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What is AIDS? -
Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, a fatal transmissible disease of the immune system, caused by the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus - HIV.
What is HIV?    Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was allegedly first recognized in Zaire, in 1976.



HIV Positive

If tested, and it is found that you are HIV-Positive, this means that your blood stream contains HIV antibodies. All active and benign microbes that enter your body - ANTIGENS, will attract attention from your immune system. If the microbes are foreign bodies, the immune system will attempt to destroy them. Whether successful or not, an anti-body will be produced.

How Does Your Body Fight Infection?

Immunity   - This is the resistance of the body to infection, especially resistance due to antibodies. Babies have passive, or temporary immunity from some antibodies transferred from their mother’s blood through the placenta. Active immunity involves the formation of antibodies after exposure to an antigen - bacteria that invade the body during an infection are antigens. The two different kinds of immune response produced by antibodies involve: white blood cells called T-lymphocytes - produced by the thymus, which produce cells with antibody properties bound to their surface and are responsible for such reactions as graft rejection; B-lymphocytes, which produce cells that release free antibody into the blood.

T-cells which remember what microbes we have been exposed to, and how best to kill them. T-cells are the key component of the immune system that is missing in AIDS.

Auxiliary T cells infected by the HIV

Leucocyte - lymphocytes - or white blood cell. A colorless cell found in large numbers in the blood. There are several kinds, all involved in the body’s defense mechanisms. Granulocytes and monocytes destroy and feed on bacteria and other microorganisms that cause infection - see also phagocyte. The lymphocytes are involved with the production of antibodies.

Phagocyte   - A cell that engulfs and then digests particles from its surroundings: this process is called phagocytosis. In vertebrate animals, phagocytes are a type of white blood cell that protect the body by engulfing bacteria and other foreign particles.

Immunization is the production of immunity by an injection containing antibodies against specific diseases e.g. tetanus and diphtheria, which provides temporary passive immunity, or by vaccination, which produces the longer lasting active immunity.

Antibody   - A protein produced by certain white blood cells - lymphocytes that reacts with a particular foreign particle e.g. a bacterium, that has entered the body.

The antibody helps to destroy the foreign particle, known as the antigen. If the same bacteria invade the body in future, many more of the same antibodies are produced, enabling the body to destroy the bacteria very rapidly and so resist infection. This provides the basis of immunity. Antibodies are also responsible for the rejection of foreign tissue or organ transplants. See also monoclonal antibody.

Monoclonal antibody - A type of pure antibody that can be produced artificially in large quantities and used, for example, to distinguish the major blood groups. Mouse lymphocytes producing the required antibody are fused with mouse cancer cells; the resulting hybrid cells multiply rapidly and all produce the same type of antibody as their parent lymphocytes.
Whilst all this bodily protection sounds wonderful, the problem with AIDS, is that there is no defense to it, no answer to its attack.

The Human Immuno-deficiency Virus - HIV slowly attacks and destroys the immune system, the body's main defense against infection, leaving an individual vulnerable to a variety of other infections and certain malignancies that would normally easily be fought off. This eventually can cause death, as the body can no longer cope with the viral and bacterial onslaught that hit us normally everyday. Simple infections become fatal, and cancers arise, that the body, and drugs can no longer engage.

So being HIV-Positive, is the first stage. AIDS is the penultimate stage, and death is always the final stage of this HIV infection.

What type of virus is HIV?    -   A    Lentivirus

A Virus that infect only vertebrates. There are SIX serogroups of Lentivirus, that we have recognized, and they are host-specific, that is the virus only effects the hosts with which they are associated - primates, sheep, goats, horses, cats, and cattle. The primate lentiviruses are distinguished by the use of CD4 protein as a receptor with the absence of DU. Some groups have cross-reactive gag antigens - e.g., the ovine, caprine ( goat ), and feline lentiviruses. Antibodies to gag antigens in lions and other large felids indicate the existence of other viruses related to FIV and the ovine / caprine lentiviruses.

