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AIDS DISSIDENT, ALTERNATIVE HEALTH ABSTRACTS CENSORED in BARCELONA

 

" One of the goals of the international AIDS conferences is to generate

attention for orthodox views of AIDS. This year's conference is no exception

as the world media inundates us with press releases dressed up as news. The

alarmist estimates, absurd projections, and enthusiastic endorsements of

dubious studies all underscore the conference's agenda--to secure greater

emotional and fiscal support for AIDS drugs.

 

Rather than laugh or cry at the unrealistic portrayals of HIV, AIDS and the

drug therapies, try sharing your views with newspapers, radio talk shows or

other public entities perpetuating misleading AIDS news.

 

You don't have to be an expert or have all the facts on hand. A simple

statement, a question or two and a mention of our web site address can work

wonders. Here's an example that works well on talk radio, for a letter to

the editor or a quick email:

 

'Do you know about the Conference for Life that took place right across the

street from the Barcelona AIDS conference? Hundreds of HIV positives from

around the world who are healthy and take no AIDS drugs joined with doctors

and scientists from several countries to share crucial facts and research

about HIV and AIDS left out of the media. This information that shows that

HIV positives can lead normal, healthy, productive lives without costly,

toxic AIDS drugs. Their helpful, hopeful, life-affirming news has not been

mentioned by a single mainstream media source. If we are truly seeking

answers about AIDS and sincerely interested in helping HIV positives, why do

we only hear one side of the story--the side that promotes illness, death,

hopelessness and expensive pharmaceuticals? To find out the good news we're

not getting in the media, visit www.QuestionAIDS.com'

 

For venues that allow more space or time, you can also include your own

version of this information:

 

Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, an non-profit education, support and

research organization founded by HIV positives made every effort to exhibit

at this year's official conference in Barcelona. As you may know, our

successful participation in the 2000 AIDS conference in Durban South Africa

inspired a feature story in Newsweek magazine.

 

The Alive & Well exhibit was one of the most popular at the event. People

from every country around the world lined up to take copies of our book and

information, and for a chance to talk with Alive & Well's director, a

healthy, medication-free mother. Many people had never heard of HIV

positives living without the drugs since the media and AIDS groups emphasize

the absolute need for pharmaceuticals. Doctors, nurses, researchers,

counselors, and HIV positives from almost every country in the world told us

we provided the only source of new information at the conference and the

only real hope for solving AIDS. We quickly ran out of the 700 pounds of

materials we brought to stock our booth. We put limits on the number of

books we could share and patronized Africa's version of Kinko's three times

for more copies of the articles and flyers that were grabbed up by grateful

visitors.

 

Apparently, our success posed a threat to the agenda of the conference which

strictly promotes the HIV = AIDS hypothesis along with the view that

pharmaceutical intervention is the only legitimate response to a positive

diagnosis.

 

Although the published theme of the conference was " Knowledge and Commitment

for Action, " knowledge of alternative views and information or taking action

that deviates from commitment to pharmaceuticals was deemed unacceptable. In

fact, from our experience (and as we show in the documentary filmed there,

" Questioning AIDS in South Africa " ), the conference is little more than a

drug company trade show featuring pre-arranged protests by so-called

activist groups working in conjunction with the pharma companies that

sponsor them.

 

Here's what the organizers of the Barcelona conference sent Alive & Well

when rejecting our paid application to share our books and materials with

the world AIDS community at this year's AIDS media circus:

 

Dear Christine[Maggiore],

 

As you probably know the International AIDS Conference, as well as its

Organizers and Co- organizers, accept the scientific evidence that HIV is

the cause of AIDS. This Conference is also structured around this principle.

This view is the purpose and base of the Conference and the purpose for our

work and dedication.

 

On page 4 of the booklet 'Invitation to Exhibition' it is clearly stated

that all Exhibitors should be within the character and purpose of the XIV

International AIDS Conference, ie accept the scientific evidence that HIV is

the cause of AIDS. Judging from your webpage and other material sent in to

the Conference Secretariat it is clear that your organisation is not working

towards the same goals as the Conference. We are therefore unable to host

your organisation within the Exhibtion.

