HIV AIDS Facts: House of Numbers

By Alison and Jonathan Andrews

HIV AIDS Facts: Could it be possible that HIV AIDS as we know it doesn't actually exist?

What do we really know about AIDS? Most of us can throw around some HIV AIDS facts as if it was gospel, but if asked to say what it actually IS, most of us are clueless, and shockingly enough this includes the scientists, doctors and experts at the centre of the epidemic.

HIV AIDS has rallied the world to a common purpose: ending this dreaded disease. In just a few decades the HIV epidemic has looped the globe with an estimated 42 million people infected.

10 people reportedly die from the disease every second. There is no cure, and to slow the disease means a lifetime of treatment.

Or does it?

We all know the disease, we all know the HIV AIDS facts, how it is transmitted, what to watch out for (blood, semen), we all know to use condoms and steer very clear of unprotected sexual encounters, we're all pretty educated about HIV AIDS Facts. Aren't we?

House of Numbers challenges every idea you ever had about HIV AIDS Facts and is probably one of the most shocking documentaries out there (along with Healing Cancer From Inside Out, don't miss that one!).

Directed and produced by Brent W. Leung, House of Numbers investigates HIV AIDS Facts and challenges every perception we ever had about this infamous disease.

Personally, I thought we knew all there was to know about HIV AIDS Facts, but the Film quickly establishes that none of us know enough, and the little we do know is often far from true.

HIV AIDS Facts

When AIDS originally came about, it was thought to be restricted to gay men only, and was initially called G.R.I.D. which stood for Gay Related Immune Deficiency.

It baffled the scientists no end. The doctor who identified the problem was treating a large amount of gay men who were becoming increasingly ill. The telltale signs was a Pneumocystis Pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma; these diseases indicated something never seen before.

These cases were reported to the Centre for Disease Control.

At that time the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) was under threat of closure. The killers of old - polio, smallpox and the like were no longer a threat.

Due to the economic limitations then present in the United States, the minimum the CDC could expect was a large reduction in funding.

They needed something to scare the public and the government into realising their importance and thus continue their funding. The careers of those employed with the CDC depended on it.

So, the CDC set itself up to discover the worst possible explanation for G.R.I.D.

“The CDC was looking for something like that... (HIV) they were hoping for a new plague because polio was over and their budget was getting decreased.” Kary B. Mullis, (PhD. Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1993).

When it was decided that the gay men concerned were likely dying from a virus, and that this was not restricted to gay men only, it became one of the greatest news spectacles ever seen. Everyone was in fear of it. What was this malicious disease that could possibly infect anyone at any time?

News media put the fear of god into everyone they could; politicians took notice and suddenly there was a lot of public money available to anyone who wanted to study this virus.

But what virus?

Dr. Bob Gallo said on television that the virus he discovered (actually discovered by Dr Luc Montagnier, Dr Gallo just saw his shot and grabbed the credit), being HIV, caused AIDS.

The truth of the situation was that the U.S government wanted to do something about the matter, and quickly. Whatever research was done by Bob Gallo was not peer reviewed by any other scientists before it was publically announced that the new HIV virus caused AIDS.

If you are unaware of the importance of this then I will explain: any research or experimentation that attempts to advance its particular discipline must first be subjected to peer review before it is published as fact or reasonable theory. This is to avoid bogus or unlikely findings making their way into our understanding.

The peer review ensures the correct methods and procedures are used. Impartial Academics in that field must be able to recreate and confirm your research. As you will see during this article, the results of non-peer reviewed material being accepted as fact can have disastrous consequences.

The Frenchman Dr. Luc Montagnier (MD, 2008 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of HIV) himself states that he was not at that time entirely sure that HIV caused AIDS.

HIV AIDS Facts – What is HIV AIDS?

The experts offer different and sometimes contradictory explanations and definitions of HIV/AIDS. There is significant debate amongst scientists.

House of Numbers illustrates this by asking the experts this question: “What is the difference between HIV and AIDS?”

“HIV is a virus; AIDS is the syndrome that results from the virus. You don’t get infected with AIDS, you get infected with HIV and that causes AIDS” John P. Moore, PhD. Professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College.

“The biggest problem with the HIV theory of AIDS is HIV.” Val Turner, MD.

“We do not say that HIV does not exist, we say that the available data does not prove the existence of HIV.” Eleni Papadopulos, (MSc Biophysicist, department of medical physics, Royal Perth Hospital.)

