False Positive: The HIV testing conundrum By M. Quinn Regrettably, a vigorous discourse within the W.H.O. (World Health Organization) and the medical community has been kept virtually concealed from the public domain, and continues to stun those who ascertain access to this knowledge. The discussion centers on an issue in which the medical community and its governing body have not arrived on clear and concise answers too. So therefore, in the interest of public access to supplementary knowledge on the matters relating to HIV/AIDS, I present this article not as a definitive statement regarding the accuracies, or inaccuracies on the methodologies of HIV testing. The following information is merely designed to convey certain facts widely known by the WHO (World Health Organization) and the medical industry; then the reader can conduct their own research and decide for themselves between what is entirely factual, and what is fiction. Within the confines of western medicine, the duplicity and enormous contradictions presented in today's medical practices and the credo that every doctor purportedly adheres too called the "Hippocratic Oath", has always astounded me. Furthermore, since the medical industry in the west has morphed into solely capitalist enterprise, its sincerity to the health and welfare of the people must come under meticulous scrutiny. It's been categorically proven that HIV and AIDS are not automatically connected to one another; because former Superstar NBA Basketball player Magic Johnson was formerly diagnosed as HIV positive, and now has been in complete remission from this illness, and currently shows no visible traces of the disease. Also, a South African Bishop has lived with the alleged HIV virus for over twenty (20) years, and continues to do his work on the continent. So therefore, I was not remotely surprised to learn that there are sixty two (62) commonly known (by the WHO and various medical communities) normal human anti-bodies, and or medical conditions that could render an HIV test positive, when in fact it is actually negative. Hence the term, "false positive". First, let's address the methodology for testing the blood serum of a supposed infected person. Across the globe, there are wide ranging disparities in determining a HIV positive person using the current testing criteria. The disparities differ widely depending on what country, and sometimes even what city within that country where one resides. For instance, if you live on the continent of "Africa", the methodology for testing the blood serum for the HIV virus states that, if your blood serum reacts to two (2) parts out of nine (9) of the alleged causations, then you are considered HIV positive. If you live in the "United States", the methodology for testing the blood serum for the HIV virus states that, if your blood serum reacts to three (3) parts out of nine (9) of the alleged causations, then you are considered HIV positive. If you live in "Australia", the methodology for testing the blood serum for the HIV virus states that, if your blood serum reacts to four (4) parts out of nine (9) of the alleged causations, then you are considered HIV positive. Likewise, if you live in "Russia", the methodology for testing the blood serum for the HIV virus states that, if your blood serum reacts to four (4) parts out of nine (9) of the alleged causations, then you are considered HIV positive. The question that begs to be asked is this; if an HIV test can be determine positive, or negative depending on where you live in the world, and no conclusive international standardized (test) methodologies are in place because the testing criteria in various countries are wide ranging; how accurate are these readings for this thing called HIV/AIDS? As previously stated there are at least sixty two (62) commonly known anti-bodies, and or medical conditions that could render a false positive on an HIV test. Below are merely a few of these anti-bodies and medical conditions. Factors Known to Cause False-Positive HIV Antibody Test Results: Anti-carbohydrate antibodies Naturally-occurring antibodies Passive immunization: receipt of gamma globulin or immune globulin (as prophylaxis against infection, which contains antibodies) Leprosy Tuberculosis Renal (kidney) failure Flu Flu vaccination Herpes simplex I Herpes simplex II Upper respiratory tract infection (cold or flu) Pregnancy in multiparous women Malaria Rheumatoid arthritis Hepatitis B vaccination Tetanus vaccination Organ transplantation Anti-collagen antibodies (found in gay men, hemophiliacs, Africans of both sexes and people with leprosy) Alcoholic hepatitis/alcoholic liver disease Sticky" blood (in Africans) Blood transfusions, multiple blood transfusions Heat-treated specimens Factors Known to Cause False-Positive HIV Test: http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/cjtestfp.htm Now, when it is widely known in the medical community that a standardized test for absolutely determining the validity and accuracy of HIV testing does not exist, one must sincerely question the motives behind the push to promote, market and sell pharmaceuticals like "AZT" and these "new" AIDS related medicinal cocktails. In fact, the drug AZT was previously widely used in the medical industry as a cancer fighting agent; hence a chemotherapy drug, and was deem so extremely toxic, that it was taken off the market. AZT is an indiscriminate killer, it attacks human cells, contaminated or not. It does not differentiate between cells that are affect by cancer, or the alleged HIV virus - it kills every cell it comes in contact with. AZT Product Information: http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/index/azt.htm One must further ask the question; that if this information is widely known in the medical community and the WHO (World Health Organization); why isn't this information readily available and disseminated broadly to the general public? More so to date, Africa has the lowest gross clinical criteria for arriving at a conclusion whether someone has the HIV virus. With the lowest gross clinical criteria, it is no wonder that the inhabitants of Africa surpass the rest of the world in recorded HIV and AIDS related cases with over 22 million reported infections. The determining (criteria) factors in concluding whether a person on the continent of Africa is infected with the HIV virus, is in blatant contradiction to the rest of the European world. According to the current variations in HIV testing criteria, if an alleged HIV positive person from Africa were to travel to Australia, Russia or even the United States with a blood serum reactive to three (3) parts out of nine (9), on a HIV test, they would not be deemed HIV positive. Of course, the obvious questions surface - aren't millions of people on the continent of Africa dying from AIDS? Or on the other hand, are they dying from the treatment associated with AIDS (AZT); and other pharmaceutical cocktails? Remember, the drug AZT does not discriminate between healthy and HIV infected blood cells - it kills every cell it comes in contact with. So therefore, I reiterate; why does the general public not commonly know this information? Is there some kind of Machiavellian plan being executed on the continent of Africa, and a campaign to keep the world ignorant? I do not know. However, I do implore all conscience people to do their own research on this matter by typing the words "false positive HIV testing" in any search engine, such as www.google.com, and arrive at you're their own "false" or "positive" conclusions. *************************************************************************** M. QUINN is a freelance journalist born in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Author of the book "Removing the Veil". He is also the Founder of the "Campaign to Remove the Veil"; which advocates incorporating a comprehensive study of racism into the academic system of American society, and making it a prerequisite for graduation. From K-12 to the university academic system, Mr. Quinn categorically expresses the imperativeness of this approach toward addressing the social sickness of American racism. He specializes in social, political, and historical analysis and commentary. 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