Are the Toxic Effects of Anti-AIDS Drugs Being Blamed on HIV?
In 1995, the number of people dying from AIDS in the United States began to drop, and when deaths due to AIDS dropped in 1996, this was quickly offered as proof that the new drugs were working. As noted in this paper earlier, however, CDC statistics clearly show that new AIDS cases started dropping in 1993, several years before protease inhibitor cocktails were introduced which would seem the most obvious explanation. In addition, in 1993 the number of AIDS cases doubled overnight when the definition of AIDS was changed for the third time. Previous changes had resulted in more and more illnesses being officially dubbed “AIDS defining conditions”, including things like certain yeast infections, cervical cancer and lymphoma which are relatively common in people of the same age group as most HIV positive people. Therefore, just about any serious condition that happens to occur in a person diagnosed “HIV positive” could now be officially blamed on HIV, along with any infectious process. Th
