ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS
OF PRESIDENT MBEKI
By Heinrich Kremer
Sept 2000
A brief answer to questions raised by South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki at the
conference of specialists on HIV/AIDS issues in Pretoria on 6-7 May 2000
Questions:
1. What evidence is there for the assumption that HIV is the cause of AIDS, and what
consequences would result for the emergence of symptoms and their diagnoses?
This question contains the related questions:
a) What is the cause of immundeficiencies that lead to AIDS and ultimately to death?
b) What are the most efficient options to react to these causes?
c) Why is HIV/AIDS transmitted heterosexually in black Africa (south of the Sahara),
while it is supposedly transmitted homosexually in the industrialized countries?
2. What role can treatment play in developing countries?
The following related issues should be considered:
What possibilities of treatment are suitable for developing countries?
For AIDS patients?
For HIV-positive patients?
For prevention of mother-child transmission?
In preventing HIV infections through work-related injuries?
In preventing HIV infections after rape?
3. Therapeutic prevention of HIV/AIDS?
Discussion should always consider the social and economic context, especially poverty
and other frequently occurring diseases as well as the limited infrastructure in
developing countries.
(C. Köhnlein and C. Fiala: Report on the 1st meeting at the
invitation of South African President Mbeki; C. Fiala: AIDS in Africa, the way forward;
Koehnlein-Kiel@t-online.de / christianfiala@aon.at).
Answers:
Furchgott and Ignarro secured evidence for the first time in 1987 (Nobel Prize, 1998)
that cell systems of the human organism are controlled by nitric oxide gas. During the
following years it was demonstrated that immune cells eliminate microbial disease
pathogens within cells by producing nitric oxide (NO) gas. It was found that there are
two types of immune cells: those that produce NO gas and its derivates and those
that produce no NO gas but stimulate formation of antibodies to inhibit microbial
disease pathogens outside the body cells. These revolutionary findings have resulted in
revising many disease theories held as correct up to the present. Immunological
disease phenomena that had previously been interpreted as causal results of "HIV",
based on prevailing immune-system theories, can now be explained based on the
pioneering new research data without contradiction or assumption of a "HIV" infection.
These new findings fully justified the critical questions of President Mbeki on HIV/AIDS
and have far-reaching consequence for medicine, society, politics, and economics.
There must be a balance between NO gas-producing immune cells and those that do
not produce NO gas. This balance in cellular and so-called humoral antibody immunity
can be disturbed by non-infectious as well as infectious factors, as either can lead to
an acquired cellular immunodeficiency (AIDS). Over-stimulation of the immune cell’s NO
gas production that that is either too strong or lasts too long leads to inhibition of NO
gas production in the immune cells and increased activation of antibody-producing cells
in its place. The result can be an uninhibited rise in intracellular microbes such as fungi,
parasites, mycobacteria, and viruses (opportunistic disease pathogens) within the
body cells that would normally be eliminated without symptoms by cytotoxic NO gases.
This clinical disease diagnosis is defined as AIDS.
Oxygen respiration of certain cell systems can be blocked by simultaneous
over-stimulation of NO gas production and counter-regulation of certain cell biology.
These cells can switch to energy production independent of oxygen, and this can lead
to tumor formation. This process was already known in 1924 (the Warburg
phenomenon). Yet it can only be explained by the NO research findings. Nerve and
muscle cells can also suffer degenerative damage by disturbing oxygen respiration for
the same reason. AIDS in the defined sense is a rare form of disease in Western
countries with an annual incidence amounting to 0.001 – 0.002% of the entire
population.
The large group of AIDS patients in a numerical sense affects a minority of anally
receptive homosexuals. The causes of NO over-stimulation in this risk group are:
inhalation of organic nitrogen gases (poppers) as sexual means of doping, abuse of
antibiotic chemicals that become metabolized into NO and nitrosamines; acceptance of
foreign protein as the result of unprotected anal intercourse that can lead to NO
over-stimulation analogous to NO over-stimulation by microbial antigen protein and
antigen toxins in case of multi-infectiousness if cell detoxification is interrupted.
Intravenous drug addicts are the second-largest risk group, and their cellular immune
balance is disturbed by drug intoxication itself, by frequent microbial infections
resulting from contamination of used needles, toxic additives to the drug substances,
low and lack of nutrition related to bodily consumption resulting from drug-dependent
lifestyles. Those potentially affected in this risk group amount to about 5% of the total
population of intravenous drug users. In relatively rare cases the children of
drug-dependent mothers are affected as a result of the mothers’ chronic intoxication.
The cell respiration disturbance related to it in immune and non-immune cells causes
these newborns to suffer maturity damage in cell immunity. Hemophiliacs are a further
risk group that has injected commercially obtained but highly contaminated coagulating
protein that results in surviving NO over-stimulation (as animal experiments have
shown).
Multi-transfusion receivers with a serious basic disease are another small risk group in
numerical terms. On average they have received 35 storage units of foreign blood.
A 10-year clinical study in Canada involving several thousand patients already
published in 1986 that more than 30% of surgical patients indicated immune anomalies
that are viewed today as disturbances in NO gas-producing immune cells and as a
preponderance of non-NO gas-producing immune cells.
Already during the 1960s it became known that organ-transplant patients developed
entirely identical diseases after treatment with immunotoxic drugs. These appeared
from the late 1970s among homosexual patients. They were classified as AIDS from
1982 on. The same AIDS-indicator diseases, inhibition of NO gas production in immune
cells, and predominately mature non-NO gas-producing immune cells as well as
opportunistic infections (AIDS) developed in the same form among patients with
blood-cell cancer treated with pharmaceutical substances from the substance class to
which the AIDS medicine AZT and related substances belong. Immune cells responded
to entirely different types of triggers with NO gas production as well and in cases of
over-stimulation with inhibition of NO gas production. These can be toxic and
pharmatoxic substances, malnutrition or lack of nutrition, foreign protein intake,
infections, inflammations, lack of hormone regulation, emotional stress, and many
others.
