LATE ARV WILL NOT PREVENT DEATH

Late ARV treatment will not prevent death. The immune system will be too weak for the person to survive once AIDS sets in with weight and memory loss.

There was a report in the media yesterday that advised that people who are HIV infected should not delay for several years before commencing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.

This is real HIV/AIDS awareness, the first practical and professional advice that has appeared in the media in several years.

If the sufferer delays, the HIV virus will have had a long time to destroy millions of CD4 cells and the lining of the small intestine.

The person is failing in health.  ARV medication will not help a return to normal as the immune system is too far gone.

Even Positive Living will not help as the body has dropped in health and not benefited from strong nutrition of fruit and vegetables. For Linda and my son it was too late.

There is little or no absorption of nutrients, salts and water through the lining of the small intestine as the lining has been slowly destroyed. 

All nutrients, salts and water are passing out of the body as diarrhoea. The person has lost weight and looks like a scare crow.

The person is starving, suffering from dehydration and massive infection. The person cannot survive. 

ARV medication should have been started 4 years before when the CD4 cells and small intestine were still strong.