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Australian response to the AIDS epidemic – PART 1

Rampant was a fascinating documentary about the Australian government response to the AIDS epidemic in the early 80’s. While most nations condemned already marginalized groups ,the Australian government Joined forces with gays,prostitutes and drug addicts in the fight against this disease by establishing a unique and controversial precedent that undoubtely change the predicted catastrofic outcome into a model response to the world in the fight against AIDS.

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Leading AIDS Dissident: David Crowe Speaks Out (Part 1 of 3)

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Pandemic 2 Part 3

The third joint lets play video I did with Mrkoolguy133. Third video of 5.

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Vitamins – A Vital Part of HIV Nutrition

An integral part of any HIV treatment program should be aimed at drawing attention and stressing on nourishment. Highlight of that specific aimed should be emphasized on Vitamins for HIV. This is fundamental to help people with HIV to improve and perk up their general health and help them cope with the side effects of their treatment and rehabilitation.

HIV patients often lack specific vitamins including Vitamins A, B1, B6, B12, C, E, and folate. Vitamins A, B, and E are effective in strengthening the immune system of a person, which is very much vital for HIV patients because a strong immune system can resist the development of further complication and infection.

Foods rich in Vitamin B1 include meat, liver, nuts and grains; while beans, vegetable and banana are rich in Vitamin B6. Eating soy products will provide supply of Vitamin B12. It is a common knowledge that citrus fruits and green leafy vegetables are loaded with Vitamin C. This is one of the most essential vitamins for HIV patients because of the well-known antioxidant accomplishment of Ascorbic Acid. It is effective in clearing out cell and tissue-damaging particles.

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HIV And vitamin B12

Research has shown that HIV-positive individuals are most likely Vitamin B12 deficient.

As such, their bodies become more prone to infections. Vitamin B12 deficiency could lead to fatigue, neuropathy, depression, rashes, and anemia.

On the other hand, taking an increased dosage of Vitamin B12 helps in the inhibition of lymphocytes and monocytes.

Vitamin A as a cure for HIV

Vitamin A and its food form, Beta-carotene help in boosting the formation of helpful body chemicals that fights off the ill effects of HIV.

Therefore, people that are HIV-positive should make it a point to take increased dosage of Beta-carotene or Vitamin A.

However, there are studies showing that certain HIV-positive patients produce some negative effects when subjected to high dosage of Vitamin A. Therefore, it is important that patients consult with their doctors first so that the actual benefits of Vitamin A are assessed right on.

Multivitamins as a Treatment for HIV

HIV is a condition that affects the entire body of a person. And since it attacks the body’s immune system and doesn’t have a cure yet, doctors have decided that aggressive nutrition is what’s required.

HIV-positive patients are required to take in substantial vitamins and minerals in their body to help in the fight against the ill effects of AIDS.

It is however crucial to note that excessive vitamin intake can also be harmful. Vitamins should only be taken in recommended dosages especially vitamins in pharmaceutical form like pill or syrup and not from natural sources. Vitamin deficiencies in HIV patients put them at a greater risk of HIV disease advancing to AIDS and later on become more intense which may lead them to death. Because of this, it has been emphasized that requirements of vitamins for HIV patients should be higher than the average requirement for normal and healthy persons.

Vitamin supplements can make up for deficiencies in vitamins of HIV patients. Intake of multivitamin supplements can provide positive effects in the condition of people living with HIV.

The author is the owner of www.vitaminbag.com. For more information about Vitamins for HIV visit www.vitaminbag.com/treatment/hiv.aspx.

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AIDS Inc Part 1

segments from the film AIDS Inc by gary null

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HIV/AIDS Cure movie Part 2

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Numbers Lie ? Statistics, Politics and the Media, Part 2

Last week we began looking at how numbers and statistics can be used by the spin jockeys who work in marketing and politics to mislead the public into believing what they wish us to believe. The spin jockeys decide what message they wish to convey and then find or create numbers to support their position.

The messages and statistics are then released to the media through press releases, advertising or delivered by a spokesperson, or in some cases they are delivered directly by company representatives or politicians. This is remarkably effective because the media will often use these “sound bites” of information without checking to find out if they are accurate – this is especially true of numbers and statistics. As news services continue to cut back on investigative journalism resources and staff this is becoming more and more common.

This is a very unfortunate phenomenon because the general public tends trust the media to be true and accurate. As soon as the numbers appear in the media they become more credible and are usually treated as facts. This makes it much easier for the spin jockeys to mislead us.

So far we have been talking about deliberate distortions created from the use of inaccurate or misleading numbers. There are just as many “honest” ways that numbers can lie.

