interview recorded by Kerry
Cassidy with Dr Leonard Horowitz - when he spoke with Dr Masaru Emoto at the Live H2O
event at Laguna Beach on 18 June 2009. For a little over half an hour Len talks with Kerry
fluently, and with passion, about viruses, health, water, sovereignty, alternative
healing, and his own Christian Faith.
AIDS is eenvoudig te genezen, maar
dat levert niets op!
Dankzij Climate-gate is duidelijk dat het heel goed mogelijk is dat tien tot twintig
onderzoekers een heel vakgebied in gijzeling kunnen nemen. Op basis van gefraudeerde
modellen, door het peer-reviewen en aanbevelen van elkaars werk en door het agressief
weren en in diskrediet brengen van alternatieve visies kan zo’n club de hele
wetenschappelijke wereld op het verkeerde been zetten.
40% hiv-geïnfecteerden onwetend
over eigen besmetting
Het aantal volwassenen met hiv in Nederland is per januari 2008 geschat op ongeveer
21.500. Dit is een toename van ongeveer 10% ten opzichte van 2005. Juni 2009 waren echter
slechts 12.258 volwassenen met hiv onder behandeling bij een van de hiv-behandelcentra in
Nederland.
Discussie rol religie in de strijd
tegen HIV en Aids werkt contraproductief
Het debat over religie en HIV en Aids wordt
versmald tot een gevecht over het gebruik van en verbod op condooms. Contraproductief,
vindt Brenda Bartelink, godsdienstwetenschapper aan Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
"Deze discussie leidt tot verschillende misvattingen over de cruciale en positieve
rol van religie in de strijd tegen HIV en Aids. Het is heel belangrijk om ook te zien wat
er wèl gebeurt."
Ontdekker van HIV: ?Een gezond
lichaam kan zelf een HIV-infectie genezen?
Wat zeiden wij altijd? Afrika genezen van
AIDS doe je door ze hoogwaardige voeding, schoon water en goede hygiëne te geven maar dat
zal nooit gebeuren omdat big-pharma daar niets aan verdient. Zoveel mogelijk mensen moeten
zo lang mogelijk aan de medicatie, daar zit de winst. Onzin? Zet dan nu je aluminiumhoedje
maar op.
Een recent onderzoek waarin wetenschappers
claimen dat zij een aidsvaccin hebben ontdekt, wordt door andere onderzoekers als een stuk
minder succesvol bestempeld.
Einstein Study: New Test for HIV
Microbicide Safety
AIDS Dissident: Charles Geshekter,
PhD
Volgens C. Geshekter is AIDS een syndroom.
Een samenraapsel van symptomen die ook voorkomen in tuberculose, mazelen, rivierblindheid,
lepra, malaria en ziektes die voorkomen door ondervoeding. Echter, tuberculose, malaria,
zwangerschap of voorgaande zwangerschap, geven een vals positieve test voor AIDS.
Bovendien wordt niet het symptoom behandelt maar er wordt direct een AIDS test afgenomen.
Dus een zeer hoge kans voor misdiagnose. Het zal u dan ook niet verbazen dat tuberculose,
lepra, malaria, enz. vrijwel niet meer voorkomen. AIDS is de nieuwe ziekte.
Researchers use chemical from
medicinal plants to fight HIV
ike other kinds of cells, immune cells lose the ability to divide as they age because a
part of their chromosomes known as a telomere becomes progressively shorter with cell
division. As a result, the cell changes in many ways, and its disease fighting ability is
compromised. But a new UCLA AIDS Institute study has found that a chemical from the
Astragalus root, frequently used in Chinese herbal therapy, can prevent or slow this
progressive telomere shortening, which could make it a key weapon in the fight against
HIV. "This has the potential to be either added to or possibly even replace the HAART
(highly active antiretroviral therapy), which is not tolerated well by some patients and
is also costly," said study co-author Rita Effros, a professor of pathology and
laboratory medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and member of the UCLA
AIDS Institute.
