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by Melinda Tuhus | Dec 2, 2008 8:04 am

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Chris%20Cole.jpg Although HIV/AIDS garners more media coverage in Africa than in the U.S., the service providers and activists who gathered at United Church on the Green on Monday afternoon for the 20th annual commemoration of World AIDS Day said there’s plenty of tragedy to go around right here at home — and they want the funding to deal with it.

The names (mostly just first names) of some of the 2,600 New Haveners who have succumbed to AIDS were projected on the wall. Meanwhile Chris Cole (pictured), who took over in June as executive director of AIDS Project New Haven, said more than 20,000 people in Connecticut are living with HIV, but half don’t know it. He urged everyone to get tested. He said the key message is that the disease preventable.

“We don’t talk about it like we used to. We certainly don’t talk about it like we must talk about it,” he said. He added that in the “old days,” when AIDS was a death sentence for almost everyone infected, people took it seriously. “You wouldn’t have dared to have unsafe sex; you would have been highly judged.”

He said he spent the last 15 years fighting the disease; four years ago found he was HIV-positive. Then he learned something from personal experience. “I know the biggest barrier to care, the biggest barrier to prevention, and the biggest barrier to people feeling good about themselves and leading long, healthy, productive lives, is stigma.”

He said talking about the disease and educating people about it are key to reducing the numbers of those infected. The federal Centers for Disease Control just came out with a new report that raised the number of individuals who contracted HIV in 2006 to 56,000.

With proper treatment, most will experience AIDS as a chronic, manageable illness, but smaller numbers are still dying.

Dr. Previous Lunga, who works with HIV-positive people in several African countries, told the story of her niece, who denied she was infected but was finally persuaded to acknowledge the disease. She was able to get care that enabled her to deliver a healthy baby. Now she gives talks about the importance of getting tested and overcoming the stigma associated with AIDS.

Then it was time for anyone in the audience to share his or her perspective.

Barbara (who declined to give her last name) said people who are HIV-positive need the support of a good case manager. She thanked hers, Frank from APNH.

michael%20lauro.jpg Michael Lauro (pictured) said he’d like to see greater coordination local AIDS service organizations, and “more participation by people with AIDS. I want to encourage them [the organizations] to add people with AIDS on their boards of directors and to open their board meetings to their constituents.” He also thanked service providers for their work.

Activists passed out a leaflet urging people to call Gov. Jodi Rell with a simple message: “Stop the $3 million proposed cut to AIDS services by the Department of Public Health! People with AIDS are NOT expendable!”

In 2007, the legislature added $2.5 million to the AIDS budget to partially make up for “the devastating loss of $3.3 million in federal Ryan White funds.” The flyer said the proposed cut amounts to 40 percent of the AIDS services line item, while most other departments were told to cut ten percent, due to the $300 million hole that opened in the state budget with the economic meltdown.

Reached later in the day, Chris Andresen, a manager in the AIDS and Chronic Diseases Section of the state Department of Public Health, confirmed that $3 million is proposed to be cut, though he couldn’t say when it would come up in the legislature. But he said there’s another pool of money that the activists didn’t mention.

“Soon after the Ryan White cut, the state came back and replaced those funds, then the feds also came back and replaced the funds, so for ’07-08 and 08-09, Hartford and New Haven/Fairfield Counties both received that funding. My understanding is that funding that went to those two areas put them back to level funding.”

Leif Mitchell works at Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and is co-chair of the Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition. He responded by saying the funding is complicated, but one thing is clear: the federal funding doesn’t bring it up to the former level of funding; it was a one-time contribution of about a million dollars, to end on February 28, 2009. The coalition has no idea what the federal awards will be before the state has to do its final budget.

HIV/AIDS is less on people’s minds these days. Only 75 people attended this commemoration, compared with early days when hundreds came out for a service, followed by a candlelight walk around the Green. Still, Mitchell said, the need is greater than ever:

“There’s more people living with HIV/AIDS than there have ever been, and people continue to become infected and will need to access services.”

balloons%20and%20anna%20torres%20and%20woman.jpg After the program, people had lunch downstairs, where they shared more stories. They were encouraged to take a red balloon with them wherever they went the rest of the day to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS.

Click on the play arrow to watch Tom Ficklin’s video of the event.

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posted by: Josiah Brown on December 2, 2008 12:37pm

Below are a couple of curriculum units regarding HIV/AIDS that might be of interest:

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2008/6/08.06.04.x.html

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2007/5/07.05.10.x.html

These units were developed by New Haven Public School teachers participating as Fellows in Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute seminars led by William B. Stewart of the Medical School faculty and W. Mark Saltzman—chairman of the Biomedical Engineering Department—respectively.

posted by: Apostle Shada Mishe on December 2, 2008 8:21pm

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.

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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: Shawn M Lang on December 2, 2008 11:05pm

The Department of Public Health is being disingenuous at best and tragically misleading at worst. There was a loss of $3.3 million in Ryan White funds. The state put $2.5 million in the budget to address the loss. There was a one-time earmark of $1.6 million in federal funds to mitigate the loss. That one time funding ends on February 29, 2009; four full months before the end of the state’s fiscal year, leaving a gap in funding. Cutting $3 million from the AIDS service budget will be disasterous resulting in a loss of services to thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS and a loss of jobs across the state.

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