Counting on Gender Development Containing Spread of AIDS

Counting on Gender Development Containing Spread of AIDS Anirudha AlamHIV/AIDS is not merely a health issues. It is sorely a development issues undoubtedly. The vulnerability to HIV/AIDS has a grave and in-depth impact on every aspect of life. So the responses from all the levels and parts of the societies are very much necessary to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS any how. In this regard, centering upon the collective action, gender development should be well-defined involving the particular roles of government, civil society and the private sections.It is deeply depressing thinking that sixty per cent of new HIV transmissions are to women and fifty two per cent to young adults worldwide. To get rid of this pernicious situation, gender development is the gateway to salvage commitment to making headway in integrating responses to subdue the AIDS epidemic. Entering upon the partnership developed to flourish collaboration with GOs, NGOs and communities across assorted sections and at miscellaneous levels, gender development activities have to be tooled up to contribute to the national fight against HIV/AIDS.In the development countries, self-sustained development is being hampered by gender inequality. As per the findings of an in-depth research entitled ‘Vulnerability to AIDS due to Gender Discrimination’ conducted by BCC Network in 2006, 80% rural young people who are severely vulnerable to HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh are certainly women. They do not have enough livelihood education to win over the war of poverty at all. So they have to choice the easy way for earning their livelihood apparently engaging themselves in risky behaviors.Coping with time and need paying heed to gender development, AIDS prevention may entail a multi-pronged approach which integrates reproductive health literacy, women empowerment, provision of such protective measure as condoms, prevention of sexual violence as well as safeguarding human rights. Assessing specific responses to non-discriminatory practices and identifying the risk factors for HIV/AIDS for both women and men along with defusing the associated stigma and gender-based violence come in containing the impact of HIV/AIDS on a sector comprehensively. As a result, AIDS education and work-place prevention underpinned by well-founded gender policy are able to internalize the gender development effectively.It is likely that spread of AIDS is more than a social problem. It is the curse due to the lack of changing societal values, attitudes and behavioral patterns that fuel the endemic. Poverty associated with gender discrimination and stigma contributes to swelling the onslaught of HIV/AIDS as a whole. In many countries with high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates, the available evidence indicates that gender-based disparities sustain the impact of HIV/AIDS robustly.Gender discrimination has magnified the AIDS endemic into an economic and social calamity, mostly in greater Africa. For instance, by now 57 per cent of all HIV-positive adults are women, and 75 per cent of young people living with HIV are women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa. If gender development is ensured through life skill development, the vulnerable people, especially women, will be empowered financially and socially. They will not be compelled by hunger and poverty to be engaged in risky behaviors.According to a survey conducted in Central Asia, one third of young women had not still heard of HIV/AIDS – yet globally the rate of infection among women is mounting inexorably. In the light of the recent study conducted by Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallayan Foundation, inclusive initiatives have to be taken on the urgent basis in Bangladesh to empower women and enhance their abilities to withstand health threats like HIV/AIDS. Catering to the vulnerable groups especially the destitute and disadvantaged women, there is a need for generating different pilot interventions and educational effort in response to campaign of AIDS prevention.Strategies and interventions should tune in to sensitizing policy makers, senior health planners, program managers and other implementers to create a willing and friendly environment for achieving equality in every sector. There is no doubt that gender equality is the key way to sustainable development. So it is necessary to ensure that both women and men have to have equal access to information, treatment, care, support and productive resources. Then in true sense, gender development will be meaningful all along in preventing HIV/AIDS.Anirudha AlamAIDS ResearcherBCC NetworkHouse 13, Road 10Block C, Section 6Mirpur, PallabiDhaka 1216BangladeshWebsite: http://bcc-network.blogspot.com/, http://anirudha-alam.blogspot.com/Phone: 8801718342876, 88028050514E-mail: bcc.network@gmail.comRef: UNAIDS, World Bank, Amnesty International, UNESCO

Is More Than One Cause of AIDS Possible?
by VikoJohns

Is More Than One Cause of AIDS Possible?

The HIV establishment and its journalist allies have replied to various specific criticisms of the HIV theory without taking them seriously. They have never provided an authoritative paper that undertakes to prove that HIV really is the cause of AIDS…. After ten years of failure, it is time to take a second look.

-Charles A. Thomas, Jr., Kary B. Mullis, and Phillip E. Johnson

(qtd. in Atwan)

A homosexual male exits the HIV/AIDS testing center with a pale and sick look on his face. He has just been told that he is HIV positive. Due to the statement that is taken as fact in the media, HIV causes AIDS, he takes his being HIV positive as a death sentence. This happens every day in the United States and the reaction is virtually the same across the board.

