REAPPRAISING AIDS: NATURE VS. INTELLIGENCE?

In 3rd world countries, where HIV diagnostic tests do not exist CFS patients are labeled AIDS patients by sheer symptomatology alone. AIDS / CFS are the same epidemic because viral and bacterial diagnostic tests do not exist. It is just nature running it's course.

It is only in first and second world countries (E.g. USA), where we over-complicate everything with questionably defective diagnostic tests and shoddy intellectual definitional platforms (see below), where achieving the elite status of an AIDS diagnosis must be coupled with (or predestinated by) an HIV+ diagnostic test result. In the USA, all non-HIV viruses and bacteria that cause immune dysfunction (HHV6, HIAP2, EBV, HPV16/18) are defaulted into the miscellaneous CFS category, which clearly represents the masses of ailing acquired immune deficient patients. It is these patients, who run the risk of progressing to the severity of an HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS diagnosis (like me).

It is questionable whether HIV is even involved in AIDS, which is why I recognized it (as a small category at the bottom). Since I opened my mind to studying the beliefs of all three paradigms (HIV/AIDS, AIDS Myth, and CFS) I believe that AIDS patients are just more CFS patients who, by happenstance, have the questionably harmless virus, HIV. I believe that some HIV+ individuals will evenutally progress to AIDS, but only because 1) a second pathogen -- one similar to a CFS patient's pathogen -- triggered their demise or 2) because the repeated intake of toxic medications caused system failure. Can't you see? HIV may not be the cause of AIDS --> it's just an innocent passenger in a hijacked car forced to take a wild ride. Had HIV not been present, the host would have still acquired the secondary illness, but rather would had progressed to an HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS patient instead.(http://cfsstraighttalk.blogspot.com/2006/02/who-are-aids-dissidents-reappraising.html)

Over the last two years, I have read a lot of medical research literature. HIV Negative AIDS (a.k.a. Idiopathic CD4 Lymphocytopenia, ICL) cases percolate throughout numerous HIV/AIDS research documents. I first stumbled across them in Johns Hopkins "2003 Medical Management of HIV Infection" guide (J. Barlett, J. Gallant - Chapter 2, Page 21) (http://www.hopkins-aids.edu/publications/book/03MMHIV1to3.pdf ). Interestingly, ICL cases also weave their way through the CFS literature (http://www.ncf-net.org/forum/presidentsMsg0402.html). HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS cases are the bridge that connect the CFS and AIDS paradigms. I wonder: if "AIDS" had been called a "low natural killer cell syndrome", rather than having it's present day definitional construct, would the true nature of the relationship between AIDS and CFS been seen two decades ago?

In the USA, CFS patients are the equivalent of an AIDS patient in Africa (see below). If I lived in Africa right now I would have an AIDS diagnosis in hand. Rather, because of geography, capitalism, and politics, I am both a CFS and an HIV-Negative AIDS patient instead. But, in the USA, nobody takes CFS seriously, because the disease has a belittling name -- which hardly portrays its severity. We are sick, suffering, and chronically ill. I recognize and understand that many CFS patients do not like the big, bad, ugly word called “AIDS”, or the thought that they may progress to an HIV-Negative AIDS diagnosis. Believe me, I was not really too keen on the idea at first either, and, as ailing patients, we walk in the same shoes. But, as a humanitarian, I have millions of lives to think about, and you will not find a stitch of stigmata in me.

I know that the "AIDS" naming convention more accurately portrays the horrific essence of the CFS illness. I have found that when you say the word "AIDS", people listen. People quickly understand. People quickly care. If we can get people to care enough to understand the horrific depths of this illness, to care enough to understand it's impact on humanity, and to care enough to fund CFS:AIDS research then CFS patients need to get over their fears of saying such a simple word: AIDS. AIDS. AIDS. AIDS. AIDS. The truth is, if it is triggered by a virus (or bacteria) and it causes an immune deficiency, then it is what it is.

I can already sense that our paradigms are shifting. I am certain that with a clear vision -- and a whole lot of noise -- that change is evitable. I respect anybody who stands for a belief, but the once-progressive AIDS dissidents are becoming just another conformed, closed-minded, orthodoxy with unproven theories and a lot of rules and restrictions. I would rather stand by myself -- as a non-conformist with a fresh ideology -- than to follow misguided people in the wrong direction.

CFS sufferers tell me all the time that they are "willing to try anything" to save their lives. Please write your senator and representatives requesting a “REAPPRAISAL OF AIDS”.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml


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