This isn’t your usual, heartwarming living-with-HIV story. In August 2013, having found that he was “false positive,” Bobby Russell stopped taking “AIDS” drugs and filed a lawsuit against several doctors, hospitals and others over what they had put him through unnecessarily for more than eight years. As fate would have it, one of Bobby’s former doctors is now head of a major medical association.

Bobby tested, allegedly, positive in September 2004, just over a month after the last of a series of negative tests. He had, at the time, serious internal bleeding, so HIV seemed to explain his weakened immune system without looking too far inside. The problem was, although his doctor insisted the “confirmatory” Western Blot test (for all its flaws) was positive, it was actually negative.

For about eight years Bobby had been on AIDS drugs that caused serious side effects. And he only had relationships with HIV-positive people because he didn’t want to be responsible for infecting anyone.

In 2009 there was a negative Western Blot, but the social worker decided it must be wrong and convinced the lab to change the result to positive. Finally, in 2012 Bobby discovered his original, negative Western Blot.

However, this did not release Bobby from bondage in the AIDS Zone. Now he believed he had been putting himself at risk for eight years through deliberate, unprotected sex with HIV-positive people. So he stayed on the drugs in the belief this would protect him from infection, despite the side effects.

Is there even any such thing as a true positive result on an “HIV test”?  What happens in a typical AIDS “support group”?  Are patients truly “in denial” if they question their test results?  What can you do about it if you suspect you are being targeted by fraudulent HIV testing?  When you are “at the end of your rope” with nothing but a prayer/intention, how does God/the universe answer your prayer?

Elizabeth previously interviewed Bobby’s lawyer about this and other current lawsuits in Episode 71, “Sue ‘Em Now with Attorney Jonathan Dailey” — on the possibility of such legal actions forcing AIDS clinics and others to “put up or shut up” on their claims concerning HIV and AIDS.

We will update this page with a link to Bobby’s public-figure Facebook page, which he mentions here, when it goes live.

Good news! Anyone can now challenge their “HIV-positive” diagnosis, through either a flat-fee-based service or do-it-yourself instructions.

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UPDATE, August 2014: Bobby Russell has established a campaign on “GoFundMe” to cover some costs related to his lawsuit.  You can help at http://www.gofundme.com/axwthk.

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