Protein identified that turns off
HIV-fighting T cells
In HIV-infected patients the body's immune system is unable to fight off the virus. A new
study to be published online on November 10th in the Journal of Experimental Medicine
shows that T cells in HIV-infected individuals express a protein called TIM-3, which
inactivates their virus killing capacity. Blocking this protein, the study suggests, might
one day help patients to eliminate HIV as well as other chronic infections. Large numbers
of virus-fighting T cells can be found in the blood of most chronically infected HIV
patients. However these cells eventually become exhausted and cannot function. To identify
the cause of this exhaustion, a team of researchers at the University of Toronto, lead by
Mario Ostrowski, compared blood from healthy individuals and HIV patients. In the
patients, TIM-3 was found on a large number of HIV-specific T cells, and the number of
TIM-3-positive cells increased with the severity of infection. Under normal circumstances,
exposing T cells to bits of virus causes the cells to replicate and produce virus-killing
chemicals. Cells expressing TIM-3, however, were unreactive and TIM-3 was to blame;
disrupting its signals restored the cells' virus-fighting functions. TIM-3 normally gets
expressed on T cells after they carry out their normal function, perhaps as a way to turn
the cells off and thus prevent excessive inflammation. But during HIV infection,
persistent TIM-3 expression may help the virus avoid T cell attack.
The dam of the “business with
the AIDS epidemic” is breaking
The new findings from two academic institutions in Hamburg and Heidelberg, Germany,
published in May 2009 in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
USA” - that green tea extracts can inhibit the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -
may come as a surprise to many people, but not to us. The researchers from these
institutions published scientific proof that EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) – a
natural component of green tea – can be used as an effective antiretroviral agent to
reduce sexual transmission of HIV. The study has shown that EGCG can neutralize a small
protein (peptide) present in human semen that promotes HIV infection. This peptide can
boost infectivity of HIV by forming a network of fibrils that can trap the virus and
attach it to the surface of target cells, thereby promoting viral infection of these
cells.
Why some primates, but not humans,
can live with immunodeficiency viruses and not progress to AIDS
Some primate species, including sooty mangabeys, harbor simian immunodeficiency viruses
but remain healthy, unlike rhesus macaques. The immune systems of sooty mangabeys become
significantly less activated during SIV infection than the immune systems of macaques. The
less vigorous immune response to SIV in mangabeys may be an effective evolutionary
response to a virus that resists clearance by antiviral immune responses. New treatment
strategies that would steer the immune system away from over-activation could protect
against the unintended damage caused by host immune responses.
HIV-1's 'hijacking mechanism'
pinpointed by McGill/JGH researchers
Researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical
Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital – along with colleagues at the
University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia – may have found a
chink in the armour of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the microorganism
which causes AIDS. They have pinpointed the key cellular machinery co-opted by HIV-1 to
hijack the human cell for its own benefit. Their study was published in May in the Journal
of Biological Chemistry. Once a cell is infected with HIV-1, activation of the virus's
gene generates a large HIV-1 RNA molecule known as the RNA genome. This is then
transported from the cell nucleus to the inner surface of the plasma membrane. The RNA
genome can produce both structural proteins and enzymes, but once it arrives at the plasma
membrane it can also assemble into new copies of the virus that actually bud out of the
cell. Dr. Andrew J. Mouland and his colleagues have discovered how the RNA genome gets
transported – or trafficked – from the nucleus to the plasma membrane.
"There is a highway inside the human cell," explained Dr. Mouland, Associate
Professor at McGill's Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology and head of
the HIV-1 RNA Trafficking Laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute. "When you drive
your car to Toronto you're 'trafficking' the items in your trunk. Similarly, what we have
shown is that HIV-1 commandeers the host cell's endosomal machinery to traffic its
structural proteins and RNA genome. Imagine that it's essentially jumping on board for the
ride and directing it to where it needs to go. This trafficking can occur very fast in
cells; so this is how these key components of HIV-1 so efficiently get to the plasma
membrane, where the virus can begin to assemble.
Fine-tuning lasers to destroy
blood-borne diseases like AIDS
Physicists in Arizona State University have designed a revolutionary laser technique which
can destroy viruses and bacteria such as AIDS without damaging human cells and may also
help reduce the spread of hospital infections such as MRSA.
aids
Herpes drug inhibits HIV in patients infected with both viruses
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), McGill University and other
institutions have discovered how a simple antiviral drug developed decades ago suppresses
HIV in patients who are also infected with herpes. Their study was published in the Sept.