In an article called What Causes AIDS? Its an Open Question, a trio of doctors of scientists, Charles A. Thomas, Kary B. Mullis and Phillip E. Johnson, try to prove that HIV is not the cause of AIDS and that there is another cause of AIDS out there somewhere, but the scientific community continues to ignore the possibility (Thomas-1995). It has been proven that HIV does have something to do with causing AIDS. The majority of AIDS patients that also have HIV cannot be ignored. HIV is however not the only cause of AIDS. This is proven by the thousands of AIDS victims that do not have HIV. It is widely assumed by nearly everyone in the world that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. It is puzzling, however, that this is believed, because there has never been any solid evidence to say that this is true and there has not been a single paper written that proves that this is true. Scientists need to stop basing all of their research on something that may not be valid in the first place. They need to find proof that HIV is the only cause of AIDS before they can research a way to prevent it. Dr. Charles Thomas, molecular biologist and former Harvard and Johns Hopkins professor says, I feel that for scientists to remain silent in the face of all this doubt is tantamount to criminal negligence (Thomas-1994).

It is widely known that, before looking for a cure for a disease or virus, in this case, it should be solidly proven that the disease or virus is doing all of the damage that is trying to be evaded. There has never been any research or experiments done to show that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. The only evidence that is offered is correlation. In an article by biochemist Charles A. Thomas, Jr., who is the president of the Helicon Foundation in San Diego and secretary of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis; Kary B. Mullis, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for inventing the polymerase chain reaction technique for detecting DNA, which is used to search for fragments of HIV in AIDS patients; and Phillip E. Johnson, who is the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley (qtd. in Atwan):

The correlation is imperfect at best, however. There are many cases of persons with all the symptoms of AIDS who do not have any HIV infection. There are also many cases of persons who have been infected by HIV for more than a decade and show no signs of illness (qtd. in Atwan).

Despite all of this evidence, there are no scientists stopping their research to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS, and instead of responding to the argument against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis, scientists are ignoring it. Before scientists go any further in looking for a cure for HIV or AIDS, they need to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS in the first place. If HIV is not the only cause of AIDS, billions of tax dollars, years of research, and millions of lives may have been wasted, because pompous scientists have refused to admit that they were wrong. Why is it that scientists continue to ignore this argument? Its not as if all of these doctors and scientists are trying to disprove the fact that smoking causes lung cancer. Even with lung cancer, there is more than one possible cause. All that this side of the argument wants is evidence that what we are spending so much time and money on is true.

One might ask just why there is reason to believe that HIV isnt the only cause of AIDS. So far, it has been shown that there is no evidence that HIV is the only cause of AIDS, but there is a large amount of evidence showing that HIV is not the only cause of AIDS. According to the scientific community, HIV breaks down the immune system, and when combined with a disease, such as tuberculosis, becomes AIDS. Without the immune system to fight off tuberculosis, the victim dies.

According to Dr. Peter Duesberg, who is the professor of molecular biology at the University of California at Berkely, and one of the worlds experts on retroviruses, which, according to the scientific community, is what HIV is, Every virus Ive ever seen gets its job done by killing a cell at a time and when it has killed enough, you get sick. HIV is said to be responsible for the loss of T-cells, which are the immune system. Now, in every AIDS patient studied so far, there is never more than, on average, one in 1,000 cells infected by HIV (Guccione). If such little effect is done by HIV, and AIDS still exists, there must be some other cause.

The only evidence that the supporters of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis have is correlation. The correlation is that the majority of AIDS victims also have HIV. Unless all victims of AIDS also have HIV, it is impossible for HIV to be the only cause of AIDS. The correlation that they offer as evidence does not even seem to begin to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. According to Duesberg:

There are a million Americans with HIV who are totally healthy. There are six million Africans according to the World Health Organization who have HIV; 129,000 had AIDS by the end of last year, that means five million, eight hundred and so many thousand had no AIDS. Half a million Europeans have HIV and 60,000 have AIDS. So there are millions and millions of people on this planet who have [HIV but] no AIDS-why dont seven-and-a-half million get autoimmune disease if HIV is the cause of an autoimmune disease? (Guccione)

If HIV is doing so little to affect the immune system and plays such a small part in creating AIDS, there has to be some other cause.

