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1220 days ago
Just got back from a visit to the AIDS villages in Shangcai County, South of Zhengzhou, in Henan Province. There is so much to say, but it's hard to find the words to say it. The photos of the villagers will speak for themselves.... Thousands of people were infected with HIV/AIDS virus years ago, when they were asked by local leaders to sell their blood for a small amount of money. Tragically, the leaders used poor and unclean equipment and methods to collect the blood. They mixed the blood of many people together, took what they needed to sell for profit, then gave some blood back to the villagers so they wouldn't be weak from loss of blood. This was a horrible mistake, because if one person giving blood was infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, then everyone else became infected! Many people in the villages have already died, many are now sick and will die soon, many seem healthy and may live a long time, but can't find a job because employers are afraid to hire them. ...
1265 days ago
The study described below strongly supports the immune therapy approach to HIV infection, first suggested in the late 1980's, officially submitted as a "treatment model" to the NC DHHS in April, 1992 and later published in the Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, Volume 4, Number 1 (see http://www.healthchina.org/document/doc20041027.html on website www.healthchina.org ) Your comments and suggestions for rapidly developing this immune-based HIV treatment method will be deeply appreciated by the 40+ million people worldwide infected with HIV/AIDS. They deserve the best possible treatment at the lowest possible cost, truthful answers to their questions, and ethical, compassionate help from all of us. Sadly, even the newest and most expensive drugs have failed to cure AIDS, or add years of life to those with HIV infection. After 20 years of costly failure by the pharmaceutical industry, it is time to try the logical, common-sense approach which has ...
1267 days ago
Science 9 June 2006: Vol. 312. no. 5779, pp. 1530 - 1533 DOI: 10.1126/science.1124226 Reports Preserved CD4+ Central Memory T Cells and Survival in Vaccinated SIV-Challenged Monkeys Norman L. Letvin, 1 ,2 * John R. Mascola, 1 Yue Sun, 2 Darci A. Gorgone, 2 Adam P. Buzby, 2 Ling Xu, 1 Zhi-yong Yang, 1 Bimal Chakrabarti, 1 Srinivas S. Rao, 1 Jörn E. Schmitz, 2 David C. Montefiori, 3 Brianne R. Barker, 2 Fred L. Bookstein, 4 ,5 Gary J. Nabel 1 Vaccine-induced cellular immunity controls virus replication in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)–infected monkeys only transiently, leading to the question of whether such vaccines for AIDS will be effective. We immunized monkeys with plasmid DNA and replication-defective adenoviral vectors encoding SIV proteins and then challenged them with pathogenic SIV. Although these monkeys demonstrated a reduction in viremia restricted to the early phase of SIV infection, they showed a prolonged ...
1514 days ago
On Thursday September 29 the Red Cross chapter at Beijing Jiaotong University (Jiaoda) invited Gary J. Minter to speak about his work with HIV/AIDS in the US, and his volunteer work with AIDS education in China. Minter has studied AIDS for almost 20 years, and worked for a government public health department in the US for 12 years. During that time Minter's duties included counseling HIV+ persons, and locating and interviewing the sex partners and drug needlesharing partners of people with AIDS. Minter worked in low-income neighborhoods, visiting crackhouses, jails, prisons, hospitals, and public housing projects, talking with drug addicts, prostitutes, and drug dealers, trying to warn people confidentially of their exposure to Human Immune Virus (HIV, the AIDS virus), and counselling and helping people with AIDS. After his speech Minter donated 200 rmb to the Jiaoda chapter of the Red Cross from money he collected from his popular "Saturday Night at the Movies" ...