Chronic infectious and inflammatory processes, malnutrition or lack of nutrition, as well
as contaminated drinking water play the most vital role in developing countries. The
reasons for this lie in general living conditions for which Western countries bear a
historically shared responsibility.
Under the conditions given, a much higher exposition for microbial disease pathogens
exists in developing countries for embryos in the mother’s womb, newborns, children,
women, and men than in developed industrialized countries. Microbes outside the body
cells are inhibited or eliminated by antibodies and other endogenous mechanisms as
well as a variety of cells in the immune-cell network. If they manage to get inside the
body cells, according to new findings, they can only be inhibited effectively or
eliminated by a functioning NO gas resistance. This applies especially for fungi,
parasites, mycobacteria, and a number of viruses.
Chronic infections develop if cytotoxic NO gas no longer suffices. This means a
constant irritation of the NO gas stimulation. The cells must be protected from
potential damage and accelerated death by endogenous gas production. Sulfurous
protein, vitamins, and enzymes (antioxidants) fulfill these tasks. These must be
accepted or synthesized from nutritional components. The antioxidants are called this
because they constantly have to neutralize nitrogen oxide (NO) and its derivatives as
well as reactive oxygen species (ROS). If the antioxidants are exhausted, because
nutritional intake of antioxidants and/or components to synthesize antioxidants is
lacking or one-sided and/or chronic infections and inflammatory processes cause too
high use of antioxidants, NO gas production and formation of reactive oxygen
molecules can no longer be neutralized sufficiently. Increased cell deterioration and/or
cell-biology counter-reactions occurs in immune cells and non-immune cells that lead
to secondary inhibition of NO gas production. Under this conditions opportunistic
infections can occur as a result.
This vicious circle of a high exposition for chronic infections and inflammations,
anti-oxidative undernourishment and malnutrition, as well as disposition for
opportunistic infections is well known as nutritional AIDS in developing countries. (W.R.
Beisel, 1992; J Nutr. 122:591-596; W.R. Beisel, 1996; J Nutr. 126: 2,611-2,615).
The primary causes of this form of AIDS in developing countries, regardless of gender,
concern unborn babies in their mothers’ wombs, newborns, children, women, and men.
These primary causes usually differ basically from the primary causes of most
AIDS-indicator diseases in the risk groups of Western countries.
AIDS in Africa is no more a result of transmitting a so-called AIDS pathogen sexually in
Africa than it is in Western countries. There is no such AIDS pathogen. Nor would it be
either sufficient or necessary to understand the disease processes. The assumption of
such an AIDS pathogen stems from a not too distant time when one had not yet
understood the fundamental processes in immune cells and non-immune cells. Even in
AIDS cases where primarily infectious processes are a co-deciding cause for failure of
NO gas resistance in the immune cells, sexually transmitted infections play no exclusive
role. The sexual channel is only one of the possible means of access for infections.
Most chronic infections are not transmitted sexually (for example, lung tuberculosis,
miliar tuberculosis, malaria, worm infections, and numerous other tropical infections.
This also applies for secondary opportunistic pathogens, mainly fungi, parasites,
mycobacteria, and cytomegaloviruses, as well as other herpes viruses. The most
common AIDS indicator disease, PC lung infection, demonstrates this point. It is
triggered by an airborne fungus pathogen.
The scientific reduction of thought to homosexual or heterosexual transmission of a
so-called AIDS pathogen has veiled the actual causes of developing opportunistic
infections. All are caused by inhibiting NO gas production in immune cells and
non-immune cells as well as by blockading the oxygen respiration of certain cells. HIV/
AIDS medicine has not been able to explain to date why the identical diseases of
pharmacotoxic AIDS and nutritional AIDS develop entirely independent of any "HIV"
pathogen, while ( despite analogous excessive toxic, pharmatoxic, infectious, and
nutritive immune stressors or massive administration of immunotoxic foreign protein in
other human cases ( the AIDS-indicator diseases only develop if a so-called AIDS
pathogen has been transmitted sexually or via the bloodstream.
Numerous experimental and clinical studies have established that the antioxidant and
sulfurous detoxifying protein in the immune cells are sharply reduced, and that the
immune cells which predominate, produce no more NO gas, but that antibody
production is increased among "HIV-positives" at the earliest possible moment of "HIV"
seroconversion, when the "HIV test" shows a positive result. This fact proves that the
immune cells of these patients cannot be disturbed by a so-called AIDS pathogen,
such as that claimed by HIV/AIDS theory, but that the immune cells have inhibited NO
gas production due to a shortage or total lack of antioxidant detoxifier molecules. The
not NO gas producing TH2-immune cells are moving mainly outside the bloodstream,
where they can take over the stimulation of B-lymphcells for antibody production.
However, the reduced number of immune cells is only measured in flowing blood as a
alleged proof for destruction by "HIV" viruses. This AIDS definition even applies in the
USA if no clinical symptoms are at hand but only the number of T4 immune cells in the
blood stream has fallen below a certain level and the "HIV" test shows a positive
reaction. This obscure diagnostic procedure (AIDS without the clinical syndrome or
"AID" without "S") has raised the officially recorded count of "AIDS cases" in the USA
since 1 January 1993 by more than 100%. This AIDS definition has not been accepted
in Europe, and the AIDS case numbers are dropping accordingly.
Just as questionable as these definitions is the diagnosis of AIDS diseases in Africa.
