HIV Support Group
HIV (also known as human immunodeficiency virus, and formerly known as HTLV-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus) is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system which can lead the syndrome known as AIDS. Many of the problems faced by people infected with HIV result from failure of the immune system to protect from opportunistic...
Christine Maggiore, age 52, has died after a long battle with pneumonia.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-christine-maggiore30-2008dec30,0,7407966.story
Please send your condolences to Robin and Charlie. It is a crying shame that she would not accept treatment for herself, and even worse that she encouraged others to also deny themselves treatment. But she is not alone, a great many people have become convinced that modern medicine is evil.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-christine-maggiore30-2008dec30,0,7407966.story
Please send your condolences to Robin and Charlie. It is a crying shame that she would not accept treatment for herself, and even worse that she encouraged others to also deny themselves treatment. But she is not alone, a great many people have become convinced that modern medicine is evil.
we know people already do that to even worse extremes such as refusing any and all medication (or another person's blood, etc).
the choices she made for her children are more complicated to discuss.
as far as encouraging others to deny treatment, i think there's plenty of room for people to raise questions, and i think that's all any intelligent person would realize she was doing when she wrote that book. that same intelligent person i'd hope would swallow the pride of "doctors don't know it all so i'm not taking pills" and just take them regardless of whether they thought it was poison or not. either way, if you're getting sick and leaning toward death, you can only get better by taking them.
Go to Change.org and hear other stories about HIV+'s who are fine and do not take the antiretroviral meds. As stated before, my CD4's are 111 and viral load is 2.8 million. I can assure you folks, that I am doing well, in fact, even better without the antiretrovirals damaging my immune system. I don't believ that HIV causes AIDS or anything else for that matter. There is a better way to treat numersous immune problems, which I have had many in the past, and that is with low dose naltrexone. I would encourage the readers to read about it and comment on change.org under ldn.