Mr-Bridger wrote:Tell me, Mr Bridger: why is it that so many untreated HIV patients die of AIDS every year in Africa?
The African AIDS epidemic has only one thing in common with the American/European AIDS epidemic - the name. African AIDS is caused by malnutrition, parasitic infection and poor sanitation. There are no risk groups in Africa, like drug addicts and homosexuals. It is for this reason that African AIDS is equally distributed between the sexes. Moreover, practically no African AIDS patients have pneumocystis pneumonia, dementia or Kaposi's sarcoma - the signal diseases of AIDS in the US and Europe. Above all, African AIDS is diagnosed without even attempting an HIV test, which is too expensive for Africa. Thus there is no scientific evidence for the correlation between HIV and African AIDS, only guesses.
There is no drug addiction or homosexuality in Africa? False. But moreover, HIV is deeply entrenched in the heterosexual population. Sexual contact is one of the easiest ways to spread the virus. The fastest-growing HIV-positive population in the US is heterosexual African American women. AIDS is diagnosed without an HIV test? False. In many cases perhaps, but there are reams of hard data collected by health organizations and non-profits. Also, the spread of HIV correlates precisely with the spread of the African AIDS epidemic. If African AIDS is caused by the factors you listed, why was there no epidemic until the spread of HIV?
Why is it that so many HIV patients in richer countries treated with HIV medications live relatively long and normal lives?
There is no evidence to support the claim that this is due to the new AIDS drug cocktails. Such evidence would have to show, that those who still get AIDS are not treated, and those who don't get AIDS are treated. But this is not the case in the US. Practically all American AIDS patients are treated with the new drug cocktails, but they continue to die.
You will find most HIV infected peoples decline start with the taking of AZT etc because it wipes out the immune system but you may find this interesting :
The WHO estimates that there are 17 million healthy seropositives in the world. many thousands are discovered every year in the American Army. 'When' and 'how' were they infected and 'why' most of them don't get sick?
HIV, like all other retroviruses in animals and humans, is perinatally transmitted from mother to child. All viruses and microbes that are perinatally transmitted in nature are harmless for the reasons.
Life is comparable to the law: it is based on logic and precedent. There >>>>is neither a precedent for a virus that consistently kills it's host, as is claimed for HIV, nor would it be logical for a virus to kill the host it needs for its survival.
The "intelligence of a virus" killing consistently its host, would be the same as that of a car that consistently kills its drivers because it does not have brakes. Thus those 17 million HIV positives who are healthy, are those who do not use recreational and/or anti-HIV drugs.
Viruses are not intelligent. They do not plot their strategy. Those that survive, survive. Those that die out, die out. There are many examples of viruses and bacteria that kill their hosts. They only need the host to survive long enough to be passed on to another host. HIV kills slowly and indirectly. Here are some other examples of germs that kill: plague, TB, Ebola, SARS, to name a few.
AIDS patients demonstrably live longer now than they did before HIV drug treatments were developed. People continue to die because HIV continues to evolve, making it a moving target.
Why is it that education about HIV-prevention provably leads to lower numbers of AIDS cases?
The decrease in new AIDS cases in the US in corresponds exactly to a steady decline in recreational drug consumption. For example, in the US spending for recreational drugs peaked at $91 billion in 1988 and steadily dropped to $53.7 billion in 1995.
Likewise the rapid increase of AIDS in the 1980s corresponded to the emergence of the explosive epidemics of recreational drug use in the US and Europe in the 1980s
Correlation is not causation. High instances of recreational drug use also correlates with high risk of blood-transmitted disease, of which HIV is one.
There are many HIV-positive people without AIDS. But the number of AIDS patients without HIV approaches zero.
HIV does not always cause AIDS. But AIDS is almost always caused by HIV.
You are 100% wrong, and the bullsh-it you are promoting has been exploited by some African leaders to avoid addressing their AIDS crises--it's literally leading to further illness and death. Think about that.
Think about that please.
God help you if your child ever gets HIV.