The interviewer in this particular article then stated, Well, the establishment says that everybody with HIV will develop AIDS and its just a matter of time (Guccione). Duesberg replies:

In the last ten years this has happened in America to about 20 percent of people with HIV, 250,000 [including deaths to date] out of a million. But the people who are dying from AIDS are hardly ever your all-American friends of 20 to 40 years of age: Virtually all heterosexual Americans and Europeans who had AIDS are intravenous drug users. And the homosexuals who get AIDS had hundreds if not thousands of sexual contacts. That is not achieved with your conventional testosterone. It is achieved with chemicals. Those are the risk groups, they inhale poppers, they use amphetamines, they take Quaaludes, they take amyl nitrite, they take cocaine as aphrodisiacs. (Guccione)

There are many more people that are out to prove that HIV is not the only cause of AIDS. According to Thomas, Mullis and Johnson:

There are at least three reasons for doubting the official theory that HIV causes AIDS. First, after spending billions of dollars, HIV researchers are still unable to explain how HIV, a conventional retrovirus with a very simple genetic organization, damages the immune system, much less how to stop it…. Second, in the absence of any agreement about how HIV causes AIDS, the only evidence that HIV does cause AIDS is correlation…. Third, predictions based on the HIV theory have failed spectacularly…. The number of HIV infected Americans has remained constant for years instead of increasing rapidly as predicted, which suggests that HIV is an old virus that has been with us for centuries without causing an epidemic (qtd. in Atwan).

All of these statistics are working against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. It is startling to believe that the scientific community could be so stubborn to still believe that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. Not only do they still believe this, but they have still not set out to prove it.

The only argument that I have seen that set out to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS had almost no solid evidence, and the only worthwhile part of the whole paper compared not believing that HIV causes AIDS to not believing that smoking can lead to lung cancer. It offered the correlation of 90% of lung cancer victims being smokers (Harris). That still leaves 10% of lung cancer that is not caused by smoking. Even in lung cancer, with an overwhelming number of victims being smokers, there has to be a second cause. With AIDS, the majority of patients also have HIV, but there are still thousands of AIDS patients that dont have HIV (Thomas-1994). That means that something else must have caused their AIDS. Before the scientific community goes any further in finding a cure for HIV, AIDS or how to prevent them, they have to find out what the other causes of AIDS are. There are billions of people around the world that are uneducated as to what all of the causes of AIDS are and how to prevent all forms of AIDS.

Scientists have hardly even acknowledged that there is an argument against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. The fact is that until this argument is disproven, or until the scientific community changes their hypothesis, this argument is not simply going to go away. There is too much support for it. There are thousands of doctors, everyday people, and scientists that believe that there is a strong argument against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. They believe that the scientific community, before directing their research at finding a cure for HIV or AIDS, needs to direct their research at finding what all of the causes of AIDS are in the first place.

The problem working against this argument is that it has almost no support in the televised media. The reason for this is that ever since Robert Gallo, the originator of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis announced that HIV causes AIDS, it has been assumed to be true and has been assumed that contracting HIV is the only way to get AIDS (Thomas-1994). The media and the scientific community thinks that it is completely absurd to think otherwise.

The media and the scientific community need to realize that they probably are (or at least could be) wrong about the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. If they find out the truth about what all of the causes of AIDS are, they will then be able to direct their research at a possible cure for AIDS that has eluded the scientific community for years.

Guccione, Bob, Jr. AIDS: Words from the Front. Spin Sept. 1993.

Harris, Stephen B., M.D. The AIDS Heresies. 1994. Online Posting. Address: http://www.skeptic.com/03.2.harris-aids.html.

Thomas, Charles A., M.D. Rethinking AIDS Home Page. April 1994. Online posting from Penthouse magazine.

Thomas, Charles A., M.D., Jr, Kary B. Mullis and Phillip E. Johnson. What Causes AIDS? Its an Open Question. Reason. Atwan, Robert. Our Times. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martins Press, 1995.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than 15 million cases of sexually transmitted diseases reported in the US each year. With rising divorce rates and incidences of infidelity, it is no wonder that the number of sexually transmitted infections is on the rise. The best way to protect yourself is to always use a condom, screen potential partners, limit the number of partners you are intimate with and see a gynecologist every six months. According to medical information, the most dreadful sexually transmitted disease is a killer. The number of people with HIV (the sexually transmitted infection that leads to AIDS) worldwide has risen from 8 million in 1990, to more than 33 million, according to AVERT.org. More than 2.1 million people died from HIV/AIDS in 2007. The symptoms often do not emerge immediately; therefore, many people don’t realize they have the disease until it has already spread. In the US, there is a disproportionate amount of African Americans and gay men with AIDS, statistics reveal. In addition to AIDS, experts say even treatable STDs like HPV can lead to cancer if left undetected. Other diseases like chlamydia, crabs, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis can be cured with antibiotics. Syphilis is another of the curable sexually transmitted diseases, but has been known to affect the nervous system and brain if left untreated. Sometimes, trichomoniasis, or trich, is mistaken for a yeast infection, causing women to use the wrong type of medication for treatment. Even though these STDs can be treated, the shame and disappointment one feels is often the worst symptom that takes the longest to heal. The best way to stay safe from sexually transmitted diseases is to visit your health care professional every six months. There you will undergo a few simple tests that are over before you know it. A pap smear will check women for cervical cancer, but do not assume that you will automatically be tested for STDs as well. Usually, you have to ask for a chlamydia/gonorrhea test separately. Finding out you have something is an incredibly terrifying feeling initially, but once you understand your treatment options and undergo some counseling on how to tell your partner and how to prevent future occurrences, you will feel much better. Hopefully, it won’t come to that, but if you are one of the unfortunate ones to contract an STD, then you will learn your lesson the first time and always wear condoms thereafter. Mike Selvon offer a free autoimmune disease audio gift. Learn more about sexually transmitted diseases at our portal, and drop us a note at our autoimmune thyroid disease blog.

