20230626 Is American Gene Tech HIV cure real? More Gay art. CDC and NIH isn't giving good advice on meningitus vaccination.
It really is atrocious that we aren't driving the use of the vaccine giving cross-protection against gonorrhea. Warning about a Facebook art group.
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Did American Gene Technologies find an HIV cure? Frustrating trying to find hard information.
They may be on the path to a cure, the issue is that I am looking for some hard news. I am not finding anything in the scientific press. That doesn’t mean they are not legitimate, it just means I can’t find confirmation.
First, this is NOT CRISPR and is an approach to repair immune response. There is a CRISPR effort out there. I don’t want people to confuse them.
In reading their online reports at their website I am not finding the number of participants in the trials. They do mention it in the American Gene Therapy video. That is a critical issue for Phase I trials. Also, with just a few people, there can’t be a judge of how effective a treatment is. A treatment might only work with 20% of the patients, but for two or three patients, they all might be cured just out of luck.
This video of 13 days ago, (as of 6/25/2023) says seven patients. Also, saying it is a “HIV Cure Announcement” when it is Phase I doesn’t make sense. Phase I is just to make sure that the medicine doesn’t kill you or make you seriously ill or cause health problems. Phase II and III tells you whether it works. You get some preliminary data from Phase 1. And there is only seven patients in his.
So I found the YouTube of the announcement by American Gene Technology and watched it. It says seven trial participants. It is unclear exactly what the efficancy study was except, “the immune response was what we expected.” Six of the seven went off their HIV retroviral and they saw that the immune system appeared to work. No info on how long they were able to suppress HIV infection. The presentation was vague. Perhaps when they come out with a published report we will see something we can get a hold of. Perhaps they are just celebrating their progress and we shouldn’t expect a lot of details.
The American Gene Technology article Nov. 2022, link below, says that eleven people enrolled. So, what happened to six of the participants?
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2022.1044713/full
This July 23, 2022 article says that they are withdrawing the patients from the anti-viral medicine to see if they are cured. I don’t see the number of participants.
https://www.americangene.com/news-releases/agt-hiv-trial-enters-phase-withdrawing-antiretrovirals/
This press release says 100% of patients this and 100% of patients that, but how many patients is not named.
This may be an amazing treatment, I just can’t get hard data. I will be looking forward to further results. It does seem to be a big breakthrough.
In Dallas County we have a church calling for the execution of Gays
This is keeping me busy. I am reporting on the church and the protests against them. I am also doing letters to local, state, and federal elected officials to raise awareness and have them take what action they can.
I have been really wanting to write on a couple topics. “Are we different, do we fear being different.” I don’t think we are inherently, but I think we find different life choices and that can mean differences.
Also, I want to write about dealing with homophobic religious groups, but I don’t want Gays who are in those groups feel persecuted. Maybe criticized for SOME specific things. I really don’t like the politics where one group of Gays tries to show the other group of Gays the door.
Since posting this in Reddit this morning it has gotten 140+ thousand views, 80 shares, 1,400 upvotes. Most people know about this church through my local newsletter.
Working locally, expecting to work across ideological and social lines, you can have big influence.
Trying to find more artists outside the Anglophone world
Also, outside of the West. If you know of Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Southeast Asia, African and Latin American artists let me know.
I am mostly finding artists on Facebook English language Gay art groups and Twitter when one Gay artist retweets another.
Leave info in the comments.
Interesting Artist
https://www.breyette.com/
https://www.instagram.com/artofbreyette/ Click on the image.
https://www.littlegorgeousthings.com/mibrorpaar.html
Interesting Tattoo Artist
Uncensored.
https://twitter.com/dNoKX09f0osJMnS
Bad Facebook groups. Some of them have tiny URLs that go to bad sites.
My Kapersky anti-malware gives me warnings. I did a report to the admin of this site, but if they aren’t policing it, I am pulling them from my list. This is what the entry looks like now.
