detected in 1981 in San Francisco (California), the first AIDS case . Since then the epidemic has spread throughout the world, leaving millions dead. In Latin America, according to a 2007 report Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), and there are about 1.6 million people living con el VIH en esta región y sólo en el un año murieron aproximadamente 58 mil personas. Esta enfermedad es una de los principales miedos que embargan a las personas en la actualidad, especialmente a las personas del sector LGTB, pues desde la década de los ochenta –época en que fueron advertidos los primeros casos en Estados Unidos- se dijo que era la enfermedad de las cuatro haches: hemofílicos, heroinómanos, haitianos y homosexuales.
Los que dicen que sí y los que dicen que no
Sin embargo, existe un grupo de personas y organizaciones que dudan de la mortalidad de esta enfermedad, que sostienen que el Virus immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is not the cause of AIDS and even question whether the virus exists. It is those who prefer to develop alternative perspectives on AIDS and supporting the theme that has driven many false or misleading information. These alternative approaches also claim that the cure for AIDS exists and is in every one of those affected.
Some of the alternative positions on AIDS suggest that HIV is a harmless virus. Therefore, the true cause of AIDS is not in the virus but other factors linked to the mind and the psyche of people. But other positions that question the HIV and AIDS go even further, even denying that this virus exists. According to the infectious disease physician Roberto Giraldo, president of Monarch-Movement rethinking AIDS scientist, said that "the virus 'HIV' has never been isolated in any laboratory in the world. Neither could be photographed or have found the exact mechanism is supposed to attack human cells. " Luís
Botinas , member of the nonprofit NGO Plural-21, Association for the care of life in a living planet, says that what the fund is to propose a rethinking of what it until recently were given as truth absolute: "The two questions we must now ask are" Is AIDS a disease?. And if the answer is negative (as I believe it is), then "What is" it "called AIDS?". These questions are crucial if we want to end AIDS rather than perpetuate it as a supposed "chronic disease" and make the panacea of \u200b\u200bofficial experts of AIDS, drug companies and "anti-AIDS committees" means a "chronic epidemic AIDS. "
alternative to these analysts, the cure for AIDS exists but is not a drug or a drug. This is alternative medicine treatments in which power self-esteem, body defenses and a positive attitude towards life.
One of the pioneers of this debate was the American Christinne Maggiore. In his book What if everything you know what AIDS is false? was given the task of unraveling some of the hieratic theses that have surrounded the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and the virus that supposedly triggered. In the risky proposals Maggiore in doubt that HIV exists, that the evidence they discover it actually served and that medications are successful in offsetting the symptoms of the disease. As she argues in the book's introduction, I never would have written if not for its own life experience.
One of the first sentences of the book agreed to cast doubt on the effectiveness of so-called "AIDS tests" which are currently Elisa test and Western Blot . In his book he writes: "Those who are popularly called" AIDS tests "do not identify or diagnose AIDS and can not detect HIV, the virus that causes AIDS duces. Werte ELISA and Blot, normally used to diagnose HIV infection detect only interactions of proteins and antibodies that are believed to be specific to HIV; not detect HIV itself. " Maggiore's discoveries did not stop there. In one of his most controversial thesis, the author claims that HIV can not only cause AIDS, but that does not exist.
However, his death in late 2005 because of pneumonia put into question the alternative views of AIDS. According to the group
"Rethinking AIDS" Demolishing the Myth ", are based in Spain, Maggiore did not die of AIDS, but the physical and mental exhaustion which caused an alternative medicine treatment made to improve performance your lungs. "The cause of death of our beloved colleague Christine Maggiore was pneumonia. This is a clear example of how be hurt over and over again this tireless activist, from all sides, merciless and inhumane manner, which caused him stress and anxiety, and unprecedented that ran beyond their powers could allow, "said Raul Palma, a spokesman for the group. Maggiore
But was not the only one that has challenged traditional explanations of the disease. A list of "dissidents" have been integrated scientists, intellectuals, doctors and even politicians. One of the most famous is the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993, Kary Mullis . In 1997 prefaced the book "Inventing the AIDS virus" of virologist Peter Dusberg and later, in 2000, in his autobiography "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field" (Dancing Naked in the field of mind), he devoted a chapter to discuss traditional assumptions regarding AIDS. He is remembered by the phrase "We know that to err is human, but the hypothesis that HIV causes AIDS is a diabolical error." Another dissident
famous is the German virologist Stefan Lanka, who in 1997-in an interview with English-Lluís Botina said "To prove the existence of a virus require four basic requirements. The first is the taking of four photographs at different stages of the virus, the second is the accurate characterization of each protein of the virus, the third condition is to perform control experiments and the latter requirement is to publish articles in specialized scientific journals where research progress report to the virus. However, with HIV have not been complied with any of these four demands. "
In Latin America, this debate has an impact with some force. In countries like Mexico and Argentina and dissident groups exist in the official theory of AIDS. One is Monarchs -Movement rethinking AIDS scientist, based in Buenos Aires and several cities in Mexico. According to says Roberto Giraldo, president of the association, there are currently many attempts to silence these alternative versions on AIDS.
