- The Tests ‘test’ for no one thing.
- They diagnose no one thing.
- They do not show infection with any single thing.
HIV tests may tell you that you have an illness, or they may tell you that you are pregnant. They give no single response, and diagnose no single condition. They may indicate immune suppression, or any variety of major or minor ailments.
The complex details of HIV testing are not reported to the public; they remain hidden in the medical and industry journals, and are actively suppressed by major media in public discussion. These are important public issues, and we all should have a clear and unobstructed view of all available data, no matter how it affects or challenges a publicly-held idea or policy.
It is impossible in a court of law to receive a death sentence for any crime as easily as it is to receive a false reading on an HIV test. It is a label that cannot be overcome in court, and cannot be appealed under any circumstance.
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If you are about to be tested, or have recently been tested, then you must understand the technical flaws and limitations of HIV testing, what the tests react with, and how they are interpreted. If you would like help in writing to your doctor, write RTB (go to:http://reducetheburden.org/?p=1025) , and we’ll assist you
Know your rights:
You have a right to informed consent, a right to read and review all critical literature on a medical procedure before agreeing to undergo it.
You have a right to read and review all critical literature on HIV testing, before submitting to a test. You have a right to choose whether or not to take a test, based on your reading of the critical medical literature on testing.
It is your legal right:
- To review all critical literature on the tests and on testing
- To take or to not take a test.
Before you test, seek answers to the following questions:
- How are the tests constructed?
- How do they work?
- What do they measure?
- What are the specific mechanical components of the tests?
- Where are the parts made?
- Where do they come from?
- What makes a test react?
- What makes a reaction positive or negative?
- What is the difference between a positive and a negative reaction?
- What standards are used to interpret a reaction?
- What other factors are used to determine the meaning or interpretation of a test result?
- Do the tests measure only one thing?
- Do they measure what they claim to measure?
- Do they cross-react, and if so, with what?
- Why do they cross-react?
- Who are the tests used on?
- Where are they issued most often?
- What gives a test a higher versus a lower “predictive value“?
Exercise your right to informed consent, and make the decision according to a full understanding of the tests, their limitations and uses, as reviewed in twenty-five years of the medical literature.
Read All Entries in the “Tests” Category (go to: http://reducetheburden.org/?cat=16)
Exercise your right to informed consent, and make the decision according to a full understanding of the tests, their limitations and uses, as reviewed in twenty-five years of the medical literature.
More on testing below, (go to: http://reducetheburden.org/?p=2909) and at ARAS.ab.ca/test
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