The Bangui AIDS definition of 1985, which is in use today with variations, enables AIDS
diagnosis by appearance based on unspecified symptoms such as coughing, fever,
diarrhea, etc., if they last longer than one month. Such symptoms are frequent in
developing countries in case of chronic inflammatory and infectious processes. These
cases, recorded as AIDS without diagnostic standards, are reported to the World
Health Organization in Geneva. Based on the summary judgment of the assumed
"spread dynamics of HIV in Africa", the HIV/AIDS cases are projected, and the data
gained is offered to the world press as the current status of the "HIV/AIDS pandemic "
in Africa. Given this completely obscure HIV/AIDS data, the international mass media
paint this picture of the "dying continent of Africa" without referring to the slipshod
method of data gathering. These practices have led to the manipulated world opinion
that 90% of all HIV/AIDS infections occur in Africa.
Thus in the USA, Europe, and Africa there are differing factual bases treated in public
opinion as HIV/AIDS. To this extent, in view of "the limited infrastructure in developing
countries", it only makes sense to raise questions according to the cause, therapy,
and prevention of AIDS if the real biomedical core of the problem is cleanly separated
from manipulation of HIV/AIDS medicine and their profiteers by propaganda.
As to the question about the "consequences resulting from the emergence of
symptoms and their diagnoses", knowledge of the real background facts in Africa
means that the actual causes of patients’ diseases are diagnosed incorrectly or not at
all. It also means that patients and their family members are placed in mortal fear,
excluded, and submitted to hopelessness. There is no proof to support the "HIV causes
AIDS" disease theory, but there is an overwhelming abundance of evidence against it.
Nobody has actually isolated the "HIV", and the existence of such a virus was
concluded by unspecified molecular markers after manipulation of immune cells from the
blood of homosexual AIDS patients. These immune cells were stimulated with highly
oxidized substances that, as one knows today, trigger reactive NO gas production.
Since the cells were greatly decreased by detoxifying molecules containing sulfur, a
portion of the cells perishes. This phenomenon then interpreted as destruction by the
hypothetical HIV. Another portion of the cells reacted with cell-biology
counter-regulations. These include formation of regenerative protein and export of
oxidized stress protein from the cells. Both molecular markers were seen as exclusive
proof of the presence of "HIV", although the same molecular markers could be provoked
in numerous other cells under the same laboratory conditions.
All cell experiments that have supposedly detected isolation of the "HIV" are based on
evidence of such unspecific markers after stimulation with such highly oxidizing
substances in cell cultures. Nobody has been able to demonstrate cell-free HIV in the
blood serum of "HIV"-positives or AIDS patients without such biochemical
manipulations, although they should multiply a billion-fold according to the HIV/AIDS
theory prevailing since 1995. According to the findings of NO research, HIV researchers
have confused cause and effect. This knowledge is supported by the fact that the
discoverer of the patented "HIV" test of 1984, Dr. Gallo, manipulated cell cultures of
AIDS patients with hydrocortisone. The hormone hydrocortisone blocks cell splitting
including reproduction of viruses potentially existing that can only reproduce with host
cells in synchronized manner. Hydrocortisone also inhibits NO gas production but
promotes formation of regenerative protein.
Two of Dr. Gallo’s external colleagues, who had worked with him on cell experiments,
published in 1987 that the "HIV" sought in AIDS patients’ immune cells based on
molecular markers (regenerative protein, export of stress protein from the cells in the
form of so-called virus-like cell particles) had been demonstrated especially well after
adding hydrocortisone to the cell culture. These data referred to experiments in Dr.
Gallo’s laboratory during 1984 when setting up the "HIV" test. Yet Dr. Gallo, who had
deliberately kept a secret of this hydrocortisone effect in his publications, had to admit
the fact after a reproach at the 1998 press conference of the international World AIDS
Congress in Geneva.
Dr. Gallo he has been unable to explain to this day why the splitting of host cells is
blocked after adding hydrocortisone (as any physician from clinical application knows
about hydrocortisone) but the "HIV" reproduced especially well with hydrocortisone
present. NO research provides this explanation: unspecific molecular markers, allegedly
proof of "HIV" existence, are nothing else than regenerative protein and cellular waste
exported from oxidative cells under stress from cells in so-called virus-like cell particles
as the byproduct of cell-biology counter-regulation. Thus these markers have nothing
to do with "HIV".
Dr. Gallo misinterpreted the protein released after oxidizing stimulation from the immune
cells of AIDS patients that were cultivated jointly with human leukemia cells. He
identified it as "HIV" protein. Using this human cell protein, Dr. Gallo equipped the test
substrate for his patented "anti-HIV" antibody test. This test substrate, which had
been adjusted to especially high antibody amounts, reacted with antibodies in blood
serum of people whose immune cells form a particularly high level of antibodies. This is
true above all for people whose immune cells no longer produce NO resistance gas but
increasingly stimulate synthesis of antibodies instead. A "HIV"-positive test result
means nothing else than that the test person has particularly high amounts of
antibodies in the blood, and these react accordingly with foreign human test protein.
Since there are no antibodies in human blood that react only with protein against
which they were originally formed, the "HIV" test demonstrably reacts to many
different antibodies. In Africa, antibodies in the blood serum of test subjects reacts
positively in the HIV test, though the antibodies formed originally against antigen
protein from tuberculosis, malaria, and PCP fungi pathogens as well as many other
pathogens.
Hence there are no "HIV" infections either by sexual transmission or via the
bloodstream. So-called mother-child transmissions are transmissions of maternal
antibodies to the child and/or toxic damage to the child’s immature immune-cell
formation in the mother’s womb and/or immune-cell anomalies after birth by toxic
medication treatment. They can also be the result of the mother having a chronic
infection that was transmitted to the child.
So-called professionally caused "HIV" transmissions or transmission by rape are
anecdotal reports. There is no validated proof case of this in all the HIV/AIDS
literature. These horror stories are based on the pseudo-logic of the HIV/AIDS theory
and serve as alleged confirmation of the "HIV" infection for the general public.
Consequently there is also no treatment or prevention against the putatively real "HIV"
as the alleged cause of AIDS.
Yet there are effective prevention and treatment possibilities for pre-AIDS and AIDS.