11 issue of the journal Cell Host and Microbe. An NIH research team led by Dr. Leonid
Margolis made the initial discovery, while Dr. Matthias Gotte, Associate Professor in
Biochemical Virology at McGill’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology, along
with colleagues at Emory University, helped explain the precise molecular mechanisms.
According to Dr. Gotte, HIV/herpes co-infection rates are very high and carry significant
health burdens for those patients who are already coping with HIV.
aids
An AIDS-related virus reveals more ways to cause cancer, Penn researchers find
Researchers have shed new light on how Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpes Virus subverts
normal cell machinery to cause cancer. A KSHV protein called latency-associated nuclear
antigen (LANA) helps the virus hide out from the immune system in infected cells. When
LANA takes the place of other proteins that control cell growth, it can cause uncontrolled
cell replication.
New evidence reported in the August issue of Cell Stem Cell, a publication of Cell Press,
offers a novel perspective on how the HIV/AIDS virus leads to learning and memory
deficits, a condition known as HIV-associated dementia. A protein found on the surface of
the virus not only kills some mature brain cells, as earlier studies had shown, but it
also prevents the birth of new brain cells by crippling "adult neural
progenitors," the new study finds.
Study shows link between alcohol
consumption and HIV disease progression
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have found a link between alcohol
consumption and HIV disease progression in HIV-infected persons. The study appears online
in the August issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
HIV Persists in the Gut Despite
Long-Term HIV Therapy
Even with effective anti-HIV therapies, doctors still have not been able to eradicate the
virus from infected individuals who are receiving such treatments, largely because of the
persistence of HIV in hideouts known as viral reservoirs. One important reservoir is the
gut, where HIV causes much of its damage due to the large number of HIV target cells that
reside there. These cells, known as CD4+ T cells, are largely contained in lymph nodes and
patches of lymphocytes that collectively are called gut-associated lymphoid tissue, or
GALT.
NIAID Scientists Identify New
Cellular Receptor for HIV
A cellular protein that helps guide immune cells to the gut has been newly identified as a
target of HIV when the virus begins its assault on the body's immune system, according to
researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part
of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Anti-parasite drug may provide new
way to attack HIV
A drug already used to treat parasitic infections, and once looked at for cancer, also
attacks the human immunodeficiency virus in a new and powerful way, according to research
published today online in the open access journal Retrovirology.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
initiates project to eliminate intestinal worms in Ethiopia
A professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is
beginning an intensive program in Ethiopia this August to eradicate intestinal worms which
affect as much as 50 percent of the population in Africa. BGU Professor Zvi Bentwich, who
heads the Center for Tropical Diseases and AIDS in Israel, believes there is a possible
connection between the AIDS epidemic in Africa and intestinal worms.
Novel method to create personalized
immunotherapy treatments
Argos Therapeutics and Université de Montréal today announced the presentation of new
information on Argos'process for developing dendritic cell-based immunotherapies for HIV.
Results from the study demonstrate that loading monocyte-derived dendritic cells with
combinations of HIV antigen RNA stimulates the expansion of HIV-specific T cells, which
attack and kill HIV-infected cells. Argos' immunotherapies are generated by the Company's
Arcelis technology.
Increasing the production of naturally occurring proteins that contain selenium in human
blood cells slows down multiplication of the AIDS virus, according to biochemists.
"We have found that increasing the expression of proteins that contain selenium
negatively affects the replication of HIV," said K. Sandeep Prabhu, Penn State
assistant professor of immunology and molecular toxicology. "Our results suggest a
reduction in viral replication by at least 10-fold." Selenium is a micronutrient that
the body needs to maintain normal metabolism. Unlike other nutrients, which bind to
certain proteins and modulate the protein's activity, selenium gets incorporated into
proteins in the form of an amino acid called selenocysteine. These proteins –
selenoproteins – are especially important in reducing the stress caused by an
infection, thereby slowing its spread.
T-cell 'nanotubes' may explain how
HIV virus conquers human immune system
String-like connections found between T-cells could be important to how HIV spreads
between cells in the human immune system, according to new research published online today
(13 January 2008) in Nature Cell Biology. The newly-discovered strands, named 'membrane
nanotubes' by scientists, could help to explain how the HIV virus infects human immune
cells so quickly and effectively.
