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The Independent in London reports that Andrew Stimpson, 25, was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 2002 but found to be clear of the virus in 2003. He has stunned the medical world. If doctors can establish why this happened, without treatment, it could benefit the 34.9 million virus carriers worldwide.
But Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust, which carried out the initial diagnosis tests, said Mr Stimpson has so far declined to undergo further tests with it.
Okay, this guy is either a fraud (My guess) or the most selfish human being in the history of the planet. If he can help cure millions of people but declines to take further tests, I think....(I'm not even going to say it).
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I work in HIV non-profit and you can imagine how this story was the topic of conversation all day today.
Doctors who partner with our agency are extremely skeptical about the allegation -- wanting to be very sure the story is factual before they give their patients false hope.
For the millions around the globe and in the USA living with HIV, let's hope there's truth to the story and this man's recovery points to light at the end of the tunnel. .
posted by Christopher, at
11/14/2005 11:04 PM
Hm... I've seen a TV bit on this guy, and he said he'd be happy to take part in more tests to help people. He didn't seem like the most 'together' guy in the world though, so maybe that's why he hasn't shown up yet.
I don't think he's a fraud, he's just repeating what he's been told; he had a positive and a negative test. He's not claiming anything. My immediate assumption would be that one of the tests was wrong, but apparently that's not thought to be possible.
*shrug* Who knows, maybe by some fluke he really did shake it. Maybe the end of the tunnel is closer than it appears.
posted by Willie Hewes, at
11/15/2005 3:47 AM
FALSE POSITIVE test results have occurred before. In fact, every HIV test kit includes a detailed warning about the probabilities of a false positive or false negative test. Why are these British officials acting so certain of the test results being accurate? I tested HIV-1 negative for years before I found out about the HIV-2 test, which my local health department did not know about. When I researched it and told them how to do an HIV-2 test, I finally got one and found out that I was HIV-2subtypeD positive, which is not detected by normal HIV tests. HIV is not a simple virus.
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