 

Kind regards,

Céline Öström

Congrex Sweden AB

C/O Conference Secretariat

Barcelona AIDS 2002

Pomaret 21

08017 Barcelona, Spain

Tel: +34 93 254 05 55

Fax: +34 93 254 05 75

celineo

www.aids2002.com

 

 

 

When many AIDS organizations admit they are reaching maybe 20% to 30% of those

'HIV/AIDS' affected, and 40-69% use some form of Alternative Medicine, sharing

an alternative health care philosophy and/or practise-- it is reasonable to

assume a significant proportion of those 'HIV/AIDS' affected [50% of those

diagnosed do not avail access to conventional AIDS drug treatment despite a

concerted education campaign] are not 'in denial' or apathetic in responding to

socalled 'prevention' efforts-- but skeptical or even outright dissenters to

some extent from the dominant, conventional pharmaceutically-based medical model

for the alleged viral pathogenesis and progression of 'HIV=AIDS.' Alternative

Medicine has long questioned the virus/germ theory and chemo-therapeutic

slash/burn approach.

 

Further, consumers deserve to determine for themselves what approach to health

promotion and illness prevention is most appropriate, most culturally relevant

in to the Alternative Medicine/Dissident Scientific culture or affected

population. In order to support fully informed consent, a free scientific

inquiry and some proportionate access to primary and comprehensive alternative

heatlth care, agencies receiving public monies should provide access to these

resources and information. The model in Arizona and Washington where NDs are

prevelant and well accepted are one example. Utah as one of the dozen or so

states that license NDs as primary care providers and has a significant Natural

Supplements industry-- should lead as an innovator in alternative health care

freedom and parity in programs/services which are culturally sensative to

perhaps the largest underserved and underepresented affected[diagnosed or

misdiagnosed] populations.

 

None of these consumers, advocates, physicians or scientists are represented in

HIV/AIDS Community or Ryan White Federal Funding Planning Councils, and efforts

should be made to be inclusive of these stakeholders. Many of those who operate

outside the current system are not being served, advocated in behalf of.

 

While the Dissident Scientists, Advocates and authentic Alternative Medicine

Doctors, Consumers are not claiming to cure of even to treat 'AIDS' we are

addressing the health of such persons given a diagnosis of 'HIV' antibdoy

positive or experiencing one or more of the 29 conditions clinically redefined

as 'AIDS' when someone tests antibody postive.

 

Alternative Medicine Physicians, Consumers and Dissident Scientists, Advocates

have a unique, uncomplementary, dissenting approach to what is called

" prevention education. " While we are not preventing 'HIV' transmission, we would

support health risk reduction programs. These need to be fully developed in a

competition between the conventional and alternative modes and models designed

and implemented. Many political leaders are coming down on the AIDS Industry for

it's simultaneous claims to increased infection rates despite huge sums of money

spent in these areas, some allegedly promoting promiscuity or homosexuality. The

irony is the Christian Fundamentalists and AIDS Industry are playing off each

other here.

 

Dissident are same-sexually and sexually affirming, yet have a slightly

different take on 'safe-sex' since latex containing condoms and lube were never

approved for internal use and have many known carcinogens correlated to an

astronomical increase in anal and ovarian cancer rates among gay men and

straight women. http://healtoronto.com/condoms.html

 

Essentially, if one is engaged in a highly promiscious lifestyle, whether homo

or heterosexual, they will be more likely to be abusing drugs and have unhealthy

sleeping and eating habits. Then, if they are using latex products internally

and told they are 'safe' from STD infection, it may place the wrong emphasis

while ignoring other equally important co-causes of aquiring immune dysfunction.

Part of the bareback backlash-- the socalled " bug chasers " who are not

necessarily Dissidents-- yet represents a sort of psychological rebellion

against the sex police and condom nazis.

 

Addressing or confronting conflicts in research methodologies and ideologies is

critical to supporting a free exploration and exchange of all valid scientific

and medical approaches to what is called 'HIV/AIDS.' The Alternative

Medicine/Dissident Scientific paradigm and protocols would not be based on the

socalled surrogate markers of Viral Load or T-Cell count-- which have never been

correlated to health and in fact are not licensed by the FDA for diagnostic

purposes. Nor would these be based on the drug model, which is essentially

one-cause, one-cure, but the holistic or multifactorial model. And not

addressing conventional disease classifications [catch-all of symptoms] or

syndromes [catch-all of disease classifications]. Instead they would address the

underlying causes of symptoms holistically or multi-factorially.