Besides compensating for undernourishment and malnutrition as well as the treatment
sought for infectious and noninfectious causes of disease and avoidance of specific
risks, a suitably dosed antioxidant compensatory therapy is indicated. This calls for
proteins containing sulfur and other additives as well as amino acids (glutathione,
cysteine, homocysteine, arginine, etc.), vitamins, minerals, trace elements, plant
polyphenols, natural protease inhibitors such as polyanions based on sea algae and
cartilage preparations, prostaglandin modulators made of fish oils (omega-3 fatty acid)
or, in difficult cases, selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors, if necessary
difluoromethylornithine as a polyamine inhibitor, and gamma globulin (Hässig et al.,
1998, medical hypothesis 51: 59-63) in case of opportunistic infections. Non-toxic
therapeutics recognizes many possibilities of balancing a disturbance of cellular
immunobalance without blocking cellular respiration by AZT and related substances.
Within recent years orthodox HIV/AIDS medicine too has begun to rediscover the
possibilities of consistent antioxidant protection and liver protection for patients with
acquired cellular immunodeficiencies. In this sphere, developing countries have an
abundance of potential options by using sea products as food supplements, building up
a license-free plantation economy for phytotherapeutics, and recollection of
ethnomedical experience.
An incredible waste of resources has occurred in Western countries since 1984 in
connection with the largest capital investment in medical history based on the
objectively false disease theory "HIV causes AIDS". Poor countries can hardly afford
the luxury of crippling the will of their people to survive through irrational sex and
death fantasies instead of investing their meager resources in improving general living
conditions. This also includes comprehensive continuing education of medical staff to
the state of medical knowledge in 2000 instead of 1984. The history of Western
medicine has demonstrated that the prevalence of chronic inflammatory and infectious
processes could be reduced drastically and continuously up until the middle of the
previous century prior to introduction of chemotherapeutics, antibiotics, and mass
immunization (L.A. Sagan: The Health of Nations: True Causes of Sickness and
Well-being. Basic Books, New York, 1987). Meanwhile, fundamental findings of Western
medical research into NO, cell symbiosis, and other areas have gained significance in
other important spheres of preventive and therapeutic medicine outside official
HIV/AIDS medicine.
Sooner or later these findings will also prevail in the broadest sense in AIDS prevention
and therapy. Scientists, physicians, and others involved (particularly in the news
media) have benefited 16 years from the massive capital flow to research and combat
"HIV"/AIDS. They have been outraged by the South African government’s critical
questions about the cause, treatment and prevention of AIDS, reacting out of
ignorance or unwillingness to learn.
However, discriminating against physicians and scientists as AIDS dissidents, who have
only drawn rational conclusions from validated medical-research findings based on the
best available knowledge, their consciences, and their sense of duty, is an
unacceptable violation of general human rights ( especially for the patients involved.
What would happen if the South African government would maintain the "HIV causes
AIDS" disease theory that has become scientifically obsolete in the meantime and
approve recommended mass poisoning with AZT and related toxic pharmaceuticals? It
would actually trigger the catastrophe suggested to the Africans by interested
physicians, mass media, politicians, and drug concerns as well as the large army of
profiteers as the stream of capital flows to exploit the self-staged archaic fear of a
plague. After having overcome the racist mania of Apartheid, it must become the
historic mission of the South African government to resist the HIV plague mania and to
develop its own African way to improve general living standards and standards for
prevention and therapy.
Such "HIV"-positives have survived in Western countries by resisting mass fear
hysteria, recognizing risks of disease, and using a broad range of natural
food-supplement resources and antioxidant medicine. Meanwhile, the "HIV"-positives
who trusted the highly toxic so-called antiviral pharmaceutical substances and
chemo-therapeutics have fallen victims to HIV/AIDS medicine. According to official
government statistics published by the German public-health authorities in 1985, for
example, each German with "HIV" must have been infected until 1995 and died of AIDS
until 2000. These figures, projected by the semi-logarithmic Weibull statistical method,
have never been corrected. Instead, the country’s mass media have bought these and
many other absurd claims as medical facts.
The same health-care authorities officially stated that 0.0015% of the population was
newly registered as "HIV"/AIDS cases in 1999, and that it still concerned people from
the same risk groups. The same leading news media failed to report on this result "of
the fatal sex epidemic transmittable to anybody". Instead it promptly reported at the
World AIDS Congress on 9 July 2000 in South Africa that "Almost half of all young
women there are HIV-positive at age 20, and 58% of them are by age 25. Among men,
the infection rate reached its apex at age 32, since 45% had the fatal virus in the
blood" (Der Spiegel, 3 July 2000). A similar numbers game ( the same horror stories
about epidemic, sex, and sensation spread in the USA and Europe during the past two
decades ( projected at the moment to South Africa, the country that should serve as
a strategic beachhead for the pharmaceutical firms in all other developing countries.
The director of the Epidemiological Institute of Johannesburg, Dr. Williams, is quoted as
the only verifiable source of the assertion on the alleged epidemic nature of HIV/AIDS
in South Africa: "The sudden increase in tuberculosis cases among gold miners turned
the attention of epidemiologist Williams to Carletonville. Within 10 years the number of
tuberculosis patients had almost quadrupled; TB frequency was 100 times greater than
in Western industrial nations. The researcher knew: lung disease often comes as the
result of a HIV infection. Tests confirmed his suspicion. Every third miner was already
infected with HIV, as were 37% of all adult women". (Der Spiegel, "Fluch der Jungen", 3
July 2000).
