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AIDS is a three dimensional disease


- Al-Haz Dr. M. A. Matin -
- Principal Section Officer -
- Institute of Social welfare and Research -
- Dhaka University -
- motin.dhaka@gmail.com -




After Twenty years, the first clinical evidence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was reported, AIDS has become the most harmful disease humankind has ever faced. Since the start of the epidemic, more than 60 million people have been infected with the HIV. Some worst effected region of sub-Saharan Africa where HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of death.

The environmental closeness of Bangladesh to Myanmar and consequently, the Golden Triangle drug trail has made it a major transit route for drug smuggling and its easy availability in the area. However, the transmission route of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh is no longer confined to the IDUs but spreads further to the female sexual partners of IDUs and their children. This is not surprising as women are mostly vulnerable to HIV infection and other sexually transmissible diseases because of geographical and socio-cultural factors including economic, educational and legal discrimination and unequal gender relations.

Women are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. Biology and gender inequality conspire to drive the spread of the disease, and forces women to bear the brunt of the social and economic costs. ‘Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation’ have found that male to female transmission appears to be 2 to 4 times more efficient than female to male transmission, because semen contains a far higher concentration of HIV than vaginal fluid. Young girls are particularly vulnerable. Their immature cervixes and low vaginal mucus production presents less of a barrier to HIV, all of which have been seen in many settings to be contributing factors to the rapid spread of HIV.

People with AIDS are mainly prone to developing various cancers, particularly those caused by viruses such as Kaposi"s sarcoma and cervical cancer, or cancers of the immune system known as lymphomas. These cancers are usually more harmful and difficult to treat in people with AIDS. Signs of Kaposi"s sarcoma in light-skinned people are round brown, reddish, or purple spots that develop in the skin or in the mouth. In dark-skinned people, the spots are more pigmented.

Children with AIDS may get the same opportunistic infections, as do adults with the disease. In addition, they also have severe forms of the bacterial infections all children may get, such as conjunctivitis (pink eye), ear infections, and tonsillitis.

In children younger than 13 years, the definition of AIDS is similar to that of adolescents and adults, except that lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis and recurrent bacterial infections are included in the list of AIDS-defining conditions.

In many developing countries, where diagnostic facilities may be minimal, epidemiologists employ a case definition based on the presence of various clinical symptoms associated with immune deficiency and the exclusion of other known causes of immunosuppression, such as cancer or malnutrition.

Many people are so debilitated by the symptoms of AIDS that they cannot hold steady employment nor do household chores. A small number of people first infected with HIV 10 or more years ago have not developed symptoms of AIDS.

AIDS researcher Mr. Mohammad Khairul Alam said, “HIV/AIDS is a three dimensional disease. It spreads out by three major causes:- such as unconscious or unsafe sexuality, blood exchange(needle) /transfusion for patients, infected mother to child. HIV/AIDS direct by impact on the human body - it paralyzes the physical condition, psychological morbidity and destroys social value. It also wipes out three things, such as it affects adults in their productive prime, severely hampers economic growth of person, and hampers his family, at last by rotation it destroys country’s progress. Every one can protect it by avoiding risk behavioral sex (multi-partner sex, unsafe sex practice etc), by avoiding injectable drug (needle sharing is a burning cause of it), by avoiding getting blood without test. Nation wide programme is also needed to take three major strategies: - top to bottom awareness programme of HIV/AIDS, gender discrimination programme to ensure girls and women rights, poverty reduction programme”.
Archer
Knowing the above.. the type of highest transmission varies from culture to culture, meaning, example, Africa, the primary spread of HIV is not needles, it's sex, and like it or not this is controllable, so what do you do?

There are other questions, is extending the life of someone who is infected always a good thing?.. meaning, if you dont have HIV or AIDS, you cant spread it.. I am of the opinion HIV and AIDS is controllable, but this is a political problem, a total and complete lack of willingness to do what is required to stop the spread. A great many people scream and yell that confining carriers is not humane, but, how humane is it to all this infection to spread? how many MILLIONS could have been saved if we had quarantined all known carriers? logistically it would be hard to do, but so is treating millions who are carriers, and those that the current carriers are adding to the ranks of HIV carriers. HIV and AIDs could be a much smaller problem than it is today, but the world body is not willing to do what it takes to control the spread.
J. Wensveen
Aids can be removed from this planet within 50 years.

