Penulis Topik: Durban Declaration Rebuttal (Dibaca 1042 kali)

semut-ireng · « **pada:** Juli 03, 2010, 06:05:00 AM »

THE DURBAN DECLARATION

Seventeen years after the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), thousands of individuals from around the world are gathering in Durban, South Africa, to attend the XIII International AIDS Conference, which starts next week (9 July). At the turn of the millennium, figures released last week reveal that an estimated 34.3 million people worldwide are living with HIV or AIDS, 24.5 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa1. Last year alone, 2.8 million people died of AIDS, the highest rate since the start of the epidemic. If current trends continue, southern and Southeast Asia, South America and regions of the former Soviet Union will also bear a heavy burden in the next two decades.

COMMENT: These frightening figures from UNAIDS are grossly exaggerated and represent typical efforts to ignore 17 years of evidence to the contrary. These estimates are based on computer projections from very small samples. Hysterical projections have been issued through the media since the beginning of the AIDS 'epidemic'. Common predictions were:

* "By 1990 one in five heterosexuals will be dead of AIDS"
- Oprah Winfrey, 1987
* "By 1991, HIV will have spread to between 5 and 10 million Americans"
- Newsweek, 1986
* "By 1996, three to five million Americans will be HIV positive and one million will be dead of AIDS"
- NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, New York Times, January 14, 1986
* "Without massive federal AIDS intervention, there may be no one left."
- HHS Secretary Donna Shalala, 1993, Washington Times, June 8, 1999

None of these predictions have proven to be true. HIV rates in the United States have never reflected an infectious epidemic, and the figures UNAIDS cites for Africa are even more wildly inflated.

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AIDS rates began dropping in 1993, contrary to all predictions except those of dissident scientists. They actually started dropping in the 1980's but serial definition changes allowed more and more people to be diagnosed with AIDS, creating the illusion of an epidemic (Maggiore 1999). As the CDC's HIV/AIDS surveillance reports clearly demonstrate, the official decline in new AIDS cases began several years before protease inhibitors had even received FDA approval. Two years after this decline in new AIDS cases, AIDS mortality also began to decline, as would be expected. Mortality also began declining before protease inhibitors were approved (CDC 1998). Thus, it is impossible for these drugs to be responsible, in spite of widely repeated claims to the contrary. The effectiveness of protease inhibitors and other "antiretroviral" medications will be discussed in more detail later in this article.

If figures in the United States can be so wildly misrepresented, African estimates would be expected to be even more susceptible to bias, and even more inaccurate. In Africa there is not even enough funding to perform HIV antibody tests on the vast majority of people diagnosed with AIDS, let alone on the general population, a fact that is completely left out of the media's portrayal of a continent being decimated by the virus.

UNAIDS trumpets 24.5 million "living with HIV or AIDS" in sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, the WHO's Weekly Epidemiological Record from November 1998 quietly reports the total cumulative number of AIDS cases in Africa since 1982, when AIDS record-keeping began, is 794,444 or an average of about 44,000 per year -- numbers starkly at odds with the latest UNAIDS scare figures, which claim 2.8 million AIDS

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semut-ireng · « **Jawab #1 pada:** Juli 11, 2010, 10:49:24 AM »

Kutipan dari Durban Declaration Rebuttal ( D.D.R ) :

* If not treated, most people with HIV infection show signs of AIDS within 5-10 years6,7. HIV infection is identified in blood by detecting antibodies, gene sequences or viral isolation. These tests are as reliable as any used for detecting other virus infections.

COMMENT: Studies of long-term survivors or non-progressors show that the majority do not take AIDS drugs and that many of them refuse viral load tests as well as other surrogate marker tests and lead normal lives - some of them since 1984 when HIV was first targeted as "the probable cause of AIDS". (Buchbinder 1994, Cao 1995, Garbuglia 1996, Harrer 1996, Hogervorst 1995, Hoover 1995, Montefiori 1996, Pantaleo 1995, Root-Bernstein 1995).