What Europe’s largest news magazine with the advertising slogan "Spiegel readers
know more" failed to tell its readers was that orthodox HIV/AIDS researchers at
America’s Harvard University had established in a comprehensive 1994 study that
"results with the anti-HIV antibody test ELISA and WB should be interpreted with
caution in case of serial tests with people who came in contact with tuberculosis
pathogens or other mycobacterial species. ELISA and WB cannot be viewed as
sufficient for a HIV diagnosis in AIDS endemic areas in Africa where the prevalence of
mycobacterial disease is very high. There is a very high rate of false-positive ELISA
and WB results in HIV tests" (Kashala et al., 1994, in J Infect. Dis. 169: 296-304).
Like many other leading media, Der Spiegel, has been informed several times in writing
of the untenable nature of the HIV/AIDS claim in Africa based on enclosures from
scientific publications. But it has not changed its deliberately false coverage. Already
in 1985 the ELISA test had admittedly only been accepted as a "HIV" diagnostic test
by Western countries due to "the 90% false-positive HIV results". According to
Western testing guidelines, a second positive ELISA test result must be confirmed by a
positive test result in the so-called WB test. In Africa, as a rule, only the ELISA test is
carried out, if any, on cost grounds, and indeed using two test antigen proteins. Such
HIV-positive test results do not count as confirmed positive results in Western
countries.
Since 1992 the WB confirmation test has not been allowed as a "HIV" confirmation test
any more in Great Britain, since this is considered too unreliable. There are no binding
international standards for "HIV" tests. However, the biomedical truth is that any "HIV"
test is false-positive, and none of these tests can show antibody bond against "HIV",
since nobody has provided proof that the test substrate of the "HIV" test contains
"HIV" protein.
On the other hand, any informed person knows the specific causes for tuberculosis and
other infections among itinerant workers under African gold-mine labor conditions and
living conditions in the residential camps of these workers. To understand these
diseases, as recent medical research has sufficiently explained, there needs to be no
"HIV" infection or HIV-positive test results among people in Africa who have come into
contact with the endemic
tuberculosis pathogen. Does the South African government really want to deliver the
South African people over to the obscure practitioners of international epidemic
speculators and "brutality typical of concerns in the pharmaceutical sector" (Der
Spiegel, 26 June 2000). The years of experience in Western countries has taught that
preventive and therapeutic recommendations were not understood and could not have
been implemented to target groups properly during recent decades without basic
communication of medical research’s changing knowledge.
Medicine and health-care policy are always part of tacit system know-how that must
be counterchecked by transparency. However, during the past two decades
counterchecking by institutionalized medicine and medical opinion leaders speaking in
trade journals has failed in the case of HIV/AIDS medicine, since the self-styled
"HIV-retrovirus" researchers have been originators of the epidemic hysteria and at
same time chief experts deciding on release of immense amounts of research money as
well as publishers on HIV/AIDS in the specialized media (Lang: Challenges, Springer,
New York, 1998, pp. 361-741).
The South African government will have to find a more than rhetorical response to the
extremely dangerous challenge of the World AIDS Congress in its own country that is
known to have been sponsored by the international pharmaceutical concerns. Most of
the unscrupulous mixture of deliberate medical perjury, distortion of scholarly based
counter-analyses, malicious personal discrimination and discrediting of a sovereign
government’s members may hardly be able to climb higher in the service of the
"brutality typical of the sector" of economic interests.
"Briefly before the13th World AIDS Conference that took place in the harbor city of
Durban 9-14 July", reported Der Spiegel, "Chief of State Thambo Mbeki also caused
annoyance and confusion. He sought to speak to scientists who championed the long
refuted thesis that AIDS is not the result of an HIV infection but the consequence of
drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, and underdevelopment. As the Boers’ racist regime
was forced to abdicate in 1994, the country still had a chance to stem the epidemic.
Yet the national AIDS plan broke down due to an authority free-for-all, mistrust for
white experts, and a lack of political will to lead. In his five-year term in office, the
country’s first black president, the globally respected Mandela dedicated less public
time to the South African AIDS topic than he did to a PR meeting with the Spice Girls,
Naomi Campbell, and Michael Jackson. Prominent black leaders had indeed already
warned in 1990 that AIDS could "ruin the fulfillment of our dreams", indeed a
health-card paper written by the then still exiled African National Congress (ANC) had
conceded that almost 60,000 freedom fighters could be infected, yet none of the
returnees were tested. And only once, at the end of 1998, did Mandela make AIDS the
topic of a detailed speech ( at an economic forum in Switzerland. Every fifth new
South African mother was already HIV-positive at the time. Meanwhile 22.4% of all
newborns countrywide are infected. The epidemic rate among women under 30 even
lies at almost 26%. Nonetheless, in no year since the ANC’s takeover of power has the
national AIDS budget even been fully spent. At the same time the health minister
refuses AZT "on cost grounds", though it would reduce the probability of HIV
transmission to the newborn by half" (The Spiegel, 3 July 2000).
Even though thoroughly informed, the editorial board of Der Spiegel ( one priding itself
on having the most serious journalistic reputation ( suppresses the following important
fact in its coverage: Highly toxic AZT blocks maturation of antibody-producing immune
cells in bone marrow (G.J. Rosenthal and M. Kowolenko, Immunotoxicological
Manifestations of AIDS Therapeutics; J.H. Dean et al., eds. Immunotoxicology and
Immunopharmacology. Second Edition, Raven Press, New York, 1994, pp. 249-365).
The newborn will be protected against extracellular disease pathogens during the first
months of life by antibodies transmitted from the mother. Newborn antibodies
measured by the "HIV" test are therefore antibodies of the mother. About 12% of
newborns with "HIV"-positive mothers in Western countries react positively in these
tests. In the sense of HIV/AIDS theory, this finding means that 88% of newborns
should have accepted no antibodies in the mother’s womb via the common circulatory
system, although the mother’s "HIV" should have increased a billion times a day and
the mother’s antibodies may have had to survive for years against the "HIV" in the
blood serum. On the other hand, 12% of newborns should have accepted the mother’s
"HIV" antibodies and react positively to the "HIV" test. This assumption means an
insoluble contradiction in the sense of HIV/AIDS theory, since any newborn accepts
antibodies from the mother and logically ( according to HIV/AIDS theory ( must also
accept the "HIV" allegedly multiplying a billion-fold in the blood serum of the
"HIV"-positive mother. In this logical difficulty, one treats all "HIV"-positive pregnant
mothers with AZT, although one knows that pregnant mothers in Africa even in the
sense of HIV/AIDS theory could show a "very high rate" of false-positive results in
ELISA and WB HIV tests (Kashala et al., 1994). If the newborn is negative in the "HIV"
test after birth, one claims that the "HIV" infection has been prevented through AZT.