 

These conflicts in research methodologies and ideologies, which the conflict

over 'AIDS' and Cancer highlight, and prevents our progress in the knowledge

about health in many different areas, are an integral part to the Alternative

Health Care freedom movement as well as the AIDS Dissident scientific movement

in Utah and the Western United States. State, County and City funding currently

does not direct even 1% in exploring outside the dominant, conventional

paradigm in terms of research, care or education. There is no long term, phase

three clinical trials showing a reduction in morbidity or mortality for those on

the chemo-cocktail combination drug regimens. [HAART is Highly Active

Anti-Retroviral Therapy and consists of a three drug chemotherapy combination

which produce at least five of the 'AIDS' defining or redefined

illnesses/conditions. See link below for detailed analysis.] This is important

to note when they defend these allegedly life-saving treatments and claiming no

evidence for Alternative Medicine in treating persons given an 'HIV/AIDS'

diagnosis, though not treating 'HIV/AIDS.'

 

Natural supplements long history among indigenous cultures validate their

continued use as to safety and efficacy for human consumption. Herbs advantage

arises out of the use of crude plant materials, which are less costly to prepare

than the isolated medicinal compounds which often remove essential componants.

In these crude plant materials with many natural components, several compounds

in the plant may act synergistically to increase the effectiveness of the crude

plant preparation compared to isolated compounds. Vitamins and Herbal

supplements also reduced incidence of adverse drug reactions common to most

conventional therapies utilizing synthetic drugs.

 

There are also well documented alternative therapies including whole body[not

blood] hyperthermia such as hot baths, steam/sauna detoxification,

HBOT[Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy] and other oxygen or ozone based therapies which

are legal and have clinical data to support their use in the prevention and

treatment of 'AIDS' defining illnesses. Nutrition and lifestyle counseling,

exersize training and indoor environmental quality are also important factors to

address.

 

 

--

 

SUMMARIZED BACKGROUND WITH REFERENCES TO THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY AND

VALIDITY OF THE ANTIBODY TESTS TO MEASURE INFECTION AND THE DEFINITION AND

DIAGNOSIS OF 'AIDS.'

 

Is the 'AIDS' Test Accurate?

http://www.aliveandwell.org/index.php?page=accurate

 

a.. More referenced quotes, commentary on various 'HIV' measurements

a.. A Rebuttal to the Durban Declaration. Created in conjunction with HEAL

Toronto/Canada and Washington/DC.

a.. Myths & Mysteries of HIV and AIDS (html or pdf formats).

a.. Presentation summarizing alternative views on HIV and AIDS in Word and PDF

formats.

 

Is 'HIV' the Cause of 'AIDS?'

http://www.aliveandwell.org/index.php?page=cause

 

Collection of referenced quotes discloses adverse effects often unacknowledged

by doctors and AIDS organizations. Includes specific effects on expectant

mothers and their unborn children and infants. http://www.aras.ab.ca/azt.html

 

What Socalled 'Long Term Survivors' Have In Common

http://healtoronto.com/survivors.html

 

--

 

Here is a copy of an abstract submitted under Track G - ADVOCACY and POLICY

 

[A similiar abstract was rejected last year by CATIE, one of the largest

mainstream ASOs in Canada in the first AIDS Alternative Medicine conference in

collaboration with the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. As a result of

this censorship of the alternative theories of diagnosis from the alternative

therapies in what together comprise authentic Alternative Medicine, the

President of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine informed me they were

withdrawing from that collaborative event. It was subsequently cancelled by

CATIE alltogether with little or no ND support. I was also appointed to the Gay

Games AIDS, Breast Cancer and Wellness Task Force as the first open Dissident by

the former lover of the Dr. Tom Waddell, Gay Olympian and founder of the Gay

Games after I uncovered an editorial he wrote in 1985, entitled " Don't Take the

Test! " ] ~Kelly Jon Landis

 

 

HIV/AIDS policy description, analysis and evaluation

G6 Prevention

G7 Treatment, care and support (access, adherence, etc.)

G8 Impact mitigation and orphan support

G9 Epidemiology and surveillance

G10 Research and development

G11 Procurement, distribution and availability of commodities and supplies

G12 Workplace policies; private sector HIV/AIDS policies

Commitment and accountability

G57 Civil society commitment and accountability

G58 Governmental commitment and accountability

G59 International collective responsibility

G60 Conflict of interest

 

 

Common Conflicts in Research Methodologies and Ideologies:

Dissident Scientific and Alternative Medical Modes and Models

 

 

Issues:

 

 

Much of what Dissident Scientists have made claim to is confirmed by Alternative

Medicines' long questioning of the virus/germ theory. Alternative Medicine

treats underlying symptoms, not syndromes, seeing all illness as a variation of

immune dysfunction, not recognizing conventional disease clasification.

