Andreas Moritz
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 When they put her healthy daughter Martha on a cocktail of aids drugs, it completely destroyed her immune system, making her susceptible to constant disease flare-ups she otherwise would never have experienced. The main question is why are doctors permitted and even encouraged to treat AIDS patients with drugs that kill their immune systems? Wouldn't it make more sense to help them build their immunity? These questions will need to be raised again and again if we want to tackle disease in general and AIDS-type illnesses specifically. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After all, nobody needs aids drugs if they aren't labeled with the AIDS disease name. If you want to create demand for aids drugs, you first have to point your finger at a bunch of people and tell them they have AIDS. (And most people are stupid enough to actually believe their doctors on this one, go figure...)
The same scheme worked with ADD and Ritalin. The organized medicine industry just flat-out invented a fictitious disease and created a billion dollar industry selling drugs to "treat" it. Why wouldn't the same gig work with AIDS, too? |
Andreas Moritz
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| The producers of aids drugs protect themselves against liability suits by placing the following notice on the drug labels:
"This drug will not cure your HIV infection. Patients receiving antiretroviral therapy may continue to experience opportunistic infections and other complications of HIV disease. Patients should be advised that the long-term effects are unknown at this time."
The only reason people take these drugs is because they test positive for HIV. Their only (often fatal) mistake is that they don't read or understand the HIV test kit labels and the drug labels. |
| In Third World countries where wasting disorders such as "slims disease," tuberculosis, and malaria exist in epidemic proportions.
5. aids drugs Cause AIDS
Christie's story is a sad one. Her two foster-care children, Daniel and Martha, have tested HIV positive. Their birth mother, Christie's niece who is a long-term drug user, was unable to raise the children, so Christie offered to take care of them. Daniel had twice been sent to a Children's Center for HIV-positive children, once soon after he was born, and when he was four years old, and again recently. |
| An HIV test is likely going to turn them into HIV positive patients that "need" treatment with expensive and potentially devastating aids drugs.
Until recently, drug use was most concentrated among young men aged 25-44, and so, AIDS also was most common among this age group. Nine out of every ten AIDS cases were male and 90 percent of all people arrested for possession of hard drugs were male, too. Seventy five percent of these were aged 25-44 and 72 percent of all AIDS cases among men occurred within exactly the same age group. Could this have been pure coincidence? |
| Flawed HIV Tests—The True Cause of the AIDS Epidemic
When Judith was diagnosed HIV positive she was told that there are a number of aids drugs that she could take to ward off the disease, at least for some time. But when she learned how sick these drugs could make her, she decided not to take them. About 18 months after the initial diagnosis, Judith showed no signs of being ill, and so her doctor recommended a retest. Since the new test came back negative, she did a second one, which turned out to be indeterminate. |
| There are thousands of healthy HIV-positive people who don't take aids drugs, and who show no sign of sickness. But only a few people escape the wrath of an unreliable testing procedure.
HIV can only be detected in the human body after the immune system has already killed the virus through its arsenal of antibodies. The presence of HIV antibodies proves that the virus has been rendered harmless, with no further role to play. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The pharmaceutical industry lent a sympathetic ear and a loud voice to calls for speeding up the approval of aids drugs such as Agenerase (amprenavir). Since drugs are on patent for a limited number of years, every year spent waiting for approval from the FDA means losing a year of profits.
Couple that with the fact that the FDA could now honestly say that, because of cuts, it was understaffed. The answer was essentially legislation allowing pharmaceutical companies to pay the salaries of the staff at the FDA. |
Anne Harrington
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 In the late 1980s, the first aids drugs arrived—not drugs that could cure AIDS, but drugs like AZT that did seem to significantly slow its progression. These developments were followed in 1995 by the first true pharmacological treatments for the disease—the so-called protease inhibitors. With a growing focus on these developments, both medical research and grassroots patient activism began to shift toward building on the promise of conventional molecular approaches to fighting the disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| With that said, consider how crazy this whole AIDS testing proposal is: conventional doctors want to violate your body by forcing you to take a test for a disease that's largely fictional, which will undoubtedly produce false positives, which will earn you the label of "diseased," which will practically force you into a regime of high-cost aids drugs, which will enrich the pharmaceutical companies and, meanwhile, transfer even more power to doctors who could then DEMAND that you submit to all sorts of additional tests.