On the other hand, if the newborn is positive in the "HIV" test, the newborn will
continue to be treated with AZT.
Nobody really knows with which antibodies the mother and newborn have reacted
positively to the test. Since the sensitivity threshold of the "HIV" test is adjusted to a
certain amount of antibodies, the so-called "positive HIV" test means only that the
mother and newborn indicate a sufficiently high amount of antibodies to react
positively to the "HIV" test’s protein. A "negative HIV" test for a newborn of a
"HIV"-positive mother says merely that the newborn has not accepted enough
antibodies from the mother or has already formed them itself to register a so-called
positive result in the "HIV" test. Yet the "HIV" could still have been transmitted from
the mother to the newborn if one assumes that the "HIV" exists in the mother’s
bloodstream (demonstrated by the "HIV" test) with which all possible antibodies can
react. Since AZT, due to its biochemical properties, suppresses immune cells producing
newly maturing antibodies among pregnant women treated with AZT the probability
increases that the newborn accepts fewer antibodies than would be required for a
positive result in the "HIV" test. The claim that "use of AZT reduces the probability of
HIV transmission to the newborn by half" (Der Spiegel, 3 July 2000) is based on this
effect.
In reality, neither a "HIV"-positive nor -negative result for the newborn would express
something about transmission of the "HIV" after a "HIV-positive" pregnant woman has
been treated with AZT, even if one assumes that she were actually infected by the
"HIV". Even in this (fictitious) case, the "HIV" test result would provide only information
that more or less of the mother’s antibodies were transmitted to the child without
being able to know if it concerned antibodies against (fictitious) "HIV" or an antibody
against other antigens.
However, the biological truth is that AZT, due to its biochemical properties, could not
inhibit "HIV", since the substance is not integrated in any DNA or any provirus DNA of a
"HIV". Rather it blocks the cell respiration of immune and non-immune cells and causes
secondary DNA damage to these cells. Thus the logical consequence would be that
HIV would not be inhibited if prescribed to all pregnant women in South Africa with
so-called positive HIV tests (allegedly 22.4% of all pregnant women) as a prophylaxis
against transmission of the "HIV" to the newborn. AZT does not do what it allegedly
should but demonstrably does what the substance should supposedly prevent, namely
promote acquired immunodeficiency. AZT has caused newborns serious birth defects
and other maturity disturbances. (J. Kumar et al., Acquir. Immundef. Syndr. 7, 1994:
pp. 1,035-1,039; Moye et al., 1996, Journal Pedriatics, 128: pp. 58-67)
Administration of AZT is strictly contraindicated for all "HIV"-positives and AIDS
patients, pregnant women, newborns, children, women, and men including those
patients diagnosed as "HIV-positives" without a "positive HIV" test finding according to
the Bangui definition of AIDS cases. "A critical analysis of presently available data
claiming that AZT has anti-HIV effects shows that there is neither theoretical nor
experimental evidence confirming that AZT alone or in combination with other
substances has any such effect" (Papadopulos-Eleopulos, 1998, Curr. Med. Research
and Opinion 15, Suppl. 1: pp. 1-45).
The real active mechanism of AZT is clearly known. AZT inhibits certain enzymes in cell
respiration of immune and non-immune cells. The result is development of opportunistic
infections (AIDS), certain tumors, and degeneration of muscle and nerve cells. Even
the manufacturer warns: "Retrovir (Zidovudine = AZT) can be associated with serious
toxic damage to blood-building cells including white blood cells and serious anemia.
Degeneration of muscle cells has been associated with long-term medication of AZT"
(Glaxo Wellcome: Retrovir (Zidovudine) In: Physicians’ Desk Reference. Medical
Economic Co., Monvale, 1998, pp. 1,167-1,175).
The fact that AZT also inhibits enzymes in microbes has been misinterpreted as
inhibiting "HIV" replication. Since opportunistic pathogens can adapt better to the
inhibiting effect than the cell systems of patients whose immune systems have already
been weakened, AZT medication will favor uninhibited development of opportunistic
pathogens (AIDS) sooner or later. Due to their similar action, AZT and over-stimulation
of NO gas have identical effects: accelerated cell deterioration and/or cell-biology
counter-regulations. However, fixation on "HIV" infection veils this causal relationship.
The AZT manufacturer admits that "similar pathological changes such as those
produced by HIV illness have been associated with long-term medication of AZT"
(Glaxo Wellcome, 1998). However, symptoms of "HIV" illness (anomalies of cellular
immunity, positive "HIV" test, and opportunistic infections) can be explained free of
contradiction by NO research findings and without assuming the existence of "HIV".
The test findings of Dr. Brian Williams ignore the fact that this causal relationship can
be demonstrated as follows:
"The ELISA and WB test results should be interpreted with caution when conducting
serial tests of persons who have come in contact with mycobacterium tuberculosis or
other mycobacterial species."
"The ELISA and WB HIV test cannot be sufficient for HIV diagnosis in AIDS-endemic
areas of Central Africa where the prevalence of mycobacterial diseases is very high"
(Kashala et al., 1994, J. Infect. Dis. 169: 296-304).
