we have a group of forty patients that have no detectable virus in their body but they're not being treated so the first question is are they really in fact so the west of us can have no the whistleblower's negative too but they were told they were positive by a lab yes that misread the western blot heavyweight champion tommy morrison tested positive in one thousand nine hundred six eleven years later in two thousand and seven he tested negative multiple times allowing him to return to the ring there is constant discussion in the community of people who do diagnostic testing in the blood bankers about how to re me the package insert that comes with the western blot it contains eight different sets of criteria for diagnosing hiv infection because of the different criteria that apply in different countries you couldn't be considered not theoretically i could be diagnosed with aids in the united states but if i take three steps to my right i wouldn't be diagnosed with aids or i would lose my aids diagnosis when i crossed the border hundred two i was encouraged by a doctor to take what's called a nature test as a matter of social responsibility and i was shocked and devastated and horrified when the results came back positive it was one of those moments that everyone fears their whole life a week later i take the same test to an eight specialist he looks at says this isn't a positive test i don't know what this test means since a false positive looks like a true positive how can you ever distinguish whether it's truly a positive or a negative well that's a great question it's going to be very hard to determine  a false positive so i take the test again and this time my results come back marked from the indeterminate i'm faced with the decision do i want to wait six weeks to test again or do it right away i opted for right away my results that time come back positive take it again negative i took it again positive what happens if put in late december of two thousand and seven i read about new legislation passed in new jersey calling for the mandatory testing of pregnant women or newborn infants should the mother status be unknown the mandatory testing the me is a no brainer i'm very much opposed to the concept of mandatory testing of any population because the tests are scientifically shown to be unreliable and inaccurate you have no reason to fear this bill past western blot now we have the viral load test that when you get the packages there for the viral load test it says if you test positive you are considered confirmed infected with hiv but at the bottom of the page in fine print it states a person should have additional testing it does not allow you to tell a single person on this planet that they have a positive and it's a scandal that this test continues to be used so again i'm in south africa alone it's about a thousand people dying every day from aids if you're an advocacy agency and you perceive low numbers to be bad your bias may be to accept higher numbers even if they're not scientifically sound i know a jim quite well and i was the chairman of the steering committee on epidemiology of the global program on  enough evidence it's possible that he didn't read the materials we sent them or he didn't understand them but we did send information to anybody that wanted to know about the  they were pretty transparent in an attempt to get to the bottom of the statistics debate i've come to geneva switzerland to look at the world health organization's official numbers and what we found there are no numbers only assumptions and estimates how are the monies divvied out the states for aids prevention or aids treatment how is government monies sent out to different states and communities the more aid more money you get about two hundred fifty million dollars was spent on aids in poor countries ten years later it's ten billion dollars that's unprecedented increase still not enough when that was created the first thing peta p r sa really doing a major disservice to say it is not as bad as it looks like because actually it is much worse one month after my interview with dr the indian government slashed their estimates by nearly sixty percent shortly thereafter u n aides acknowledge they've been overestimating global aids hiv statistics for more than a decade they've painted themselves into a corner and now th very very few compared you know in april of two thousand and eight congress approved a fifty billion dollar expenditure for aids treatment and prevention vast majority of the i did a study of the heterosexual transmission of hiv in california and we recruited individuals who were infected with hiv then we recruited their sexual partners and we looked at whether transmission in fact had occurred the world's most terrifying virulent sexually transmitted disease came a pause no nobody nobody nobody who is negative came up positive i think in chinese is more difficult to transmit than other sexually turned then a lot of probably most other sexually transmitted diseases i mean i think that's pretty widely known if i would have protected sex somebody who is a heavy positive how many acts that i have to engage in before i got the virus is one thing one with enough one is you know remarkably a tragedy is a difficult infection to transmit this contradicts everything i was ever taught about the sexual transmission hiv aids is the best example of what's really scary and alarming and dangerous about our culture right now which is that it's a culture of a p r it's a public relations phenomenon the truth doesn't matter what matters is the image the conference was held before any of robert gallo's papers were published therefore before any other scientists had a chance to review them and look at the evidence and see if he got it right or wrong yells philosophy wants to have people to whom he would give the buyers be in his own control so that any information that came out of that was would come through him so that he got all the information and you know often put his name on publications and w quote collaborate with them but should you have any broader view other than his personal glory and your personal glory it is this was not a scientific pursuit in any way the u s department of health and human services decided from now on we seventy years plus now he's going to remember things that we