How to Deal With the Highly Contagious Venereal disease symptoms

Venereal diseases or VD’s are sexually transmitted diseases, and in just about every case they are highly contagious. Infection normally occurs through sexual contact with another infected person. In this context sexual contact refers to oral, anal and vaginal sex. The different venereal disease symptoms will also change from one venereal disease to another. As mentioned, venereal diseases can be passed on through sexual contact with an infected person. Most venereal diseases require the exchange of bodily fluids to be contagious, but in some cases skin-to-skin contact is all that it will take. If a person displays any venereal disease symptoms, they should get a confirmed diagnosis first and foremost. Even the whiff of venereal disease symptoms should ideally be enough for a person to abstain from sexual relations until the suspicions have been refuted. Unfortunately, most people either ignore such venereal disease symptoms, or on the other end of the spectrum, are in complete ignorance of any type of venereal disease symptoms. In light of the vast number of venereal diseases which are making the social rounds these days however, this can be understandable and even forgivable. Some of the more well known venereal diseases include, HIV/AIDS, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, HSV (Genital Herpes), HPV (Genital Warts), and Yeast Infections.Venereal disease symptoms for AIDS indications, is mainly a breakdown of the immune system which can lead to the body being exposed to various other viruses, infections, and medical conditions. There is as yet no cure for AIDS.For Genital Warts (HPV) the venereal disease symptoms include, pain of the affected area, a burning sensation, warts in and around the genital area, flesh colored lesions, and in some instances moisture or dampness around the affected area. For Genital Herpes (HSV), the main venereal disease symptoms are blisters and sores which can be very painful to a person. There can also be muscle aches, backaches, fever, and a burning or pain when urinating as the urine passes over the sores or blisters. For Yeast Infections, venereal disease symptoms include an intense itching sensation, thick cottage cheese-like vaginal discharge, pain, a burning sensation of the affected areas and pain during sexual intercourse. For Syphilis, the venereal disease symptoms take on a slightly different route. To begin with a sore will normally develop (and heal of its own accord), and this will normally be painless. After a few weeks have passed, a person will then get flu-like symptoms along with a rash which will also disappear of its own accord. After that no more outward symptoms will occur, but the Syphilis infection will remain. In this next instance a slow breakdown of the central nervous system will occur. As can be seen venereal disease symptoms are many and varied. Some of the symptoms might be superficially alike, but it’s only when you put together all of the facts that you will get the entire picture and be able to place the correct venereal disease symptoms with the correct venereal disease.

Is More Than One Cause of AIDS Possible?

