{"id":3015,"date":"2016-12-01T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2019-01-15T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T14:51:23","slug":"world-aids-day-campaign-2016-over-1-million-hivaids-deaths-per-year-and-still-avoiding-the-truth-about-vitamins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2016\/12\/world-aids-day-campaign-2016-over-1-million-hivaids-deaths-per-year-and-still-avoiding-the-truth-about-vitamins\/","title":{"rendered":"World AIDS Day Campaign 2016: Over 1 Million HIV\/AIDS Deaths Per Year And STILL Avoiding The Truth About Vitamins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although it sometimes seems hard to believe it, over a decade has now passed since we first announced that\u00a0<\/strong>vitamins can reverse the course of AIDS<\/strong>. In 2005, reporting on the results of the world\u2019s first\u00a0<\/strong>community vitamin program<\/strong>, we held a conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, and described how a combination of vitamins and other micronutrients can safely control the symptoms of AIDS and improve patients\u2019 quality of life. Had this scientific finding been implemented into global healthcare systems by now, millions of lives could have been saved. Instead, the officials behind the annual\u00a0<\/strong>World AIDS Day<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0campaign, held on 1st December each year, continue to avoid any mention of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conducted in South African townships by the South African National Civic Organization (SANCO), the\u00a0micronutrient program\u00a0used by HIV-positive community members in 2005 included a range of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, amino acids, and other essential nutrients. After a period of only 8 weeks the results proved that daily micronutrient supplementation was associated with a statistically significant decrease in weight loss, diarrhea, fever, persistent cough, and symptoms of tuberculosis. This was highly significant because in 1985 these same symptoms were included among those adopted at a\u00a0World Health Organization meeting in Bangui<\/a>, in the Central African Republic, as a definition of AIDS in African adults.<\/p>\n

Accumulating scientific evidence that we were right<\/strong><\/h3>\n

To say that our reporting of the community vitamin program results in 2005 met with vigorous opposition would be putting it lightly. To stakeholders of the multibillion-dollar antiretroviral (ARV) drug business, they were inevitably perceived as a threat to its profits. Almost immediately, therefore, the mass media initiated a global propaganda campaign against us. Deliberately downplaying the dangers of ARV drugs, pharma industry stakeholders portrayed safe and effective vitamin therapies as being dangerous and unhelpful in AIDS. Nevertheless, despite our subsequently becoming involved in several lawsuits, we knew all along that we were right.<\/p>\n

As the years went by,\u00a0scientific evidence in support of our position<\/a>\u00a0continued to accumulate. To anyone following this issue closely enough it became increasingly apparent that micronutrients offer a safe, effective, and affordable solution to the AIDS epidemic. Even Dr. Luc Montagnier \u2013 Recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of HIV \u2013 eventually\u00a0spoke out<\/a>\u00a0strongly in favor of nutrition and micronutrients in the fight against HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n

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