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Comment on HIV HAS NEVER BEEN ISOLATED FROM AIDS PATIENTS by Henry Bauer

Henry Bauer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:55:28 +0000

Luwam: What do CD4 counts in peripheral blood mean?

(Nothing, according to Dr Juliane Sacher. They vary enormously over time (short! hours!), since they are sent to places where actually needed. )

What studies have been done on CD4 counts in conditions other than “HIV+”?

Comment on HIV HAS NEVER BEEN ISOLATED FROM AIDS PATIENTS by Luwam

Luwam — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:16:48 +0000

Dear Henry,
I have the same question as AltMed. HIV patients that DO have a low CD4 (around 150 or less), or do show a drop in CD4 count, with no co-morbidity, absolutely healthy, ages 20-30. Why do they show a drop in CD4? I’m talking about hiv+ with no ARV treatment, ever.

Thank you in advance

Comment on Drug peddlers’ ads ignore FDA by Cytotalker

Cytotalker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:33 +0000

The last thing they would care to portray in their ads would be a "Crix belly" or other forms of lipodystrophy, a disfigurement so common within the gay community that it is used in the STOP AIDS campaign to promote safe sex. Lamentably, according to these activists, those poisoned to the point of disfigurement have no choice but to stay alive taking these drugs.

Comment on Drug peddlers’ ads ignore FDA by Cytotalker

Cytotalker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:38:51 +0000

Your point is one that HIV dissidence does tend to overlook, which is that unscientific nonsense in the med-pharma industry is hardly limited to HIV. You cite cholesterol, but the list of other scientifically unsustainable dogma within the discipline is staggering. HIV dissidents are swatting at a single fly in a swarm.

Comment on Drug peddlers’ ads ignore FDA by Cytotalker

Cytotalker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:25:23 +0000

The depicted ad is disturbing in the manner in which it outright designates HIV diagnosis as a cause of shame which is cleansed away with lifelong ARV treatment. There is much that troubles me about the symbols in this ad, and I hope you will forgive my getting these impressions off my chest.

Visually, the cleanliness of the treated is here conveyed by the raised arms, exposing armpits, implying freshness, as in a deodorant commercial. The African American market is once again targeted with another very light-complected model who symbolizes transcendence from a disease that is increasingly correlated with blackness. ARV treatment is no longer even addressed as a health issue in this ad but instead is portrayed as sterilizing, rendering the otherwise unclean perhaps even touchable. Drug advertising has totally abandoned well-being concerns here, and has entered the realm of selling desirability normally touted in shampoo or teeth whitening commercials, and it does so by attributing shame to non-compliance to their prescribed protocol, shame for walking around with unsuppressed retroviral expression, and shame from the assumed socially unacceptable behavior which led to this condition. Perhaps I read too much into this ad, but the symbols to me are blatant, and I cannot fathom another meaning behind their use of the word “shame.”