THE FOLLOWING ANTI-HIV DRUGS cause 

 

Immune Reconstitution syndrome (IRS)

 

Agenerase

Aptivus

Atripla

Combivir

Crixivan

Emtriva

Epivir

Epzicom

Fortovase

Fuzeon

Hivid

Intelence

Invirase

Isentress

Kaletra

Lexiva

Norvir

Prezista

Rescriptor

Retrovir

Reyataz

Selzentry

Sustiva

Trizivir

Truvada

Videx

Viracept

Viramune

Viread

Zerit

Ziagen

 

 

Most anti-HIV drugs cause IRS.  Generally, asymptomatic HIV patients acquire immune deficiency syndromes and diseases after beginning HIV drug treatment.

 

Is it AIDS or IRS?

 

AIDS = HIV +

IRS = anti-HIV drug +

KS

MAC

TB

Cryptococcus

PCP

Cytomegalovirus

Histoplasmosis

Herpes

Leukoencephalopathy

Leprosy

Meningitis

Lymphoma

KS

MAC

TB

Cryptococcus

PCP

Cytomegalovirus

Histoplasmosis

Herpes

Leukoencephalopathy

Leprosy

Meningitis

Lymphoma

CDC HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, year end edition, 1997

 

S. A. Shelburne, et al., Medicine 81: 213-27, 2002

 

In April 2010, Astra Zeneca paid a $520 million fine for criminal acts that generate $4 billion annually.

 

Between 2004-2010, drug companies paid nearly $8 billion in civil and criminal fines.  If companies like Eli Lilly, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline were real persons they would be serving life in prison.  But because they own politicians, the media and regulators (FDA, CDC & NIH), drug makers are fined a fraction of their profits and raise prices to cover the costs of the fines.

 

To avoid liability, researchers invented Immune Reconstitution syndrome (IRS) to blame millions of adverse drug reactions (ADR) on AIDS-defined diseases.

 

 

Doctor’s Dilemma

Bill Powderly, MD

University College, Dublin, Ireland

 

In 2005, Dr. Powderly asked:

 

What is one to make of the long list of AIDS-defining diseases cropping up shortly after a person starts taking anti-HIV drugs?

 

Is it:

·         Immune Reconstitution Syndrome?

·         AIDS?

·         Drug Toxicity?

·         A New Disease Process?

 

What is a doctor to do?

 

·         Stop or Continue Anti-HIV Drugs?

·         Stop or Change Opportunistic Infection Therapy?

·         Add Immunosuppressive Drugs?

 

 

 

 

Partial List of IRS Diseases as of 2008

Drugs 68(2):191-208, 2008

 

Mycobacteria

Tuberculosis

Non-tuberculosis mycobacteria

Leprosy

Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin

Fungus

Cryptococcus

Pneumocystis

Histoplasma

Candida

Tinea corporis

Protozoa

Toxoplasma

Microsporidia

Leishmania

Cryptosporidia

Virus

Herpes simplex

Herpes zoster

Cytomegalovirus

JC virus

Encephalitis

Parvovirus B

Molluscum contagiosum

Warts

Polyma BK

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

Bacteria

Bartonella

Helminth

Schistomoma

Strongyloides

Autoimmune

Lupus

Thyroid disease

Rheumatoid arthritis

Guillain-Barré syndrome

Reiter’s syndrome

Polymyositis

Relapsing polychondritis

Alopecia

Cerebral vasculitis

Inflammatory

Sarcoidosis

Foreign body reaction

Folliculitis

Lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis

Photodermatitis

Peryronie’s disease

Dermatofibromata

Dyshidrosis

Malignancy

Kaposi’s sarcoma

Lymphoma

Lung cancer

 

Anti-HIV drugs cause AIDS-defined diseases and many other life-threatening diseases, all of which go by the name Immune Reconstitution Syndrome.

 

Tuberculosis

 

hemorrhagic infection

 

 

Herpes

 

Oral Thrush

 

Cytomegalovirus

 

 

Toxoplasma in Eye

 


Leukoplakia of Tongue

 

Toxoplasma in Brain

 


Microsporidiosis

 

 

Leprosy

 

 

 

Leishmaniasis

 

 

Cryptococcosis

 

 

Cryptosporidiosis

 

Encephalitis

 

Schistosomiasis

 

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

 

Folliculitis

 

Sarcoidosis

 

Strongyloidiasis

 

 

 

Bartonellosis

 

 

 

Reiters syndrome

 

 

 

Alopecia

 

Molluscum contagiosum

 

 

Cerebral vasculitis

 

 

 

Foreign body reaction

 

 

 

Dyshidrosis

 

 

Kaposi’s Sarcoma

 

 

 

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

 

 

 

Peyronie’s disease