How can it be that after three decades of publicity and research, there can still be debate on this, especially debate about such a core issue as to whether HIV even exists?

The confusion does not end there. Even if we accept the HIV theory of AIDS, meaning that the HIV virus is the cause of AIDS, we are presented with another problem. There are quite a few definitions of AIDS; it turns out that from country to country there are quite literally different definitions.

HIV AIDS Facts: You can be classified as having HIV in the United States and then be declared HIV free in Canada, all due to the varying definitions!

The definition of AIDS changes all the time! It has been called a syndrome, a chronic disease, a T-cell count below 200, a political definition and a categorization.

If your T-Cell count goes below 200 then you have AIDS. If it goes back up then technically (medically) you don’t have AIDS anymore... but politically you do.

Something is not right here.

HIV AIDS Facts: Broadening the definition of HIV AIDS

The definition of AIDS has continuously broadened over time and each change allows more people to be officially diagnosed with AIDS. It would seem as if some interested parties want more people to be under the HIV/AIDS umbrella. The last major change occurred in 1993, which resulted in people who were not even sick being diagnosed with infection.

Beforehand, those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS were at least physically ill. Now you can be as healthy as a horse and be told you are infected and that this infection will stay dormant for an indeterminate amount of time and then will likely kill you with a common illness that has been killing people for as long as we can remember.

This was possible due to the new definition of the disease being defined as a T-cell count below 200.

HIV AIDS Facts: A Political Definition

Dr. Harry Haverkos was the CDC’s epidemiologist tasked with defining AIDS in 1982. He suggests that the definition of AIDS has been changed and altered less on a scientific basis and more on a political basis. Factors such as funding, capitalism, sponsorship and reimbursement come into play in all facets of modern life and this is no exception.

As Mike Anderson states in his Expose, Healing Cancer from Inside Out., “when something doesn’t make sense, follow the money”.

We as citizens have demanded antiretrovirals and disability aid for those infected with HIV/AIDS. Billions of Dollars are spent yearly fighting the problem. Money is flowing towards AIDS causes and research as if they were cash magnetized...

House of Numbers consults the World Health Organisations website in order to try to clear up some confusion. However, what they found was 12 different definitions of HIV AIDS worldwide!

Dr. James Chin (MD, MPH Chief of Global HIV Surveillance WHO 1987-92) accounts for this by claiming that some countries feel more sophisticated than others, that there are a flood of HIV experts all baying for their own version to be upheld. This all comes together to form 12 different definitions of HIV AIDS worldwide.

This does not seem logical. Why is HIV AIDS the only disease/syndrome/virus or whatever it is, that can be something entirely different from one country to the next?

To find out more HIV AIDS facts, Brent W. Leung and the House of Numbers crew set off to the so-called HIV hotspot of the world.

HIV AIDS Facts: HIV AIDS in South Africa

It is estimated that 20% of South Africans have HIV/AIDS, the majority of victims coming primarily from poor black communities. These are some of the highest rates in the world.

House of Numbers visit the country to assess the disease on the front lines. Here they speak to the HIV positive Metro FM Radio personality and motivational speaker, Criselda Kananda. She is not happy with the present dialogue, presentation and education surrounding HIV AIDS Facts, which is “HIV/AIDS is a sex virus and you must use a condom or you die...”

Criselda considers this a sick and sad message that has conditioned Africans into an AIDS paranoid generation with AIDS being labelled the cause of so much death.

But people were dying in Africa long before AIDS was discovered; the only thing that changed was the explanation.

HIV Aids Facts: The Bangui Criteria

In 1985 the first AIDS meeting in Africa was held in the city of Bangui located in Central African Republic.

The few people that had experience with AIDS in Africa were there. According to Peter Piot, (MD, PhD. Executive Director UNAIDS 1995-2008) one of the main problems they discussed was how to effectively diagnose HIV/AIDS patients in the absence of advanced medical equipment and laboratory support.

This conference resulted in the Bangui criteria, which stipulated how doctors could diagnose AIDS in such conditions. They needed a simple way in which a medical practitioner could look at a patient's symptoms and say that it is highly likely that this person has AIDS.

HIV AIDS Facts: The criteria for Diagnosis

The criteria for an HIV AIDS diagnosis included major weight loss, prolonged fever, persistent cough and chronic diarrhoea.