Is More Than One Cause of AIDS Possible?“The HIV establishment and its journalist allies have replied to various specific criticisms of the HIV theory without taking them seriously. They have never provided an authoritative paper that undertakes to prove that HIV really is the cause of AIDS…. After ten years of failure, it is time to take a second look.”-Charles A. Thomas, Jr., Kary B. Mullis, and Phillip E. Johnson(qtd. in Atwan)A homosexual male exits the HIV/AIDS testing center with a pale and sick look on his face. He has just been told that he is HIV positive. Due to the statement that is taken as fact in the media, “HIV causes AIDS,” he takes his being HIV positive as a death sentence. This happens every day in the United States and the reaction is virtually the same across the board.In an article called “What Causes AIDS? It’s an Open Question,” a trio of doctors of scientists, Charles A. Thomas, Kary B. Mullis and Phillip E. Johnson, try to prove that HIV is not the cause of AIDS and that there is another cause of AIDS out there somewhere, but the scientific community continues to ignore the possibility (Thomas-1995). It has been proven that HIV does have something to do with causing AIDS. The majority of AIDS patients that also have HIV cannot be ignored. HIV is however not the only cause of AIDS. This is proven by the thousands of AIDS victims that do not have HIV. It is widely assumed by nearly everyone in the world that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. It is puzzling, however, that this is believed, because there has never been any solid evidence to say that this is true and there has not been a single paper written that proves that this is true. Scientists need to stop basing all of their research on something that may not be valid in the first place. They need to find proof that HIV is the only cause of AIDS before they can research a way to prevent it. Dr. Charles Thomas, molecular biologist and former Harvard and Johns Hopkins professor says, “I feel that for scientists to remain silent in the face of all this doubt is tantamount to criminal negligence” (Thomas-1994).It is widely known that, before looking for a cure for a disease or virus, in this case, it should be solidly proven that the disease or virus is doing all of the damage that is trying to be evaded. There has never been any research or experiments done to show that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. The only evidence that is offered is correlation. In an article by biochemist Charles A. Thomas, Jr., who is the president of the Helicon Foundation in San Diego and secretary of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis; Kary B. Mullis, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for inventing the “polymerase chain reaction” technique for detecting DNA, which is used to search for fragments of HIV in AIDS patients; and Phillip E. Johnson, who is the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley (qtd. in Atwan):The correlation is imperfect at best, however. There are many cases of persons with all the symptoms of AIDS who do not have any HIV infection. There are also many cases of persons who have been infected by HIV for more than a decade and show no signs of illness (qtd. in Atwan).Despite all of this evidence, there are no scientists stopping their research to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS, and instead of responding to the argument against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis, scientists are ignoring it. Before scientists go any further in looking for a cure for HIV or AIDS, they need to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS in the first place. If HIV is not the only cause of AIDS, billions of tax dollars, years of research, and millions of lives may have been wasted, because pompous scientists have refused to admit that they were wrong. Why is it that scientists continue to ignore this argument? It’s not as if all of these doctors and scientists are trying to disprove the fact that smoking causes lung cancer. Even with lung cancer, there is more than one possible cause. All that this side of the argument wants is evidence that what we are spending so much time and money on is true.One might ask just why there is reason to believe that HIV isn’t the only cause of AIDS. So far, it has been shown that there is no evidence that HIV is the only cause of AIDS, but there is a large amount of evidence showing that HIV is not the only cause of AIDS. According to the scientific community, HIV breaks down the immune system, and when combined with a disease, such as tuberculosis, becomes AIDS. Without the immune system to fight off tuberculosis, the victim dies.According to Dr. Peter Duesberg, who is the professor of molecular biology at the University of California at Berkely, and one of the world’s experts on retroviruses, which, according to the scientific community, is what HIV is, “Every virus I’ve ever seen gets its job done by killing a cell at a time and when it has killed enough, you get sick. HIV is said to be responsible for the loss of T-cells, which are the immune system. Now, in every AIDS patient studied so far, there is never more than, on average, one in 1,000 cells infected by HIV” (Guccione). If such little effect is done by HIV, and AIDS still exists, there must be some other cause.The only evidence that the supporters of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis have is correlation. The correlation is that the majority of AIDS victims also have HIV. Unless all victims of AIDS also have HIV, it is impossible for HIV to be the only cause of AIDS. The correlation that they offer as evidence does not even seem to begin to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. According to Duesberg:“There are a million Americans with HIV who are totally healthy. There are six million Africans according to the World Health Organization who have HIV; 129,000 had AIDS by the end of last year, that means five million, eight hundred and so many thousand had no AIDS. Half a million Europeans have HIV and 60,000 have AIDS. So there are millions and millions of people on this planet who have [HIV but] no AIDS-why don’t seven-and-a-half million get autoimmune disease if HIV is the cause of an autoimmune disease?” (Guccione)If HIV is doing so little to affect the immune system and plays such a small part in creating AIDS, there has to be some other cause.The interviewer in this particular article then stated, “Well, the establishment says that everybody with HIV will develop AIDS and it’s just a matter of time” (Guccione). Duesberg replies:“In the last ten years this has happened in America to about 20 percent of people with HIV, 250,000 [including deaths to date] out of a million. But the people who are dying from AIDS are hardly ever your all-American friends of 20 to 40 years of age: Virtually all heterosexual Americans and Europeans who had AIDS are intravenous drug users. And the homosexuals who get AIDS had hundreds if not thousands of sexual contacts. That is not achieved with your conventional testosterone. It is achieved with chemicals. Those are the risk groups, they inhale poppers, they use amphetamines, they take Quaaludes, they take amyl nitrite, they take cocaine as aphrodisiacs.” (Guccione)There are many more people that are out to prove that HIV is not the only cause of AIDS. According to Thomas, Mullis and Johnson:There are at least three reasons for doubting the official theory that HIV causes AIDS. First, after spending billions of dollars, HIV researchers are still unable to explain how HIV, a conventional retrovirus with a very simple genetic organization, damages the immune system, much less how to stop it…. Second, in the absence of any agreement about how HIV causes AIDS, the only evidence that HIV does cause AIDS is correlation…. Third, predictions based on the HIV theory have failed spectacularly…. The number of HIV infected Americans has remained constant for years instead of increasing rapidly as predicted, which suggests that HIV is an old virus that has been with us for centuries without causing an epidemic (qtd. in Atwan).All of these statistics are working against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. It is startling to believe that the scientific community could be so stubborn to still believe that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. Not only do they still believe this, but they have still not set out to prove it.The only argument that I have seen that set out to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS had almost no solid evidence, and the only worthwhile part of the whole paper compared not believing that HIV causes AIDS to not believing that smoking can lead to lung cancer. It offered the correlation of 90% of lung cancer victims being smokers (Harris). That still leaves 10% of lung cancer that is not caused by smoking. Even in lung cancer, with an overwhelming number of victims being smokers, there has to be a second cause. With AIDS, the majority of patients also have HIV, but there are still thousands of AIDS patients that don’t have HIV (Thomas-1994). That means that something else must have caused their AIDS. Before the scientific community goes any further in finding a cure for HIV, AIDS or how to prevent them, they have to find out what the other causes of AIDS are. There are billions of people around the world that are uneducated as to what all of the causes of AIDS are and how to prevent all forms of AIDS.Scientists have hardly even acknowledged that there is an argument against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. The fact is that until this argument is disproven, or until the scientific community changes their hypothesis, this argument is not simply going to go away. There is too much support for it. There are thousands of doctors, everyday people, and scientists that believe that there is a strong argument against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. They believe that the scientific community, before directing their research at finding a cure for HIV or AIDS, needs to direct their research at finding what all of the causes of AIDS are in the first place.The problem working against this argument is that it has almost no support in the televised media. The reason for this is that ever since Robert Gallo, the originator of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis announced that HIV causes AIDS, it has been assumed to be true and has been assumed that contracting HIV is the only way to get AIDS (Thomas-1994). The media and the scientific community thinks that it is completely absurd to think otherwise.The media and the scientific community need to realize that they probably are (or at least could be) wrong about the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. If they find out the truth about what all of the causes of AIDS are, they will then be able to direct their research at a possible cure for AIDS that has eluded the scientific community for years.Guccione, Bob, Jr. “AIDS: Words from the Front.” Spin Sept. 1993.Harris, Stephen B., M.D. “The AIDS Heresies.” 1994. Online Posting. Address: http://www.skeptic.com/03.2.harris-aids.html.Thomas, Charles A., M.D. “Rethinking AIDS Home Page.” April 1994. Online posting from Penthouse magazine.Thomas, Charles A., M.D., Jr, Kary B. Mullis and Phillip E. Johnson. “What Causes AIDS? It’s an Open Question.” Reason. Atwan, Robert. Our Times. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

