Early history of the epidemic AIDS

1981 Cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma in the USA
1983 Discovery of the virus. First cases of AIDS in the UK
1984 Development of antibody test


The first recognised cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) occurred in the summer of 1981 in America.
Reports began to appear of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma in young men, who it was subsequently realised were both homosexual and immunocompromised. Even though the condition became known early on as AIDS, its cause and modes of transmission were not immediately obvious.

The virus now known to cause AIDS in a proportion of those infected was discovered in 1983 and given various names. The internationally accepted term is now the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Subsequently a new variant has been isolated in patients with West African connections –HIV-2.

AIDS-defining conditions without laboratory evidence of HIV

• Diseases diagnosed definitively
• Candidiasis: oesophagus, trachea, bronchi or lungs
• Cryptococcosis: extrapulmonary
• Cryptosporidiosis with diarrhoea persisting >1 month
• Cytomegalovirus disease other than in liver, spleen, nodes
• Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection
• mucocutaneous ulceration lasting >1 month
• pulmonary, oesophageal involvement
• Kaposi’s sarcoma in patient <60 years of age
• Primary cerebral lymphoma in patient <60 years of age
• Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia in child <13 years of age
• Mycobacterium avium: disseminated
• Mycobacterium kansasii: disseminated
• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
• Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
• Cerebral toxoplasmosis

The logical steps that should be taken to prevent and to cure people with AIDS are:

1. Prevent the causes of AIDS by educating the public about the toxic effects of the illicit drugs and alcohol;
2. Limit the use of glucocorticoids in the treatment of chronic conditions and in the treatment of people with AIDS;
3. Monitor the levels of CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells in the blood of patients who are receiving medium or high therapeutic doses of glucocorticoids for significant times;
4. Discontinue the treatment of patients with AIDS and asymptomatic patients with AZT and protease inhibitors immediately. These are very toxic medications;
5. Provide proper clinical support and nutrition to patients with AIDS based on their medical needs. Prior to the development of full blown AIDS in drug users and homosexuals, the damage is caused by the use of drugs.

V1 Evidence that invalidate the HIV-hypothesis. The following is a list of medical facts that invalidate the HIV-hypothesis a claim which states that HIV selectively kills CD4+T cells and causes AIDS.

1. The reduction of CD4+ T cells in HIV positive homosexual men who used steroids was reversed after the cessation of the treatment with corticosteroids. If the HIV is the cause of AIDS in these patients then the cessation of the steroids will not reverse the disease.
2. The reversal of the reduction of CD4+ T cells in HIV-positive pregnant women following the feeding multivitamin and provided balanced diet disprove the idea that HIV is the cause of AIDS. The average CD4+ T cells increase in these patients from 426/ul to 576/ul (Fawzi, et al. 1998).
3. The lymph nodes of majority of the 505 HIV-infected individuals showed lymphoid hyperplasia that include T and B cells (Al-Bayati, 1999).
4. The lymphoid atrophy observed in HIV-infected patients include reduction in T cells (CD4+ and CD+8), B cells, and stroma (Al-Bayati, 1999; Muro-Cacho, et al., 1995).
5. HIV particles were found in CD4+, CD8+ T cells, B cells, and other cells indicating HIV do not need specific receptors as the HIV-hypothesis predict (Al-Bayati, 1999).
6. 90% of AIDS cases were reported to be in drugs users and homosexuals and the changes in the lymphoid organs of HIV-negative drug users or homosexuals were similar to those described in HIV-positive drug users and/or homosexual men ( Fauci, et al., 1998; Al-Bayati, 1999).