Each symptom was given a numerical value according to its perceived importance. The patient could be diagnosed with AIDS if they scored twelve points or more. So for instance weight loss counted 4 points, diarrhoea and fever counted 3 points each and neurological signs counted 2 points.

If you had these four symptoms or signs you would be diagnosed with AIDS! There are about 13 different symptoms making it quite easy to make up a combination in order to get the twelve points necessary for an AIDS diagnosis, and thus be able to pass the buck into AIDS territory.

Thus, they could now diagnose AIDS all over the place. Any person in an African hospital could be potentially diagnosed with AIDS without any conclusive testing at all, and diagnose they did.

“Whole nations have been led to believe that in some instances they have got large percentages of their population infected and doomed because of this supposedly sexually transmitted virus, it is such a tragedy.” Neville Hodgkinson (Medical and Science correspondent, The Sunday Times, London 1985-94).

Walking in the poor South African communities’ House of Numbers speaks to the people on the streets. It is evident that they are convinced that many of them are sick with HIV/AIDS. Upon being asked what this is, they reply passionately “We do not know, we do not know.”

HIV AIDS Facts: Stigma Associated with HIV AIDS

An aids diagnosis is for life. Once you are told you have the virus your whole world changes. You are treated differently. People are scared of you. No one wants to even touch you, the fear is so great.

HIV AIDS Facts: HIV AIDS in Africa

There are uneducated and poverty stricken people all over Africa. Now along comes the white doctor and tells you that that there is now an invisible disease infecting your people and when it appears it will be in the form of the diseases you have always known.

So if you have lost weight or are coughing,people will say you have the disease. With symptoms as simple as weight loss and chronic diarrhoea, who in developing countries (which are infamous for cholera, malnutrition, tuberculosis and malaria etc) can say that they have never had AIDS symptoms?

Tuberculosis patients in particular are easy to misdiagnose as AIDS victims. The symptoms are similar to those stated in the Bangui criteria as being indicative of AIDS.

“In the era before AIDS we could admit we do not know the diagnosis and could hypothesise, but nowadays what doctors do is, well if we don’t know what it is then it must be AIDS.” Christian Fiala, (M.D, PhD)

“Patients had the conditions that now define AIDS long before the advent of AIDS.” L.H.Maboza. (M.D. MEDUNSA, South Africa)

HIV AIDS Facts: HIV AIDS Testing

No matter what we understand about HIV AIDS Facts, it is obvious that we must first look at HIV and its fundamentals such as testing, transmission and discovery.

The HIV test is the turning point in so many people’s lives. House of Numbers director and narrator Brent W. Leung goes for his first ever HIV test in Johannesburg South Africa. He immediately notices that the testing centre is not in a medical facility, he is going to be tested in a tent, located in a bustling inner city train station. South Africa has testing stations everywhere...

HIV AIDS Facts: HIV Rapid Test

Leung is being tested using the rapid test. This operates by detecting antibodies to HIV.

In the rapid test insert printed by the manufacturer it states: “the specificity of the Reveal Rapid HIV Antibody Test for blood specimens in low-risk populations has not been evaluated.”

What this means is that they do not know how well this test works for people they do not want it to work for. Put differently, it is totally inconclusive.

Hence the questionnaire that accompanies the test. The package insert for the Rapid Test states that the answers to the questionnaire must be used in conjunction with the test.

HIV AIDS Facts: The answers you give to the questionnaire will decide whether you have HIV as much as the test itself!

Let’s go back to Brent W. Leung at this makeshift clinic inside a train station.

He is asked by the assistant conducting the test whether he has had sex before and with how many partners, if he has ever had a possible exchange of bodily fluids with another person etc...

So if you say you have had unprotected sex before or have taken drugs then this will affect your result. The test itself states that any positive result should be followed up with additional testing.

HIV Aids Facts: A positive test result is merely indicative of your HIV status.

After this pre-test questionnaire Brent W. Leung is taken to the actual testing tent. The nurse explains the procedure; the test comprises two separate kits from different manufactures.

Both are used to test your blood. If they both confirm the same result then that result is assessed in conjunction with your questionnaire. If the kits have conflicting results, a third kit is used from another manufacturer. The result of this third kit will be taken as your status.

Absurd? Absolutely!

How is the last test to be trusted if the first two could not be sure? And why did they not use the last test in the first place if it is the most accurate of the three? What if both the first two tests are inaccurate together and they both confirm you have HIV when you don’t!?

