HIV=AIDS Controversy: Test Ban

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HIV=AIDS Controversy: Test Ban

 

 

From the archives of The Memory Hole

 

HIV=AIDS Controversy: Test Ban The British publication, Continuum, has proposed

a test ban on all HIV antibody tests for reasons given below.

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We invite you to join... Continuum's Ban the HIV Test Campaign

 

The HIV antibody tests are unproved for HIV isolation because: There is no

universal gold standard HIV isolate, therefore there can be no calculation of

the specificity of any hypothetical HIV test. The only scientifically valid

method of determining the specificity of antibodies present in sera of either

healthy individuals or AIDS patients is the use of HIV isolation as a gold

standard.

 

An antigen/antibody reaction cannot prove that the origin of certain proteins is

a retrovirus or that antibodies are specifically directed against the

retrovirus. The protein antigens that are used for the HIV tests are the

biological outcome of stressed white blood cells used in the laboratory, and the

antibodies that react with them can be generated by fungal and mycobacterial

infections including PCP and Candida.

 

The HIV test has never been scientifically validated. HIV positive results are

triggered by a wide variety of conditions and different test kits produce widely

differing results. Factors known to cause False-Positive HIV Antibody Test

Results: Flu vaccination, Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Renal (kidney) failure, Herpes

simplex 1 & 2, Malaria, Hepatitis B vaccination, Organ transplantation,

Epstein-Barr virus, Lymphoma, Autoimmune disease, Tetanus vaccination, MAI,

Rheumatoid arthritis.

 

There is no scientific evidence of antibodies or proteins specific to HIV. There

is no data proving the actual origin of either HIV proteins or antibodies, and

there is ample evidence that reactions between HIV proteins and HIV antibodies

are non-specific.

 

No particle of HIV has ever been obtained pure, free of contaminants; nor has a

complete piece of HIV RNA (or transcribed DNA) ever been proved to exist. In the

journal Virology (March 1997), Han Gelderblom, et al. disclosed that there were

major contaminants in pure HIV which demonstrates that HIV does not exist as a

unique, exogenous retrovirus but an excess of vesicles (particles of cellular

proteins). What has been wrongly classified as HIV is an endogenous collection

of gene products that can appear when immune system cells are chronically

stimulated in the body or drastically manipulated in the laboratory.

 

Prejudice drives HIV test results: it has been confirmed that HIV antibody test

labs use risk-factor information before deciding on results. If the individual

falls into any of the 15 or more high-risk categories (including being gay,

bi-sexual, prostitute or from a developing country)an indeterminate result may

be read as HIV antibody positive.

 

There is no scientific basis for using these non-specific HIV tests to prove HIV

infection or for making any antiviral health decisions based on them. We urge

you to join our campaign to have the fraudulent HIV tests banned. Say NO to

fraudulent HIV testing.

 

Continuum

Phone: London, 0171 713 7071

Address: 172 Foundling Court,

Brunswick Centre London WC1N 1QE,

United Kingdom.

 

 

 

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