Is the "HIV Test" Valid? The test kit manufacturer's own literature admits:

"ELISA testing alone cannot be used to diagnose AIDS, even if the recommended investigation of reactive specimens suggests a high probability that the antibody to HIV 1 is present"
- Abbott Laboratories, 1994, 66-2333/R4.

The insert for one of the kits for administering the Western Blot warns: "Do not use this kit as the sole basis of diagnosis of HIV-1 infection"
- Epitope/Organon Teknika Corporation, PN201-3039 Revision # 6.

"Sensitivity and Specificity: At present there is no recognized standard for establishing the presence and absence of HIV-1 antibody in human blood. Therefore, sensitivity was computed based on the clinical diagnosis of AIDS and specificity based on random donors. The ABBOT studies show that: Sensitivity based on an assumed 100% prevalence of HIV-1 antibody in AIDS patients is estimated to be 100% (144 patients tested). Specificity based on an assumed zero prevalence of HIV-1 antibody in random donors is estimated to be 99.9% (4777 random donors tested)."
- Abbott Laboratories HIVABtm HIV-1 EIA

Assumed because it is not possible to isolate HIV from fresh patient plasma. Thus it has never been proven that any "HIV" antibody positive patient has an active "HIV" infection.

The insert that comes with a popular kit to run viral load warns:

"The Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor test is not intended to be used as a screening test for HIV or as a diagnostic test to confirm the presence of HIV infection"
- Roche Diagnostic Systems, 06/96, 13-08-83088-001.

HIV test results vary depending on where you live. In the U.S., Canada, most of Europe but not in England or Wales, the Western Blot test confirms ELISA tests. Dr. Valendar Turner explains how HIV antibody test results can be interpreted very differently by nine different international standards. For instance it is possible for any person to be any of the following on a single test result: positive in Australia, but not in France; positive in France, but not in Australia (for different reasons); positive in Africa and not positive everywhere else in the world. A Martian might be forgiven for wondering whether wine tasting was less subjective (Turner, 1995).

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Ada yang bisa menjelaskan, sejauh mana keakuratan test antibodi HIV ??

semut-ireng · « **Jawab #2 pada:** Juli 29, 2010, 01:28:19 AM »

Kutipan :

" Test ELISA dan Western Blot yang pada umumnya dipakai untuk mendiagnosa infeksi HIV hanya bisa mendeteksi interaksi antara protein dan antibodi yang diperkirakan berhubungan dengan HIVt. Keduanya tidak bisa mendeteksi HIV itu sendiri. Dan bertentangan dengan pandangan umum, test “viral load” yang lebih baru tidak bisa mengukur tingkat aktual virus dalam darah.

Semua test antibodi HIV sangat tidak akurat. Satu alasan bagi ketidakakuratan tersebut adalah berbagai jenis virus, bakteri, dan antigen lainnya dapat menyebabkan sistem imun untuk membuat antibodi yang juga bereaksi sama dengan HIV. Ketika antibodi dihasilkan sebagai respon atas reaksi infeksi dari bakteri dan virus ini, serta antigen-antigen yang ada kemudian dihubung-hubungkan dengan protein HIV, maka akan keluar hasil yang positif.

Banyak antibodi yang ditemukan di dalam tubuh orang-orang sehat dan normal dapat menyebabkan hasil yang positif pada test antibodi HIV. Produksi antibodi dalam tubuh manusia yang terjadi karena infeksi virus bisa tetap ada dalam tubuh selama bertahun-tahun walaupun sistem imun telah mengalahkan virus tersebut, dan bahkan bisa untuk seumur hidup antibodi tersebut tetap ada. Dengan demikian, orang-orang sehat yang tidak pernah terjangkit HIV bisa memiliki hasil test HIV yang positif secara konsisten selama bertahun-tahun atau bahkan untuk seumur hidup mereka. "

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