The nurse explains that she is aware that the testing can be inaccurate, that there have been cases where people have tested positive in one station and negative in another.

These individuals cannot be sure if they have HIV or not! The nurses in such areas have access to the rapid testing kits only. No other laboratory support.

Dr. Claudia Kucherer (Molecular biologist, Robert Koch Institute, Germany) explains that the rapid test is not used in Germany. Industry guidelines in industrialised countries do not recommend the test for “scientific reasons”. It is worth noting that in poor nations the rapid test is the ONLY test used.

HIV Aids Facts: We're starting to understand why this film is called 'House of Numbers'.

At this point in the film it becomes apparent that the numbers of HIV infected in the poverty stricken areas of the world, where it is thought to be rampant, may be massively overrated.

James Chin (MD, MPH Chief of Global HIV Surveillance, WHO, 1987-92) confirms this. He states that if we knew how the HIV numbers were cooked we would be horrified.

In the developed countries the testing procedure is always twofold, the screening test is not conclusive so must be followed by a confirmatory test. This is to get the expected cases quickly and cheaply identified, and then they will do more intensive and costly procedures to confirm the initial result.

HIV Aids Facts: There simply are no confirmatory tests in the developing countries.

HIV Aids Facts: The Western Blot Test

One such confirmatory test is the Western Blot test.

Kim Bannon tested positive for HIV in 1992 using the Western Blot test (17 years before the film was made and she is still just fine...).

Her doctor informed her she was HIV positive, but when she got her results on paper, she saw that the result did not conclusively indicate any findings. It simply indicated possible infection with the virus.

She then got her hands on the actual results as well as the package insert for the test itself, which clearly stated: “positive blot results used from any specimen should be followed up with additional testing.”

HIV Aids Facts: The problem is that this WAS the confirmatory test!

There are simply no tests that can 100% verify your infection with HIV! They all only indicate possible infection!

Unbelievable? Believe it.

Some scientists say these are useful tests that “if used properly, have a very low margin of error”.

Other scientists say that the Western Blot test is not a particularly useful test at all.

The conflicting statements are profound. Each of the scientists are very highly educated and hold high positions in their careers and countries. Yet, they all have very different views on when you use which test.

They also have different views on what combination of tests can confirm an HIV diagnosis. There is no international standard, never mind agreement, on what procedures a person should follow to actually confirm an HIV diagnosis!

HIV Aids Facts: The point made is that an HIV diagnosis is some sketchy science and a lot of guesswork!

It depends on your doctor whether or not he thinks you have HIV. It is literally IMPOSSIBLE to tell with science alone. Let that sink in for a second...

The Brand of the test you are using also matters significantly. The different manufacturers (and countries) have diverse criteria as to what is a positive case of HIV infection.

Thus you are once again in the hands of fate with whatever testing kit they use and in whichever country you’re getting tested in!

It sounds too absurd to be real, though this is confirmed by both Dr. Harold Jaffe (Director, CDC AIDS Division 1992-95, Head of public Health Dept. Oxford 2004-present) and Dr. Claudia Kucherer (Molecular biologist, Robert Koch Institute, Germany).

This nonsense is now the day to day procedure for telling people if they have HIV or not. It doesn't make sense that a person can be diagnosed with HIV in one country and not in another.

HIV Aids Facts: Social Responsibility and Mandatory Testing

Christine Maggiore was advised to take an HIV test in 1992, as a matter of social responsibility. The result was positive. She took the test results to an AIDS specialist.

As the specialist looked over the results, he came to the conclusion that these results were not positive, he did not know what the test meant at all!

She was tested again and the results for that came back as indeterminate. She tested again and the results came back as positive, she tested again and the results came back as negative.

There are laws now being debated about the mandatory testing of pregnant mothers for HIV.

HIV Aids Facts: How can we pass a law making pregnant mothers take a test which is so inconclusive that it borders on absurdity?

Many of those mothers will be incorrectly diagnosed. How many more lives will be damaged?

This is the future if we do not stop it.

HIV Aids Facts: The Viral Load Test

Doctors will tell you that they are way past the Western Blot Test now, that test is old news. They now have the Viral Load test. Though if you open up the package insert for this new and advanced test it says: “if you test positive you are considered confirmed infected with HIV.”

However, at the bottom of the page, in fine print, it states: “the individual should be referred for medical follow-up and additional testing.”

There is no HIV test on this earth that can definitively tell you if you are HIV Positive.

