Frequently asked questions
Side effects
What side effects are there to EMFtreatment?
Our EMF Treatment is safety approved. That means that the benefits are thought to outweigh the risks, not that it is risk free. Often,people begin to feel better very quickly. Some patients have a slight headache whilst they are being treated and for a few hours afterwards. Some people experience a tingling sensation, or dizziness. Some experience aches, which may last for a day or two, and some feel weary, especially during the first few days of treatment. All of these symptoms have disappeared rapidly.
Inventors
Who invented the HIVEX treatment?
The principal inventors were Dr Leonid Veiser and Boris Kokorin. They began work in this area around 20 years ago, and began to work on HIV around 18 years ago, working with teams of scientists in Russia, Austria, the UK South Africa and the USA
Donations
Please oontact us if you would like to support our work.
Or send a donation to the charity, Life Stride, 90 Lady Margaret Road, London N19 5ES. with a gift aid form if you are a UK taxpayer.http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/appendix_b1.pdf . We can also suggest supportive U.S. and South African charities.
Electro-magnetic effects
Need I worry about the effects of the HIVEX Treatment, in the same way that I am worried about the effects of mobile phones and other electro-magnetic equipment?
Some scientists believe that electro-magnetic equipment is making us ill – that the electro-magnetic emissions of telephones and other equipment are damaging our brains and causing cell mutations. The electro-magnetic emissions of HIVEX equipment are very low frequency (radio waves and micro waves) and very low power. It is only effective within a few metres of the equipment.
Other electro-magnetic equipment
Is HIVEX treatment similar to RIFE, Beamer, Vega, TENS machines, electro acupuncture or other marketed therapies? NO!!
There are many pieces of equipment which use electro-magnetic fields to treat the body and its symptoms. Some are established, such as the wound healing therapies which have been long accepted by the FDA, and others less so. They all emit electro-magnetic radiation at a given level; but Hivex is different since its equipment amplifies the electro-magnetic spectra of specific proteins or DNA sequences.
To the best of our knowledge, HIVEX is the only company which has conducted rigorous human clinical trials using electro-magnetic fields to treat HIV patients with the magnitude of data taken on reducing apoptosis, increasing viable lymphocytes and limiting adverse events; and with equipment, the safety of which has been confirmed.
Treatments
We cannot make claims about the effectiveness of the treatment or market the equipment.If you would like to know more about the basis on which we can treat people, please contact us. info@hivex-treatment.org
Anti-retrovirals
How do the effects of anti-retrovirals differ from the effects of the HIVEX Treatment?
Anti-retrovirals (“ARVs”) have saved countless lives. They are an extremely valuable therapy with decades of research to show effects, and side effects. EMF, although invented very many years ago, with the first treatments two decades ago has had little use - so far only a couple of thousand people have been treated.
ARVs inhibit the HIV virus in several different ways – stopping the virus from replicating by preventing reverse transcription, preventing viral DNA from being spliced into the host cell’s DNA, and preventing the processing action of the enzyme Protease. As an HIV infected person takes ARVs, the so-called “viral load” in the blood, drops, so that often, after 4-6 months, particles of the virus are undectatable in the blood. If it replicates at all, the rate is very slow, so that life expectancy increases greatly. But that does not mean that the virus has gone altogether – it “hides” in “reservoirs” in a latent form in the central nervous system, epithelial cells, and elsewhere. If a patient stops taking ARVs the virus reenters the blood, and the patient’s viral load (as measured by polymerase chain reaction (“PCR”) increases, and eventually reaches original levels. Further, these conditions seem to encourage the virus to mutate, so that the previous ARV regimen may no longer be effective. That is a particular problem in poorer countries where there may be limited availability of ARVs, no access to the full range, and limited medical assessment. PCR measures fragments of viral DNA and then apples a mathematical formulation to determine the quantity of virus that is present in the blood. It is not a simple quantitative test. We know that it identifies the presence of viral fragments in patients who have experienced the HIVEX treatment, but there is nothing to show whether those fragments represent live or active virions, and given treated patients drop in apoptosis and lymphocyte rise we believe that few pathogenic virions survive the HIVEX Treatment. We want to study this further.
Experts no longer consider that measuring viral load to be the best test of disease progression – that is more accurately assessed by measuring the patient’s rate of apoptosis.
After EMF treatment patients’ rate of apoptosis has remained low.. We would like to do more work in this area – and for that, we need more resources.
One of the differences of treatment with ARVs and the HIVEX Treatment is that treatment with ARVs produces side effects – the body has to deal with cell toxicity. No long-term side effects have been detected with the HIVEX treatment.
I am taking anti-retrovirals. Does this affect treatment?
Put very simply, anti-retrovirals suppress HIV virus levels in the blood, so that infection of other cells is slowed down. The virus remains latent in the central nervous system and some other types of cells. Anti-retrovirals (“ARVs”) affect cell toxicity, and the patient can feel tired, bloated, nauseous.
We believe that, except in a few cases, EMF Treatment affects ALL of the HI virions in the body including those within the Central Nervous System epithelial cells and elsewhere. After treatment patients’ rate of apoptosis has remained low. We would like to do more work in this area – and for that, we need more resources. In a few cases, in treatments since 2010, patients have not responded as expected. We think this is due to the presence of new strains of HIV, and would like to do more wok on this,
Most of those treated with EMF treatment have not been taking ARVs. These were not fully available in Africa at the time that major trials were carried out. However a few people taking ARVs have been treated, including the American, George. It seems that the treatment has an effect notwithstanding use of ARVs, and that whether or not those who have been treated continue to take ARVS. We would like to study this more.
Why is so little about EMFTreatment published?
The former South African government requested that there be no publicity – no papers reporting on clinical work, no talks at HIV conferences. They had concerns, it seems, of an overwhelming demand. In fact this, combined with the decision not to treat anyone outside the trials, has kept this treatment hidden. We want to stop that. We hope that reports of the trials will be published. This is a decision for the University of Kwazulu Natal. We also hope to carry out more formal trials with academic institutions, and that those institutions, in contrast to the University of KZN, will choose to publish peer reviewed reports on all aspects of the work they do.
This site reflects our desire to make this treatment known.
How many people have been treated with EMF Treatment?
Around 1,000 people were treated before 2003, when trials stopped and HIVEX waited for registration. HIVEX has treated around 1,100 people since September 2010.
What about trials and registration ?
Our priority now is treatment in Africa – in countries where the rate of infection is high and access to good treatment is limited. We will consider trials in other countries as resources are available.
Does HIV cause AIDS?
Many people have questioned whether HIV exists at all, or whether it is HIV which causes AIDS. It is sometimes suggested (e.g. in relation to gay communities) that AIDS is the body's response to an environment in which drug use was prevalent, and that amongst poorer communities AIDS results from malnutrition. Or that it is a fiction invented by drugs EMF Treatment, this argument does not matter. The treatment has been shown to improve the strength of the immune system, in 88% of those who are adequately dosed. That is enough. .These results have been acheived by targetting proteins that are specific to the HIV virus. However, it is effects on patients which are of value.
7See the reports if studies by Dr. Siliciano, associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore et al in the November 14, 1997 issue of Science and by Drs. Chun, Fauci and colleagues appear in the Nov. 25 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and the more recent report in Nature Medicine March 2010 of work be Kathleen Collins of the University of Michigan. The team found the virus in hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs)—the mother of all immune system cells. The virus not only infected the cells but also could remain latent,does not trigger an immune response and remains impervious to anti-HIV drugs.