The lack of a well-informed medical base has had disastrous effects for South Africa
and other developing countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) based much of
its prognosis on so-called positive HIV test findings by the director of the
Epidemiological Institute in Johannesburg, Dr. Williams, working with cases of
tuberculosis infections in Carletonville and other areas in South Africa.
"Every other South African youth will die of AIDS’, a WHO study predicted," reported
Der Spiegel. "Every hour another 70 South Africans are infected with the fatal virus.
And nowhere, believes epidemiologist Brian Williams, 55, is the situation as bad as in
the mining city of Carletonville. Because gold mining offers the ideal breeding grounds
for a virus transmitted by sexual acts. Some 70,000 lonesome men live in the barracks
of the mining companies around the small town and its black townships. This is the
result of a job-creation policy introduced during Apartheid times. Gold lies several
thousand meters below ground in Carletonville. Not much more than a gram is gain from
every ton of boulders extracted. If the mining is to pay, itinerant workers must be
shipped to the mining sites. To this day they only see their families every two to three
months. The rest of the year they live crammed together, 14 men to every 45 square
meters" (Der Spiegel, 3 July 2000).
Every experienced industrial physician knows that the working and living conditions
described are ideal breeding grounds for tuberculosis and other microbial infections in
view of the low medical standards in African countries.
"The sudden increase in tuberculosis cases among gold miners made epidemiologist
Williams aware of Carletonville," Der Spiegel reported further. "Within 10 years the
number of tuberculosis patients almost quadrupled. TB incidence was 100 times greater
than in Western industrialized countries. The researcher knew that lung disease often
comes after a HIV infection. Tests confirmed his suspicion: HIV had already infected
every third miner. Another 37% of all adult women were also infected. Completely
unprepared, the researcher concluded the extent to which the epidemic had infected
Khutsong’s young people. Among girls the HIV infection rate rose with a leap at age
15; at age 20 almost half of all young women were HIV-positive; at age 25 some 58%
had been infected. Among men the epidemic rate reached its apex at age 32, since
45% had the fatal virus in their blood" (Der Spiegel, 3 July 2000).
These claims on the alleged epidemic rates in South Africa have been diagnosed with
so-called ELISA HIV diagnostic tests that even in orthodox HIV/AIDS medicine have
recorded 90% false-positives from the outset. Moreover, the test result depends on
the blood’s viscosity, and this is higher in tropical countries than in Western countries.
Testing preparation and testing technique in African countries do not qualify as
meaningful in Western HIV/AIDS medical circles, so that people who test "HIV-positive"
in Africa regularly show "HIV-negative" test results in repeat tests in Western
countries. Despite this, these "HIV-positive" test results are bought by the WHO,
Western HIV/AIDS physicians, and the international news media as biological facts in
order to exert political and economic pressure on developing countries.
Yet from the viewpoint of scientifically based medicine with a minimum claim to
seriousness, it is crucial to know for reasons of interpretation what these antibody
reaction tests in case of serial tests in Africa could tell us ( if anything at all. That is:
if "HIV" tests react positively to antibodies in the blood stream of test subjects that
should only have been formed against "HIV" after sexual transmission of "HIV" to people
with a healthy immune system.
or if the test subjects in "HIV" tests react positively to antibodies that have formed in
their bloodstream after primarily latent or manifest infection with mycobacteria (M
tuberculosis, M leprosy, M avium, intracellular),.fungal microbes (pneumocystis carinii,
candida, cryptococcus, coccidioides, histoplasma, etc.) or other microbes entirely
without a hypothetical infection with "HIV".
The answer to these crucial diagnostic questions can be demonstrated by comparisons
with assertions of HIV/AIDS theory and the data from NO research as well as findings
actually validated scientifically (see illustration at the end of this paper).
The research data show clearly that "HIV" tests react positively to antibodies formed
against mycobacteria and fungus microbes. The assertion of HIV/AIDS medicine that
"positive HIV" test results in Africa should be given equal diagnostic weight with a fatal
"HIV" infection is not scientifically viable. The assertion of Dr. Williams that
development of tuberculosis among Africans is the result of a "HIV" infection is without
medical foundation. The biological truth is rather that a mycobacterial tuberculosis
infection leads to antibody formation that could react positively to test protein in the
"HIV" test. The mycobacterial infection precedes a positive result in the "HIV" test and
not vice versa. If a positive result in the "HIV" test actually indicates a still active
mycobacterial or fungal infection or another infection cannot be decided on the basis
of a "HIV" test. Specific diagnostic processes must be used for such a statement. The
antibody reaction in the "HIV" test could involve existing antibodies stemming from an
earlier infection, for the test fails to show which infection it has identified. To this
extent, use of a "HIV" test is senseless, misleading, and highly unethical.
Scientific and deliberately false assertions on lethal "HIV" infections in South Africa
make perfidious use of pseudo-evidence of "positive HIV" tests to allot political guilt to
the South African government and to spread irrational death fears out of vested
political and economic interest.
"Half of the young people will die of the epidemic because the state has failed to act…"
warned Der Spiegel. "And the major death toll has just begun… A catastrophe of
unimaginable extent looms in countries such as Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, and
South Africa. The land at the Cape was the last to register the pandemic. At first the
disease seemed to affect white homosexuals above all. That was in the late 1980s as
the Boers still ruled. They regarded the epidemic as divine punishment for sexual
perversion. Health-care policy measures were not taken. Then the radical change
occurred. A civil war raged in the country’s most populated state, Kwazulu-Natal.
Right-wing white militants threatened a coup as the blacks celebrated the release of
their hero, Nelson Mandela, after 27 years of imprisonment. The virus was forgotten.
Ten years later it has inflicted more than one tenth of the population. And almost all
victims are black. Yet the political leadership still reacts helplessly to the epidemic.
Indeed a health-care paper written by the African National Congress (ANC) had
conceded while still in exile that nearly 60,000 freedom fighters could be infected. Yet
none of the returnees were tested" (Der Spiegel, 3 July 2000).