“If I tell you that the test you took was lousy and didn’t mean a thing, would that make a difference?” Niel T. Constantine, PhD. Director, Clinical Immunology, Institute of Human Virology.

HIV Aids Facts: President Thabo Mbeki and HIV AIDS

Those of us from South Africa remember the time when our then president, Thabo Mbeki (Master of Economics Degree, University of Sussex 1966, Deputy President of South Africa 1994-1999, President of South Africa. 1999-2008) supported an opinion that there was more to HIV AIDS Facts then met the eye.

He was unconvinced of the link between HIV and AIDS. I remember this clearly, we all thought he was mad. Hadn’t we all heard on the news that AIDS was on the rampage in Africa? The Americans and Europeans were convinced, so we were too. We'd heard it on CNN after all, so it was a fact!

HIV Aids Facts: Coffin Factories Go Bankrupt!

Riaan Malan was hired by Rolling Stone magazine to investigate and debunk President Mbeki’s silly ideas.

What better way to do this than to focus on the coffin factories in Johannesburg; they should be working overtime with thousands and thousands of coffins in constant production with all this death shouldn't they?

Expecting to find the coffin business in full swing, what he found instead was that they were all going bankrupt!

In the midst of this massive HIV AIDS epidemic with all these people supposedly dying, half of the coffin factories were closing down. This was when Riaan Malan began to realize that in the HIV/AIDS world, one plus one equals eleven.

HIV AIDS Facts: HIV AIDS Numbers and Money

Peter Piot (MD,PhD, Executive Director UNAIDS 1995-2008) states that there are 1000 people dying every day from AIDS in South Africa.

That is 365000 a year dead from AIDS alone, never mind any other causes. How can the coffin factories be bankrupt?

James Chin (MD, MPH Chief of Global HIV surveillance WHO 1987-92) states that those working for advocacy agencies such as UNAIDS, are biased to higher numbers even though they may not be scientifically sound.

HIV AIDS Facts: Low numbers are bad for business, simple as that.

The House of Numbers crew head to the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to find out what the official numbers are: how many people are actually HIV positive?

Unfortunately, what they found out was that there are no official numbers, only assumptions and estimates.

HIV Aids Facts: The higher the numbers, the more money you get!

In terms of international aid, the more infections you have the more money you get. The worse your situation, the more compelling your plea for support.

It is in many peoples interests to inflate their AIDS rates. When UNAIDS was first created only 250 million U.S dollars was allocated for HIV prevention and treatment among poor nations, after ten years it was 10 billion. And it is still not enough.

In 2008 the U.S congress alone approved a 50 billion dollar plan for the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS.

What we have here is various groups and agencies, all existing and relying on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Domestic government funding and foreign aid, consisting of massive amounts of money, is given to those groups who have been the worst affected.

It is not hard to see how a bit of exaggeration and number adjustments could become common place in such a situation.

During the making of the film the Indian Government cut its HIV/AIDS estimates by nearly 60%. Thereafter UNAIDS acknowledged they had been overestimating their statistics for over a decade.

This is basically racketeering 101. A problem is created/exaggerated. Thereafter those who created/exaggerated the problem provide the solution in exchange for a fee. After consideration you will see that this is the modus operandi for everything from gangsters to pharmaceutical manufactures to governments.

HIV Aids Facts: HIV AIDS Transmission

“The vast majority of the world’s population are not at any measurable risk of HIV infection.” James Chin MD, MPH Chief of Global HIV Surveillance, WHO, 1987-92

This comes as a surprise because we all are convinced that we can easily get AIDS from simply having sex without a condom. Some people will not even touch an HIV infected person from fear of infection.

Nancy Padian (PhD, MPH Director, International Research AIDS Research Institute. UCSF) conducted a study involving a group of HIV positive people and their sexual partners who were monitored to see if any transmission had occurred.

HIV Aids Facts: There were zero transmissions over a ten year period.

Nancy Padian states that HIV is more difficult to transmit than most other sexual diseases.

This is confirmed by James Curran (Director of CDC AIDS Division 1982-92).

This is in stark contrast to what most of us have been led to believe. Most of us think HIV/AIDS can jump from person to person during unprotected sex like an energetic flea.

Celia Farber, an investigative journalist, is of the opinion that the AIDS epidemic is a firm example of what is now prevalent in modern culture, that the truth of the situation does not matter, what does matter is the image of it. Everything is a public relations phenomenon.

