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Maria Papagiannidou

A comment posted at the Ideas for Change in America website, Decdember 23, 2008:

maria_papagiannidou.jpgI consider it unacceptable, immoral and criminal to hide part of the truth when we deal with a matter of life and death.

I was found HIV-positive 23 years ago, in 1985. I learned that there is a controversy on the subject only in 2006, 21 years later. After I had taken the prescribed AIDS drugs for 12 years, thinking there was no better choice than taking them. I almost died three or four times from their side effects, it was a nightmare.

Should I not have known earlier that there is another view on the subject? And decide for myself which one I would follow? 

After I saw the whole image, I stopped the medication, exams and AIDS consultation, and regained full health. I live happily now with my husband, who helped me to discover the other side of AIDS.

Maria Papagiannidou - St Pierre

Journalist, ex AIDS patient, author of the book "Good Bye AIDS! Did it ever exist?", published in Greek in 2008. It will soon be available also in English.
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