SAFETY FOR WOMEN AGAINST HIV

An appeal to the world – can we help a woman isolated

in villages of developing nations against HIV infection.....
Can we show local ways to protect herself?

Over the last decade, AIDS Holistics has made an appeal for

compassion towards women with no option but be infected by
HIV. These are raped women or wives whose husbands are

unfaithful and may have brought the virus home to their beds.

We have been ridiculed by opponents of Positive Living using
the opportunity to destroy the credibility of AIDS Holistics. But
we are still here.

We base our proposition on accepted research that the virus is
fragile. Google reports suggest fragility against basic household
components.

HIV virus is quite fragile :: Molecules of HIV mcld.co.uk
HIV virus is quite fragile. An article from "The Molecules of HIV"
(c) Dan Stowell www.mcld.co.uk/hiv. A HIV virus particle cannot
survive on its own ...
www.mcld.co.uk/hiv/?...HIV%20virus%20is%20quite%20fragile
- Cached - Similar


Transmission of HIV | St. Maarten AIDSA Foundation

Note that HIV is fragile and many common substances

such as hot liquid, soap, bleach, alcohol, and the gastric

juices found within your stomach can destroy ...
www.sxmaidsfoundation.org/aids.../hiv_transmission.htm

- Cached - Similar

There was a report on Google in years past of a Melbourne academic

suggesting that HIV is fragile in lemon juice. The insight seems to have

gone the way of all flesh. It did not get past the drug companies.

Lemon juice 'is HIV-killing spermicide' - 10 October 2002 - New ...

10 Oct 2002 ... Researchers hope the acidic juice could be a cheap,
effective anti-viral contraceptive in developing countries.

www.newscientist.com/.../dn2910-lemon-juice-is-hivkilling-spermicide.html

- Cached - Similar

We have suggested that the world look at ways in which a woman can

help herself. We know that the virus can enter the vagina of a woman

and penetrate the mucosal cells in the wall and cervical plug.

How long does it take for HIV to penetrate? 2 minutes? 30 minutes?

2 hours? Does the woman have time to flush the virus with bleach
water, soapy water or hot water?

In Papua New Guinea, we have to help the women in villages, days
from a hospital who has been raped or had sex with a womanizing
husband. What does she do? Does she just wait and hope she does
not have HIV infection.

If able to get to hospital within 12 hours, she could be given emergency

rape ARV treatment. But she would not do that if her husband has sex

with her 3 times a week. It would look silly to be going for treatment

every few weeks. She has no option but submit and hope for the best.

We have to look at the virus in the vagina. If deposited by the man on a

penile thrust, semen is probably placed on the mucosal layer of the cervix.

Let us look at it. The virus is so microscopically small. It floats like millions

of leaves in a river. There is an interface between sperm and mucosal layer.

How long does the HIV take to cross the interface? It may be put off the

mission by a vagina full of soapy or bleach water.

If a woman knows her husband will have sex within a short time, she could

put fluid into the vagina before the act. What would be best? Lemon juice?

Readers have been horrified at suggestion that we may be able to destroy

the virus by its very fragility. What if a raped woman was able to flush

her vagina in the sea or a cold mountain river?

Living in a town, she may be able to do this with a hose of water. Insert

the hose and turn on the tap for 3 minutes. If the virus had not penetrated

the mucosa, the particles would be flushed from the body and lying in the

dirt.

There are empty Coca Cola bottles everywhere and made of plastic. With

a hole in the lid, these would be excellent douches. Women in the 1940s

used douches as contraceptives.

If I were a woman and had a womanizing husband forcing sex at night, I

would have a Coca Cola bottle of bleach water or soapy water hidden

in the house. When he went sleep, I would be out of bed and flushing

my vagina.

It may not work. The virus may take one minute to penetrate the mucosa.

But let the experts tell us that.

Research may be bogged down on cause and effect. If she douches every

time she has intercourse, it may be seen to work. She is HIV negative.

But then her husband may be HIV negative. The result may never be known.

Ethics would block such an experiment. No researcher could deliberately

infect a woman just to see if a douche works. If the experiment fails she may

be HIV positive.

It may be that the monopoly of responses to HIV infection is held by drug
companies and condom makers. We have to have compassion for women
and check out all options. That is gender equity. If it does not work, at
least we have tried.