It just requires the cooperation of the entire planet and a mentality change.
swimmer
QUOTE (J. Wensveen+Mar 22 2006, 07:50 PM)
Aids can be removed from this planet within 50 years.

It just requires the cooperation of the entire planet and a mentality change.

Is that all??
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J. Wensveen
QUOTE (swimmer+Mar 23 2006, 06:47 PM)
QUOTE (J. Wensveen+Mar 22 2006, 07:50 PM)
Aids can be removed from this planet within 50 years.

It just requires the cooperation of the entire planet and a mentality change.

Is that all??
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Yup. Loosely translated to: One sex partner for life, no more sleeping around.

Oh, and a few Hygienic measurements like not sharing unscreened blood.
El_Machinae
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There are other questions, is extending the life of someone who is infected always a good thing?..


Currenly, everyone dies - and it costs a certain amount of money to keep them alive. Is there a value to keeping anyone alive, since they'll all die anyway? In fact, people breed, meaning their offspring will all die too.

The price of AIDS treatment has dropped a LOT over the years, to the point where it's affordable to keep someone alive.
Archer
QUOTE (El_Machinae+Mar 24 2006, 04:30 PM)
QUOTE
The price of AIDS treatment has dropped a LOT over the years, to the point where it's affordable to keep someone alive.



And how affordable is it to keep someone alive who infects others.. if it was your kids, or your wife or even you.. I am willing to bet it would not seem that "cheap" to you.. AIDs is one of the few things that can be contained/STOPPED by nothing more than behavior for almost 95% of all cases, blood screening keeps the numbers very low for people being infected from blood products.. the VAST VAST VAST MAJORITY of HIV/AIDs is transmitted from BEHAVIOR, not blood products.. some parts of life are very simple, but, stupid people make simple things like, "if it hurts dont do that" seem like a overwhelming task.. the transmission rates of HIV/AIDs proves that..

Its a simple rule, you cant protect a person from his/herself, but, once they become infected, they need to be removed from contact of his/her society, but, that would be just to inhumane, its more humane to let the go out and ifect others.
Md. Shakib Hassan
-Bangladesh: High Risk Environments Fuel the HIV/AIDS Epidemic-


-Md. Shakib Hassan-
-Advocacy Officer-
-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-
-sakib_hasan@walla.com-


HIV/AIDS challenges the scientific and medical community along with economists with its individuality of devastating human immunity system, in this manner allowing opportunistic diseases to dominate and derange the affected, and deprive the family with its earning capacity and threaten them in the society. It is not only a public health issue but also one which is beginning to affect the dynamics of social, cultural, economic and developmental pace of the society we live in.

The environmental closeness of Bangladesh to Myanmar and consequently, the Golden Triangle drug trail has made it a major transit route for drug smuggling and its easy availability in the area. However, the transmission route of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh is no longer confined to the IDUs but spreads further to the female sexual partners of IDUs and their children. This is not surprising as women are mostly vulnerable to HIV infection and other sexually transmissible diseases because of geographical and socio-cultural factors including economic, educational and legal discrimination and unequal gender relations.

Recently, 'Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation' has focused mostly on three types of work on HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh -- community mobilisation for prevention through promotion of fidelity, condom-use and abstinence; advocacy on access to affordable treatments, targeted at medicine producers and international donor organisations; and work to ensure 'mainstream' support to AIDS-affected individuals and communities for integration on poverty mitigation work. HIV/AIDS has good relation with poverty and gender inequality. Without decline in gender discrimination and poverty, all efforts to prevent HIV/AIDS or sustainable development in this sector will fail.

People with AIDS are mainly prone to developing various cancers, particularly those caused by viruses such as Kaposis sarcoma and cervical cancer, or cancers of the immune system known as lymphomas.

These cancers are usually more harmful and difficult to treat in people with AIDS. Signs of Kaposis sarcoma in light-skinned people are round brown, reddish, or purple spots that develop in the skin or in the mouth. In dark-skinned people, the spots are more pigmented.

Children with AIDS may get the same opportunistic infections, as do adults with the disease. In addition, they also have severe forms of the bacterial infections that all children may get, such as conjunctivitis (pink eye), ear infections, and tonsillitis.
In children younger than 13 years, the definition of AIDS is similar to that of adolescents and adults, except that lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis and recurrent bacterial infections are included in the list of AIDS-defining conditions.