all remember things that are good for us and we forget  uncertainty i asked dr fauci for evidence linking each i v to immune deficiency disease when you put the combined findings of the initial characterization as distinct retrovirus isolated by montana and his group together with gallows linking the virus to being the cause of aids and he put those things together and that's how we have a confirmation of the causative agent of age of aids namely  australia and he questioned why there is every been found a virus i became consumed with researching that i could read from morning till night morning to night every day and every link to a new link and i would email it to these people and say where's aids diagnosis is forever it cannot be reversed or alleviated the stigma attached to people knowing that you have it and are living with it is worse than actually living with it i can't think of anybody who's ever been evicted from their apartment because they had breast cancer or because they had cerebral palsy i did a campaign to address them of the message is that if anyone is infected we are all affected some have it medically seven the b b c featured a news story which began hiv infection theory challenge living cells are complicated and how they work inside the body is even more complicated so still a lot of debate as to how  aids in march of two thousand and eight the washington post went on to state that multiple surprises have reminded researchers how much they still don't know about hiv biology think anybody completely understands that we have a relatively poor understanding of how far all proteins interact with proteins in the  immune system no matter how many scientific journal says it is when you go to the basic research it doesn't prove it we  is it will kill the cell eventually that it effects hiv does not necessarily kill the cells that infect some t cells are directly killed by h and other t cells keep the virus in check it's a silent state within the cell and i think in some many cases the cells can return to a normal function and that cell returned to a normal state  i don't think so when i was told i was a to be positive i accepted that on a very deep level but only by having the courage the open mind and open heart to answer these questions are we ever going to know how to help people how to do what we need to do to help people in if the sudden loss of t cells and hiv positive individuals can't explain why people get disease and there must be cope factors that cause people to get sick and die or factors that have absolutely nothing to do with hiv while researching chappie hotspots i began to realize there is a direct correlation in these places with another condition that leads to a deficiency and i think it is important to keep in mind especially for us in the west  in two thousand a usa today published a new story that stated if we look at the data objectively we are spending too much on aids about ten billion dollars a year is spent on aids while two billion people live with no sanitation one billion lack access to clean water and malnutrition kill someone every ten seconds these factors enable diseases to thrive and severely weaken the immune system of those living in such squalor there are other ways you could produce a condition that looks like aids but they too will be some source that causes a severe defect in the immune response nineteen  theory that certainly turned out to be completely incorrect that it's a lifestyle phenomenon not for his right to exist as a gay man i went on a vacation to los angeles and it wasn't that while but i wonder now i went to a bath house i came home with get this at the same time syphilis gonorrhea and two forms of parasites i have no views about that you know in a judgment or kind of sense but certainly from a public health point of view that's kind  of a prescription for disaster because first occurs in these men who were not healthy for reasons that were obvious to everyone you're talking thousands of partners sometimes hundreds per month lots of antibiotic use lots of drug use and you know the result where people were getting pretty said there's a drug called that was developed in the reported were all five gay men they were young they all used poppers poppers something you walk around huffing all night i mean it's as flammable fatalist swallowed on the side of the bar and walking around all night long why is he a great rush a sex drug they were in every gay bathhouse every bar every porno bookstore across the nation poppers were visible on the dance floor of the disco at the end of an evening and it parted with an ounce last call for alcohol last call for poppers like a mad wonder for kind of a dance that was being done but if you think that can happen forever you're wrong whether or not exists whether i its role in a weakened immune system is almost irrelevant when you compare what was going on at that time the lifestyle explanation proved politically unacceptable but the virus explanation prove exactly did cause i remember the first patient that i ever saw and my resident brought me to see a young gay man with pneumocystis pneumonia and knew a little bit about the use of poppers or a mole nitrite and hale and then i started asking the patient if they use them to turn out that he was a very heavy user of a man nitrites and much to the surprise of my students i said i think the man probably has destroyed his pulmonary immune system by inhaling this toxin when exactly because it wouldn't have had the same impact it was much better if there is a infectious organism on the loose in america and it could get you  i interviewed the world's leading hiv experts and discovered that the two benchmark diseases of aids have alternate explanations once again i turn to dr gelded long seeking proof of hiv existence in the most recent images available you know what i mean it cultures provided no proof for hiv aids existence so i asked nobel laureate dr david baltimore and dr robin weiss how they would isolate and photographed this elusive virus well i didn't dr gallo do that i mean he actually isolated it so i mean why should i do all of this this is all textbook stuff you're asking me and not quite sure what's behind your question about isolation i don't want to to mind boggling changes in the definition of aids which are in effect