Immunity Resource Foundation
An information base on Scientific and Medical Issues challenging the HIV/AIDS hypothesis
[T]here is one small sub-group [where crystal meth] is having a disproportionate effect…: gay men on the extreme end of the party scene in London, where it’s being linked to a worrying rise in HIV. …The drug can be smoked, snorted and swallowed, but increasing numbers of gay men in the capital are injecting it, sharing needles and […]
When things couldn’t get more ridiculous, there’s been – admittedly ridiculed – talk about giving free crack pipes as an outreach effort to pull crack users into health programmes. As the Republican representative says “What next? Free crack!” Just like clean needles only encourage drug use, so would free crack pipes. Target the drug, not […]
Read the article on Emanuel Pechir’s blog.
A study led by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) provides new insight into the impact that pro-inflammatory molecules have on early death in HIV patients who abuse alcohol. The findings, published online in the journal AIDS, pinpoint the inflammatory markers most associated with early death and may help explain why some patients […]
Over 25yrs ago, as a child, I remember innocent UK kids programming being contrasted in the ad breaks with government campaigns about the dual terrors of AIDS (‘Don’t Die Of Ignorance’) and heroin abuse (‘Heroin Screws You Up’). Both ad campaigns were likely thought up by the same production company as they made use of […]
…Rodney Richards, Ph.D., an associate of OMSJ, worked at the biotech giant for 13 years. During the early days of the AIDS scare, he supervised the development of the first HIV diagnostic tests. Originally intended only to rule out HIV in blood donor banks, HIV tests proliferated into mainstream medical practice and became the standard […]
Hi everyone, A lot of people say that a low CD4 count is unimportant. I disagree. While I don’t think it PREDICTIVE of poor health, I do believe it may be INDICATIVE of poor health. Here’s some notes I’ve made with a summary link at the end. (Thanks Mike for suggesting Kremer’s book!) I don’t […]
An HIV-positive Athens man who was arrested in November for having unprotected sex with a woman without telling her he was infected claimed that she knew about his condition prior to having sex, according to a search warrant affidavit filed this week in Clarke County Superior Court. …Because of medical privacy laws, the arrest warrant […]
An Iowa State University assistant professor has stepped down after being accused of faking the results of an AIDS study by mixing human and rabbit blood to the tune of millions of federal dollars. …According to Dr James Bradac, of the National Institutes of Health, Han added human blood components to rabbit blood, making it […]
Read John Wantling’s letter here.