10 Scientific Reasons why HIV can not cause AIDS

Gonna go with 'insane' on that one. If he is 'brave', then he'd inject himself with the HIV virus.


South Africa is undergoing an AIDS explosion. Its going to destroy that country, especially if the so-called 'super aids' variant appears there.

There is apparently a large problem with newborns getting AIDS from unifected mothers in S.Africa too, its thought to be resulting from improperly sterilized needles. So that's giving the new generation a double whammy, setting up a set of them that are infected from birth, already, by virtue of the fact that they're in a place that couldnt' properly sterilize their needles, in a low economic sectory, not getting the best medication to treat the disease, living amoung the unifected population that seems to also be picking up the disease and spreading it rapidly...

Zed,
You hinted at a real conspiracy in your post...

about false negatives...

My question is regarding the safety of our blood supply
is donated blood safe, or is the test, not as sure as we are told?

Anyone know how many 'false' positives or negatives there really are? I know that the initial test is not as accurate until you go to the doctor and get your tcell count and viral load and all. Actually, the people who conduct free anonymous tests will tell you to go to your doctor to get a more comprehensive test done to be totally sure. So, I think they would use the more comprehensive tests on the blood supply (at least I would hope they do).

That is the point...
the more accurate tests, all are accompanied by a questionaire...

My question is when blood is given, people lie...
so can they go back and get these blood donations to answer the questionaire?
or do they assume that anyone donating blood tells the truth, and give a false negative...

the gist is this... why bother with a questionaire, if they dont use that to help make the test results more accurate?

and if they do help make the test results more accurate, then the blood supply is NOT SAFE, due to people lieing...

I think you might be right. The questionaire is used to filter out suspicious blood and have it tested. What about the people who lie? Does anyone work with blood donations that would know the answer to this? I think it's a very good question.

Yes a reactivation process is necesary since its is in its latent state and nonresponsive to antiretroviral therapies. In order to find an effective way to eradicate the virus you need to reactivate it and then try to inhibit its funtions. Its not an easy cookie. They use cytokines and chemical agents to reactivate HIV. These agents are common in a lot of viral/bacterial studies.

A large amount of the blood donated is given to people who die anyway.

That's why so many people create their own blood supply before surgery anymore. I used to let them give my blood out when I donated (which was every chance they had to suck me dry since I'm O+), but I know a lot of people that donate, and tell them to save it just for them in case they need surgery.