Community based research initiatives have not explored such dissenting and

uncomplementary paradigms and protocols in those with an 'HIV' non-specific

antibody response.

 

Description:

I have been authorized this past year by The Group for the Scientific

Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis to mediate common conflicts in research

methodologies within the major institutions of Alternative Medicine and body of

Dissident Scientists to facilitate greater methodologic and ideologic design

collaboratives.

 

Lessons Learned:

Having communicated with half of the board of NCCAM, who conceded where

conflicts inhibit an open process of research innovation and development--

particulary in 'AIDS' or immunologic disorders, I negotiated official exhanges

with the White House Commission on CAM at their final public hearing and at a

high level meeting of the American Association for Health Freedom at Georgtown

before their final draft discussion. CAM Investigators, Providers, Dissident

'HIV+' Consumers and Scientists mostly discount 'surrogate markers' such as

Antibody tests, T Cell and Viral Load counts as accurate measurements of health

or disease state, while endorsing a multifactorial approach to conventional

'co-factors' examined as co-causes.

 

Recommendations:

With commitments from Dissident Scientists and Alternative Medicine

Investigators, Providers and Educators-- there is concensus to facilitate

further research and public policy collaboration, including a joint conference

and concensus statement, working together to synthesize perceived gaps in the

Dissident Scientists' lack of clinical practise with Alternative Medicine's

perceived lack of scientific standards.

 

 

Kelly Jon Landis, Founder

 

DISSIDENT and SAINT

DissidentSaint

 

 

 

UK Supreme Court to Hear Case of 'AIDS' Caused by AZT

 

Dr. Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati, a pathologist, toxicologist and Dissident Scientist

recently shared some interesting news: The Supreme Court of England and

Wales will hear the case of Arnold Sauti Nyirenda, a UK citizen who claims

following his doctor¹s orders to take AZT caused him to develop conditions

diagnosed as AIDS. Nyirenda is suing his doctor as well as the manufacturers

of AZT.

 

The order to trial was issued May 21, 2002 (Nyirenda vs The Wellcome Trust,

Glaxosmithkline PLC, and Dr. Richard Cocker Case # HQ01X04869) giving the

defendants just 28 days from the time of serving to present their defense.

 

In determining whether to order trial, the court reviewed Dr. Al-Bayati¹s

differential diagnosis of Nyirenda, which identified AZT as the cause of his

AIDS illnesses. The court also considered Al-Bayati¹s many articles on the

subject of AIDS drug induced AIDS along with the compelling evidence

presented in his book (Get All the Facts: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS), ordering

the case go to trial based on facts that demonstrate AIDS was induced by

AIDS medications.

 

The Supreme Court¹s decision to hear the case indicates that differential

diagnosis (a diagnosis based on factual evidence rather than on assumptions

about HIV as the cause of AIDS-defining illness) is admissible in a court of

law despite the general acceptance of the HIV-causes-AIDS hypothesis.

 

Dr. Al-Bayati has evaluated the cases of other HIV-positive individuals with

AIDS-defining illnesses who blame AIDS treatment for their conditions and

has presented his findings to their treating physicians. He reports, " In all

cases, HIV appeared a harmless virus and AIDS was induced by the

medications. I believe that the Nyirenda case in England will lead to more

legal actions in Europe, the USA, and worldwide challenging the validity of

the HIV hypothesis and the current treatments for patients with toxic AIDS

drugs. " As long as this case does not settle out of court, Dr. Al-Bayati will

go to London to present his findings in the trial.

 

 

Researchers Find AIDS Drugs Cause T-Cell Deaths in Healthy, HIV Negative

Patients! http://healtoronto.com/tcelldeath.html

In the June 2, 2002 issue of the Journal of Virology, researchers report an

astounding discovery: The protease inhibitor drugs Crixivan (indinavir) and

Invarase (saquinavir) caused T cell death in healthy HIV negative donor blood in

three separate experiments.

