Filed under: HIV | Tags: gay men, HIV, London, post-exposure prophylaxis, prevention campaign
[2004]
Gay men in London and Brighton are being targeted with an HIV-prevention campaign designed to increase their knowledge about the effectiveness and availability of treatment to prevent infection with HIV after possible sexual exposure to HIV.
Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) and its partner HIV prevention agencies in CHAPS will run a series of adverts in the gay press providing information about post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). The ads will be supported by posters in gay venues and an assessment questionnaire to help gay men decide if they have taken a sexual risk which would justify seeking PEP. The campaign will also provide details of sexual health clinics which provide PEP.
Campaign ads explain that PEP is “treatment that may prevent HIV infection after the virus has entered the body.” They also explain that PEP must be started within 72 hours of possible exposure to HIV and involves a one month course of anti-HIV medication, which can have side-effects including diarrohea, nausea and headache.
It’s being stressed by the THT campaign that PEP is not a substitute for condoms, and a briefing paper accompanying the campaign emphasises that “it’s important to see PEP as just one possible HIV prevention tool.”
The PEP campaign is based upon the recently issued British Association for Sexual Health (BASHH) guidelines on the use of PEP after possible sexual exposure to HIV. These include guidance on the circumstances in which PEP should be considered, factors affecting the effectiveness of PEP, and prescribing recommendations.
The BASHH guidelines recommend that PEP should be provided to men who have had receptive or insertive unprotected anal sex with a man who is known to be HIV-positive. They also recommend that PEP be provided to gay men who have had unprotected receptive anal sex with a man whose HIV status they do not know. The guidelines also state that PEP should be considered if oral sex with ejaculation occurs with a man known to be HIV-positive or of unknown HIV status. PEP is not recommended for oral sex without ejaculation.
Providers of PEP are also recommended to consider the viral load of the HIV-positive individual, although the guidelines emphasise that viral load in semen can differ from that in blood, and that individuals with an undetectable viral load can still be infectious. Other factors which the guidelines recommend for consideration include those known to increase the risk of HIV transmission. These include infection with a sexually transmitted infection or trauma during sex (particularly during sexual assault).
Will Nutland of THT emphasised that “drug treatment to help prevent the onset of HIV infection is not new, and has been available for some time to healthcare workers and others who might have been accidentally exposed to HIV at work. Now for the first time there are prescribing guidelines for how PEP should be used for people exposed to HIV during sex.”
THT has also developed a training package to help HIV prevention workers establish the availability of PEP in their area. The training package includes possible answers to arguments frequently encountered against the availability of PEP for sexual HIV exposure, including the effectiveness of PEP, the cost of PEP, demand for PEP, and the possibility that PEP will undermine condom based HIV prevention campaigns.
The campaign also acknowledges the limitations of PEP. “It’s very important to emphasise that PEP is not a morning after pill treatment for HIV” said Nutland, adding “it’s a month-long course of anti-HIV medication. There’s no guarantee that PEP will work.”
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THE CURE for HIV/AIDS…….AMBUSH
THE IDEA that AMBUSH cures AIDS
is being proven by the more than 400 individuals who have taken a dose of 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. The result is that AMBUSH ‘KILLS’ the virus by causing the protein envelope to rupture and the viral particles are discarded by the white blood cells. AMBUSH is able to ‘KILL’ the virus that are ‘hiding’ in the lymph system by its ‘natural radioactive’ properties. This process allows the body to ‘return to normal health’ with a corresponding immunity to that or those strains of the virus.
What is AMBUSH ?
AMBUSH is a radioactive isotope of uranium that is found in the ‘palm’ plant of which there are more than 3000 species. When ingested, AMBUSH causes the body temperature in the trunk area to rise to about 102 degrees when the individual is sleeping. The preparation takes four hours per batch, which is then given to the individuals for consumption 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. AMBUSH is a herbal preparation in this form but it contains an active ingredient which is a ‘NEW’ crystalline substance, a drug from the ‘palm plant’ similarly to ASPIRIN originating from the willow tree bark
RESULTS:
After 21 days on AMBUSH, ALL the individuals experienced a decrease in viral load to undetectable, an increase in cd4, increase in RBC, an improvement in general health such as more color to the face, decrease in Buffalo hump, an increase in gluteal muscles, a decrease to having no joint pains whereby individuals can bend to touch their toes, and walk up steps are but a few examples. There is also a dramatic increase in their sexual appetite beginning after the first week of therapy
DISCUSSION:
In any plant concoction such as percolated ‘tea’, there are 30-40,000 compounds, whi ch would take the scientific community twenty years to isolate one particular ingredient if they knew what they were looking for. The LORD GOD has given me seven steps to isolate the active ingredient, which is soft and metallic in nature and has a carbon- uranium-sulfur-(classified)-phentolamine configuration or structure. This is similar to Federick Kekule and the discovery of the benzene ring where he dreamt the structure.
