CHAPTER 12
Banishing the Aids Myth—
Secrets for Understanding and
Healing From This So Called “Disease”
He first AIDS cases were diagnosed 1980, but despite the most colossal efforts by scientists and
policy makers, AIDS has remained a mystery disease. Commonly believed to be caused by HIV—
Human Immune Deficiency Virus—scientists still haven’t found an antidote for the disease. To this day,
there is no convincing medical knowledge as to how the pathogen HIV is supposed to cause AIDS. The
current AIDS theory also falls short in predicting the kind of AIDS disease an infected person may be
manifesting, and there is no accurate system to determine how long it will take for the disease to develop.
The HIV/AIDS theory contains no information that can truly help identify those who are at risk of
developing AIDS.
With regard to “treating” AIDS, until recently, patients were able to choose between a small number of
drugs that were originally developed as cancer chemotherapies, but had to bear with extreme side effects,
such as loss of hair, anemia, muscle deterioration, nausea, and other immune suppressing effects. A newly
introduced cocktail of three drugs (protease inhibitors), which are less toxic than the originally used
drugs, seemed promising at first in being able to suppress HIV. Yet the cumulative failure rate of the new
drugs has now reached 50 percent and continues to increase as strains of HIV develop resistance to them.
Already between 20 and 30 percent of patients are now infected with viruses resistant to protease
inhibitors, and the situation is worsening day by day. Although the drugs have given many AIDS patients
a “new lease of life” (not necessarily because the drugs suppress HIV, but because they also subdue most
other disease-causing agents, at least for a while), the initial euphoria about the new AIDS treatment has
died down and so has the hope of finding a cure, at least within the medical field.
The fact that there is no reliable latency period—the length of time from being infected with HIV and
developing AIDS symptoms—makes it virtually impossible to predict the beginning of the disease. The
first AIDS victims were told that they could expect to die within one year after infection, but today the
grace period ranges from 12 to15 years, which makes immediate treatment after HIV infection dubious.
This is certainly not the last revision. The majority of HIV infected people continue to be AIDS-free and
only a fraction of them develop AIDS symptoms such as pneumonia, cancer of the blood, or dementia.
To add more confusion to the situation, health officials are unable to predict how many people will be
afflicted with AIDS in the future, as only a small percentage of the one million HIV-infected Americans
will get the disease. In the first 20 years or so of the epidemic, 95 percent of the AIDS cases were among
the major health risk groups—highly active homosexuals, heroin addicts, or, in a few cases, hemophiliacs,
and since then more and more heterosexual men and women are found to test HIV positive.
According to official estimates, two thirds of infected persons supposedly are in Africa, where the
epidemic exploded during the 1990s,^ and one fifth are in Asia, where the epidemic has been growing^
rapidly in recent years. As of the end of 2003, an estimated^ 34.6 million to 42.3 million people throughout
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