today you can be diagnosed with aids without ever having an age hiv test in one nine hundred eighty seven i had a lesion on my arm and it was  observe experiment and reason from what they observe they're not supposed to grab hold of an idea and cling to it and adjust everything else in their perceptions to fit that idea i think it hiv positive test means that your life is forever changed you have a whole new battery of things to consider for yourself what does it mean to me it's very hard to find everyone who's infected with hiv would like to deny it it's a bad prognosis we take drugs for the rest your life etc etc so those people who want to say ah i'm one of the people who tested positive but i'm not going to get the disease do i start treatment treatment meaning anti viral drugs if ever we started taking andy to a doctor at the children's medical center she gave us a prescription retrovirus syrup which is easy it was so important for us to get something to help our baby that we sat on the floor switched over to the university then the door siege of a z t went up and that's where she started flattening out with church the doctors would try to put a positive spin on how well she was progressing it was it was mainly in the nobody noticed that there was something wrong with the treatment i remember in one thousand nine hundred two after i first tested positive i became involved in an organization called women at risk there were eleven of us at the time on the board and volved in the group all of us except three were on the medications in the year and a half that i was involved with women at risk every single woman in that organization on the drugs every single one except the three of us who are taking the we were just given handfuls of a z t we demanded it we considered the f d a not giving us these things as being anti gay instead of being responsible and so we went and we lobbied and we pushed for all these things and we didn't think clearly about what it was we're asking for  we just decided between ourselves in november to write to peter duesberg and say sorry to bother you are you and if wendy were your daughter what would you do on november eleventh we get a big package and he said you must take your daughter off easy t immediately or she will die from that by prescription you're getting unit efficiency in your diet from the talks that i my community wasn't by an ineffective therapy i think in retrospect the dose that we started with with a z t was dangerous and poorly tolerated dose nobody wants to realize what a regime that means it kills almost everything i play around with treatment interruption because i think the drugs are toxic and if i do the drugs continuously without interruption i think that they'll have a cumulative damage in the years that we've been using the cocktail we found that there are lots of side effects in south africa i spoke to a couple  awarded two point five million dollars in damages some people are very fortunate they don't have these side effects but many people do so prolonged treatment is impossible i know people that are like horses have aids drugs are all classified as black box drugs black box drug is the most severe warning that will put on a product it means you could die taking this because other people have died tak warning severe life threatening skin reactions including fatal cases one morning she was covered in these welts and this breath it was all over her face was all in your mucosa layers in your intestine and stops them from working and what happens to you by skin i would never take them i look at i don't have a problem with other people taking once we came to the conclusion that this was the drug that was causing this problem your regardless of what the h i v was where you she was going to come off the drug no matter what your taking up to drugs meant that she could the drugs that are going to kill us before the disease  are the drugs doing to the body they're putting the bodies into coffee before my sister started taking the drug she was healthy started the drug she developed an allergic reaction which made her look like a patient before blown a fuse and made it to the hospital she continued to spiral down and within thirty seven days from our first date of taking the medicine she was gone i emails were exchanged between the director of the aids division and an ethics and safety officer and there was fulminant liver failure resulting in the death on this trial last week if someone's going to be giving me a diagnosis of certain death in five to seven years i want scientific proof this isn't a religion my interest and and questioning and breaking and exploring does h cause aids is an instinct to liberate people from a death sentence that isn't theirs to carry after we kept lindy off a d t her weight did go up within a couple of days the leg cramps went away and her physical body seemed to be doing pretty well but like she was disturbed she was agitated very easy her life span changed all the time after she got to be two years old and then she'd only live to be five which had to be older than i said or she might live to be seven but definitely would live in the double digits and that's just was our life although lindsay was on for twenty two months she made a full recovery from the pernicious side effects lindsay will be nineteen in october of two thousand and nine because it's been surrounded from day one with so much emotion so much fear so much psychology so much drama very few people are capable of looking at you take a poor african who's been infected and you build up their main system is it possible for them to also naturally get rid of it i would think so it's very easy to get people to think the right thing if you get there right on the tablet the first time but once something's on the talent and you've got to race it and put something else it's very hard to get people to think differently the victims of hiv and the dedicated professionals combating it deserve our sympathy compassion and respect however at journey's end i find myself perplexed at times with an overall feeling of dismay and sadness i found  statistics manipulated to the point of absurdity ninety percent of global corresponds to areas of great poverty and squalor ironically while we may have been pursuing a phantom killer a shapeshifting assassin