In many developing countries, where diagnostic facilities may be minimal, epidemiologists employ a case definition based on the presence of various clinical symptoms associated with immune deficiency and the exclusion of other known causes of immuno-suppression, such as cancer or malnutrition.

Many people are so debilitated by the symptoms of AIDS that they cannot hold steady employment or do household chores. A small number of people first infected with HIV 10 or more years ago have not developed symptoms of AIDS.

According to AIDS researcher Mr. Mohammad Khairul Alam, "HIV/AIDS is a three dimensional disease. It spreads out by three major causes such as unconscious or unsafe sexuality, blood exchange(needle) /transfusion for patients, infected mother to child. HIV/AIDS through its direct impact on the human body it paralyses the physical condition, psychological morbidity and destroys social value. It also wipe out three things, such as it affects adults in their productive prime period, severely hampers economic growth of person, and hampers his family, at last by rotation; and, thus, it causes severe set backs to the nation's effects for progress. Everyone can protect it by avoiding risk behavioural sex (multi-partner sex, unsafe sex practice etc), by avoiding injectable drug (needle sharing is a burning cause of it), by avoiding getting blood without test." Nationwide programme is needed to take three major strategies. These include: top to bottom awareness programme of HIV/AIDS, gender discrimination programme to ensure girls and women rights, poverty reduction programme.

References: Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation, UNAIDS, ICW
MAI-0
I feel like puking after reading this thread, the
article and comments are amazingly Ignorant
and sadistic.

Its the blind leading the blind alright, I'd suggest
anyone who has some heart and compassion left
in them to consider getting some actual information
and doing some actual research on the background
of the HIV/AIDS issue and NOT pharma sponsored fear
mongering like the article posted.

Its about time people grow up and start thinking about
information critically, instead of swallowing it hook, line
and sinker every time.

Try understanding why certain beliefs are being held before
following the leader and putting your humanitarian badges on,
seems like a pretty reasonsable request to me.

With that in mind, I suggest starting looking into what the AIDS "Dissidents"
have been saying for over 20 years.

The mainstream orthodox AIDS community described their scientific
peer-reviewed findings at the time as...

QUOTE
A growing group of bio-medical scientists claim the cause of AIDS is still unknown. These heretics do not believe in the lethal AIDS virus called HIV. They claim that the virus is indeed harmless. Most of them think AIDS is also not sexually transmitted; it probably has toxic causes. People die because they are poisoned to death by toxic antiviral drugs. Part of the AIDS dissidents even question the existence of a virus entity. These HIV skeptics say that the AIDS virus has never really been isolated, and the AIDS tests are worthless...


The debate has been completely muted over the last few years, a clear sign that
the questions surrounding the issue where making people uncomfortable. Scientists
such as Dr. Peter Duesberg have been duly excommunicated for heracy against the holy
phrmacutical church of medicine.Dr.Duesberg

AZT is scientifically proven to be unaffective in treating AIDS, it has been proven that the
drug does not and cannot triphosperelate in the human body. If that isnt enough,
the drugs are killing people, the drug is actually causing the symtoms attributed to
AIDS.....Ironic yes, and sick that drug companies continue selling drugs knowing that
the drug kills.OPEN LETTER TO GLAXO-SMITH-KLINE-By Anthony Brink

LINKS

Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives

Virus Myth

Is This the Cure for AIDS ??- Retroviruses_Aids_Cancer_And_Autoimmune_Diseases

Agents and Factors responsible for Causing AIDS

Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society

Top 100 AIDS Science Inconsistencies

Doctors who do not accept the official line on AIDS can find themselves in a lot of trouble.— Harris L. Coulter

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/..._discussion.htm

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/...r_reasoning.htm

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/...lling_apart.htm

Videos on Google video;

The Other Side Of AIDS

Ten reasons HIV is not the cause of AIDS

QUOTE (->
QUOTE
A growing group of bio-medical scientists claim the cause of AIDS is still unknown. These heretics do not believe in the lethal AIDS virus called HIV. They claim that the virus is indeed harmless. Most of them think AIDS is also not sexually transmitted; it probably has toxic causes. People die because they are poisoned to death by toxic antiviral drugs. Part of the AIDS dissidents even question the existence of a virus entity. These HIV skeptics say that the AIDS virus has never really been isolated, and the AIDS tests are worthless...


