NotAIDS! Commentary
November 30, 2008
"Coming of age"
by The Editor
This year's aptly themed World AIDS Day, for those in the AIDS industry, a high holiday, certainly has different meanings among different people.
A headline grabbed me this week and it is telling of the ludicrous corner these people have backed themselves into.
With the red ribbons of World AIDS Day observance everywhere, the newsflash reminded me that my entire adult life has been in the shadow of AIDS and promised death, and 3 decades of AIDS research have come full circle.
It is obvious they don't know what they're doing.
The headline stated backwards that viral load has no statistically significant impact on CD4 counts, according to the research.
The backdoor actual headline described the researchers' inabilty to detect a link between what they term "virolgic failure" and CD4 T-cell counts.
Over 1600 antiretroviral newbies were monitored over intervals across a six month span. What they found is obvious to those with real life experience outside the lab.
Suppression of what is improperly dubbed "viral load" - a misappropriated lab DNA count exxaggerated by laboratory magnification - is pointless.
Success of suppression means no DNA count. But this count does not measure virus particles, only DNA litter, remnants from unknown acttivty that has never been proven to be HIV activity.
The PCR DNA test as it is usually called, is not even authorizd by the US Food and Drug Adminsitration to diagnose HIV, so to base life-eroding and life-taking medication decisions on a rationale so tenuous is and was always wrong.
Now that it has been proven in the field, more than once, at more than one lab, how can the world bodies and national governments endorse, even force medicines on people if they can't even tell you the benefits of such treatment.
"The proportion with no increase in CD4 count from baseline did not differ between those with suppressed or unsuppressed VLs at 6, 18, and 24 months after ART (antiretroviral therapy) initiation."1
These are the exact words Moore et. al. published in their paper, CD4+ T-Cell Count Monitoring Does Not Accurately Identify HIV-Infected Adults With Virologic Failure Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy.
"The CD4 cell count monitoring does not accurately identify individuals with virologic failure among patients taking ART.
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great find!
The study referenced above by The Editor is all over the net. Here's an example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18989232
I've never believed that t-cell count or viral load is a prognosticator for immune failure. There are people dead of AIDS with high T-Cells and undetectable viral load, and there are quite healthy people with low t-cells and astronomical viral loads.
The decision when, and the reason why, to start taking meds is entirely predicated on the goal of controlling these numbers. If these numbers have actually no relevance on the health or future health of the patient, it invalidates the notion of taking meds. Not only are the tests unreliable, what they report has no significance to anything even it was perfectly reliable!