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IN SEARCH OF A COMPREHENSIVE RESPONSE TO AIDS
By David Keane, September/2003
PO Box 582, Gosnells WA 6110, Australia
Email: keane@nw.com.au
Why is it that a generation after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, and the expenditure by orthodox medicine of many billions of dollars in research, that AIDS is now a devastating pandemic in Africa, increasing at over 10% annually and about to devastate also India and China? It is as though orthodox science is impotent to find a solution.
To find a comprehensive response to the AIDS pandemic, we must ever start with causes and gradually develop right relationships based upon fundamental principles. So it is that a small band of men and women, calling themselves Compassion Response Network, starting with scant resources but much faith and perseverance have invoked a solution. This is their story.
A few of us from affluent nations began networking with our friends in Africa, and together we decided to respond in practice to what seemed to us an extremely fundamental problem in the Third World; the provision of free basic health care to the poorest of the poor. Most people in Africa who have infectious diseases like malaria are too poor to see a doctor or purchase simple prescription drugs. And so they wait out the disease, hoping that death or severe disability evades them.
We were aware of two devices that treated infectious diseases for virtually no expense, and reports coming from alternative medical circles were promising. These devices were a zapper, running off a simple 9-volt battery and originally designed by Dr Hulda Clark, and adapted to African conditions by fitting a rechargeable battery that can easily be recharged from mains electricity, and a colloidal silver maker, which requires simply a power supply and distilled water to make the solution. Basically from the savings of two pensioners, and the goodwill support of some electricians, we constructed very cheap healing kits including a zapper and colloidal silver maker in each kit, and in early 1999 we gifted them to needy groups in Africa. Some of these groups responded by offering the treatment service on a free goodwill basis to the sick and needy in the community. The reports that came back were impressive. People would come in with high fever. Hundreds of cases were reported, in which the fever would subside and not return. People were queuing up for treatment. The few dedicated servers who persevered amidst the squalid African conditions, became our trusted co-workers.
Healing treatment was also provided to AIDS patients, particularly in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Those AIDS patients who received treatment reported rapid improvement in health, and asked for the treatment to be continued. And so in early 2001, we few supporters in affluent countries gathered together what we could and on a shoe-string budget, sponsored PCR blood tests (which had to be privately couriered to Europe) before and after a month of daily treatment with zapper and colloidal silver, of three advanced HIV/AIDS patients. The results were that, on average, HIV viral load decreased to 54% of the reading a month earlier. As impressive as the results were, they were only partial, and no doctors would adopt the practice. Our private funds were used up, and no-one else was interested in funding bigger trials.
Our group was scattered in many countries and many continents. We would communicate by email. We decided to next time do the trials properly. We had no money to start with. And so on 23/December/2002, Compassion Response Network became registered in Australia as a public company, with charitable objectives of facilitating a direct compassion response to the millions with AIDS, and providing free health care for basic health needs for the poorest of the poor.
Compassion Response Network developed action projects in both Kinshasa and Harare. In all, once adequately funded, the projects would treat 43 advanced AIDS patients over six months, each patient being on one of nine alternative treatments for HIV/AIDS;
Zapper + colloidal silver + ozonated water,
Dr Bob Beck treatment,
Tetrasil/Imusil,
Essiac formula,
Flor Essence,
Aurea Cento Spice Oils,
Glyco-nutritional supplements,
Absolutely pure colloidal silver + Oxyrich,
Sutherlandia herb.
Each of these treatments has impressive claims for treating HIV/AIDS, but we remain impartial and detached from those claims. Our task is to provide an independent comparative assessment of many alternative treatments for HIV/AIDS, something we believe had never been done before. A daily nutritious meal would be provided to each of the patients (for otherwise many were so poor that once they were half better they would need to go and look for work simply to eat.) The treatments were donated or provided for free, and the networking facilitators within Compassion Response Network serve on a voluntary basis. However conditions in Africa are difficult and to do things properly various expenses would arise, food, transport, wages for cooks and staff to provide treatments, comprehensive blood testing every two months of treatment and miscellaneous costs. Blood tests would involve state of the art medical tests; bDNA viral load, CD4 immunity tests, full blood count and several other tests pre-treatment and at every 2-month stage of the 6 months of treatment.
Compassion Response Network has set up its own website, at http://www.compassion-response.net where details and costings for the projects and many other subjects are explained in much detail.
We wanted to develop a truly comprehensive response that would step by step expand, responding eventually and unconditionally to the millions in the world with HIV/AIDS. We knew of several other groups that provided free treatments for AIDS patients, but these were always on a small scale and they never seemed to lead towards a massive response for the millions. We believe that the only way to provide a comprehensive compassion response to the AIDS pandemic is to lift up 4 fundamental pillars. Any other approach responds to only part of the problem, and does not fully address the really basic causes.
The first pillar, provision of free goodwill care for basic health needs is theoretically obvious and simple, and most of the treatments in our project are cheap and would be easy to sponsor. However the will to provide such free care on a massive scale is lacking.
We therefore need to demonstrate the effectiveness of the alternative treatments. And so the second pillar is a program for a comparative survey of many alternative treatments with optimum blood testing and open publication of the results. Individual providers of treatments have done much testing of their own treatments, but orthodox medicine rejects their results, many of them impressive, claiming them to be "unproven". It will cost vast fortunes to test such treatments to orthodox medical standards. And in the meantime the general public remains confused and cautious when treatment providers make claims for their own products. The only way forward is to bring the proofs of a comparative survey through an independent body, to the general public. If orthodox medicine will not consider these proofs, we will take the results to the people where businessmen, politicians and compassion workers will consider the results with an open mind. For not to reverse the AIDS pandemic will inevitably lead to the destruction of many a business and national economy.
In the Congo and Zimbabwe the people are extremely poor and there is massive unemployment. The people of Zimbabwe are besides on the verge of famine, and food is in great shortage. This is why the third pillar, direct involvement by the AIDS patients in future planning, evaluation and production is so vital. By production, we will be inviting former AIDS patients into work growing healing herbs, making healing devices, providing cheap alternative treatments etc. To our knowledge, this third pillar has never really been tried before. When the patients are strong enough, we will invite them into discussion circles where they can participate in the discussions on the treatments, the house conditions, and other things that affect them. We will bring them into the centre of the planning process. And when the two monthly blood test results are back, we will show the results of all treatments to the patients, and ask the patients themselves which treatments they would like to see continued in future trials considering the costs involved, how to develop local healing industries, and how they themselves can become employed in these industries. But most importantly, we will ask them what needs to be done to facilitate a truly comprehensive response to the very many diverse aspects of the problem of AIDS in Africa. And any intelligent proposals coming forth we will embrace with our whole heart. The work must ever expand, for the need is great.
Even so, it is only through adopting the fourth pillar that we will be able to initiate a truly comprehensive response to the AIDS pandemic. We must develop an international and independent Alternative Treatments Movement, inviting participation from all interested parties seeking a comprehensive solution to AIDS and other major illnesses. We must invite a global conference, similar to the Rio Earth Summit, but addressing the problem of AIDS and other major illnesses from the alternative treatments perspective. And among the many activities at such a conference, we must design and agree upon an international Alternative Treatments Comparative Testing Charter.
It will make no difference then if various groups continue to oppose us with a vengeance. For the Alternative Treatments Movement will then lift up the Charter on high for all to see. We will take it to the politicians, the businessmen, the compassion workers, the men and women of goodwill throughout the AIDS affected nations. Then the people themselves will lift up this work.