I know, I don't expect you to believe me just because I say it. My OP was an introduction to the topic. I did a lot of reading and searching, although it was a while ago. There is a lot more censorship now, and questioning the HIV theory is taboo.
The whole story is extremely confusing. It isn't really a conspiracy theory, because no one is trying to fool us. The medical experts and the drug companies, probably, believe the HIV drugs are effective and have changed AIDS from a fatal disease to a chronic disease.
There are many tangled branches to the story, can't be spit out all at once in a short post.
In the 1980s, there were suddenly many AIDS deaths among gay men and IV drug users. Medical researchers found signs of what they call HIV in the blood of all the victims. Aha! That means HIV causes AIDS, right? Not so fast. The cause could be something else, and the signs of HIV might just go along with the real cause. There are actually many reasons for a positive HIV test -- this is well known and acknowledged by medical science.
After they decided HIV causes AIDS, they searched for a drug that would kill HIV, and they chose AZT. It was a highly toxic cancer drug. A clinical trial began, comparing AIDS patients treated with AZT vs placebo. Within a fairly short time, the AZT group had lower mortality. The trial was stopped, because they felt it had confirmed their theory, that AZT kills HIV, and HIV causes AIDS.
However, no one knows if this effect would have continue over a longer period. And some doubt that it would have. Still, that ONE clinical trial is the entire basis for the AIDS/HIV/AZT theory.
New, less toxic HIV drugs were developed. They were NEVER tested against placebos -- that would be "unethical," since it was "known" that AZT works. The less toxic drugs resulted in lower mortality. It was assumed that they were better at killing HIV. It was NOT assumed that they were simply less toxic and less likely to cause death.
Meanwhile, the diagnostic criteria for AIDS changed. Previously, patients were diagnosed with AIDS because of the "opportunistic infections" that AIDS leads to. But after the HIV theory was accepted, patients were diagnosed based on having a positive HIV test. As I said before, HIV tests can be positive for many reasons, including pregnancy. Also, Africans are more likely to be HIV positive, without necessarily having AIDS.
So now that people could be diagnosed with AIDS just because they were HIV positive, they were not necessarily sick when diagnosed. AIDS stopped being a "death sentence," but maybe that was because people diagnosed with AIDS were not necessarily as sick as those who were diagnosed in the 1980s.
But why, you ask, do AIDS patients improve when taking ARV (anti-retroviral) drugs? No one really knows. But it is known that ARV drugs are antibiotic -- they can kill bacteria, viruses and cancer cells. They are similar to cancer chemotherapy, after all. So the opportunistic infections caused by AIDS can be killed with ARV drugs, leading to the impression that they are curing HIV/AIDS.
But that's good, right? You want to kill those infections. Well yeah, but for one thing they never completely cure AIDS so patients take them for life. Would you want to be on cancer chemotherapy FOR LIFE. Also, the ARV drugs are taken to be proof of the HIV theory. But if they work by killing opportunistic infections, that would NOT support the HIV theory.
So much is still not known about HIV and AIDS. But the publicity tells us it's all under control. All an HIV positive person has to do is take the drugs, and they will live an almost normal life. That is BS -- no one has any idea if it's true.
And now they are giving preventative ARV drugs, to healthy gay men. The drugs are literally poison. They interfere with the reproduction of DNA in ALL CELLS. Not just in HIV. They destroy health, in many ways.