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My best Friend and roommate has been diagnosed with HIV.? |
He has accepted it, but I am very worried that his meds would not work....What's the average life span for an HIV+ man? He is 33 yr olds... Before your friend goes on these rather nasty medications, he may want to do some research. Drugs like AZT killed a whole lot of gay men. You and your friend should know that by 'diagnosis' it means he had antibodies that reacted to the 'HIV' antibody test. Its widely claimed that these tests are 99.9% accurate. But this is the BIGGEST load of nonsense to come out of the AIDS establishment. Not only is the Western Blot said to be a 'confirmatory' and more 'specific' test, it too is just an antibody test. Lest no one has told you, antibodies have a nasty propensity to react with things other than what is called their 'inducing antigen'. When the body encounters things in the body that don't belong their, it develops an immune response (often called a humoral response) by developing antibodies to these substances. Problem is, antibodies can and do react to things that didn't elicit their creation. This is called cross-reactivity. It happens a lot and is a fact of life. In the era of 'HIV' and AIDS, people seem to have forgotten this or are ignorant of this fact. That this is so problematic is best examplified by this research: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Western blot: revised diagnostic criteria with fewer indeterminate results for epidemiological studies in Africa [1] They write: "Western blotting is one of the reference confirmatory tests for the diagnosis of HIV infection or after inconclusive EIA results. However, the use of WB is limited by difficulty in their interpretation. Two different diagnostic criteria have already been proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO)1 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).2 This difficulty, and cost, has led to a reduction in recent years in the use of WB by groups such as WHO which recommend using a combination of EIA which are easier to interpret. Nevertheless, WB tests are still commonly used to confirm results from these EIA. In Africa, the presence of non-specific bands on WB lead to many tests being labelled indeterminate, undermining the use of WB as a diagnostic tool.3鈥? There is no clear biological explanation as to why the host response on WB bands differs in Africans compared to others. Several hypotheses have been advanced including cross-reactivity with malaria, other retroviruses, Herpes simplex virus infection, HIV-2, group O viruses, and anti-HLA antibodies.6鈥?" Source(s): 1. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/conten... 20 more years if he has health insurance in Africa , like 5 years maybe guessing He'll probably will make it to 55 or 65 if he has good access to healthcare. It kind of depends on how great his health was before he got sick. If he was really healthy, and didn't get sick a lot, he has a stronger immune system, so he'll live much longer than he would if he was prone to infections. Anywhere, actually, from 5 years to around 35. Most individuals infected with HIV will progress to AIDS if not treated. However, there is a tiny subset of patients who develop AIDS very slowly, or never at all. These patients are called long-term non-progressors. 20-24 years. Why some people with HIV infection do not progress to become ill is not well understood, unfortunately. |
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