When will people understand that HIV does not causes AIDS???

Question

There's no scientific evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Drug use and poor nutrition is the cause. Doesn't that make sense? Wouldn't a very poor diet and heavy drug use cause your Immune System to become Deficient??

Answer 1

I'm going to have a tough time believing you over wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS

"acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus"

Oh, and then there's this from our own US government:
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/howhiv.htm
"acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus "

Here's more:
http://www.avert.org/evidence.htm
http://www.aegis.com/topics/basics/hivandaids.html
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/hiv?page=basics-00-03
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/4/1680_50176.htm

I need to rest now, because I'm getting tired of trying to find even the tiniest bit of evidence to support your theory.

You wouldn't be trying to start some political correctness crap, now would you?

Answer 2

There are many cases of people with poor diet and heavy drug use that do not have immune systems.

There are also many documented cases of HIV in people who have not taken drugs or suffered malnutrition. These conditions have existed in all of humanity, and yet this virus is very new.

You cannot show a strong correlation between the things you've mentioned and AIDS. People who AIDS have the virus called HIV. HIV replicates in immune cells, and eventually destroys them.

Stop trying to blame the people who have this disease for it. They're still people.

Answer 3

Aids is Aids as far as I'm concerned...

Aquired Immune Deficient Syndrome

HIV is the softly sofly approach to make people feel better about it, as is sounds better.

Correct that Hiv will not always develope into and AIDS defining illness, though more often than not it does, sooner or later, and with medications the way they are, more later, however the side effects of managing AIDS is another story.

I have this argument all the time with other HIV positive people, and they dont like my response, as AIDS is aquired hence the name. Whilst the CD4 count is above 250 in the USA and 200 in Australia its called HIV as soon as it drops below these levels you are re classified to AIDS and you do not get re classified back even if your TC4 go above the benchmark again.

Its all in the naming.

Answer 4

HIV is the virus that causes Aids however being HIV positive does not necessarily mean you will develop full blown aids.it just means that you have been exposed to the HIV virus and your body has responded by producing antibodies in response to the present of that foreign protein in your body.Yes a nutritious diet and healthy lifestyle does help.Yes drug addiction and alcoholism does lower your immune system

Answer 5

The FIRST 2 openly hemosexual persons on the planet ever recorded in recent history had HIV as a result of "getting it on" with each other. The HIV virus can and does when left untreated become the AIDS virus also being HIV positive even once means a lifetime banned from being allowed to donate blood or plasma. legally.

Answer 6

It doesn't *always* cause AIDS, no, but it usually ends up resulting in it. The amount of time it takes varies though, as it can lie dormant for over a decade or so in some people, and not in others.

Answer 7

It is a fact that HIV causes AIDS. AIDS would not be considered a STD if it was not true. Having a poor diet doesn't cause AIDS. It causes diabetes and obesity. I don't know what drug use causes other than frying brain cells.

Answer 8

actually HIV is a bunch of different viruses. over time this weakens the immune system. it depletes and aggrivates many diseases and leaves them succeptable to severe infections in many different forms-DNA, RNA, Retro, Delta, bacterial, ect.ect.
drug use is a way to contract hiv. drugs however, would aggrivate the situation.
you have all those virons and bacteria's swimming around, atop of that you have chemicals. mixing the two is worse than HIV itself.
HIV is not curable, but mantainable. Read up on it. It's rather more complex than your view of the diseases (s).

Answer 9

An HIV-infected person is diagnosed with AIDS when his or her immune system is seriously compromised and manifestations of HIV infection are severe. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently defines AIDS in an adult or adolescent age 13 years or older as the presence of one of 26 conditions indicative of severe immunosuppression associated with HIV infection, such as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a condition extraordinarily rare in people without HIV infection. Most other AIDS-defining conditions are also "opportunistic infections" which rarely cause harm in healthy individuals. A diagnosis of AIDS also is given to HIV-infected individuals when their CD4+ T-cell count falls below 200 cells/cubic millimeter (mm3) of blood. Healthy adults usually have CD4+ T-cell counts of 600-1,500/mm3 of blood. In HIV-infected children younger than 13 years, the CDC definition of AIDS is similar to that in adolescents and adults, except for the addition of certain infections commonly seen in pediatric patients with HIV. (CDC. MMWR 1992;41(RR-17):1; CDC. MMWR 1994;43(RR-12):1).
In many developing countries, where diagnostic facilities may be minimal, healthcare workers use a World Health Organization (WHO) AIDS case definiton based on the presence of clinical signs associated with immune deficiency and the exclusion of other known causes of immunosuppression, such as cancer or malnutrition. An expanded WHO AIDS case definition, with a broader spectrum of clinical manifestations of HIV infection, is employed in settings where HIV antibody tests are available (WHO. Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 1994;69:273).
Hope this clarifies your thoughts
Matador 89

Answer 10

So that's why non drug users get it from transfusions, then...

I take it you're a medical genius and not just some random nutcase, then, eh?

Years of misinformation and finally TEH TROOTH appears on yahoo answers. Thank you so much, Dr Fibs.