Gay + Art WARNING. This group has tiny URL going to sites which aren’t art sites and my Kapersky gives a warning. Note I haven’t activated this link.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/483586061677323/
Bacterial meningitis is not the same as viral meningitis.
Meningitis is not the same as Meningococcal disease. Which vaccines have cross protection for gonorrhea.
I am thinking of doing this as a stand alone item, because I see a real failure to be concerned over the health of Gay men.
Note: The vaccines which offer cross protection are TRUMENBA by Pfizer in the United States and BEXSERO by GSK vaccines in Europe.
The differences are explained at this page. I thought meningitis was a single disease but it is evidently a term for any disease impacting the brain.
https://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/index.html
There have been outbreaks of meningococcal disease among Gay men.
https://www.cdc.gov/meningococcal/outbreaks/FL2022.html
I copied this from the webpage. However, this vaccination doesn’t seem to have cross-protection against gonorrhea. (Info further in this article.)
And this.
These vaccines reference above are better than no vaccination.
4CMenB vaccine has cross-protection against gonorrhea.
This is an article from the National Library of Medicine which is an official website of the National Institute of Health.
It is about the partial protection of Gay men from gonorrhea when they take the 4CMenB vaccine in a direct comparison with those who got the MenACWY vaccine. The rate of gonorrhea was 46% less. That is a real significant reduction of risk.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35642527/
What I don’t understand is why MenACWY is being pushed to Gay men instead of 4CMenB. Also, why isn’t the current LGBTQXYZ establishment doing anything? I think we know the answer. Basically, the LGBTQXYZ is embarrassed by the issue that Gays are more sexually active.
I had to do some searching to find the brand names of 4CMenB vaccines. They are TRUMENBA by Pfizer in the United States and BEXSERO by GSK vaccines in Europe.
I had to go through this long article to find out the brand names.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349334/
This is the article which got me started looking into meningitis vaccination. I didn’t know what the difference is between meningococcal disease and meningitis.
Even the abstract I don’t understand. Go to the Editor’s summary.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.ade3901
Basically, they have found a new technology for vaccination of meningococcal disease, which is good. We need as many technologies in our tool kit as possible.
Given that Gays need vaccinations against STDs, the development of vaccine technologies is important.
Remember also that a Gay anti-vaxxer is more likely to give you an STD.
Compare headlines on ISIS attempted attack on Vienna Pride
Keeping the Gay community as to what exactly is going on is the goal. So how well does the LGBTQXYZ media stack up.
There was an attempted attack on the Vienna, Austria Pride parade. I think it might be useful to review how this is reported.
CNN
“Three arrested including 14-year-old as police foil attack on Vienna’s pride parade. In the first paragraph they say “alleged links to Islamic extremism.”
3rd paragraph says:
They had allegedly become radicalized online and developed views sympathetic to ISIS, according to Haijawi-Pirchner.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/18/europe/vienna-pride-parade-attack-foiled-intl/index.html
BBC
The BBC is much the same as CNN. They say “suspected Islamists.” They never state that the arrested individuals were with ISIS, but they do say ISIS is planning attacks in Europe.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65944514
Washington Blade
The titled was, “Austrian police thwart attack against Vienna Pride parade,” and the subtitle reads, “Three suspects sympathized with ISIS.”
Los Angeles Blade
In the Los Angeles Blade you have to go down to the third paragraph to find out that it involves Islam and ISIS.
It is important to know how your source of news filters the news.
Transman dismissive attitudes.
The article is titled, “The chaotic reality of being a trans man on Grindr: From d**k pics to existential crises.”
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/16/trans-man-grindr/
You can see that “his” perceptions of Grindr are that of a straight women who thinks that they are going to be like straight life and straight men courting women.
“This reality, that hookup apps run on a kind of feral, reading-phobic horniness, has led to a number of humorous interactions.”
There is a dismissive attitude in the exploitation of Gay spaces and lots of presumptions.
One of his earlier articles is, “’The transf*g tipping point’: Gay trans men are edging into the spotlight – and it feels good.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/28/gay-trans-men-tipping-point/
Showcased artists for last week.
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