HIV Aids Facts: The reality of the situation is that AIDS is over.

“Threat of a world pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits” 8/6/2008 The Independent.

HIV Aids Facts: Co-Factors and HIV AIDS Facts

When Bob Gallo got on television back in the 1980s and stated that HIV caused AIDS without his research being peer reviewed or confirmed, many people ended up with their backs against the wall.

The U.S department of health and services decided that from then on they were not going to fund any research that did not assume that HIV caused AIDS.

There are many scientists who promote the idea of co-factors in the development of AIDS. This is the theory that the onset of an illness is accompanied by certain other considerations, and not one single cause.

For instance, whether or not a person gets flu does not depend solely on whether they have been exposed to a flu virus, the condition of their immune system plays a role.

Harry Haverkos (MD, Director, Office of AIDS, NIDA 1989-95 Epidemiologist, CDC 1981-84) is of this opinion as well as the discoverer of HIV himself, Luc Montagnier (MD, 2008 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of HIV)

According to Celia Farber (investigative journalist), what is asked of AIDS journalist today is to deny the strong body of dissent among scientists and the view that HIV does not necessarily lead to AIDS.

Peter Duesberg (PhD, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley) has questioned the HIV theory of AIDS from the beginning.

HIV Aids Facts: He could not replicate the HIV research in his own Laboratory and could not get the HIV virus to do anything at all!

Peter says that if a billion dollars was thrown to scientists in order to prove another theory of AIDS they would do so. In the first year they would say there are co-factors (save face) and after that they would simply replace the HIV theory outright.

In his view all scientists are forced to “prostitute” themselves in order to get funding for research, though, some scientists “go all the way.”

The House of Numbers crew ask Dr Hans R. Gelderblom (MD, PhD, Head of Electron Microscopy and Imaging 1998-2004, Robert Koch Institute Germany) if there is anything to question about the published images of the virus. In Dr Gelderblom's opinion, the images published by both Dr. Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier (MD, 2008 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of HIV) are not conclusive images.

HIV Aids Facts: At best the images can be described as maybe containing evidence of a virus.

“It is one thing to look like a virus and quite another to behave like a virus.” Eleni Papadopulos (MSc Biophysicist, department of medical physics, Royal Perth Hospital.)

This is why they cannot tell you for certain if you have HIV! Because they cannot prove for certain that there IS an HIV virus, even under an Electron Microscope there is only probable evidence of the HIV virus.

HIV Aids Facts: How does HIV cause AIDS then?

It seems that there is no concrete understanding of this at all.

We are shown scientists who tell us that cells are very complex objects and how they act within the body is even more complex... other scientists openly admit they have no idea how the HIV virus actually invades other cells, or why our antibodies cannot seem to keep this one virus in check. Antibodies work just fine for other viruses!

To highlight the confusion and misinformation among the scientist themselves, House of Numbers shows us a clip of Jay A. Levy (MD. Director, Laboratory for tumor and AIDS virus Research, UCSF), while he attempts to explain how the HIV virus depletes the T-cells in human beings.

Initially he states that the HIV virus will definitely kill the cell it affects. The film then jumps to him still explaining a few minutes later, now he says HIV does not necessarily kill all the cells it infects. Jumping to the end of the explanation, Dr. Levy says some T-cells are killed by the HIV and others keep the virus in check and can return to normal function.

HIV Aids Facts: Three conflicting statements from one expert in the same explanation!

Why can’t all these men simply give a straight answer?

We glean the idea that HIV attacks the T-cell population in your body, as it does this it weakens your immune system to the point that it cannot function and you get AIDS.

However, a study published by Science Daily (Sep. 26, 2007) confirms that the sudden loss of T-cells is not the trigger for AIDS. If this is true, and the sudden loss of T-cells by people with HIV is not capable of causing AIDS then there must be co-factors, or factors that simply have nothing to do with HIV, which in fact advance the onset of AIDS.

What Brent W. Leung started to notice was that among all the AIDS hotspots around the world, there is a common factor...

HIV Aids Facts: What is another condition that leads to immune deficiency and death?

Poverty.

HIV Aids Facts: Poverty and the Immune System

“Poverty leads to diseases and premature death, period.”Christian Fiala, MD, PhD.

When you look at the symptoms as associated with HIV/AIDS, you will find they are more related to malnutrition than to AIDS. People’s immune systems do not work well under nutritional stress. This is confirmed by Luc Montagnier (MD, 2008 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of HIV) and others.