The debate has been completely muted over the last few years, a clear sign that
the questions surrounding the issue where making people uncomfortable. Scientists
such as Dr. Peter Duesberg have been duly excommunicated for heracy against the holy
phrmacutical church of medicine.Dr.Duesberg

AZT is scientifically proven to be unaffective in treating AIDS, it has been proven that the
drug does not and cannot triphosperelate in the human body. If that isnt enough,
the drugs are killing people, the drug is actually causing the symtoms attributed to
AIDS.....Ironic yes, and sick that drug companies continue selling drugs knowing that
the drug kills.OPEN LETTER TO GLAXO-SMITH-KLINE-By Anthony Brink

LINKS

Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives

Virus Myth

Is This the Cure for AIDS ??- Retroviruses_Aids_Cancer_And_Autoimmune_Diseases

Agents and Factors responsible for Causing AIDS

Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society

Top 100 AIDS Science Inconsistencies

Doctors who do not accept the official line on AIDS can find themselves in a lot of trouble.— Harris L. Coulter

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/..._discussion.htm

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/...r_reasoning.htm

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/...lling_apart.htm

Videos on Google video;

The Other Side Of AIDS

Ten reasons HIV is not the cause of AIDS

Slick advertisement got your mind,
This is for Bono and president Bill,
Your making people Ill,
They need food not F&%$g pills,
I'll see you in time....


As usual.....Ignorance is the enemy.
naiomi
There is a lot of smoke being blown on the subject,because powerfull people have been at work covertly...The Nature OF AIDS is popullation controll.....We have 3 types of HIV...HIV1,HIV2 and HIV Obsucre...HIV 1 has 8 claves.HIV1-a HIV2-b etc...HIV1 is the American strain while HIV2 the African strain.There is zero chance of a cut hunter,this is punctuated..The origin being puncuated with 2 core events that started it......Richard Nixon and his man Henry were extremly concerned about the projected population levels in Africa.This was thought to be unstabling to the growing world economy and that it would be very costly..This is the motivation...Biological weapons research have unfortunatly been ongoing since their inception.>Any agreements for globasl cesstation have been tactical in nature,ie to stop everyione else while quitely continuing research...The first cases of HIV were probably due to accidents in an innoculation program...The first tissue is from 1959 congo..Despite exustive searches NO tissue preceding this has been found..The polio vaccine program was in this area just 2 years before..The first outbreaks match the programs movements..The culprit was chimps kidneys being used to amplify polio vaccine.The kidneys contained SIV and SV40..There was a massive call for chimps and monkies from a wide area around the innoculation camp..The chimps rounded up included troglites.We have witnesess that worked there and photos to show this..Later on people were sent to the area to get witnesses who worked on the CHAT program to recant their statments..Understandbly a cover up was underway and continues today.;[ The SIV wads killed by adult recipients but in children under 1 year of age,their immune sytem not being formed,a mutation took place...SIV was mutated to HIV...This was an accident but decades later when research pointed to this, everyone in key positions have been trying to discredit the facts..The main defence,"we didnt use chimps"...This is a lie and monkies and chimps were eagerly needed.remeber in 1957 congo no one had any idea of the contamination.They couldent get enough chimps and monkies of all descriptions, and their name itself gives them away,CHAT or chimp atttenuation.(thankyou god)...While this was an accident what happened next wasent..In 1968 the Special Virus cancer program suddenly asked for the then substantial, ten million dollars for research.They were onto something big,.namley retro viruses..Now 1972 new york, a Hep B program started.Promiscous homosexuals were saught and only P,H...This vaccine was also amplified in chimps kidneys.It was contaminated with SIV and SV40..,but wait an adults immune sytem would kill SIV,zoonosis does not occur...So here we need to extrapolate..The motive..key Conservatives that dispise homosexuals..The means The cancer virus research program that just four years prevously were onto something big...The oppertunity...An innoculation program that would be pertinet to homosexuals,Hep B....The clue is that SIV would not mutate to HIV naturally in the hep b recipients..Intentional contamination is indicated...Every single patient that recived the hep b innoculation died of AIDS years later...Hiv cannot have a vaccine developed because of its coating,it is protected.Its not clear if this is an indicator of laboratory enginearing...Finaly to ad insult to injury a claus was put in the patriot act,exonerating all pharmaceticals from law suits with their hep B vaccines,pertaining to HIV pre curser contamination....This is the golden info that has smoke constanty blown at it and gets lumped in with internet nuts and their conspiracy theories...While the govermet points to arab extremeists they quitly continue their biological research programs coated by national security.This is the real killer.Microscopic and ethnicilly biased,..Those key conservatives got their african poppulation inhibitor and homosexuals and drug addicts targeted,all in secret and all constantly covered up..Western medicine just cant own up to such momentus stuff..May god help us from the real culprits dressed in white coats.
naoimi
Just like to add.When remnants of CHAT say ,"we didnt use african chimpanzees"....Ask then why on earth not.Their kidneys were the best amplifiers and in 1957 that would have been the natrual choice...[The concern of lack of proof that HIV causes the AIDS syndrome..Hardly suprising since it is a microscopic retro virus.It can take a long time to do its work,one cell at a time...When someone is infected,they are re-infected again and again..Someone that has a habit that puts them in contact of the virus will naturualy be re-infected...So the complexities start..patient A is infected with HIV1 clave a,x8,he then gets infected with HIV1 clave b,this will recombine and we will have a new clave,say d..This type of infection continues and it can be many years before any symptoms develop.One wouldent expect conclusive prove considering the length of time to symptoms, the mutations and the nature of retro-virus..Anyone can see they are related..I would consider the recent claim that HIV dosent cause AIDS to be disinformation,intented to confuse.Inteligence agencies are interwoven with biological weapons research,which includes managment of information.Researchers would do well to start at the begining and brave the resistance to its origin being made public..To understand HIV we need to be open and honest to its origin.Right now most people involved with it are using their energy to cover up the truth...Cut hunter dosent work as if zoonosis was happening then the virus would be as old as man itself.Also adult humans immune system, kills SIV..Luckily zoonosis does not naturally occur.We really need to out this story and move on, from a concrete foundation.It would also exonerate the poor populations who have been blamed for this disease,when all along it was introduced to them from first world doctors and scientists.Gut instinct tells us this is our tampering with animal organs,even laymen sense it.4 out of 5 american africans believe it to be a genteic weapon.Most people just have snipits of the story and their well founded suspisions..We need some historic figures to step out, and out the origin of HIV and go from there.That would also help to subdue further biological research programs,.Can you imigine what the next one would be?
naomi
Incredibly Dr Galo was involved with the special cancer virus research program and since Dr Duesberg fought together with Dr. Robert Gallo in the war on cancer.,one has to question their motives.. Some people involved with biological research would not want people to get treated with drugs that help them survive HIV..One should not trust any doctor involved with the special virus cancer research program.their allegance is with the goverment and popullation controll.Dont be fooled by gobblegook and super computer nonsence...Since the SVCRP was paid for by public money and they were researching retro-viruses in 1968 why has their research not been made public?...There is no doubt that HIV causes the AIDS syndrome one cell at a time.Drugs being offered are prolonging life of those infected..Some doctors dont seem to be pleased about this and are now giving out bad information peppered with jargon to confuse people.Dont believe them.
bang4thebuck
MAI-0,