Thus it aroused the impression that 60,000 freedom fighters potentially infected with
the lethal "HIV" had dragged the "HIV" epidemic into the country upon their return, and
the ANC government had looked on idly at "the death of half of the young people". Yet
the same news magazine had already declared Africa the "dying continent" in 1991
(Der Spiegel, 17 June 1991). Since then, according to data from the United Nations,
the population in Africa has increased by more than 100 million people. If the South
African government, under pressure from the international epidemic speculators, were
to adopt the medically and scientifically untenable HIV/AIDS theory as national
doctrine and approve the mass poisoning with AZT and other toxic AIDS medicines,
this would in fact be "criminal betrayal of responsibility to one’s own people" (Mbeki:
Letter to world leaders on AIDS in Africa, 3 April 2000).
The World AIDS Congress hops from continent to continent every two years, invading
another country like a plague of locusts. The horror story of the homosexual scene as
the breeding grounds of the "death virus", transmittable to anybody through sex, has
lost its impact among the Western public. For example, according to the official 1999
medical statistics from Germany, a total of about 800 "HIV" people stigmatized by "HIV"
died of AIDS. All of these victims were treated pharmatoxically. Given the non-event
nature of the mass epidemic predicted for years and effective counterintelligence
independent of the Western mass media, some 11,000 stars and their supporting cast
staged the HIV/AIDS traveling circus during the millennium year. The doctors,
scientists, health-care officials, media reporters, and epidemic activists had been lured
to South Africa with sponsoring funds from the drugs firms. There they would tell the
gruesome epidemic saga of the 60,000 demilitarized bush warriors who had returned to
their country untested for the death germ they were prepared to sow among every
other youth. In return, shareholders wanted to see the turnover of pharmatoxic
products increased with "the brutality typical of the sector" (Der Spiegel, 26 June
2000).
The turnover figures in developing countries would pay off in view of stagnating sales
in Western countries, even at the dumping prices offers from the World Health
Organization and the Western pharmaceutical firms. Millions of poisoned corpses should
pay the price for the grotesque epidemic. The opening strategy should focus on
treatment of "HIV"-positive pregnant women with so-called antiviral AIDS medicines
that inhibit maturing of antibody-producing bone-marrow cells and in this way fake
inhibition of "HIV" in newborn babies. South Africa, quo vadis? Will the freedom fighters
of the ANC stop the virus hunt? Or will epidemic Apartheid replace racial Apartheid?
"Not long ago in our own country," President Mbeki wrote to world leaders concerning
AIDS, "people were killed, tortured, imprisoned, and inhibited from being quoted in
private and in public, because the established authority believed that their views were
dangerous and discredited. We are now being asked to do precisely the same thing
that the racist apartheid tyrany we opposed did, because it is said, there exist
ascientific view that is supported by the majority, against which dissent is prohibited."
(Mbeki: Letter to world leaders on AIDS in Africa, 3 April 2000).
Yet today the issue is no longer scientific dissent. It is hard medical facts suppressed
by vested interests. This specifically concerns the "clean torture" of millions of
defenseless people who have been placed in deathly fear and should be treated with
demonstrably toxic pharmaceutical substances. These form the diagnostic basis of
antibody reaction tests that demonstrably indicate anything else than an infection with
a fatal "HIV". And it specifically concerns medical and social standards in developing
countries to improve the state of knowledge in the year 2000 in order to hinder the
actual causes of AIDS (in the most narrow and broadest senses) preventively and
therapeutically. This task of the century will also demand use of all powers and
resources in an intelligent manner and without the obsession of HIV/AIDS medicine,
which simplifies and compounds the problem facing us in a terrifying fashion.
The speech of President Mbeki at the opening of the 13th World AIDS Congress in
Durban on 9 July 2000 was the right signal for all independent scientists if the practice
of future health-care policy is not to be determined by organized disinformation but by
sober factual analysis.
"According to predictions presented in Durban by two American officials, the Bureau of
Statistics and the Agency for International Development (AID), life expectancy in
Botswana is 29 years, in South Africa, Swaziland, and Namibia 30 years ( the most
pessimistic prediction on the catastrophic development so far. On the other hand,
Mbeki said at the opening of the congress that poverty is the greatest cause of death
in the world and the most important reason for disease and suffering. At least
indirectly he expressed doubt on the extent of the AIDS catastrophe in South Africa.
In Botswana every third person in the sexually active population is infected, the
highest percentage on Earth. In South Africa 4.2 million people carry the virus ( every
fifth adult ( more than in any other country in the world. From 2003 on, according to
new American studies, the population in South Africa and Botswana will shrink. Some
70% of the 334 million HIV victims and almost all of the 11 million AIDS orphans of the
world live in sub-Sahara Africa. In Mbeki’s opening speech to the congress ( where
more than 11,000 doctors, scientists, and AIDS activists met for more than six days (
he even disappointed hopes of those from his area that he would change his
controversial position on the cause and combating of AIDS. He said one could not
simply place all the blame on a virus but avoided comments on the link between HIV
and AIDS. In contrast to the overwhelming opinion of the scientists, he obviously did
not consider this link crucial. In a letter to the South African opposition leader Leon,
Mbeki repeated his doubts on the effectiveness of AIDS medicine, which unsettled
scientists all the more. The South African health minister, Dr. Manto
Tschambalala-Msimang, also expressed this doubt. She said on the second day of the
congress that the effect and possible danger of the drug Nevirapine must be checked
carefully before it could be used in South Africa. The German pharmaceutical enterprise
Boehringer Ingelheim, manufacturer of Nevirapine, that could greatly reduce
transmission of AIDS from mothers to their unborn children or after the birth through
mother milk, had offered to supply the drug to South Africa and other developing
countries without cost for five years." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Weitere
Kontroversen auf dem AIDS-Gipfel in Durban 11 July 2000.