In the developing world, the virus has been around for at least 65 years because HIV is rarely transmitted heterosexual. Research that studied the wives of infected hemophiliacs showed that an HIV-positive person requires more than 1,000 unprotected sexual contacts with an HIV-negative person of the opposite sex to transmit the virus just once. Lancet, 1997, 349: 851-2, French doctors at the Cochin-Port Royal hospital in Paris analyzed the risk that married couples would want to conceive a baby where the man was HIV positive. Their findings are in line with infection rates of 1 in 1,000 unprotected sexual acts among stable heterosexual partners.

According to this published research, an HIV-infected heterosexual who has sex 2-3 times a week, approximately seven years old, could infect another person with HIV! This practically means that HIV-infected men out of a million couples who have unprotected sex for 2,739 years a day can infect all female partners who test positive for HIV (even if the HIV tests were 100% reliable, which they are not).

How do you get AIDS?

However, the situation is different with respect to infected pregnant women. A baby is directly and constantly exposed to the mother’s blood for a period of 9 months. During this period, the virus has a 50% chance of being transmitted to the baby. Retroviruses survive when they reach a new host before birth (they are passed from mother to child). This way of transmitting a virus is at least 500 times more effective than through sexual transmission. (Blood transfusion is another obvious way to get the virus)

In contrast to the situation in rich nations, HIV in Third World countries is distributed equally between the sexes, which means that it must have been transmitted from mother to child for many centuries. If HIV had been a deadly killer virus, the babies of infected mothers would obviously have been born deformed, aborted or stillborn, because newborn babies have not yet developed adequate immunity to defend themselves against a killer virus. Even if they somehow managed to survive, they could only last a maximum of two years, the latency period that infected babies are given before developing AIDS. The spread of the virus would have been automatically stopped by destroying all newborn babies that were infected by their mothers.

Due to the low rates of homosexuality in developing countries, the prenatal transmission route has been their only efficient way (50 percent chance) of transmitting HIV to new generations. Older girls who become mothers would again have a 50 percent chance of transmitting the virus to their children. Thus, in Africa alone, HIV must have existed for many generations before it can infect 6 to 8 million people. The latest argument that increased condom use in some African nations helped reduce the infection rate is unconvincing, as the main route of HIV infection in Africa is from mother to child.

Who gets AIDS?

The situation is very different in the industrialized world, where HIV is transmitted mainly through different routes. The most susceptible groups are highly active homosexuals, heroin addicts who share needles, and hemophiliacs who receive transfusions. They represent the main and easiest routes through which disease-causing microbes can be transmitted to other people who share a common risk factor: immunodeficiency. In other words, the groups in society where HIV is commonly present among its members are also the groups with the greatest health risks and therefore more likely to produce symptoms of AIDS. Still, the more concentrated presence of HIV among health risk groups cannot be blamed for causing AIDS diseases, just as high cholesterol levels cannot be held responsible for causing heart disease. These are mere correlations. Another problem is that gay men, drug users, and hemophiliacs who are exposed to semen, drugs, blood transfusions, hepatitis, the Epstein Barr virus, and many other diseases or factors known to cause false positives biological tests in HIV, represent the most unreliable. society groups to demonstrate the real presence of HIV.

As prophesied 13 years ago, AIDS has invaded the heterosexual community, or so it seems. Since cervical cancer and other female diseases have more recently been renamed AIDS diseases, AIDS appears to have affected the female population. However, the majority of AIDS patients are still men.

Anything and everything that heavily abuses the body and depletes the immune system must be held responsible for causing disease, regardless of whether it is a stroke, cancer, or an AIDS disease. Emotional stress, insufficient nutrition, dehydration, lack of sleep, alcohol, cigarettes, antibiotics, hard drugs, excessive sexual activity, etc., can damage the immune system. An inactive piece of viral material like HIV, on the other hand, cannot harm a healthy body.

Those who are continuously exposed to immune risk factors are also more susceptible to developing Human Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Someone might argue, “What about an innocent baby who is infected with HIV from his parents and dies of pneumonia? Isn’t that AIDS?” The fact is that at least the same number of children die of pneumonia with or without HIV, and it does not significantly influence the outcome of the disease whether they had a previous encounter with HIV or not. However, what can make a big difference is how pneumonia is treated.