The primate lentiviruses are distinguished by the use of CD4 protein as a receptor with the absence of DU.

HIV is a Lentivirus, slow acting, and like all viruses of this type, it attacks the immune system. Lentiviruses are in turn part of a larger group of viruses known as, Retroviruses.

The name 'Lentivirus', from the French, literally means 'slow virus' because they take such a long time to produce any adverse effects in the body. Moreover, modern drugs slow this process down even more. Whilst in Sub-Saharan Africa, the average life of a man, and to some extent due to AIDS, is only 30 years, soon, in the Western World, having HIV before it becomes full-blown, will be over 30 years.

The Lentivirus has been found in a number of different animals, including cats, sheep, horses and cattle. However, the most interesting Lentivirus in terms of the investigation into the origins of Human HIV is the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus - SIV , that affects monkeys and apes.

There are two types of the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus:

HIV-1 and HIV-2.

Both types are spread by sexual contact, through blood, blood products, like semen and from mother to child, and they appear to cause clinically indistinguishable AIDS. However, it seems that HIV-2 is less easily transmitted, and the period between initial infection, and illness is longer.

Worldwide, the predominant virus is HIV-1, and generally when people refer to HIV without specifying the type of virus they will be referring to HIV-1. The relatively uncommon HIV-2 type is concentrated in West Africa and is rarely found elsewhere.

This adds intrigue as to whether HIV-1 did come from Africa.

It is hard, and maybe impossible, to say how many people have developed this 'Lentivirus', in the past, whether HIV or full-blown AIDS. It is hard to calculate how many got AIDS in the 1970s, or indeed in the decades before and after. In fact it is not really known how long AIDS has had an impact in Africa, where it is believed to have developed. It could have been around for centuries, but without the authorities, or even tribe elders, having any real name or knowledge of what it might be, it was hidden under many other terms.
And because someone could get infected, and become HIV positive, and it might be 20 years before they died, who would connect the two incidents. Also, as there were possibly so few cases around, and the fact that it is actually quite hard to catch this virus off a HIV victim, if you are careful, it was perhaps undeniably very rare.

Nearly 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV in the next 20 years if more is not done to combat the epidemic, the UN has warned.

We believe that this figure could be far higher, and that the UN has underestimated this prediction because of its embarrassment in what a defeat this would be for it and other organizations like WHO.

Furthermore, who is to say that this epidemic will not decimate 90% of Africans living on this continent.

It did not become pandemic across the Western World, until the eighties, and nobody really cared, because it was perceived as only a Gay-Disease, until numbers grew out of all expectations. This is further reflected in the fact that the Developed World still does not really care about the millions who have died in Africa.

It is now generally accepted that Human HIV, is a descendant of the host-specific SIV - the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, that effects our cousins the apes and our distant cousins the monkeys.

Certain strains of SIVs bear a very close resemblance to HIV-1 and HIV-2, the two types of HIV that effect Humankind. Some believe that it was once only a condition that had an effect on monkeys. This was passed onto the apes and then eventually onto humans, during the first half of the twentieth century. Monkey SIV, may have been quite rare and there may have been only one case of it being passed onto an ape.

Conceivably, when a chimpanzee, ate a monkey it had captured, he inadvertently picked up a strain that gave him SIV. This was then passed onto a human, through some erroneous contact that we can only imagine when and where. It may also have been through the human or humans, hunting and eating the ape.

Mad Cow Disease

Cross species contamination is generally quite rare. Take the sheep for example. Sheep have had, Scrapie, a degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system, for about 250 years. Scrapie is caused through an organic mechanical process, the Prion, and is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy - TSE, that affects sheep and is in the same category of diseases as the so-called Mad Cow Disease - BSE, in cattle.

