[Firestarter]

Trioxidal & Interferon

I’ve found 2 stories on supposed “cures” for AIDS – Trioxidal and Interferon. I have a hard time believing in “miracle drugs” though...
I haven’t found evidence that either of them has any (positive or negative) effect on AIDS. Interferon could be the key in understanding the disease AIDS. The pharmaceutical establishment has claimed that HIV is the cause of AIDS, but the role of interferon is unknown to most of us...


Trioxidal, Robert Vesco
Robert Vesco bought IOS in 1970 for less than $5 million, and looted it of $220 million in funds.
After he escaped the US to evade the charges brought against him, he first settled in Costa Rica, where he invested some $11 million to become “friends” with President José Figueres.
Vesco also befriended nephew of President Richard M. Nixon, Donald A. Nixon Jr., and gave $200,000 to the Nixon campaign illegally through US Commerce Secretary and chief fund-raiser Maurice Stans.
In 1978, Vesco was forced to leave for the Bahamas. In the years that followed he hop scotched to several countries, including Antigua and Nicaragua, before settling in Cuba in 1982.

Vesco eventually became an enemy of the Castro government, when he was accused of defrauding a state-run biotechnology laboratory in a project that involved Donald Nixon, and sentenced to 13 years. This was about the production of the miracle medicine Trioxidal (TX) that would cure cancer, AIDS, arthritis and even the common cold.
TX is illegal in the US. They worked on TX at the Labiofam plant; its president is Gloria Castro (a relative of Fidel's) and Fragga Castro (Fidel's nephew): https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter...91664.html
(archived here: http://archive.is/v8JjH)

I haven’t found any more information on Trioxidal (there is a lot of interesting on Robert Vesco, but not in the context of this thread)...


Interferon
In 1992, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would test the AIDS-drug interferon, because of the common believe within the black community that it’s a cure for AIDS. The study included several hundred patients treated with low doses of interferon.
Physicians, who prescribe interferon in low doses, reported that it makes HIV-positive people “feel better”.
Other drugs like Immuviron and the similar Kemron were also used in the US black community for years.

An important advocate for interferon is Abdul Alim Mohammad, medical director of a non-profit organisation affiliated with the Nation of Islam.
Interferon, was formerly marketed under the name Immunex and in 1992 renamed as Immuviron – sold for about $1,500 for a six-month supply.
Mohammad said in an interview:

We talked to physicians, patients and the like. We were really convinced after 10 days that it was very effective.

In 1992, interferon was approved by the FDA for several diseases, including a rare form of leukaemia and Kaposi's sarcoma, a type of cancer that afflicts many AIDS patients.
In these treatments interferon is taken by injection in large, expensive doses, costing up to $270 per day for treatment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/l...be594a60f4

Unfortunately I didn’t find a single placebo controlled trial on the treatment of AIDS-victims.

There’s even a Hollywood movie about AIDS-victim Ron Woodroof that found out that AZT is highly toxic and looked for alternative treatment (including interferon) that he sold to other AIDS-victims – Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
Woodroof got into legal problems with the US FDA. Woodroof died in 1992, which was 7 years later than the doctors first predicted.
Woodroof himself chose Peptide T for AIDS-treatment.

The state media understandably criticised the film for endorsing “pseudoscience” (as opposed to the proven deadly toxicity of AZT?).
They invented new characters for the movie to advertise the LGBT-agenda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Buyers_Club

The reason that I think understanding interferon is important is the relation with HIV and AZT-poisoning, while interferon is an accepted therapy for HIV-positive victims with Kaposi’s sarcoma and Hepatitis B and C.
The FDA first approved interferon alpha for the treatment of hepatitis C in 1991.

Interferon is produced in response to viral infections as a first line of defence and also has widespread effects on the immune system.
Interferon was found in abundance in HIV-positive victims. It seems illogical that injecting them with large amounts of interferon, when they already had more than enough, would benefit them.

AZT removes interferon from the body in the first week on AZT, and reappears promptly when AZT is discontinued.
Some of the adverse effects of interferon are actually quite similar to the reported effects of AIDS: 1) CD4 loss; 2) leucopoenia; 3) low white and red blood counts; 4) high beta2microglobulin counts; 5) an increase in serum triglycerides: http://aidsperspective.net/blog/?p=118
(archived here: http://archive.is/m5s3q)

Interferon can have serious adverse effects.
Interferon can increase zidovudine's effectiveness, so that a much lower dose of zidovudine (AZT) is needed: https://www.medicinenet.com/interferon/article.htm

The following study (without placebo) claims that some 1/3 of the AIDS-victims with Kaposi's sarcoma benefitted (had a positive “response”) from interferon treatment:

Overall, 36 (35%) of 103 evaluable patients had either a complete (1 1 patients) or partial (25 patients) response to interferon alfa-2b. The respective response rates of the low-, intermediate-, and high-dose groups were 33%, 28%, and 45%. However, these groups were not evenly balanced for known prognostic factors.

Volberding et al – Treatment of Kaposi’s sarcoma with interferon alpha-2b (Intron A) (1987): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf...0.CO%3B2-5