Episode 104: Five Questions About Charlie Sheen

Actor Charlie Sheen revealed his HIV status this week. The last time we checked, having sex while positive was no longer a felony, drugs and alcohol caused false positives, and kissing on TV didn’t transmit “HIV.” Why do the media assume otherwise?

 

“How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely looks at the Sheen revelations from a new angle by asking a different set of questions. Continue reading »

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Episode 103: How Infected Are You? – Electron Microscopy Could Find You Are ‘HIV Negative’ After All, Says Dr. David Rasnick

A positive “HIV test” is a life-shattering event. Therefore, test accuracy matters – and Dr. David Rasnick is doing something about it. His biotech startup, Viral Forensics, will soon offer “HIV positives” with recent “viral load” results a glimpse of their blood under an electron microscope. Does it contain “particles resembling HIV”?

 

Consider a viral load result that comes up in the millions. With this many particles in your blood, “we should be able to see it,” says Dr. David Rasnick. If they don’t . . . are you ready for this? . . . you may not be infected at all. Continue reading »

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EDITORIAL: A Special Warning About False-Positive “HIV Testing” Results

October 2015–Accurate diagnosis matters. We at “How Positive Are You” are extremely concerned about the life-changing diagnoses of “HIV positive” and “AIDS” that people are receiving, based on tests for surrogate markers including antibodies and genetic sequences. Because of our concern, we will post later today an interview with Dr. David Rasnick of the biotechnology firm Viral Forensics. Viral Forensics will offer our listeners and others a way to check their “viral load” tests against findings of “particles resembling HIV” under an electron microscope, as interpreted by a licensed pathologist. (To obtain a blood analysis by Viral Forensics, see the bottom of this editorial.)

 

The commercially available tests for “HIV positivity” or “viral load” have never been validated to the presence of live, infectious virus in human blood. Continue reading »

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