About HIV/AIDs
In the early 1990’s I worked for an AIDS non-profit in Los Angeles serving people with HIV/AIDS. This was during the height of the epidemic. People were dying of a new and unknown disease. Many homosexuals as well as people who had received blood transfusions were diagnosed with HIV and some went on to get AIDS. If/when a person survived longer than three years, they were considered survivors.
The AIDS epidemic was politicized and many people died. President Ronald Reagan ignored it. Little money was spent on it. Many people were ostracized and discriminated against. Some people were killed because it was taught that they had the gay plague. Homophobia reigned. (there is still too much ignorance and homophobia and attacks and assaults against homosexuals and transgender people have risen).
Homophobia is "the irrational hatred, intolerance, and fear" of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, and is a form of discrimination.
I worked with people with HIV/AIDS years before Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell came out, the Will and Grace TV show, safe sex with condoms became the norm and same sex marriage was made legal.
Homophobia continues to be a major barrier to ending the global AIDS epidemic.
The global HIV epidemic has always been closely linked with negative attitudes towards LGBT people, especially men who have sex with men (sometimes referred to as MSM); a group that is particularly affected by HIV and AIDS.
At the beginning of HIV epidemic, in many countries gay men and other men who have sex with men were frequently singled out for abuse as they were seen to be responsible for the transmission of HIV. Sensational reporting in the press, which became increasingly homophobic, fuelled this view. Headlines such as “Alert over ‘gay plague’ and “‘Gay plague’ may lead to blood ban on homosexuals” demonized the LGBT community.
Research has shown that men who have sex with men may exhibit less health-seeking behavior and have greater levels of depression, anxiety and substance misuse because of stigma they face.
At the time, I was scared working in an office with a man who shared my phone and computer. He had been diagnosed with HIV and was terrified, running around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to find a cure.
My boss was gay and I met a lot of people who were gay and lesbians. I had not been friends with gay people because I barely knew anyone who was gay (except for a lesbian roommate in the 70’s and a few other friends of friends).
I had been invited to a woman’s retreat in the Adirondack Mountains in the 70’s and was shocked to find women couples half naked kissing one another on the lawn. I did not fit in and felt quite uncomfortable.
I used to dress in Annie Hall vest and tie and had very short hair so people sometimes thought that I was gay and asked me if I was. At the time, in my 20’s, I did not even know what being gay meant.
In 1981-83, gay men started having pneumocystitis and Kaposi sarcoma (gay cancer they called it). Their immune systems were severely compromised, low T-cells. 951 cases, 640 deaths in 1983 in the USA. 8,408 cases, 6505 deaths in 1985.
But in 1989, I had been in Germany and a nurse friend of mine there brought me to her clinic where they were curing people who had AIDS utilizing medical ozone. The blood was taken out of the body, then injected with the medical ozone and put back into their bodies and they survived AIDS. So I had some context/perspective that this was something that could be cured.
At first, I believed that it was contagious because that was what was being spread on the news and everywhere. People were panicking about catching the deadly disease and did not know how to protect themselves.
I later found out that it was transmitted via sexual acts, drug user needles and blood transfusions not daily activities of life with people who were diagnosed with HIV. I went to a home where babies who had been born with AIDS were being cared for. It broke my heart to see these sweet innocent infants.
The French doctor Luc Montagnier, a virologist, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, received the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). He has worked as a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Long story short Dr. Bob Gallo, an arrogant American doctor claimed credit for it.
I learned later that not everyone who had been diagnosed with HIV would develop AIDS and die which was also what we were being told (that everyone with HIV would develop AIDS and die so STAY AWAY FROM THEM!) Gay people were treated like lepers. Everyone was afraid of them. Soon it was named Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome instead of he gay plague or gay cancer.
I met a lot of people and read/researched a lot of books to find out the truth of what was happening. AIDS Inc. And the Band Played On (now a movie too) and more. One book was about a man who had interviewed 100 Survivors of the deadly disease. None of the people had done the same protocol or followed a particular diet or therapy in order to survive. One did a macrobiotic diet. Another ate raw foods and juices. One fasted. Another took certain herbs (pau d’arco and another swore by hydrogen peroxide and bathed in it).
What he did find in common though was that ALL of them had NOT taken or only had been given the HIV/AIDS drug for a short time. It was the standard practice AZT drug that was experimental. Interesting that the drug that was promoted to cure the deadly disease seemed to not do so, to say the least.
Also, the Starsky and Hutch actor Paul Michael Glazer’s wife and his infant daughter had contracted HIV/AIDS. The baby was very ill. The doctors wanted to give the baby a new experimental drug. There was a meeting with the author I mentioned above who knew something about surviving HIV/AIDS and others and Mrs. Glazer was there. We begged her to reconsider her choice to give the baby the drug. She refused to listen, took the drug and later she and the baby both died. Coincidence?
The AID Memorial Quilt
Marianne Williamson, best-selling author, founded Project Angel Food in Los Angeles a nonprofit that helps people who are sick with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses (now COVID). Volunteers prepare and deliver food for people who were/are homebound. Food is Medicine” is their philosophy, and the main goal is to help people become healthy again through proper nutrition. Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) is used to determine the nutrition diagnosis, and develop nutrition interventions and counseling specific for each individual. They provide a total of about 600,000 meals annually. Deliveries are made within Los Angeles County.
Years later, I worked with an MD who was only one of three medical doctors in this country who could prescribe and utilize medical ozone in his practice. He has since gone on and trained other doctors to do so. I interviewed him for a radio talk show I did about Health in Las Vegas and later worked for him and we became friends.
I have also read and researched others who write about the importance of ozone and oxygen for our healthy bodies.
Also, I met a woman here on the Monterey Bay peninsula who wrote a book about her experience with HIV/AIDS. Her first husband died and she has survived. She did a lot of work with an AIDS nonprofit for years. Her healing was utilizing so-called alternative therapies (actually ancient medicine).
by Carie Broecker (now founder of Peace of Mind Dog Rescue).
Some Facts:
The first cases of what would later become known as AIDS were reported in the United States in June of 1981.1 Today, there are more than 1.1 million people living with HIV and more than 700,000 people with AIDS have died since the beginning of the epidemic.
HIV continues to have a disproportionate impact on certain populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities and gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men.
HIV testing is important for both treatment and prevention efforts. Yet, 15% of those infected with HIV are unaware they are infected.
more people are living with HIV than ever before
New HIV diagnoses are concentrated primarily in large U.S. metropolitan areas (80% in 2017), with Miami, Orlando, and Atlanta topping the list of the areas most heavily burdened.
This is relevant now to this pandemic and how it has been politicized, fear mongering prevails which has led to questionable lockdowns, mask mandates and possible mandatory vaccines that are being rushed and unproven.
Also because Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was paid to speak five or more times to a hate group that wants to re-criminalize homosexuals and sterilize transgender people. The vote for her confirmation is coming down this week. If she is confirmed, the Supreme Court will regress to the right in deadly ways for women, children and men in the USA.