This week I introduce similarities and differences of the approach to AIDS and Malaria in Africa. African friends express more concern about AIDS and HIV. In many cases that have known victims and it seems a more real threat. I have not examined HIV/AIDS in any great detail as many others more qualified on the topic than me have been examining the truths of it since Gallo and Montagnier first launched this new disease on the world in the 1980’s. Peter Duisberg, The Perth Group, Mike Stone in viroliegy, and many other have examined the weaknesses of the establishment case as presented in Wikipedia or by the UN in much more detail than I ever could. I recommend Virus Mania by Engelbrecht et al as a good first read on this and other diseases.
Similarities are ~600,000 annual worldwide deaths, both are usually ‘diagnosed’ with a variety of non-specific symptoms and a Rapid Diagnostic Test (RTD), and both diseases are more likely to affect the malnourished and otherwise deprived. The major difference is that HIV/AIDS is supposedly transmissible between people, usually sexually, whereas Malaria requires a vector. HIV/AIDS is more likely to affect adults whereas Malaria affects children moreso.
The telltale AIDS illnesses such as Kaposi’s sarcoma were common in Africa a long time before the supposed discovery of HIV and AIDS. And from 1985 until ~2000 AIDS was not diagnosed in Africa without the anti-body test, but with a variety of conditions that were not unusual. The ‘Bangui Definition’ diagnosed AIDS if the patient had three of four major clinical signs – loss of body weight (>10%), chronic asthenia (weakness), chronic fever and chronic diarrhoea. AIDS is notable for having widely definitions depending on country.
The supposed sexual transmission adds greatly to the stigma about HIV, especially for females, a majority of test positives in Africa. Pregnancy and other conditions often cause positive HIV tests. However, sexual transmission has not been proven. The best evidence, in particular the Padian 1997 study suggests it is not.
The cure is much worse than the disease to a much greater extent than for malaria. Many working in the field suspect that poor quality anti-virals dispensed to patients cause them harm. Many who have examined the early celebrity victims of the 1980-90s (Rock Husdon, Freddy Mercury, Rudolf Nureyev, Arthur Ashe) feel that the drugs they took contributed significantly to their demise.
HIV/AIDS is big business. The 2024 UN global AIDS Update is a large book emphasising sexual health and drugs dispensing. Of course, like many conditions it would be eliminated in the morning with one simple act – stop testing for it. But then of course they might have to attend real issues.