That's the kind of power some U.S. |
| It seems clear to me that the motive for this one is to sell more aids drugs. Because the first thing that will happen if you start testing the entire adult population for AIDS is you will get a lot of false positives.
In fact, there are an increasing number of doctors who say that AIDS isn't even caused by HIV. There's a great book on this subject by Dr. Gary Null called "AIDS: A second opinion," where Dr. Null says that AIDS is really just an immuno-suppressed state. |
Greg Critser
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 What about new legislation to expedite review and approval of expensive aids drugs? Again, the PMA could now call on a wide range of gay political action groups to buttonhole lawmakers. At bottom, the alliance became a way to put a human face on any pharma-comedical demand — and if the demand happened to further pharma goals, so much the better.
New synergies bred newer synergies. It soon became clear that the alliance was exerting an enterprising influence on the patient organizations themselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Anybody can sell nutritional supplements, of course, but what I mean is that there's no controlling interest of the drugs that would be used to treat vitamin D deficiencies as in the case of AIDS. aids drugs are patented, so they can be controlled and marked up to produce tremendous profits. Hence the push for AIDS testing.
But you can bet that if vitamins were patented and controlled by Big Pharma, we'd have nationwide, mandatory testing of nutritional deficiencies rolled out almost overnight. |
| If you want to create demand for aids drugs, you first have to point your finger at a bunch of people and tell them they have AIDS. (And most people are stupid enough to actually believe their doctors on this one, go figure...)
The same scheme worked with ADD and Ritalin. The organized medicine industry just flat-out invented a fictitious disease and created a billion dollar industry selling drugs to "treat" it. Why wouldn't the same gig work with AIDS, too? |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 An estimated 5 million people in low- and middle-income countries do not have the aids drugs that could save their lives.
Anyone with HIV or AIDS can make a major contribution to his or her survival and quality of life by getting into an early treatment program, especially a program in which immune enhancement is encouraged. People with HIV or AIDS need higher than normal amounts of all nutrients because malabsorption is a common problem. Those at risk of becoming infected with HIV or of developing AIDS can also be helped through the following program. |
Marcia Angell, M.D.
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 In late 2003, South Africa's Competition Commission ruled that GlaxoSmithKline (the major manufacturer of aids drugs) and another company had violated the country's Competition Act by charging excessively high prices and refusing to license their patents to generic manufacturers in return for reasonable royalties. Following that ruling, Glaxo agreed to permit four generic companies in South Africa to make three of its aids drugs and sell them in all forty-seven sub-Saharan African countries. |
| Despite its minimal contribution to early research and development, Roche charges $20,000 a year for the drug— three times the price of most aids drugs. About a fifth of aids drugs are purchased by the federal-state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs. These programs simply can't afford to buy Fuzeon for all the patients who need it, so they are restricting access to it, setting up waiting lists, or tightening income eligibility criteria. In thirteen states, the program has simply stopped providing Fuzeon to new patients. |
Mike Adams
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| Drug companies are in business to make money, not make people healthy
You see this in many ways including the price gouging of American consumers, attempts to block the importation of prescription drugs from Canada, the refusal of companies to fund aids drugs initiatives in Africa, and so on. You especially see it in the suppression of prevention by conventional medicine at the FDA. There is actually an effort underway to minimize any discussion of disease prevention and instead focus on disease symptom treatments — especially those involving pharmaceuticals and surgical procedures. |
Marcia Angell, M.D.
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| About a fifth of aids drugs are purchased by the federal-state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs. These programs simply can't afford to buy Fuzeon for all the patients who need it, so they are restricting access to it, setting up waiting lists, or tightening income eligibility criteria. In thirteen states, the program has simply stopped providing Fuzeon to new patients. |
| The exceptions are cancer and aids drugs, which are tested on people with the disease even in Phase I.) If the drug looks promising, it moves into Phase II, which involves as many as a few hundred patients with the relevant disease or medical condition. The drug is given at various doses, and the effects are usually compared with those in a similar group of patients not given the drug. Finally, if all goes well, Phase III clinical trials are undertaken. |
| Following that ruling, Glaxo agreed to permit four generic companies in South Africa to make three of its aids drugs and sell them in all forty-seven sub-Saharan African countries. AIDS treatment now sells for as little as $300 a year in Africa, compared with more than $10,000 in the United States. Yet no one believes the companies are taking a loss there, which gives you some idea of how much they are making here.16
Handing the FDA to the Pharmaceutical Industry
Congress also put the FDA on the pharmaceutical industry's payroll. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
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 Used in combination with one or more of the other HIV and aids drugs. It is used when other anti-HIV drugs are not effective.
