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Continuum's Ban the HIV Test Campaign

From the archives of The Memory Hole

HIV=AIDS Controversy: Test Ban

The British publication, Continuum, has proposed a test ban on all HIV antibody tests for reasons given below.

We invite you to join...
Continuum's Ban the HIV Test Campaign

The HIV antibody tests are unproved for HIV isolation because: There is no universal gold standard HIV isolate, therefore there can be no calculation of the specificity of any hypothetical HIV test. The only scientifically valid method of determining the specificity of antibodies present in sera of either healthy individuals or AIDS patients is the use of HIV isolation as a gold standard.

An antigen/antibody reaction cannot prove that the origin of certain proteins is a retrovirus or that antibodies are specifically directed against the retrovirus. The protein antigens that are used for the HIV tests are the biological outcome of stressed white blood cells used in the laboratory, and the antibodies that react with them can be generated by fungal and mycobacterial infections including PCP and Candida.

The HIV test has never been scientifically validated. HIV positive results are triggered by a wide variety of conditions and different test kits produce widely differing results. Factors known to cause False-Positive HIV Antibody Test Results: Flu vaccination, Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Renal (kidney) failure, Herpes simplex 1 & 2, Malaria, Hepatitis B vaccination, Organ transplantation, Epstein-Barr virus, Lymphoma, Autoimmune disease, Tetanus vaccination, MAI, Rheumatoid arthritis.

There is no scientific evidence of antibodies or proteins specific to HIV. There is no data proving the actual origin of either HIV proteins or antibodies, and there is ample evidence that reactions between HIV proteins and HIV antibodies are non-specific.

No particle of HIV has ever been obtained pure, free of contaminants; nor has a complete piece of HIV RNA (or transcribed DNA) ever been proved to exist. In the journal Virology (March 1997), Han Gelderblom, et al. disclosed that there were major contaminants in pure HIV which demonstrates that HIV does not exist as a unique, exogenous retrovirus but an excess of vesicles (particles of cellular proteins). What has been wrongly classified as HIV is an endogenous collection of gene products that can appear when immune system cells are chronically stimulated in the body or drastically manipulated in the laboratory.

Prejudice drives HIV test results: it has been confirmed that HIV antibody test labs use risk-factor information before deciding on results. If the individual falls into any of the 15 or more high-risk categories (including being gay, bi-sexual, prostitute or from a developing country)an indeterminate result may be read as HIV antibody positive.

There is no scientific basis for using these non-specific HIV tests to prove HIV infection or for making any antiviral health decisions based on them. We urge you to join our campaign to have the fraudulent HIV tests banned. Say NO to fraudulent HIV testing.

Continuum
Phone: London, 0171 713 7071
Address: 172 Foundling Court, Brunswick Centre
London WC1N 1QE, United Kingdom.

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