In many cases people who report numbers have a bias in how they report them. Think about how your local meteorologist reports on the possibility of rain. If they forecast rain and it is sunny most people are not going to blame them. If they forecast sunny skies and it rains some folks are going to furious when it rains on their garage sale or party and blame the weatherperson. The forecasters are well aware of this and tend to “hedge their bets” by biasing their forecast in favor of precipitation over the possibility of sunny skies.

Beyond simple biases many distortions in the delivery and use of numbers are from mistakes. Anyone who has taken enough math knows that a small mistake made in calculation can lead to a completely inaccurate result. Mistakes can be made in the collection, tabulation or analysis of numbers as well – the more complex the numbers the more likely it is that inaccuracies exist.

The other common mistake is to misinterpret the numbers because of a misunderstanding of the relationships between things. In the early days of the AIDs epidemic many people concluded that homosexual behavior “caused” AIDs because infection was almost completely restricted to male homosexuals. It wasn’t until large numbers of women began contracting HIV that this hypothesis was invalidated.

It is beyond the scope of this essay to go into all the ways that numbers can lie. However, there is a great little book out there that does. Check out Innumeracy – Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences by John Allen Paulos. Dr. Paulos does a fine job of illuminating how numbers can lie and provides some solutions to the individual who wishes to cut through the BS.

Ultimately, the solution to this problem is within each one of us. There is no way we will ever be able to eliminate the distortion that can result from the improper use of numbers or from using inaccurate numbers. Numbers are used and produced by human beings and human beings are notoriously fallible. It then becomes our responsibility to be skeptical and check out numbers that are important to us.

Whenever possible investigate numbers and the conclusions reached from them by doing a little research. Here the Internet search engines are a great resource. Just type in the issue and the numbers and you are likely to get other analyses of those same numbers. Use the alternative news services – there are many available on the web – and get another point-of-view before accepting suspicious numbers as fact. Be aware of the biases that exist and take into consideration that distortion when reviewing the numbers.

Perhaps the most powerful thing you can do is to hold companies and politicians accountable for their misuse of numbers. If you find that a company has been distorting the truth than stop giving them your business. If consumers did not allow them to get away with it companies would be forced to become more truthful to stay in business. Similarly, don’t vote for politicians who bend facts to support their campaigns, and if you still wish to vote for them it never hurts to give them a call or email letting them know that their numbers are inaccurate and that your continued support depends on them issuing a correction.

While we may not be able to eliminate distortions that result from mistakes we can reduce deliberate distortions by holding the spin jockeys accountable. On the Bright Future website there is a nice article on reducing distortion by insisting on good record keeping entitled: Credibility and Solid Record Keeping Expose Propaganda

Randy Bisenz is the founder of http://www.BrightFuture.us , a non-partisan article hub and online community focused on solutions to worldwide problems.

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HIV News at ICAAC/IDSA – Part 1

At the 2008 joint meeting of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), Tim Horn speaks with Roy M. Gulick, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine at the Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University and the director of the Cornell Clinical Trials Unit in New York. In this first of a two-part interview, Dr. Gulick reviews some of the noteworthy HIV presentation at ICAAC/IDSA, including new data suggesting that antiretroviral therapy is most effective when started when the CD4 count falls below 500.

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Alex Coutinho TASO, HIV/AIDS prevention forum, part 3 of 3

Dr Alex Coutinho, TASO Uganda, speaks at Sida Development Area on May 25, 2007. This forum was on HIV Prevention, Gender Equality and Business Actors”. Sida is the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

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South Africa: HIV/AIDS part 3 (The Facts)

In part 3 An alternative hypothesis on HIV/AIDS, asserting that recreational and pharmaceutical drug use (especially AZT, a drug used in the treatment of AIDS) and not HIV are the primary causes of AIDS outside of Africa. AIDS in Africa is mostly misdiagnosed (he notes that the diagnostic criteria for AIDS are different in Africa) and that the breakdown of the immune system in African AIDS patients is explained by malnutrition, bad drinking water, and other infections. HIV/AIDS is a HOAX. More infornation about the great hiv/aids HOAX! 7mac.com Africa is not dying from hiv/aids www.whatisaids.com Lives that did not end after the “diagnoses” www.aliveandwell.org Aids Inc(the fraud explained) video.google.es The HIV/AID scam exposed www.whatisaids.com Category: Education Tags: South Africa AIDS HIV R3NDI3R September Clues Myth Hoax Lies Sex AZT Virology Sexual Diseases Gays Homosexual

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