HIV tidak menular melalui hubungan seksual??

HIV sceptic backs unprotected sex Jeremy Roberts and Elizabeth Gosch January 31, 2007 A MEDICAL physicist at Royal Perth Hospital has declared that she would have unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man, believing she would not be at risk of infection. Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos was giving testimony at the Supreme Court of South Australia during an appeal by a man convicted of exposing three women to HIV. She was asked by prosecutor Sandi McDonald whether "you would have unprotected vaginal sex with a HIV-positive man". "Any time," replied Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos. The admission came on the last day of Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos's cross-examination. She is the lead expert witness for Andre Chad Parenzee, 35, who was convicted in February last year on three counts of endangering life. A jury found Parenzee had unprotected sex with three women despite knowing he was HIV-positive. He infected one of them. He remains in custody awaiting sentencing. His mother, Jeanette Thumlert, has spent $250,000 on her son's defence. Some of that money has gone to flying two expert witnesses from Perth on three occasions since October last year. The witnesses, Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos and emergency doctor Val Turner, represent the Perth Group. The group's key claim is that HIV has never been isolated and identified as a retrovirus. HIV is the result of the misinterpretation of laboratory phenomena and experiments, the group says. Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos says AIDS is a disease that results from the oxidising of the inside of the body from repeated exposure to semen resulting from passive anal intercourse. It is not a "virus" and cannot be "transmitted" from one person to another during sex. Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos's views are largely ignored by mainstream scientific journals. She has a bachelor of science and is a medical physicist at Royal Perth Hospital, with Perth Group member David Causer, the head of clinical physics. A spokeswoman for the hospital said neither worked with AIDS patients or in HIV research. "Their views are not consistent with the hospital's views on HIV-AIDS," she said. Despite the Perth Group's marginal position, its evidence in the Parenzee appeal has spurred up to seven eminent HIV-AIDS scientists to give rebuttal testimony. The prosecution has told the court that Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos has misrepresented scientific papers and will call some of the papers' authors to set the record straight. Renowned immunologist and World Health Organisation public health expert Gustav Nossal is preparing to give written evidence or appear in person debunking the testimony. He has called the HIV sceptics "a very considerable embarrassment to Australian science". Yesterday, Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos continued her strident defence of her claims. She was asked to consider the good record of anti-retroviral drugs in extending the lives of HIV-AIDS patients. Judge John Sulan asked: "Is it your evidence that it is a waste of resources to give anti-retrovirals to pregnant women?" "Yes," she said. The case continues. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21151217-5006787,00.html