Sex And HIV: Behaviour-Change Trial Shows No Link

The East African (Nairobi)
March 17, 2003
Posted to the web March 19, 2003

By Paul Redfern, Special Correspondent Nairobi

A UK funded trial aimed at reducing the spread of Aids in Uganda by
modifying sexual behaviour appears to have had little discernible effect.

The trial, carried out on around 15,000 people in the Masaka region,
involved distributing condoms, treating around 12,000 victims of sexually
transmitted diseases and counselling.

However, while the trial led to a marked change in sexual behavioural
patterns, with the proportion reporting causal sexual partners falling
from around 35 per cent to 15 per cent, there was no noticeable fall in
the number of new cases of HIV infection, although there was a significant
reduction in sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and
gonorrhoea.

The trial results, which were reported in the British medical journal The
Lancet, have already aroused some controversy.
The team leader of the trial, Dr Anatoli Kamalai, acknowledged that there
was "no measurable reduction" in HIV incidence with "no hint of even a
small effect."

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STUDY EXPOSES MYTH OF SEXUAL TRANSMISSION

The 10-year Padian study observed sexually active couples in which one
partner was HIV positive.

The result: in 10 years, not one uninfected partner contracted HIV, even
though all participants admitted to having sex without condoms.

The study states, 'We followed up 175 HIV-discordant couples over time,
for a total of approximately 282 couple-years of follow up. The longest
duration of follow-up was 12 visits (6 years).

We observed no seroconversion [infection] after entry into the
study." In the three-year Stewart study (1985) not one male partner of
HIV-positive women contracted HIV. Prostitution is not even listed as an
HIV risk category by the CDC, because of the extremely low incidence of
HIV transmission to clients who have no other risk factors (i.e. drug
abuse).

These findings bolster the hypothesis of some AIDS scientists that chronic
malnutrition and other environmental factors, and not a
sexually-transmitted virus, are the causes of weakened immunity in people
diagnosed with one of the nearly 30 AIDS-defining diseases (which vary
from country to country).

The Emperor has no clothes!
Deconstructing HIV and AIDS
Edited by Robert Johnston

"The World Health Organization studied prostitutes in a little coastal
African country above Liberia. They found that 75 percent of the
prostitutes were HIV-positive and predicted that five years later half of
them would be dead. In five years they came back and there were no bodies
to count. Still they're HIV-positive, according to their tests. (Actually,
they're positive due to a cross-reactivity.)

The conclusion of a paper on this published in Nature was that these
people had a special strain of HIV which firstly does not cause any
disease and secondly protects you from the strains that are rampant
throughout Africa. It even said that we ought to study these people
further to develop a vaccine.

Even a sixth grader looking at the logic of this would say, 'Wait a
minute. The emperor has no clothes here!' There's something seriously
wrong with the minds of people who don't examine direct evidence of their
conclusions being wrong."

~ Dr. Kary Mullis, biochemist, 1993 Nobel prize for chemistry