Some of the positions of the dissidents say that HIV is a conspiracy by pharmaceutical companies fixated on producing high-cost drugs that do not help the HIV-positive. In particular tend to be very incisive reporting the side effects of the drug AZT or AZT, which had become the "hope" for many patients diagnosed with HIV. According to some dissent from scientific research groups (such as students of Perth Grou p scientist Peter Duesberg) claim that the pharmacological properties of this drug AZT helps prevent the virus counter and also that its applications enhance immune system vulnerability.
Calad Carlos Arango, a psychologist with a Masters in Community Psychology and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and who corresponded with Maggiore, but says it can not vouch that the author's theses are true, he does believe that there are many inconsistencies about AIDS and HIV. "For me it is absolutely clear that we live in a cannibal society, a society that constantly conspire. Its main plot is consumption, which has developed a pharmaceutical industry committed people to consume drugs that do not need, "he says. And according
Raul Palma, the objective of alternative organizations is "to clarify the truth about the syndrome and the lies and fraud that surround him, to purify the responsibilities they may have about the millions of needless deaths that have occurred by error in diagnosis and treatment, both political and scientific, civil and criminal cases, offering also helps those diagnosed not to be hit by the lies and political fraud, medical science, and offer alternatives for the recovery and maintenance self-health. "
Moreover, Álvaro Hernán Plazas, activist in the LGBT sector working with people living with HIV in Colombia, says his closeness to the life histories of many patients allowed to have a more authentic to the problem. "Having known people who have died in transit from one phase to a phase HIV AIDS and others living with the AIDS virus, allow me to knowledge that AIDS is a reality, says Parks, who has also ensures that the opportunity to observe the virus through the lens of a microscope. "Maggiore and the other deniers pose some interesting cases, but have not yet been clearly refute approaches clear of the "hegemonic line" of science based in the existence of HIV and AIDS, "said Plazas. "It is irresponsible since a theory that reality speaks for itself: millions of people have died or are living with the virus. Are clear about their individual effects, family, social, cultural and institutional. Close our eyes to this reality undermines the social body and the collective nervous system, "he adds. Arango Calad
explanation for the existence of AIDS is not a virus but a whole social and commercial fabric: "Society itself takes people to have an irresponsible attitude in front of his body, his sexuality and his life . For me the problem of self-injury to sexuality is the main factor. I would not say it is a virus but an institution committed to do all an ideological war in society, which is deadlier than any virus, "he says.
Regardless of these controversies, the truth is that with the death of Maggiore reopened a series of discussions about AIDS that face those who believe the official version and even those who doubt that HIV exists.
Christine Maggiore
born July 25, 1956 in Chicago (Illinois) and spent much of his childhood in Southern California. Honors graduate of Reseda High School, then studied marketing and advertising in Los Angeles. Being a successful entrepreneur, in 1992, while conducting a routine check, Maggiore was diagnosed with HIV and, as usual, he predicted a few years of life. After passing the sad news, Maggiore began to volunteer assistance to some organizations that work with AIDS patients. However, one year later, he met the scientist Peter Duesberg and quickly began to doubt the official version on AIDS. Dissatisfied with that verdict doctor, Maggiore took on the task of query multiple documents and texts on Aids and after reading, compare and analyze the findings to those who came was disconcerting to many researchers and AIDS activists. In 1995 he founded the group Alive & Well Alternatives IDS, which is responsible for promoting non-use of antiretroviral drugs in pregnant women diagnosed with HIV.
Later he published the book What if everything you do cres about AIDS was wrong? To prove its case, both his son Charlie and her daughter Eliza were breastfed Maggiore. In 1995, the little Eliza died after being diagnosed AIDS-related pneumonia. This death resulted in a severe controversy in the United States, as Maggiore and Scovill hired a particular pathologist said the child fallaecido had an allergic reaction due to the antibiotic amoxicillin.
Two years later, Maggiore and her husband sued the Los Angeles County, saying the autopsy results were not clear enough. Maggiore close friends say the death of Eliza fell into a deep depression, causing rapid health problems.
According to a report by the Los Angeles Time, on December 27, 2008 Maggiore died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 52 years.
As reported by the same newspaper, the diagnosis of death was acute bilateral pneumonia, although data provided are not very profuse.