There is no real evidence linking sheep Scrapie to BSE, but sheep Scrapie never posed any human health risk, until ground sheep remains were fed to cattle. Cattle caught BSE and in turn, some believe, gave humans CJD, the human equivalent. It took the cow, as some catalyst, before humans contracted the human form of Scrapie.

Prions are not alive in the same way a bacteria or virus. They cannot be destroyed through normal sterilization, they have to be burnt and medical instruments have to be disposed of, as they cannot be used again.

So how many of us have Prions inside us, after eating BSE contaminated meat? Are we all now Prion Positive, awaiting yet another incredulous outbreak of CJD, sometime in the future.

It took the UK government 10 years, and twelve billion dollars to eradicate BSE, what about CJD?

Blood cells

There are a number of different cell types in circulation in the blood stream. Here's a quick review:

Red cells carry oxygen to the cells of the body. They are essentially bags of hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying molecule. Hemoglobin binds oxygen to iron atoms, which give the hemoglobin and thus the cells their distinctive red color.

White cells (neutrophils) are of several types:

Polymorphonuclear cells, or "polys" for short, fight bacterial infections by engulfing bacteria and digesting them. They form PUS and are the chief ingredient of an abscess.

Lymphocytes are the virus killers. There are two types of these:

T-cells which remember what germs we've been exposed to and how to kill them. T-cells are the key component of the immune system that is missing in AIDS.

T-Cells and Platelets - One White Cell - Several Red.

B-cells that secrete the actual antibodies that attach to viruses and bacteria and identify them as things to be destroyed - rather like tagging the target with a laser so that the smart bomb will home in and blast the target.

Monocytes are cells that are related to lymphocytes but have a killing and cleaning function. They cruise through the tissues of the body cleaning up debris and killing any bacteria they find. They are often increased in viral infections - a reassuring finding that your doctor may note on your child's blood count.

Eosinophils are cells which are strongly related to allergy and the recognition of foreign things in the body like parasites.

Basophils are cells that are also part of the allergy and parasite recognition system.

Platelets are the cells that plug leaks in the vascular system, the clotting cells.

Prion - An an infectious protein particle called a Prion or Prion Protein. These prions appear to have the ability to recruit other normal proteins and induce them to alter their structure to become more prions, that act as vehicles of infection. This is quite different from other infectious diseases, commonly caused by bacteria or viruses. Prions are not a genetic.

Read this and weep. Over the last few months we have come to a frightening conclusion.

The Sahara Supposition
If you click onto the banner-link above, it will take you to this page - the Sahara Supposition Page. The Sahara Supposition started life around 1995 as several things, but mainly a scheme to Terraform the Sahara Desert; read the webpage for yourself, but read this first.

In 2051, the world's global environment will start to change without fear of God or Man. The crux of it is that by around 2080, due to Global Warming, melting ice-caps and fresh water bringing the Gulf Stream to a standstill, our Northern Hemisphere, will be thrust into the biggest Ice-Age for 20,000 years. Millions of people who live in the North of our planet, that is, Northern USA, Canada, Northern Europe, will be killed, or made homeless at best.

Today, the people of Africa, our biggest continent, are dying in numbers that are unbelievable, through Starvation, AIDS, Malaria, many other diseases, dirty water, wars, homicide, TB and genocide.
The So-called civilized world bangs many drums to try to prove that it is helping to change this Extinction Level Event, but it is all a farce.

Let us imagine, if we can, how poignant it would be, if say in one million years time, some advanced alien culture was to visit this third rock from the Sun. Simply to explore a most insignificant solar system to find that there was scarcely, any actual evidence that the primitive human animal had ever existed.

Live 8, may have raised great awareness and $200 million. But this is nothing in the scheme of monetarism. War engulfs more every second.
In 1972, the USA declared that it was spending $24 million each and every hour on the Vietnam War. What is that in today's money? A Live 8 concert every hour; 8,760 every year, for how many years?
In less than a century, many millions of people who live in our Northern Hemisphere, will need somewhere to live, they will have, Africa.
Parts of the USA, most of the UK and Europe will be covered in ice that could be a kilometre thick.
Great cities like Chicago, New York, London, Moscow, will be gone, sealed in some frozen stasis for maybe another century or millennium. Sadly this will make recent Hurricane strikes look like a breeze.
By then most native Africans will be dead and for the first time in Earth's history, Africa will be a continent dominated by white races.

