Omnivir is a medical device that generates humidified active oxygen in the form of a very energetic oxygen singlet (O) , pure oxygen (O2) and triatomic oxygen (O3, also known as medical ozone). Omnivir is used at home or clinics to care for HIV by reducing viral load, boosting immune and detoxifying the body.

How Active Oxygen works on HIV and Immune System:
Active Oxygen deactivates and eventually kills HIV by destroying its protective skin. Ozone’s destructiveness nature on HIV, virus and bacteria is partly attributed to the oxidation of unsaturated bonds in the phospholipids and lipoprotein architecture of the bacteria, viruses. The oxidation generates hydro peroxides, which are transformed to peroxyl and hydroxyl radicals and to other reactive species, including aldehydes. Peroxyl radicals attack proteins, and hydroxyl radicals induce disruptive structural changes in cell membranes. The reactive oxygen intermediates also contribute to the inactivation of viral reverse transcriptase. In order of preference, ozone reacts with polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), antioxidants such as ascorbic and uric acids, thiol compounds with -SH groups such as cysteine, reduced glutathione (GSH) and albumin All of these compounds act as electron donor and undergo oxidation. Ozone reacts with body fluids forming moles of hydrogen peroxide (included among reactive oxygen species, ROS) and moles of lipid oxidation products (LOPs) The fundamental ROS molecule is hydrogen peroxide, which is a non-radical oxidant able to act as an ozone messenger responsible for eliciting several biological and therapeutic effects. Hydrogen Peroxide already exists in human cells and its the key chemical on fighting infections, e.g. viruses and bacteria. The ozone bio-oxidative process is therefore characterized by the formation of ROS and LOPs acting in two phases. ROS are acting immediately and disappear (early and short-acting messengers), LOPs, via the circulation, distribute throughout the tissues and eventually only a few molecules bind to cell receptors . In fact of ozone returns to normal within half an hour and the oxidized compounds such as dehydroascorbate are efficiently recycled back to ascorbic acid. H2O2 diffuses easily from the plasma into the cells and its sudden appearance in the cytoplasm represents the triggering stimulus: depending upon the cell type, different biochemical pathways can be concurrently activated in erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets resulting in numerous biological effects.

At right concentration, medical ozone kills 99.999% lipid viruses and bacteria in the tests tube, water and in the air. Here is a list of opportunistic pathogens susceptible to the antiviral and antibacterial power of ozone therapy: herpes viridae, simplex, varicella-zoster, kaposi sarcoma, epstein – barr, influenza, hepatitis.

Ozone also acts as an enhancer of the immune system by activating neutrophils and stimulating the synthesis of some cytokines. The by product of ozone, hydrogen peroxide, which after entering into the cytoplasm of blood mononuclear cells (BMC) by oxidizing selected cysteines, activates a tyrosine kinase, which then phosphorylates the transcription factor nuclear factor κB allowing the release of a heterodimer (p50+p65). This complex moves on to the nucleus and switches on some hundred genes eventually responsible for causing the synthesis of several proteins, among which are the acute-phase reactants and numerous interleukins. Once the ozonated leukocytes return to the circulation, they home in lymphoid microenvironments and successively release cytokines acting in a paracrine fashion on neighbouring cells with a possible reactivation of a depressed immune system.

Active Oxygen Success on HIV/AIDS:
This medical gas has been in use for a long time mostly in hospitals and by physicians across the world. Physicians report 99.9% success rate on HIV patients, also remission of the condition in most cases. Doctors across the world claims to have cured HIV on more than 500 patients using a rigorous and very expensive ($25,000) protocol which included Active Oxygen IV Therapy as the main treatment. There are more than 5 US and International patents for research to cure HIV using active oxygen/ozone, none have been put on the market due to production and regulatory costs.

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FYI: according to the MA Dept. of Public Health, between 2003 and 2005 28% of HIV diagnoses are people born outside the US; of those 35% are from sub-Saharan Africa. (See http://www.mass.gov/dph/aids for more details and information).

Thanks for re-opening this discussion.

Worldwide:

-Over 22 million people have died from AIDS.
-Over 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 74 percent of these infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa.
-Over 19 million women are living with HIV/AIDS.
-By the year 2010, five countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, China, India, and Russia) with 40 percent of the world’s population will add 50 to 75 million infected people to the worldwide pool of HIV disease.

-There are 14,000 new infections every day (95 percent in developing countries). HIV/AIDS is a “disease of young people” with half of the 5 million new infections each year occurring among people ages 15 to 24.
-The UN estimates that, currently, there are 14 million AIDS orphans and that by 2010 there will be 25 million.

Sometimes we need to know when to back off. If we want to help. or feel responsible, perhpas we need to let go of control of the programming and simply fund local organizaitons, allowing them to figure out how best to address their local population. It would be awesome if we didn’t need to take credit.