 

 

 

Exclusive breastfeeding is best in all cases

http://www.anotherlook.org/BulletinWHO2002.htm

AnotherLook has a letter published in the July 2002 issue of the Bulletin of the

World Health Organization. It was written in response to an article by

Marie-Louise Newell, " Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV:

challenges for the current decade " WHO Bulletin, 2001, 79 (12)

 

 

 

Rage Over 'Poison' As AIDS Treatment

http://healtoronto.com/mantonev.html

South African's fears disputed by others

By Laurie Garrett

Newsday ~ July 8, 2002

Barcelona, Spain - The minister of health for South Africa yesterday called

drugs used to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child poison. " The High

Court has decided the Constitution says I must give my people a drug that isn't

approved by the FDA . I must poison my people, " she said. [Health Minister Manto

Tshabalala-Msimang denies she made the statement.] Though the FDA was never

asked to approve single-dose nevirapine for use by pregnant Americans, its use

as one of the drugs in the anti-HIV drug cocktail been approved, Dr. Allan

Rosenfield, dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University,

said. [Clearly this last statement is not the truth. See: Drug firm withdraws

nevirapine and Nevirapine.]

 

 

Nevirapine: Both sides claim victory

http://healtoronto.com/nevirconrul.html

SOUTH AFRICA - Both sides to the Constitutional Court dispute on the provision

of nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV were

claiming victory on Friday night. Government said it accepted a judgment handed

down earlier in the day, adding that the ruling confirmed its approach to the

pandemic as articulated by Cabinet in April, particularly on the provision of

nevirapine beyond the research sites. [Go HERE for some revealing background on

nevirapine.]

 

 

Breast is still best even when HIV prevalence is high, experts say

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7352/1474/b

Roger Dobson, Abergavenny

BMJ 2002;324:1474 ( 22 June ) News

Child health specialists have urged governments and agencies not to provide free

formula milk in programmes aimed at preventing mother to child HIV transmission.

They say that although formula may seem to be a good idea, the consequences can

be damaging. " Free formula milk may appear to be a blessing, but while

potentially decreasing the rate of postnatal transmission, it is very likely to

increase morbidity and mortality from other infectious diseases, thus decreasing

overall child survival, " say the specialists from the University of Natal and

the Child Health Group of the Africa Centre for Population Studies and

Reproductive Health in a report (Health Policy and Planning 2002;17:154-60)

 

 

SURROUNDED: An AIDS Dissident in the Antiretroviral Treatment Shop

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/features/2002_june24.html

By David Crowe

How did an AIDS Dissident who questions the existence of HIV, end up on a panel

writing a position paper on African health destined for G8 leaders surrounded by

people who feel that access to antiretroviral treatment is one of the major

current healthcare challenges? People that feel that the major issue is, who

should pay for the medicines, and not whether they are safe and effective.

 

 

AMA Journal Critiques Report Data

http://healtoronto.com/jamacrit.html

By LINDSEY TANNER .c The Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) - The Journal of the American Medical Association has put aside

presenting medical advances this week to turn a critical eye on itself, finding

imperfections in the way it and other medical journals report scientific

research. JAMA's latest issue [June 5, 2002] says journal studies are sometimes

misleading and frequently fail to disclose weaknesses and disagreements among

authors, while news releases some journals prepare often don't mention study

limitations or industry funding.

 

 

'Slow progressor'

http://healtoronto.com/Macleans_Gilpin.html

By William Gilpin

Maclean's May 20, 2002 / Essay

In the 20 years since Canada's first case was reported in Windsor, Ont.,

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has devastated our gay communities,

particularly in the larger cities. Since far fewer people with AIDS are dying

now than a decade ago, it is tempting to conclude that current treatments have

the situation under control. For a significant, but uncounted, number of

patients that simply is not the case. ...

 

 

Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7342/886

British Medical Journal 2002;324:886-891 ( 13 April )

A lot of money can be made from healthy people who believe they are sick.

Pharmaceutical companies sponsor diseases and promote them to prescribers and

consumers. Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, and David Henry give examples of " disease

mongering " and suggest how to prevent the growth of this practice

 

 

 

SF Department of Public Health claim HIV infections among gay men have doubled

http://healtoronto.com/actup/rasnick1.html

How the San Francisco Department of Public Health turns a 30% decline in HIV

infections among gay men into a two-fold increase. Dr. David Rasnick has

provided an excellent analysis of the ongoing numbers game that San Francisco's

Health Department has been playing with HIV rates. The truth is HIV numbers are

down. HIV prevention workers are unable to tell the truth to young gay men for

fear that their lucrative funding will be threatened.

