Has Gallo proven the role of HIV in AIDS?

Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Eleni; Turner, Valendar F.; Papadimitriou, John

doi:10.1111/j.1442-2026.1993.tb00414.x

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“…Hence defining 'Ebola' as causally responsible for human fatalities associated with hemorrhagic fever is not yet evidence-based. Similar points have been made about the causal association connoted by semantic juxtaposition of the acronyms 'HIV' and 'AIDS' [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49].…”

Section: Deceptive Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…According to Richards, "the inappropriate use of antibody tests for the purpose of diagnosing infection with HIV can be traced back to 1987, when the US Centre for Infectious Diseases Control and Prevention declared: 'The presence of antibody indicates current infection' [59], [60]. Yet as Richards and others have observed, this claim is not substantiated by evidence [61][62][63]. Meanwhile physicians continue to use nonspecific versions of the tests to tell people they are infected, or are at risk of infection with a deadly virus from their sexual partner or in the course of performing medical procedures, and that transmission is a high risk for their children.…”

Section: Dubious Diagnosticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Counterproductive contributions to African epidemiology

Lauer¹,

Shenton²

2017

Madridge J Immunol

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Throughout this retrospective, our purpose is to illuminate an evident knowledge handicap, cutting across the diagnostic procedures, reportage and mathematical modelling of chronic illness affecting African public health demographics, which we trace to three epistemic injustices (methodological, documental, and professional) in the way medical research in Africa is managed and monitored by foreigners. We propose that the mutual reinforcement of these three different kinds of epistemic transgression underlies the chronic failure of immunologists and public health practitioners to subdue the inflated rates of morbidity and short life expectancy persistent throughout Africa. Substandard data collection and implausible infection modelling count as injustices because they are traceable to a routine disregard for best scientific practice at the upper echelons of global health authority, which is betrayed by an inordinately high tolerance for diagnostic error concerning populations that are disproportionately disadvantaged as a norm, who are therefore regarded as low credibility risks in the global production and dissemination of medical knowledge. To ground these claims, we rely upon direct observations and anecdotal evidence culled from two different sorts of public health crisis in Africa which have received widespread publicity: (i) the eighteen-month-long international emergency response to a West Africa Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015, and (ii) attempts over the last quarter century to quell an extensively researched African HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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Section: Deceptive Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 57%

Section: Dubious Diagnosticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Counterproductive contributions to African epidemiology

Lauer¹,

Shenton²

2017

Madridge J Immunol

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“…It was possible in 1985 to detect the virus through antibodies in the blood; as a result, signaling the start of blood testing before transfusion, and, thus increasing the level of safety in transfused patients. Finally, in 1986 the entire scientific community came up with a common name for the virus that causes AIDS, in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) [9,10] The virus harms the human immune system, attacking T-lymphocytes; thus making the sufferer's body susceptible to numerous infections, with the characteristic symptoms of the disease being Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and Carinii pneumocyst pneumonia (PCP) [6,11] The virus can be transmitted via blood, semen, pre-ejaculatory fluids, rectal mucus, vaginal fluids, and even from mother to newborn, through breast milk. Other ways of transmitting HIV are through syringe sharing, childbirth, transfusions of infected blood, accidental punctures with syringes, but also from unprofessional tattoos, ear piercings, etc.…”

Section: Talking About Hiv/aidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shame and HIV infection: A narrative review

Ouzounakis¹,

Frantzana²,

Iliadis³

et al. 2023

World J. Adv. Res. Rev.

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Introduction: Some diseases such as AIDS more often than not lead to feelings of shame, embarrassment or guilt due to their nature or social burden. Purpose: Investigating the shame experienced by patients suffering from HIV/AIDS infection. Methodology: This narrative review was based on the bibliographic search of reviews and research studies drawn from the international databases. The exclusion criterion of the articles was the language other than English and Greek. Results: People living with HIV report a range of stigmatizing experiences derived from others; including social rejection, exclusion, gossip and poor health care as well as the risk being stigmatized and marginalized. This situation negatively affects people living with HIV, resulting in emotional tensions and outbursts, anger, sadness, a feeling of low self-esteem, fear and shame for their desires and thoughts, shame for themselves. Conclusion: What is needed is the education of society and the adoption of health policies that guarantee that everyone, regardless of the disease they suffer, will have the right to care and health.

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“…Those of you who read the journal Emergency Medicine regularly will recall the far more serious misconduct by Robert Gallo in relation to HIV infection discussed in the journal last year by Royal Perth Hospital researchers 43 .…”

Section: What Problems Do We Face?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Tom Hamilton Lecture: 1994. Research and academic emergency medicine

Jelinek¹

1994

Emergency Medicine

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Has Gallo proven the role of HIV in AIDS?

Cited by 9 publications

References 62 publications

Counterproductive contributions to African epidemiology

Counterproductive contributions to African epidemiology

Shame and HIV infection: A narrative review

Tom Hamilton Lecture: 1994. Research and academic emergency medicine

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