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With the Stroke of a Pen and Signing AB 1894, Governor Schwarzenegger Can Turn California Into a National Leader--Making Routine HIV Testing a Standard Medical Practice

By Dana van Gorder
Executive Director
Project Inform

Project Inform strongly urges Governor Schwarzenegger to sign AB 1894 (Krekorian), which ensures private insurers will cover routine HIV screening – a critical tool needed in the fight to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently found that the United States has been under-estimating HIV infections by more than 40 percent (per year) for the past decade.

Here in California, the State Office of AIDS estimates that over 40,000 Californians are HIV positive and do not know it. The CDC estimates that these individuals are responsible for 50-70% of all new infections, and every day, nearly three times as many people become newly infected with HIV as those who start taking antiretroviral therapy. We must take action now to do something to reduce the rate of new infections.

Many seem to believe that the AIDS crisis is only occurring in the developing world. Clearly that is not the case. HIV/AIDS continues to be a major threat in the United States with some areas having prevalence rates on a comparable scale to Sub Saharan Africa. According to a new report by the Black AIDS Institute, the number of African-Americans living with HIV in the United States exceeds the number of HIV-infected people in seven of the 15 countries in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative.

Indeed, the new CDC data confirmed the disproportionate impact HIV/AIDS is having on minorities, women and youth here at home:

• African-Americans suffer seven times the infection risk as whites. In 2006, African-Americans accounted for 20 percent of the HIV/AIDS cases, although they made up just 7 percent of California’s population (California Department of Health Services).

• Latinos suffer three times the infection risk as whites. In 2006, Latinos constituted 22 percent of HIV/AIDS infections – but only made up 15.3 percent of the US population.

• In 1992, women accounted for an estimated 14 percent of adults and adolescents living with AIDS – by the end of 2005, that number had grown to 23 percent. In 2004, the only diseases causing more deaths among women were cancer and heart disease.

• In 2006, more infections occurred among young people under 30 (aged 13–29) than any other age group (34 percent), followed by persons 30–39 (31 percent).

It’s clear that the time for action is now, and until there’s a vaccine, HIV testing is one of the most effective prevention tools we have.

Originally, the CDC recommended that high risk people (along with those suffering symptoms) be routinely tested for HIV/AIDS. However the agency rejected that philosophy in 2006 recognizing that doctors often didn't know which of their patients were at highest risk, and more people outside the standard risk groups (including women, minorities, and people living outside cities) were becoming infected.

However, CDC’s recommendations didn’t address the question of how universal screening would be paid for. For example, Medicare doesn’t cover routine testing under the health plan for 8.5 million federal employees or the 7.1 million disabled people under the age of 65 in Medicare.

California has influenced the evolution of this standard by removing critical barriers to HIV screening. In 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law AB 682 (Berg). AB 682 streamlined the HIV testing process, so that medical providers could identify Californians who were unaware of their HIV- positive status and bring them into care and treatment, while sustaining the fundamental voluntary nature of HIV screening. The bill removed a major barrier to HIV testing by eliminating the requirement of written informed consent, and it changed the HIV testing process in California from an opt-in system to a voluntary opt-out system as recommended by the CDC.

This year’s AB 1894 is the critical next step to make HIV testing routine practice – which is critical in HIV prevention, treatment and care efforts. AB 1894 will make California’s response to the CDC recommendations the most proactive in the nation by supporting an environment that requires all group and individual health insurance plans to pay for an HIV test regardless of whether the testing is related to a primary diagnosis or the patient is showing symptoms.

According to the California Department of Health, rapid HIV testing may help to substantially reduce the number of people with HIV who do not know they are infected. We also know that when people learn they are HIV positive, they are much less likely to engage in behaviors that will cause further transmissions.

AB 1894 passed the Assembly on August 19, 2008 (47-29) and the Senate on August 14, 2008 (21-15).

If we are serious about preventing HIV/AIDS and reducing new transmissions in California, we must implement AB 1894. A South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control study in 2006 showed that most “late testers” (defined by CDC as people who progress to AIDS within a year of their initial HIV diagnosis) had up to five doctor visits within the previous year or longer before being tested for HIV. We simply cannot allow these missed opportunities within our health care system to continue.

California is known around the country and the globe as being a leader in important policy matters – and this issue should be no different. Signing this legislation will encourage more providers to screen their patients, which will help diagnose more individuals as early as possible when treatment is most effective. It will also help California create an environment that reduces the tragic stigma associated with HIV/AIDS.

Project Inform urges the Governor to sign AB 1894 to equip doctors and other health care providers with this necessary tool to help all Californians know their HIV/AIDS status, access treatment if needed, and reduce the risk of transmission.

Dana Van Gorder is the Executive Director of Project Inform. Project Inform represents HIV-positive people in the development of treatments and a cure, supports individuals to make informed choices about their HIV health, advocates for quality health care to respond to HIV and related conditions, and promotes medical strategies that prevent new infections.

Posted on September 16, 2008

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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.

vapalmer@bellsouth.net

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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwuwlVBOV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejptOwMTzQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqcTgIAhrhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7HPKcT_iwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iQfgiYAnw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3RzRS6tJDM

Posted by: Apostle Shada Mishe at September 16, 2008 09:41 AM

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