As an antiviral and ‘natural radioactivity’ producing agent, AMBUSH is also effective against leukemia, lupus and HPV. Here I am saying that I have ‘GIVEN’ AMBUSH in the same ’strength’ and dosage to patients with leukemia, lupus and HPV. A 35 year old male with HIV found it difficult to impossible to urinate was put on ‘green tea’ and water while the doctors contemplated prostrate surgery. One of the doctors gave him my number , I sent him a supply of AMBUSH an d he has not been given any more ARV’s, since taking AMBUSH 18 months ago, is in ‘good’ health and has expressed a willingness to be examined by HIV investigators like many others who have taken AMBUSH.
I have sent this ‘IDEA’ to most HIV research agencies, scientist of the field, universities, hospitals, clinics, politicians and news agencies to which it is REJECTED because the name of THE LORD GOD is mentioned. He has steered me scientifically through the processes such as which plant and how to produce the active ingredient. What are the odds of a Florida Pharmacist picking a plant would contain the CURE for HIV/AIDS ?
I have never charged any of the people for their supply of AMBUSH but a life saving has been spent on the project with NO renumeration from any sources because AMBUSH falls outside the walls of modern medicine and research.
PROPOSAL:
My proposal is that I PROVE that AMBUSH CURES HIV/AIDS by giving it to a number of END-STAGE or DRUG-RESISTANT people and the scientific community watches their recovery. This proposal addresses the problem in that I have already outlaid the results to be obtained.
This IDEA is unconventional in that the scientific community has rejected AMBUSH because I say it is GOD given. Secondly if I wrote it according to certain standards, then it might be peer reviewed. However, THE LORD GOD has also shown me that there are five enzyme systems associated with the virus, reverse transcriptase, protease, fusion and two more of which causes the virus to be AIRBOURNE. This means that without DIVINE intervention mankind and ALL warm- blooded mammals will be extinct in a number of years.
The PROOF of what I am saying is found in scientific papers wherein it is found that when the protease cuts the viral strands, it cuts it at DIFFERENT lengths EVERY time, to which it should always be a valine at the end but is a different amino acid every time. This is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to produce a VACCINE.
Since this is NOT a hypothesis but there are about 400 individuals who have taken AMBUSH, here lies a vast area in which to check, recheck and confirm that AMBUSH CURES AIDS. Let it be mentioned that during the HIV reproductive cycle, reverse transcriptase converts viral RNA into DNA compatible to human genetic materials. Thus the human DNA has been ‘hijacked’ and since each person has a DIFFERENT DNA, then the new viral copy is unique to that person which shows that each individual has a DIFFERENT STRAIN of the virus. Consider two HIV positive people swapping viral strains and increasing its complexity with multiple partners.
It can also be proposed that they be revisited as proof that the strain or strains that they had were ‘killed’ at the time of taking AMBUSH considering that a person can catch as many different strains as there are people who are infected by HIV.
I am also willing to work with the scientific community in identifying those individuals who took AMBUSH and wish to be identified with this process notwithstanding that some are stigmatized while others are jubilant,
Once AMBUSH is verified as being able to accomplish that which is aforementioned then the next stage might be the natural and artificial synthesis of the substance.
Finally, if this is accepted or not, believed or not, THE LORD GOD always wins and this is the heavenly truth to which AMBUSH was divinely given to mankind for the CURE of HIV/AIDS and it will be here forever. Apostle Shada Mishe.
apostleshadamishe@gmail.com
Here is a video taped presentation that I gave at t he Martin Luther King library in Washington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V53D1w__Po
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