House of Numbers takes a tour of the living conditions in the poor black townships in South Africa. The conditions are appalling. There is little nutritive food at all. Most live on a diet of bread and refined maize meal and little vegetables and fruit, if any.

Open toilets are covered in flies and rubbish is scattered everywhere. It does not take much to realize that anyone living in such conditions will suffer from poor health; their immune systems are constantly under severe and chronic strain from repeated infections and poor nutrition.

Billions of dollars are spent each year on AIDS, while 2 billion people live without basic sanitation or access to clean water and malnutrition kills someone every ten seconds. These factors allow diseases to survive and thus severely weaken the immune systems of those who live in poverty and squalor.

People are dying slow and painful deaths. They die this way in silence; they do not protest - their physical suffering has been repackaged as a disease called AIDS, for which there is no cure, and for which they can only blame themselves for contracting.

Quite a handy solution for certain parties. Even if this debacle did not begin with this specific intent, it is now perpetuated to maintain the status quo. No one wants a few billion poor people getting riled up because they are senselessly dying from ancient diseases that should now be long gone.

But HIV/AIDS allegedly occurs in wealthy nations too right? Rich people have allegedly died from it. That is the next item that House of Numbers attempts to explain.

HIV Aids Facts: Alternate Causes of Immune System Deficiency in the United States

“There are other ways you can produce a condition that looks like AIDS. They too will be some source that causes a severe effect in the immune response.” Martin Delaney, Founding Director, Project Inform.

“19 million Americans are taking illicit drugs every day. But we don’t talk about this, it is not politically correct.” Peter Duesberg, PhD Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology. University of California, Berkeley.

By now we should realize that there is some debate about whether AIDS is a lifestyle phenomenon. Scientists like Peter Duesberg indicate that this is likely the case. However, this obviously does not fit into the industries story.

James Curran (MD. Director CDC AIDS Division 1982-92. Dean, RSPH, Emory University 1995-present) as well as Neville Hodgkinson (Medical and Science correspondent, The Sunday Times 1985-94) state that the lifestyle of gay men in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York in the 1970s and 80s was characterised by lots of drug use and as many sexual partners as possible.

Due to the fact that it was a Gay liberation period, gay men felt as if the more sexual partners they had the more it meant for their cause. Neville Hodgkinson remembers being in contact with an individual at the forefront of the liberation who prided himself on every sexually transmitted disease he contracted, since it confirmed his right to exist as a homosexual.

“One night on vacation in Los Angeles, I went to a bathhouse, and when I came home I had contracted syphilis, gonorrhoea and two forms of parasites, all from one night in a bathhouse.” Dave Tworkowski, tested positive for HIV in 1985.

“You’re talking thousands of partners, sometimes hundreds per month. Lots of antibiotic use, lots of drug use and the result was that people were getting pretty sick.” Darren Main Tested HIV positive in 2000.

The lifestyle explanation was at that time politically unacceptable. Imagine what would have happened if the government had announced that the gay men were dying from having too much unprotected sex and drugs.

They had just fought for Gay liberation and news like that would not go down well. Publically elected officials wouldn't do too well with headlines like that. The virus explanation proved much more acceptable to many different parties.

House of Numbers explains that the signature characteristics/symptoms of the original victims of AIDS were Pneumocystis Pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma, conditions that can be brought on by the use of poppers.

HIV Aids Facts: Amyl Nitrate (Poppers)

According to Dr. Donald Abrams (Chief of Hematology-Oncology, San Francisco General Hospital) the abuse of the infamous gay drug Poppers (amyl nitrate) can eventually cause Pneumocystis Pneumonia and the collapse of the pulmonary immune system.

Kary B. Mullis (PhD Nobel Laureate in chemistry 1993) similarly confirms Amyl nitrate (Poppers) to be the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma as well. The defining characteristics of AIDS as it was first diagnosed were likely due to drug abuse. Long term recreational drug use in conjunction with large amounts of antibiotics and infections will destroy an immune system.

It is that simple.

HIV Aids Facts: HIV Drugs

“I don’t think the pharmaceutical industry is too invested in a cure, the situation they have now, a lifetime of treatment with expensive drugs suits them too well.” Martin Delaney, Founding Director, Project Inform.