 

 

 

The trouble with nevirapine*

http://www.rethinkingaids.de/afrika/brink.htm

By Anthony Brink

Advocate of the High Court of South Africa

[*also known as Viramune]

This article is divided into four parts:

Part One relates the history and licensing of nevirapine in the US and Europe,

and outlines its pharmacology and its toxicities;

Part Two reveals the extraordinary circumstances in which the drug was licensed

in Canada;

Part Three looks at a South African clinical drug trial involving nevirapine and

other drugs, aborted by order of the Medicines Control Council in April 2001

after a spate of severe toxic reactions, several fatal;

Part Four provides a critique for non-expert readers of HIVNET 012, the Ugandan

study of the effect of administering nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women

conducted by Guay et al, on the basis of which the Treatment Action Campaign won

an order from the High Court on 15 December 2001 compelling the South African

government to supply the drug to such women and their newborn children.

PERTH GROUP PRESENTATION ON NEVIRAPINE

http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/perthgroup/nvp/index.htm

By Val Turner

View the 83 slides, and listen to the audio stream (Real audio, 65 min.), or

read the transcript.

This presentation has been prepared by Eleni Papadopulos and the Perth Group and

several other colleagues. The subject is an analysis of the data claimed to

prove nevirapine an effective agent for the prevention of mother to child

transmission of HIV. The presenter is Dr. Val Turner from the Department of

Emergency Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital.

 

 

 

'A pill for every ill'

http://healtoronto.com/pillill.html

National Post April 12, 2002

Drug companies are " disease-mongering " in a bid to sell healthy consumers pills

for a range of problems such as baldness and shyness, doctors say.

 

PM avoids criticizing Africans' records

http://healtoronto.com/cretieninsa.html

By DANIEL LEBLANC

With a report from Melissa Leong

The Globe and Mail Monday, April 8, 2002 – Print Edition, Page A1

PRETORIA -- In his bid to forge a new partnership to improve the way African

nations are governed, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is avoiding many of the

thorny issues that cause some of the strongest Western criticism of the nations

he visits. Yesterday, Mr. Chrétien refused to comment on South Africa's slow

distribution of an anti-AIDS drug to pregnant women, which even former South

African president Nelson Mandela has criticized.

 

Mbeki may be right

http://healtoronto.com/cretieninsa.html#CR

By DAVID CROWE

The Globe and Mail LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Tuesday, April 9, 2002 – Page A14

Calgary -- It is good that Prime Minister Jean Chrétien did not criticize South

African President Thabo Mbeki over his refusal to provide AIDS drugs to pregnant

women. Mr. Mbeki is probably right.

 

A shocking shrug

http://healtoronto.com/cretieninsa.html#SH

The Globe and Mail EDITORIAL Tuesday, April 9, 2002 – Page A14

Confronted with one of the great human tragedies of the modern age, what did

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien do and say? He shrugged and he mouthed platitudes.

How African countries fight the terrifying AIDS epidemic is up to them, Mr.

Chrétien told reporters Sunday in Pretoria. This from a prime minister who does

not shy away from telling countries when, in his view, their foreign policies

are wrong, their trade practices are wrong or even -- sometimes -- when their

abuse of human rights is wrong.

 

 

Health, human dignity and partners for poverty reduction

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/2002/at14.htm

Letter from Thabo Mbeki published in this week's ANC Today. " This is especially

important given the very unfortunate reality that some in our society and

elsewhere in the world, seem very determined to impose the view on all of us,

that the only health matters that should concern especially the black people are

HIV/AIDS, HIV, and complex anti-retroviral drugs, including nevirapine. "

 

News 24 Story: Mbeki slams AIDS lobbyists

http://www.news24.com/News24/Politics/0,1113,2-12_1165175,00.html

 

New study shows AIDS drugs equally effective as poverty and malnutrition.

http://healtoronto.com/richards.html

Summary: Median time from seroconversion to AIDS and death in poor, starving

rural Africans (without access to health care, purified water or electricity)

living in the Masaka District of Uganda (where malaria, dysentery and measles

are endemic) is no different than that observed in Europeans, North Americans,

or Australians who have full access to proper nutrition, health-care,

" life-prolonging " antiretrovirals, and prophylaxis against opportunistic

infections (OI)!

Conclusion: These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that

antiretrovirals are killing people just as fast as poverty and malnutrition.

 

The following news stories do not deal with " HIV " or " AIDS " directly but provide

further examples of corruption in the medical-pharmaceutical-biotech industry:

 

http://aliveandwell.org/index.php?page=conflictsofinterest

a.. Conflicts of Interest in Medical Journals

b.. Hidden Risks, Lethal Truths

c.. Medical Journal Eases Conflict of Interest Rules

d.. Fraudulent Conduct Costs Lives

e.. Scandal of scientists who take $ for papers ghostwritten by drug companies