I think some of the problem is the way that news has to be so … new, but when every third article is trumpeting the advantages of circumcision, a man might start to think that he’s safer if he gets circumcised, safer enough that they can relax about safer sex in general. 60% still sounds like Russian roulette to me.

We focus too much on what is new and not nearly enough on what hasn’t changed at all, or what is nuanced and hard to tell well. I don’t know African AIDS so well, but the narrative in Cambodia a few years ago was that fishermen in Kampot and Koh Kong were shooting up with amphetamines, to fish all day and all night for long stretches, visiting brothels in between, and then heading home to wives and villages. I’m sure that African AIDS is also full of these micro ecosystems, stories about how a combination of culture, denial and economic stress carry HIV across a continent.

We sit around in New York City and say “well, so how do we persuade those Africans to stop being so promiscuous” and we’ll get no where. The Soros Foundation might be a good place to start finding local case studies about effective campaigns, both in changing behavior and promoting treatment.

(email me directly if you want a run down of who at Soros might be able to help identify some organizers and advocates based in Africa who would be great subjects for an interview.)

For those who understand French, there’s been an award-winning series of show about the 25th anniversary of HIV/AIDS on Radio-Canada’s science show, Les années lumière.
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Science-Sante/2006/06/02/024-accueil-planete-sida.shtml
(Available as a podcast or «balado-diffusion».)
They do talk about some of the unwanted effects of some campaigns. And about the non-sexual methods of transmission for HIV/AIDS. And on alternative programs to prevent the spread of HIV.
The same show had interesting things to say about HPV, which is involved in uterine cancer in North America and could probably be erased easily.

Looking forward to this episode and to other shows about Africa.

malaria kills an estimated 1 million children under five as well..every year!

according to the who

http://www.who.int/ceh/publications/en/poster1.pdf

hiv/aids accounted for 4% of all deaths of children under five in 2002
measles = 5%
malaria = 11%
diarrhoea = 15%
respiratory infection = 18%
malnutrition (often associated w/ the others, hence the funky math)= 54%

please forgive this digression but some of these other causes get very little attention compared with hiv, bad as it is.

@ 1.6 million children under five years of age die of diarrhoea every year. this is largely due to poor sanitation and lack of access to clean water…a solvable problem?

http://www.unicef.org/wes/index_wes_related.html

with @ 2.9 million total hiv/aids deaths with @ 380,000 children under 15 dying.

http://www.nat.org.uk/page/426

make no mistake hiv/aids is a tremendous problem. just thought that this would make an interesting footnote for consideration.

other aids data

http://data.unaids.org/pub/EpiReport/2006/20061121_EPI_FS_SSA_en.pdf

http://data.unaids.org/pub/GlobalReport/2006/2006_GR_ANN2_en.pdf

I don’t know how much Colors actually did for AIDS in Africa, but it surely hooked the West’s attention. Maybe that attention turned into donations which turned into condoms? Who knows. I want to hear more about the local approach, and why it works better than a Manhattan advertising agency donating services as a tax write-off. Were western ad campaigns ignoring the metrics, or did we just not understand African cultures therefore wasting AIDS relief funds?

There is nothing obvious about any of this – except of course my ignorance.

The cultural differences you discuss sound interesting. I want to read some more and hopefully post again. I’m just trying to get involved (even on a tiny level) in such an important conversation. Thanks.

What’s also abvious to me is my ignorance of African culture and Aids. I’m looking forward to learning more.

Wouldn’t you say that the detrimental effect of this stance (even in indirect ways) is incalculable?

I remember when the Aids epidemic hit in the US. I remember the sex education that was thrust on even the youngest of us. I remember the conservatives screaming that having condoms in the nurse’s office was encouraging sex. We now know all those fears were unfounded.

Growing up, I’ve witnessed first hand the change in perception of condoms in our culture. (similar to seatbelts) I remember when it wasn’t cool and I’d hear guys talking about ways to avoid using a condom. Now we’ve come to a point in the US where is assumed you will use a condom with a new partner.

Sure it’s great to talk about using “B” as a secondary tool for the problem. But the primary tool to save lives should be a two front campaign of sex education (it’s cool to use condoms) and a fundamental revaluation of Catholic Church doctrine – with respect to sex.

no. if “we” means people in the west. i think it’s too touchy, though it seems pretty obvious that the sexual networks are a major problem (the same basic dynamic which spread HIV in bathhouses, and from prostitutes to the general population in thailand). and it is isn’t just monogamy, i think one problem is that matrifocal systems in parts of africa have resulted economic independence for women, but also an expectation by men that they won’t have to invest that much. some women can’t support themselves and can’t find one partner who will be dependable, so they have to enter into looser liaisons with multiple men who together can supplement her income enough to survive. of course, these men themeselves may have a primary wife at home. you don’t have to be a mathematician to see how the numbers can work out.