AIDS! The most dreaded disease of the era. The obvious thing that comes to your mind is I should not suffer from it, anyhow. You cannot even imagine about you suffering from it, the kind of social trauma, isolation from your beloved ones and miserable death. The whole world is in panic with this four-letter word AIDS. Is there prevention? Is there a treatment? What if I get AIDS? The list of questions is unending.

AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. What do you mean by that? Like a country being guarded by the military, the human body is being guarded by a similar system termed as the immune system. The first level of defense comes from the immune system. The invasion on life is prevented by healthy and active immune system. Because of this, even though a person is exposed to n number of organism risk, the body is prevented from the strong immune counter attack. All of us are exposed to typhoid bacteria or the flu virus, but only those suffer from the disease, who have lowered immunity as compared to others. When a person is suffering from AIDS the virus first attacks the immune system and disables it from further activity. The immune system being disabled the body is prone to any kind of infection. AIDS by virtue has no direct symptoms. If you have to label a patient as suffering from AIDS the immunological tests need to be positive. In the initial stages the disease throws signs and symptoms of opportunistic infections. Most likely infection from which the patient may suffer from is the infection prevailing in the locality. If an area sees more patients of Tuberculosis of the respiratory system, then the patient is exposed to the causative organism and is likely to suffer from Tuberculosis of the respiratory system. Commonly seen infections in India include Tuberculosis of Respiratory System, Herpes Zoster, and all other probable opportunistic infections.

Is it curable? What is the current status of research? There are sporadic claims made by homoeopathic physicians all over the world that they have 'cured' AIDS. The cures are questionable. Well, frankly speaking the term 'cure' cannot be used loosely to say that there is absence of symptoms means I have cured AIDS. In few cases the immunological markers have detected to be turned negative. However, 5 to 10 years of follow up with totally asymptomatic phase is required to claim cure. It is a fact that a patient suffering from AIDS, (despite of having confirmed sero-positive status) responds to homoeopathic treatment positively. Maintains asymptomatic status with gain in weight after the treatment.

Let us explore the possibilities of cure with the help of homoeopathy. Few years back news was flashed on CNN saying that an individual has been identified in United States, who despite of repeated exposures to HIV infected patients retained his sero-negative status. He was investigated for the fact. The investigating authority confirmed the fact and detected an extra protein layer on his white blood cells. This layer prevented the system from not to be the vulnerable victim of virus attacks on the immune system.

Usually when a patient receives homoeopathic treatment the treatment strengthens the immune level of the patient in order to fight back. The curative response comes from the body and not from the medicine. This phenomenon in homoeopathy is termed as cure from secondary action. This is seen in patients with any disease. The physician's in homoeopathic philosophy terms this as stimulation of the vital force to cure the sick person. One needs to explore the possibilities in patients suffering from AIDS. If the patient maintains sero-negative status after homoeopathic treatment, investigations can be focused on whether the treatment creates an additional protein layer on the white blood cells. Open mind, well-documented cases is the need of humanity in controlling this dreaded disease.