What HIV needs

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced 295 host cell factors that are involved in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The study, published in the Oct. 3 issue of Cell, could lead to the development of a new class of HIV therapeutics aimed at disrupting the human-HIVhuman-HIV interactions that lead to viral infection.The research, a collaborative effort between the laboratories of Sumit K. Chanda, Ph.D, previously at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) and now at Burnham and John Young, Ph.D. at Salk, combined several layers of genome-wide analysis to identify cellular proteins that aid the virus in establishing an infection.”HIV has just nine genes, coding for 15 proteins, compared to bacteria, which harbour several thousand genes, or humans, with over 20,000 genes,” said Chanda, associate professor in the Infectious %26 Inflammatory Disease Center at Burnham and an adjunct faculty member at Salk. “We have known for a long time that HIV hijacks our cellular proteins to complete its life cycle. This study now lays out its flight plan.”Young, professor in the Infectious Disease Laboratory at Salk added, “Due to viral resistance, there is an urgent need for new classes of therapies aimed at preventing the virus from infecting new cells as opposed to merely keeping viral replication in check. To develop more effective therapies for HIV infection and AIDS we must identify and characterise the cellular factors that participate in early steps of HIV-1HIV-1 replication and prevent the virus from becoming established.”Although more than two dozen drugs are available for the treatment of HIV infection, there is a growing need for new antiviral therapies. Recent studies indicate that HIV remains “hidden” in a latent form, even after long-term suppression with highly active antiretroviral therapy.In the study, the team of researchers used short-interfering RNA (siRNA) which, when introduced into a cell, silences cellular gene expression, one gene at a time. Using high throughput transfection technology available at GNF and at Burnham, more than 144,000 siRNAs (6 siRNAs for each gene in the human genome) were screened for their effects on HIV-1 infection. Data from the siRNA genomic screen was combined with information from large-scale, protein-protein interaction databases to identify key protein complexes that affect discrete steps in the early stages of HIV infection.”The integration of these systems-based analyses allowed us to build, for the first time, a functionally validated map of host-pathogen interactions that are required for viral infection,” said Renate König, Ph.D., of Burnham, the first-author on the study.————————————-

The recurrence of chronic yeast infections can be a difficult obstacle to overcome for many people. Although there are preventative methods, cures, and over the counter medications available in the fight against yeast infections, chronic yeast infections can at the best of times hold out against all of these.