Just a few miles south of England there is a very small island called the Isle of Wight. It is said that the whole population of the Earth could stand on this island at the same time.
Using England's Population Density, well over 50 Billion People could live in Africa, and no doubt one day they will, and they will be mostly white.

Besides death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired vision, listlessness, stunted growth and greatly increased susceptibility to disease. Severely malnourished people are unable to function at even a basic level. United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

AIDS / HIV

Gaetan Dugas; Patient Zero

As we have said, It is hard, and maybe impossible, to say how many people have developed this slow working virus, in past history, whether HIV or full-blown AIDS. But how did it spread so quickly around the world, after being so constrained for so long. It may well have lied relatively dormant for centuries, but then during the twentieth century the planet grew smaller everyday; and since the fifties world travel is now available to many millions.

Gaetan Dugas; Patient Zero February 1953 – March 1984

But one incident that did not help stop the spread out of Africa, was allegedly due to a French Canadian Air-Steward, Gaetan Dugas; Patient Zero. He apparently caught the disease in West Africa on an overnight stay. It is now infamy that he contracted it quite innocently by having Gay Sex, with a Black man. He had never seen him before, because these were promiscuous times in the late seventies early eighties when most STD's had been supposedly beaten by penicillin, and Gay Sex was rife, and it was not unusual for a Gay man to have several different sexual encounters each week, all unprotected. This Frenchman, the charming and very handsome Gaetan Dugas, was widely known across the Gay community of North America. There were actually a few cases, not attributed to him, that could have been AIDS / HIV, in North America before Gaetan Dugas.

But it was in the summer of 1980 that Dugas began to notice a strange rash and peculiar purple spots on his face and body. The doctors soon realized that he had Kaposi's Sarcoma [ KS ], a type of skin cancer that affected internal organs, and was later associated with AIDS. It followed that Kaposi's Sarcoma was only seen in homosexual men, so it was dubbed the 'gay cancer'. This did not stop the promiscuous Dugas, he continued to travel to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and New York, frequenting numerous places, to spread the word; AIDS. This made AIDS become known as the Gay Disease, especially as it is far more prevalent if partners engage in anal-sex.

Kaposi's Sarcoma, was a rare form of relatively benign cancer that tended to occur in older people. But by March 1981 at least eight cases of a more aggressive form of KS had occurred amongst young Gay men in New York. Equally, there was an erroneous increase in both California and New York, in the number of cases of a rare lung infection Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia - PCP. It had started, but it was painfully soon realised that this was not The Gay Disease, as Heterosexuals victims soon mounted to overtake Gay numbers.

This part of the epidemic does reflect the many thousands that got HIV / AIDS as drug addicts sharing needles, or the innocents that acquired the virus from blood transfusions, Factor 8 and bone marrow transplants.

Africa

In Africa, the most prominent problem in the new millennium, has become an epidemic. Early on, scientists set out to discover more about the occurrence of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. This research resulted in 26 patients with AIDS being identified in Kigali, Rwanda, and 38 patients identified in Kinshasa, Zaire.

The Rwandan study concluded that, - . . . an association of an urban environment, a relatively high income, and heterosexual promiscuity could be a risk factor for AIDS in Africa.

Overtime this spread throughout all classes of those who would make up promiscuous Africa. It now affects the whole structure of their way of life, and is a vicious circle that they will find hard to get off.

Safe-Sex

Today, a recent study has shown that AIDS is killing an African every 10 seconds. This is due to many reasons. Lack of drugs, education, false-hope, but ignorance is perhaps the main reason. AIDS is a mainly a sexually transmitted disease - STD, but infection can be reduced by 97% if a condom is worn during sex.