Thanks for the information/links which I was studying into for a while now anyway.

Most people wouldn't be aware of him.

Professor Peter H. Duesberg, PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology and from the Uni of California, Berkeley is the expert who first isolated the cancer gene through his work on retroviruses in 1970, and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses. This, & his subsequent work in the same field, resulted in his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986.

"On the basis of his experience with retroviruses, Duesberg has challenged the virus-AIDS hypothesis in the pages of such journals as Cancer Research, Lancet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Nature, Journal of AIDS, AIDS Forschung, Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapeutics, New England Journal of Medicine and Research in Immunology.
He has instead proposed the hypothesis that the various American/European AIDS diseases are brought on by the long-term consumption of recreational drugs and/or AZT itself, which is prescribed to prevent or treat AIDS.

Other scientists that support his views are those such as Kary B. Mullis. Kary Mullis won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction technique for detecting DNA. This is the technique used to search for fragments of HIV in AIDS patients.

Prof. Duesberg's findings have been a thorn in the side of the medical establishment and drug companies since 1987. Instead of engaging in scientific debate, however, the only response has been to cut-off funding to further test Professor's Duesberg's hypothesis"


They tend to call them CT's ONLY b/cus they dont like them.

His credentials and of those supporting him, are very impressive, as they are the pioneers in this partcular subdivison of medical reaserch, thus one cannot make a valid claim of dismissal without actual further research and investigation, as happened with him.

The AIDS Dilemma: by Peter Duesberg & David Rasnick 1998

Thanks.
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