Some people use home remedies to get rid of yeast infections, and with the case of chronic yeast infections, these remedies are sometimes used in conjunction with other remedies and medications.

This should of course be done with much forethought and awareness as some ingredients present in the home remedies can react adversely with each other. The same applies for prescription medications and home remedies which are used in conjunction with each other. Not all ingredients can live happily side by side.

In these cases where a person might be thinking about mixing remedies to cure cases of normal or chronic yeast infections, a medical practitioner should first be consulted. And a log of the different types of remedies kept, as this can help in the event that the person suffers from an adverse reaction to any of the medications.

Chronic yeast infections though, occur for many reasons. One of these being that the person might have a weakened immune system due to any number of reasons. If however, there are chronic yeast infections present, immediate medical attention should be sought out to rule out the possibility of HIV/ AIDS in the person.

Chronic yeast infections are common in people suffering from this immune weakening condition, although the converse isn’t true. It’s not a fact that just because the person suffers from chronic yeast infections that they have HIV/ AIDS.

Chronic yeast infections can also come about as the result of the use, and sometimes overuse, of antibiotics. Since antibiotics were designed to fight off bad bacteria, it should then come as no surprise that some of the good bacteria also gets zapped in the process.

When this happens the natural balance of the body falls and the yeast producing bacteria are allowed to thrive. That’s why many people take preventative measures such as eating a lot of yogurt or including garlic in their diets, at the same time they are taking their course of antibiotics.

Another factor for chronic yeast infections lies in stress, and the wrong diet. Stress is a great inhibitor and imbalancer of the normal bodily functionings even though people might not be aware of this. And when this is coupled with a steady diet consisting of all the “wrong” foods, conditions for chronic yeast infections to occur are ripe.

The use of douches and scented feminine hygiene products and sprays which can cause an imbalance in the vaginal environment, can also lead to chronic yeast infections occurring.

The only way to truly prevent chronic yeast infections is to take full stock of your lifestyle and to duly change it to reflect a healthier less stressful one, where infections are least likely to occur.

Take Full Stock of Your Lifestyle to Truly Prevent Chronic Yeast Infections

The recurrence of chronic yeast infections can be a difficult obstacle to overcome for many people. Although there are preventative methods, cures, and over the counter medications available in the fight against yeast infections, chronic yeast infections can at the best of times hold out against all of these. Some people use home remedies to get rid of yeast infections, and with the case of chronic yeast infections, these remedies are sometimes used in conjunction with other remedies and medications. This should of course be done with much forethought and awareness as some ingredients present in the home remedies can react adversely with each other. The same applies for prescription medications and home remedies which are used in conjunction with each other. Not all ingredients can live happily side by side. In these cases where a person might be thinking about mixing remedies to cure cases of normal or chronic yeast infections, a medical practitioner should first be consulted. And a log of the different types of remedies kept, as this can help in the event that the person suffers from an adverse reaction to any of the medications. Chronic yeast infections though, occur for many reasons. One of these being that the person might have a weakened immune system due to any number of reasons. If however, there are chronic yeast infections present, immediate medical attention should be sought out to rule out the possibility of HIV/ AIDS in the person. Chronic yeast infections are common in people suffering from this immune weakening condition, although the converse isn’t true. It’s not a fact that just because the person suffers from chronic yeast infections that they have HIV/ AIDS. Chronic yeast infections can also come about as the result of the use, and sometimes overuse, of antibiotics. Since antibiotics were designed to fight off bad bacteria, it should then come as no surprise that some of the good bacteria also gets zapped in the process. When this happens the natural balance of the body falls and the yeast producing bacteria are allowed to thrive. That’s why many people take preventative measures such as eating a lot of yogurt or including garlic in their diets, at the same time they are taking their course of antibiotics. Another factor for chronic yeast infections lies in stress, and the wrong diet. Stress is a great inhibitor and imbalancer of the normal bodily functionings even though people might not be aware of this. And when this is coupled with a steady diet consisting of all the “wrong” foods, conditions for chronic yeast infections to occur are ripe. The use of douches and scented feminine hygiene products and sprays which can cause an imbalance in the vaginal environment, can also lead to chronic yeast infections occurring. The only way to truly prevent chronic yeast infections is to take full stock of your lifestyle and to duly change it to reflect a healthier less stressful one, where infections are least likely to occur.

