Sep 23 2010
New Film Exposes DC’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Profiles Inspiring AIDS Activists
Most Americans do not realize that the city with one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS infection in the world is the nation’s capital, Washington DC. In fact, according to the former director of DC’s HIV/AIDS administration, DC’s infection rate is “on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya.” A one percent infection rate of any disease in a population is considered an epidemic according to the United Nations. Today, the rate of HIV infection in rate in DC is three percent. A recent study of gay men in Washington DC found that 14% are HIV positive. How did that happen? A new documentary, The Other City, explores the many people struggling, thriving, and organizing to make up for the lack of government programs in Washington DC around HIV/AIDS. While elected officials, lobbyists, and other elites go about their business in the nation’s capital of the richest, most powerful country in the world, the on-going epidemic in their city has been all but forgotten and ignored. But in The Other City, we meet the residents of Joseph’s House, a hospice for AIDS patients, the Courage to Change Men’s group comprising African American former inmates infected with HIV, a young woman named J’Mia who is a single mother of three struggling to find housing, and a gay Latino man named Jose who does all he can to stem infection rates among immigrant youth. The Other City has been featured as an official selection at the Tribeca, Outfest, and Silverdocs film festivals and opens this Friday in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall (9036 Wilshire Blvd).
GUEST: Susan Koch, director of The Other City
Find out more at www.theothercity.com.
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DEFEATING INFECTIOUS DISORDERS BY STIMULATING IMMUNE FUNCTION
Stimulating immune function to perform efficiently is the logical approach to defeating pathogens. Such stimulation is propagandized as unavailable, when Louis Shenkman ,M.D documented the potent immunostimulating and antibacterial properties of lithium in 1980, and I in 1981 the first of nine review articles on the remarkable immunostimulating and antimicrobial properties of lithium and antidepressants. My “Stimulating immune function to kill viruses” was recently released (Amazon), and applies also to bacteria, parasites, and fungi. A therapeutic claim is reinforced when the mechanism is known. In this case, minute molecules known as prostaglandins, when produced excessively, depress every component of immune function, and induce microbial replication. In the early nineteen seventies, my late colleague David Horrobin and others showed that antidepressants and lithium inhibit prostaglandins.
Evidence to date shows that lithium has immunostimulating, antiviral and antibacterial properties, antidepressants immunostimulating, antiviral, antibacterial, antiparasite, and fungicidal properties.. A recent study has shown that antidepressants frequently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable. With the threats posed by resistant T.B, HIV, resistant bacteria, and the emerging resistance of the malaria parasite to artemisin, the availability of immunostimulation becomes all the more crucial. In a review published in 1983, I proposed that to stimulate immune function, an agent must have mood elevating properties. Over the past quarter of a century, I appealed to innumerable individuals and institutions to support the advance, none of which obliged. Immunostimulation was available as early as 1980, the consequences of its suppression a catastrophe.
Lieb, J.”The immunostimulating and antimicrobial properties of lithium and antidepressants.” J Infection (2004) 49 88-93
A bibliography is available in Lieb, J. “Stimulating immune function to kill viruses.” (And bacteria, parasites, and fungi). (2009) Amazon
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