New diseases that can indicate HIV risk revealed

Let just say everyone has the "HIV" virus and be done with it?
New Delhi: A European HIV initiative has suggested that a number of new diseases should be included on the list of risk indicators for persons suspected of carrying the virus.

HIV in Europe, a pan-European HIV/AIDS initiative coordinated from Copenhagen, said heterosexuals in Europe are at risk of carrying HIV for so long that they remain undiagnosed until their immune system begins to fail, and they fall ill.


An international study led by the initiative shows that diseases, including herpes zoster and certain forms of cancer, should be on the list of indicators for having HIV, which in turn could prompt health care professionals to suggest an HIV test to their patients.

This could aid in earlier diagnosis and treatment of HIV, which attacks and weakens a patient’s immune system, the initiative said, and help improve European response to treatment and care of HIV patients, English.news.cn reported.

"Positively False" – HIV and AIDS Documentary - London Screening and Q & A

Positively False – Birth of a Heresy. Joan Shenton reaches back to 1987 through her extensive archive of broadcast and non-broadcast video material on HIV and AIDS combining it with current footage.

In this documentary dissident scientists, journalists and activists are voicing their concerns about the way the infectious hypothesis for AIDS took over from the toxic one and highlights the impact the dogma surrounding a viral cause for AIDS has had on people’s lives. The film travels through Africa, Europe and the United States revealing the way plague terror, financial objectives and scientific skullduggery have led to tragic examples of toxicity and death from antiviral drugs, social stigma, broken families, fear of sex, homophobia and imprisonment. Positively False – Birth of a Heresy is produced by Meditel Productions Ltd andThe Immunity Resource Foundation in association with Yellow Productions. 

Lifeboat: HIV - Daring to Share

The Lifeboat Project is a unique web-documentary that focuses on the experiences of families living in Europe as they come to terms with HIV/AIDS.

The Lifeboat Project is a living, online archive in which five families, living in Europe, talk candidly about many taboo subjects: love, sex, pain, secrecy and ways of coping in a world that can be very judgemental. Stigma is still a big problem, even in Europe. Our films are being shown internationally at the grass roots level, in hospitals as part of psycho-social support, in educational programmes and in global AIDS campaigns.

10% of Europeans immune to HIV

Comments on this from: Terry Michael:
This nonsense about "10% of Europeans immune to HIV" is just the latest attempt to explain away why there has never been a white western heterosexual "epidemc" of "HIV disease." The other way to explain it is that there never has been an "HIV disease." That is, there is nothing pathogenic about one of thousands of strings of retroviral code written in nucleic acid and covered with a little protein. It is the biggest fraud in medical histroy. Of course, there has always been immune suppression, from multi-factorial causation, relating to unhealthful behaviors, ingestion of toxins and the psychogenic effects of being hated and oppressed minorities, both gay and black and drug users.

MAY 24, 2011 by ■ Holly Goodwin (I'm a 23 year old student studying English in Louisiana. I spend most my time on the computer reading articles and learning new facts. I enjoy reading and creative writing.)

According to biologists at the University of Liverpool the plagues of the Middle Ages have made 10 percent of Europeans HIV resistant.

Scientists managed to back trace the mutation to 700 years ago, a time when plagues, including the bubonic plague, were sweeping across Europe. The places hardest hit by the plagues are the ones that now have the highest levels of resistance to HIV.

Professor Christopher Duncan and Dr Susan Scott from the University of Liverpool’s School of Biological Sciences used a computer model to show how selected diseases provided the evolutionary pressure necessary to force the frequency of the mutation up from 1in 20,000 to the values today of 1 in 10.

These resistant individuals carry a mutation known as CCR5-delta 32 that inhibits the CCR5 cellular receptor used to gain access to the immune system by HIV and other diseases. The mutation effectively presents immunity to HIV and other diseases that use the CCR5 cellular receptor as a gateway into the immune system.