How to prevent getting genital warts

And although it might not be entirely possible to avoid or prevent getting genital warts, if you don’t try and exercise the necessary caution you will be leaving yourself open to it more. On the other hand, no matter what you try you might still get genital warts. That doesn’t mean that your preventative measures failed. It could just mean that either you or partner had genital warts beforehand and that you were unaware of it. Or it could just be that you were more susceptible to it. It could also be that your immune system is weakened due to any number of reasons which can make you more liable to contract genital warts. Also, if you have another sexually transmitted disease or HIV-AIDS or even cancer, genital warts could just be another symptom of this larger underlying cause. Here though, I’ve listed a few of the methods of prevention that you might want to look into in order to prevent genital warts from occurring. Some of them might not be conducive to your lifestyle, but at least trying some of them can’t hurt. • Celibacy• Having a monogamous relationship is conducive to preventing or avoiding HPV• Not starting sexual relations at a young age• Wearing condoms when having sexual intercourse• Using a spermicide during vaginal sex• Use of dental dams during oral sex• Avoiding sexual intercourse with a partner who is infected, this includes oral sex, vaginal sex, and anal sex• Not using the same towel, clothing etc., of a person who is infected• For women, having an HPV vaccine before you become infected (in most cases it’s best if you get the vaccine before you become sexually active)• Having a healthy lifestyle (this includes cutting down on some things like cigarettes, alcohol, refined sugars and meats amongst other things)

Looking at the Various Treatment Methods for Genital Warts

When you’re looking at the various treatments and treatment methods for genital warts that are available, there are a few things that you should ask about before committing to any of them. i.e. What are the benefits of the treatment ? How long, on average, will the treatment take ? What’s the cost of the treatment ? Will a different treatment be better for you ?, Do you need immediate treatment or can you wait ? What side effects can you expect from the treatment ?, Can you change the treatment if it’s not working ?, Can treatments be combined if the need arises ?, What should you expect with follow-up visits ? or What other types of treatments methods for genital warts are available to you? When discussing treatment methods for genital warts you should also inform your physician about any underlying conditions which you might have. This includes if you are pregnant or are hoping to become pregnant, if you suffer from HIV-AIDS, or if you have any other medical conditions or reactions to medication. You also have the option of postponing treatment methods for genital warts. This is not the same as leaving it completely untreated, as with this option both you and your attending physician decide to wait and monitor the progress, or the lack thereof, of the warts. This option allows you to postpone having any kind of treatment methods for genital warts for the time being as sometimes the warts can disappear of their own accord. Whether or not you will be able to postpone treatment methods for genital warts depends on a number of factors and what your doctor recommends. However, if you decide to leave your genital warts completely untreated and there is no monitoring of the progression of the infection, you could be leaving yourself open for complications to arise. The factors that should be taken into account when deciding to postpone treatment methods for genital warts, and yet have it monitored, are, The severity of the genital warts. For instance if they are large, if they are in a problematic area, if they’re bleeding, if they become infected etc. Your physician and you could also, in delying treatment methods for genital warts take into account the risks and complications that are associated with genital warts, the benefits of leaving it untreated, Your age and health, Any medical conditions you have, Your medical history, Whether this outbreak of warts is your first or whether it’s recurrent, How rapid the progression of the genital warts infection is when left untreated, Whether the genital warts will disappear on their own and also Whether there is any significant change at all in the appearance of the genital warts, in your health, and in your overall condition as time passesIf warts are found on the cervix treatment might be a necessary option to stop the HPV genital warts from changing the cell structure of the cervix, which in turn can lead to cancer of the cervix. You won’t need to take a long list of questions on the treatment methods for genital warts with you to ask the physician, although if you feel more comfortable doing so there’s no problem with that either. The key thing here is for you to know beforehand what these questions are, and what type of answer you might reasonably expect.After all that’s why you’re reading this article, right? To get all the information that you possibly can about treatment methods for genital warts, and to find out what you can do about it. Besides, I always think it pays to be informed about what your options are when it comes to dealing with your own body, and at the very least it can’t hurt you to know what to possibly expect.So along with everything else, to see which treatment methods for genital warts is right for you, you should take these into account; The severity of the genital warts plays a major role as, for instance, for a large spread of warts topical treatments might be foregone in preference of surgical treatments like laser therapy. The location of the genital warts also comes into play when determining the treatment methods for genital warts needed, Size of the warts is another factor, The risks associated with using a particular treatment, Cost of the treatment, Side effects of the different treatments, Whether there will be any resultant disfigurement from the treatments, And lastly, but not leastly, your preference of the choice of treatment