"...HIV-based definition of AIDS (see § 3) can not be used in Africa to distinguish AIDS-defining from otherwise indistinguishable diseases, because as of 1985 the WHO decided at a conference in Bangui, Africa, to accept African AIDS diagnoses without HIV-tests (see § 3)."
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"Indeed, all available data are compatible with an old African epidemic of malnutrition and poverty-associated diseases under a new name..."
1.2 African epidemic
A new AIDS epidemic was also claimed to have emerged in sub-Saharan Africa in 1984 (Bayley 1984; Piot et al 1984; Seligmann et al 1984; Van de Perre et al 1984; Quinn et al 1986, 1987). In sharp contrast to its US/Euro- pean namesakes, the African AIDS epidemic is randomly distributed between the sexes and not restricted to beha- vioural risk groups (Blattner et al 1988; Duesberg 1988; World Health Organization 2001a). Hence sub-Saharan African AIDS is compatible with a random, either micro- bial or chemical cause.
The African epidemic is also a collection of long-establi- shed, indigenous diseases, such as chronic fevers, weight loss, alias “slim disease”, diarrhea and tuberculosis (table 2), (Colebunders et al 1987; Konotey-Ahulu 1987a, b, 1989; Pallangyo et al 1987; Duesberg 1992). However, the distribution of AIDS-defining diseases in Africa dif- fers strongly from those in the US and Europe (table 2).
For example, the predominant and most distinctive AIDS diseases in the US and Europe, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma, are almost never diag- nosed in Africa (Goodgame 1990; Abouya et al 1992). According to the WHO the African epidemic has in- creased from 1984 until the early 1990s, similar to the epidemics of the US and Europe, but has since leveled off to generate about 75,000 cases annually (figure 1c), (World Health Organization 2001b, and back issues). By 2001, Africa had reportedly generated a cumulative total of 1,093,522 cases (World Health Organization 2001b). However, there are three reasons for questioning these numbers:
(i) During the African AIDS epidemic, the sub-Saharan African population has grown, at an annual rate of about 2?6% per year – from 378 million in 1980 to 652 million in 2000 (US Bureau of the Census International Data Base 2001). Thus Africa had gained since 1980 274 million people, the equivalent of the whole population of the US!
Therefore, a possible, above-normal loss of 1 million Africans over a period in which over 200 millions were gained is statistically hard, if not impossible to verify – unless the African AIDS diseases were highly distinctive.
(ii) However, the African AIDS-defining diseases are clinically indistinguishable from conventional African morbidity and mortality (see above).
(iii) Further the HIV-based definition of AIDS (see § 3) can not be used in Africa to distinguish AIDS-defining from otherwise indistinguishable diseases, because as of 1985 the WHO decided at a conference in Bangui, Africa, to accept African AIDS diagnoses without HIV-tests (see § 3). This was done because these tests are unaffordable in most African countries (World Health Organization 1986; Fiala 1998; Fiala et al 2002). Thus without the CDC’s HIV standard (§ 3), the diagnosis of African AIDS is arbitrary.
In view of the many epidemiological and clinical distinc- tions of African AIDS from its US/European namesakes and the many uncertainties about the diagnosis of African AIDS, both the novelty of African AIDS and its relation- ship to the US/European AIDS epidemics have been cal- led into question (Hodgkinson 1996; Fiala 1998; Shenton 1998; Gellman 2000; Stewart et al 2000; Malan 2001; Fiala et al 2002; Gisselquist et al 2002; Ross 2003). Indeed, all available data are compatible with an old African epide- mic of malnutrition and poverty-associated diseases under a new name (Konotey-Ahulu 1987a, b; Oliver 2000; Stewart et al 2000).
In the following we will try to find the most probable causes for the various AIDS epidemics based on epide- miological, clinical, microbial and biochemical evidence.
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"...HIV-based definition of AIDS (see § 3) can not be used in Africa to distinguish AIDS-defining from otherwise indistinguishable diseases, because as of 1985 the WHO decided at a conference in Bangui, Africa, to accept African AIDS diagnoses without HIV-tests (see § 3)."
If this is true, then why can't the reverse be true to offset the few cases that may be misdiagnosed? How many people who die of AIDS are said to have died of demon possession?
I diagnosed a man at San Francisco airport as having AIDS, and I am not even a doctor. He was about 75 pounds, in a wheelchair, on oxygen and had purple legions all over his arms and face. What else causes purple legions in conjunction with "wasting away" and respiratory symptoms?
I have a nurse friend (with little AIDS experience) who was called by her ex husband to help him because he was sick. She walked in, looked at him and said "You have AIDS." He did. If she can diagnose AIDS correctly, so can an African doctor in an area with a 25% infection rate.