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Does Antiviral Treatment Save Lives?
by Neville Hodgkinson
Medicine often works in a pragmatic way, with treatments evolved by trial and error, and not always with a clear understanding of how those that work do so. Even if critics of the HIV/AIDS theory who believe the virus to be harmless or non-existent and the AIDS test invalid are right, researchers might still have chanced upon treatments that do help. Is there evidence of such serendipity?
Just as the HIV theory entered common currency more for social and political reasons than through scientific evidence, those working in the AIDS field have desperately wanted to believe that the drug treatments are working. The evidence is thin, however. When AZT was first marketed, it rapidly
established itself as the "gold standard" of anti-HIV treatment, and hundreds of studies (mostly funded by its manufacturers) claimed to show benefit. But the biggest and longest trial, a collaborative effort involving British and French government researchers, showed a 25 percent increase in deaths among those treated early with the drug compared with those in whom treatment was delayed.(33) more...
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