Check List

Positively Inaccurate

If you have been "tested for HIV" you might want to go over this page that lists all of the factors that can make your test come out positive. When I saw this, I threw the whole testing thing in the trash as if there are this many ways of being "positive" the test is meaningless. Ask your doctor about these common factors listed below have interfered with the test. In fact, you might even print this out and show it to your doctor, clinic, or gay community center and ask for an explanation. Since false-positives to every single HIV protein have been documented and well proven, how do you know, or how does anyone know which Western Blot bands represent the various proteins to HIV. They may very well be just a collection of false-positive bands reacting to several different non-HIV antibodies. When you learn this multitude of factors which they never tell you about that commonly make you test "positive", it becomes ridiculous to get all bent out of shape about being positive as you learn that testing tests positive for INACCURACY.

FACTORS KNOWN TO CAUSE FALSE POSITIVE HIV ANTIBODY TEST RESULTS

	Flu (36)
	Flu vaccination (30, 11, 3, 20, 13, 43)
	Receptive anal sex (39, 64)
	Herpes simplex I (27)
	Herpes simplex II (11)
	Anti-carbohydrate antibodies (52, 19, 13)
	Naturally-occurring antibodies (5, 19)
	Passive immunization: receipt of gamma globulin or immune globulin (as prophylaxis against infection which contains antibodies)(18, 26, 60, 4, 22, 42, 43, 13)
	Leprosy (2, 25)
	Tuberculosis (25)
	Mycobacterium avium (25)
	Systemic lupus erythematosus (15, 23)
	Renal (kidney) failure (48, 23, 13)
	Hemodialysis/renal failure (56, 16, 41, 10, 49)
	Alpha interferon therapy in hemodialysis patients (54)
	Upper respiratory tract infection (cold or flu)(11)
	Recent viral infection or exposure to viral vaccines (11)
	Pregnancy in multiparous women (58, 53, 13, 43, 36)
	Malaria (6, 12)
	High levels of circulating immune complexes (6, 33)
	Hypergammaglobulinemia (high levels of antibodies) (40, 33)
	False positives on other tests, including RPR (rapid plasma reagent) test for syphilis (17, 48, 33, 10, 49)
	Rheumatoid arthritis (36)
	Hepatitis B vaccination (28, 21, 40, 43)
	Tetanus vaccination (40)
	Organ transplantation (1, 36)
	Renal transplantation (35, 9, 48, 13, 56)
	Anti-lymphocyte antibodies (56, 31)
	Anti-collagen antibodies (found in gay men, haemophiliacs, Africans of both sexes and people with leprosy)(31)
	Serum-positive for rheumatoid factor, antinuclear antibody (both found in rheumatoid arthritis and other autoantibodies)(14, 62, 53)
	Autoimmune diseases (44, 29, 10, 40, 49, 43): Systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, connective tissue disease, dermatomyositis
	Acute viral infections, DNA viral infections (59, 48, 43, 53, 40, 13)
	Malignant neoplasms (cancers)(40)
	Alcoholic hepatitis/alcoholic liver disease (32, 48, 40,10,13, 49, 43, 53)
	Primary sclerosing cholangitis (48, 53)
	Hepatitis (54)
	"Sticky" blood (in Africans) (38, 34, 40)
	Antibodies with a high affinity for polystyrene (used in the test kits)(62, 40, 3)
	Blood transfusions, multiple blood transfusions (63, 36,13, 49, 43, 41)
	Multiple myeloma (10, 43, 53)
	HLA antibodies (to Class I and II leukocyte antigens)(7, 46, 63, 48, 10, 13, 49, 43, 53)
	Anti-smooth muscle antibody (48)
	Anti-parietal cell antibody (48)
	Anti-hepatitis A IgM (antibody)(48)
	Anti-Hbc IgM (48)
	Administration of human immunoglobulin preparations pooled before 1985 (10)
	Haemophilia (10, 49)
	Haematologic malignant disorders/lymphoma (43, 53, 9, 48, 13)
	Primary biliary cirrhosis (43, 53, 13, 48)
	Stevens-Johnson syndrome9, (48, 13)
	Q-fever with associated hepatitis (61)
	Heat-treated specimens (51, 57, 24, 49, 48)
	Lipemic serum (blood with high levels of fat or lipids)(49)
	Haemolyzed serum (blood where haemoglobin is separated from the red cells)(49)
	Hyperbilirubinemia (10, 13)
	Globulins produced during polyclonal gammopathies (which are seen in AIDS risk groups)(10, 13, 48)
	Healthy individuals as a result of poorly-understood cross-reactions (10)
	Normal human ribonucleoproteins (48,13)
	Other retroviruses (8, 55, 14, 48, 13)
	Anti-mitochondrial antibodies (48, 13)
	Anti-nuclear antibodies (48, 13, 53)
	Anti-microsomal antibodies (34)
	T-cell leukocyte antigen antibodies (48, 13)
	Proteins on the filter paper (13)
	Epstein-Barr virus (37)
	Visceral leishmaniasis (45)

If the above references are not enough, check with any of these 2,573 people who doubt the accuracy of these test protocols. I mean, this is serious, people are basing their lives on non-precise testing modalities. What if you or a loved one tests positive, is told it's HIV, and it's really only the flu or any or many of the above listed items, and are prodded into taking poisonous AIDS drugs? Many people say that this is exactly what is happening, and people are getting sicker and dying due to misdiagnosis.

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