Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati,
President, Toxicologist, and Pathologist
Toxi-Health International, Dixon, CA 95620
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I reviewed many published studies that
described the impact of malnutrition on the functions and the structure of
the immune system of people in Africa. These studies clearly demonstrate
that the main cause of AIDS in Africa is severe starvation and not HIV. I
described these studies in my book “ Get All The Facts: HIV Does Not Cause
AIDS”[1]. The functions of the immune system, especially the cellular
immunity, are impaired in malnourished individuals. For example, the size of
the thymus of 42 malnourished children was reduced by 90% as compared with a
case-match normal controls[2]. In a second study involving 110 malnourished
children, the thymic area was found to be 20% of the size in healthy
children[3].
High prevalence of malnutrition in Africa and other developing countries
has been documented by Fauci et al.[4]. They stated that the magnitude of
malnutrition problem worldwide is immense. Protein energy malnutrition (PEM)
may be present in endemic form in developing nations and under famine
conditions the prevalence may approach 25 percent. In 1983, the World Health
Organization estimated that 300 million children had growth retardation
secondary to malnutrition. Cell-mediated immunity is impaired as indicated
by all standard tests in individuals suffering from PEM and common
infections and opportunistic infections can lead to increased morbidity and
mortality. In addition, nearly every aspect of reproduction is impaired in
the woman with PEM, including implantation, fetal growth, lactation, and
parturition. The infants are stunted in size and may have cognitive
impairment if they survive [4] Yet, Anthony Fauci and the AIDS establishment
have continued to overlook these facts and maintained the claim that HIV is
the cause of AIDS in Africa.
The reduction in the thymus size and in the functions of the immune
system of malnourished children are reversed after proper feeding[1]. For
example, the size of the thymus increased from 20% of normal in a
malnourished child to 107% of normal in the following 9 weeks of proper
feeding[3]. The reversal of the reduction in CD4+T cells counts in HIV-
positive pregnant women who suffered from malnutrition was also accomplished
by feeding these women a balanced diet for a few months. Briefly, the
influence of a diet on T cells counts in peripheral blood in 1,075
HIV-infected pregnant women who had poor nutritional status was studied in
Tanzania. The CD4+ T cells counts of the women who received multivitamins
for six months increased from 424/µL to 596/µL. This treatment also improved
the outcome of their pregnancy[5].
As a toxicologist and a pathologist, I reviewed several AZT clinical
trials and found that AZT is a very toxic drug, especially to the stem cells
in bone marrow (the source of T and B lymphocytes)[1]. For example, Fischl
et al. conducted a randomized controlled trial in 524 subjects who had a
first episode of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia[6]. These subjects received
AZT in either a dose of 250 mg taken orally every four hours (n=262) or a
dose of 200 mg taken orally every four hours for four weeks and thereafter
100 mg taken every four hours (n=262). In this study, additional
AIDS-defining opportunistic infections developed in 429 subjects (82%) in
the AZT treated groups. Furthermore, the hemoglobin levels declined to less
than 80 g per liter (baseline= 121 g per liter) in 178 subjects; the
neutrophil counts declined to less than 750 per ul (baseline = 2200 per ul)
in 230 subjects; and one hundred thirty-four subjects received red-cell
transfusions. One hundred eighty-three subjects (35%) were withdrawn from
AZT therapy because of toxic reactions such as severe anemia and neutropenia.
At 24 months of treatment, the mortality rates were 66% and 73% in the low
and standard AZT doses, respectively.
The results of the AZT clinical trials clearly show that AZT is a poison
and not a cure. However, the US FDA approved AZT as treatment for AIDS
patients and HIV-positive asymptomatic pregnant women based on the
assumption that HIV causes AIDS. Giving AZT which destroys bone marrow cells
and fast growing tissues such as embryonic and fetal tissues to people with
AIDS and malnourished pregnant women is just like putting gasoline on fire!
We have a large body of medical evidence that clearly shows HIV does not
cause AIDS. I urge governments and people to review the evidence and to
evaluate the AIDS establishment’s unscientific approach of dealing with the
AIDS epidemic.
1 Al-Bayati MA. Get All The Facts: HIV does not cause AIDS. Toxi- Health
International, Dixon CA 1999 [http://www.toxi-health.com].
2 Parent G, Chevalier P, Zalles L, et al. In vitro lymphocyte-
differentiating effects of thymulin (Zn-FTS) on lymphocyte subpopulation of
severely malnourished children. Am. J. Clin. Nutr 1994; 60:274-8
3 Chevalier P, Sevilla R, Sejas E et al. Immune recovery of malnourished
children takes longer than nutritional recovery: implications for treatment
and discharge. J. Trop Perdiatr 1998;44:304-7
4 Fauci AS, Braunwald E, Isslbacher KJ, Wilson JD, Martin JB, Kasper DL,
Hauser SL, Longo DL. Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc. New York USA, ed. 14, 1998
5 Fawzi WW, Msamanga GI, Spiegelman D, et al. Randomized trial effects of
vitamin supplements on pregnancy outcomes and T cell counts in
HIV-1-infected women in Tanzania. The Lancet 1998; 351:1447-1482
6 Fischl MA, Corette BP, Pettinelli C, et al. A randomized controlled
trial of a reduced daily dose of zidovudine in patients with the acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome. The New England Journal of Medicine 1990;
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