The side effects of antiretrovirals are horrendous. Initially they were even worse than they are today. AZT (Azidothymidine) has a host of side effects that are very similar to what you would expect from an AIDS patient, so no one noticed that it was the treatment drugs that were giving the patients AIDS symptoms, and not their supposed infection.

Christine Maggiore (tested HIV positive 1992) became involved in an organisation called Women At Risk just after she was diagnosed.

There were eleven women in her group and only three were not taking antiretroviral medication. In the year and a half that she was involved, every woman taking the medication died.

HIV Aids Facts: The only people in the group left alive were the three women who were not taking any of the medication.

The reason why we consider HIV/AIDS to be so deadly is because the people diagnosed with HIV in the early years all received death sentences from their treatment.

“We killed a whole generation of AIDS patients” Claus Koehnlein MD, Kiel, Germany.

“The amount of AZT we were giving the patients was a dangerous and poorly tolerated dose.” Daniel Kuritzkes, MD Associate professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

HIV Aids Facts: The Gay community and those with HIV infections during the early years unwittingly demanded AZT, they protested and rallied for it, and they died from it.

The ball had started rolling long ago, one small misunderstanding, one small mistake had turned into an unstoppable monster. The more people and establishments that jumped on board the HIV/AIDS ship, the more it gained momentum, until it morphed into the worldwide phenomenon it is today, dominating political and public discourse.

Today, the medication is not as toxic as before, but it is still napalm in a bottle. It kills almost everything, the good, the bad and the ugly. And it still has horrendous side effects, though less so than before.

So now the patient has relatively more short term benefits but will still die as a result of the drugs in the long term. The scientists concur on this point, no one can survive for life on the available drugs, the toxicity is too great; it is simply not possible.

HIV Aids Facts: Antiretrovirals will result in your premature death.

We are shown story after story of people that were fine one day, dead the next from the extremely disturbing side effects of their treatment. One of these side effects is a rash called Stevens-Johnson syndrome. This is no normal rash, imagine a rash so bad it kills you; the pictures are stomach turning and terrifying.

Human life means nothing to a large profit orientated business, nothing at all. We are simply numbers, to be added and subtracted. The sooner we all realize this, the better off we are.

HIV Aids Facts: Personal stories

Steve and Cheryl Nagel are a couple from the U.S.A who adopted a baby girl (Lindsay) from Romania. Before bringing her back home they had to have an HIV test done. It was all clear and they returned to their home. However, soon after their arrival the family doctor ran another battery of tests on baby Lindsay, including another HIV test. It tested positive.

The doctors said she had a twenty percent chance of living past two years old and she was put on AZT. She immediately began to suffer tremendously with side effects such as intense pain from cramping legs, restricted development, and mental distress. . This section of the film documenting this child's suffering is absolutely heartrending.

Sometime after this Lindsay’s granddad was reading an article about the maverick cell biologist, Peter Duesberg (PhD Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology. University of California, Berkeley). Dr Duesberg didn’t think HIV caused AIDS. He could not replicate the research in his laboratory; neither could he get the virus to do anything.

HIV Aids Facts: Aids By Prescription

The family contacted Peter Duesberg for help. The first thing he told them to do was to stop giving the child the AZT or she would die. He called it “AIDS by prescription”

They immediately stopped giving Lindsay AZT. The little girl was living in constant pain and they decided that it was better to allow their daughter some joy and peace, even if only for a short while.

As soon as Lindsay was off the AZT her weight picked up and her leg cramps stopped. She started to develop again like a normal child. However, she was slightly mentally and psychologically affected from the time spent on the drug.

The doctors told the family that she would only live to the age of three, and then after the three year mark passed the doctors said she would only live to the age of five, and so on.

Lindsay is now twenty years old and is a beautiful and healthy woman.

”Scientists are supposed to observe and reason from what they have observed. They are not supposed to grab hold of an idea and cling to it and adjust everything else in their perception to fit that idea.” Mark Conlan, Journalist.

HIV Aids Facts: If you have a healthy immune system, you can recover from anything.

The film ends with Luc Montagnier (MD, 2008 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of HIV) saying: “we can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system”

Brent W. Leung: “if you have a good immune system your body can actually get rid of HIV?”
Luc Montagnier: “Yes.”
Brent W. Leung: “if you take a poor African who has been infected and you build up their immune system, is it possible for them to also naturally get rid of it?”
Luc Montagnier: “I would think so.”

All truth passes through three stages:

• First , it is ridiculed.
• Second, it is violently opposed.
• Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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