This is what safe-sex is, wearing a condom. This not only protects the male from catching any virus, but also, and more importantly, it protects the female, and stops her from becoming a carrier of this virus.

An infected and unprotected man will introduce his sperm into the woman, and leave the AIDS virus inside her, where it has a far greater chance to contaminate her over time. She will then be a time bomb, passing on AIDS to most partners she may have in the future. In African villages where money is scarce, women are sometimes forced to become prostitutes to earn a few pennies, in an area where 50% of all inhabitants have HIV. One prostitute in a large town who knew she was HIV, had up to ten unprotected, customers each day, ironically to earn the money to cure herself. These Johns then went home to their wives and girlfriends and spread the disease even further.
However, the Roman Catholic Church forbids the wearing of condoms for any reason as this is against God's wish. In villages and towns that are rife with AIDS, Catholic Priests preach and brainwash young Africans, that it is blasphemous to protect yourself during sex. Condoms are generally free and easily available, donated by the West. Moreover, young male Africans believe it is not an African thing to wear protection, as they must feel flesh on flesh, when with a woman. Fuelled by cheap alcohol, whilst they know that the odds of catching AIDS or some STD are high, they do not care, grabbing some small moment of pleasure in this sad continent.
Also reported, young men who know that they have HIV, to them a good night out is to get drunk, and find a young girl, and have unprotected sex with her, knowing that there will be a high she also will become HIV positive. Under such a regime it is no wonder that soon 50 million people in Africa will be HIV or be dying of AIDS.

However, the Roman Catholic Church forbids the wearing of condoms for any reason as this is against God's wish. In villages and towns that are rife with AIDS, Catholic Priests preach and brainwash young Africans, that it is blasphemous to protect yourself during sex. Condoms are generally free and easily available, donated by the West. Moreover, young male Africans believe it is not an African thing to wear protection, as they must feel flesh on flesh, when with a woman. Fuelled by cheap alcohol, whilst they know that the odds of catching AIDS or some STD are high, they do not care, grabbing some small moment of pleasure, on a sad continent were pleasures are few.

Also reported, young men who know that they have HIV, to them a good night out is to get drunk, and find a young girl, and have unprotected sex with her, knowing that there will be a high she also will become HIV positive. Under such a regime it is no wonder that soon 50 million people in Africa will be HIV or be dying of AIDS.

In some countries it is a serious offence for a person who has HIV / AIDS, or any disease for that matter, to deliberately infect another without their knowledge. A charge of Manslaughter or even Murder could be raised.

At least 130 people, around 60 of them gay men, have been prosecuted for transmitting HIV in Europe, a new study has found.

A study of HIV positive patients in California has found that those taking HIV medication actually had less unprotected sex than people not taking it.

Never have unprotected sex. You do not know your partner, trust us!

The New York Times

AIDS Video

This is an email we sent to the New York Times.

Dear Sir / Madam

We found your videos quite interesting, but really much the same as previous documentaries.

What stood out is your complete disregard to the Catholic Church's stance on contraception, especially condoms. How can we in the west inform our people that the best protection against AIDS / HIV is safe-sex, via a condom, but then allow the Catholic Church to not only ban these items, but to preach to the people of Africa that it is against God's will, and an evil act to use condoms.

Documentaries in the UK, clearly showed, that many young African men, did not want to use a condom based on religious teachings, and for those who already had HIV, devilment. Many young men who were already infected, deliberately went out to infect any passing sexual partner they came across.
Moreover, a huge percentage of the victims in your film could have been saved had it not been for the deliberate avoidance of safe-sex. The women who had died in your film, died because they had been infected by their husbands, who in turn had caught the infection from another woman outside of the marriage.

There would seem to be a simple solution here, but for the teachings of God.

Thank you,

Roy G Symonds

editor@ foogle.biz