DOSAGE & USAGE INFORMATION
How to take:
Injection—The drug is injected under the skin using small hypodermic needles. Follow all instructions carefully on the prescription label. Dispose of all needles and syringes as instructed by your doctor.
When to take:
Two shots a day; one taken in the morning and the other 12 hours later at night.
If you forget a dose:
Take as soon as you remember. |
Katharine Greider
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 A number of companies have relieved some of the pressure by establishing discount cards for low-income seniors, or, for example, lowering the price of aids drugs in Africa. A couple of top executives have made it clear they don't think it's good business to game the system with patent-extension high jinks. Some industry supporters see its problem as a public-relations failure and criticize the trade group PhRMA for clinging to we're-going-to-save-your-life rhetoric instead of making real arguments about international pricing, the value of pharmaceuticals, and the fine points of R&D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Drug companies are in business to make money, not make people healthy
You see this in many ways including the price gouging of American consumers, attempts to block the importation of prescription drugs from Canada, the refusal of companies to fund aids drugs initiatives in Africa, and so on. You especially see it in the suppression of prevention by conventional medicine at the FDA. There is actually an effort underway to minimize any discussion of disease prevention and instead focus on disease symptom treatments -- especially those involving pharmaceuticals and surgical procedures. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
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| Used in combination with one or more of the other aids drugs. May be used to prevent HIV transmission.
DOSAGE & USAGE INFORMATION
How to take:
• Oral suspension—Swallow with liquid.
• Tablet—Swallow with liquid. May be taken with or without food. Efavirenz should not be taken with a high fat meal.
When to take:
At the same time each day. At the start of treatment, one tablet is taken daily for 2 weeks and then increased to 2 tablets daily. This helps to decrease risk of side effects.
If you forget a dose:
• Twice-a-day dose—Take as soon as you remember up to 2 hours late. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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 Duesberg argues correctly that unhealthy lifestyles and abused drugs— including the commonly used aids drugs AZT, ddi, ddc, 3TC, and protease inhibitors—cause toxic side effects that reduce immune system strength. What he and his followers fail to discuss, however, is their knowledge that the so called "neutralizing antibody" response to HIV infection, allegedly protective, may in fact be part of an autoimmune response to virus/host protein-complex formation. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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 John's wort was implicated in January 2000 in lowering the blood levels of aids drugs and cyclosporine, a drug used to prevent organ rejection. In both of these cases, the results could be deadly.
Grapefruit juice contains a compound called "bergamottin," which inactivates cytochrome P450-3A4, a digestive enzyme that metabolizes up to 60% of all drugs, including antihistamines and various high blood pressure medicines. This may explain why grapefruit juice increases the effects of many prescription drugs. |
Richard Leviton
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 At this same time, at least twelve new aids drugs were poised to enter the drug marketplace and their makers were starting to "get aggressive in pitching AIDS treatment," as The New York Times observed.
The drug companies involved are "battling" for market share with the same aggressive promotions that they employ for selling ulcer medications, said the Times. |
Stephen Fried
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 But he also knew almost as much about aids drugs as the people who made or approved them. He had started out just as I had, a curious layperson trying to navigate the confusing world of legal drugs. The difference was, he had access to a small army of angry patients who would publicly protest to the bitter end even the slightest injustice he uncovered.
I was experiencing a very common phenomenon in any field associated with medicine: AIDS envy. |
Elaine Feuer
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 Indeed, the FDA had recently shortened the traditional process for reviewing new aids drugs for that very reason. Choosing to ignore these facts, Jacobson quoted Dr. Daniel Barbaro, former director of the AIDS clinic at Parkland Memorial Hospital, who had not even attended the press conference. Barbaro maintained it would be difficult to determine the effectiveness of True Health's nutritional treatment based on the study: "It appears to have been a fairly healthy group of patients to begin with." Jacobson knew this statement was false, having heard Dr. |
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