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"Let’s stop
politicising this question. Lets deal with the science of it."
- Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
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INVENTING AN EPIDEMIC
The traditional diseases of Africa are called AIDS
An "African AIDS" primer: Here is the key point that the newspapers
won't tell you. To diagnose AIDS in Africa, no HIV test is needed. The
presence of the unifying agent that supposedly causes the immune
deficiency, the ID of AIDS, does not have to be established.
In October 1985, public health officials at a conference in
Bangui, a city in the Central African Republic, established the "Bangui definition" of AIDS. Here are the major components of the definition: "prolonged
fevers (for a month or more), weight loss of 10 percent or greater, and
prolonged diarrhea." No HIV test required.
What this meant was that many
traditional African diseases, pandemic in poverty stricken areas with
tropical climate, open latrines and contaminated drinking water, could be called something else with no fear of contradiction: AIDS.
By Tom Bethell The American Spectator, April 2000
Most Africans who qualify for an
AIDS diagnosis test HIV-negative
227 patients with "AIDS": 59% test HIV-negative
Lancet 340, p971, 1992
122 patients with "AIDS": 69% test HIV-negative
Am. Rev. Resp. Diseases 147, p958, 1993
913 patients with "AIDS": 71% test HIV-negative
J. AIDS 7:8, p876, 1994
| Source: Rethinking AIDS, July 2000
New study shows AIDS drugs equally effective as poverty and malnutrition.
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.
 AIDS Cocktail
By Rupa Chinai
Times of India (Bombay) 29 May & 4 Jun 2001
A large number of people from within the general population, that is, those not part of the "high-risk group" enjoy good health
despite testing "HIV positive" a decade ago. In Mumbai, the "AIDS capital of India," counseling groups such as Salvation Army
and CASA (Counseling and Allied Services), who attend to HIV-positive people from this segment of the population say there
is strong evidence to show that the damage caused to the immune system can be reversed. "This happens when people change
their habits of substance abuse, eat nutritious food, involve themselves in community service, practice discipline and hygiene,
receive regular counseling, family and social support. Such persons emerge stronger and healthy," says Arun Meitram, a
counselor at the Salvation Army clinic. Incidentally, Salvation Army counselors recall only 15 deaths have occurred among the
900 patients they have been following over the past decade. In most cases the cause of death is related to malnutrition or TB.
Says Nagesh Shirgoppikar, a medical consultant to Salvation Army, "Our experience in treating 'HIV positive' persons over the
past decade shows that all the components of comprehensive psychological, emotional, physical and conventional medical
treatment are very important. If a person is treated wholly, he is fine. Our patients have remained asymptomatic for up to ten
years, and enjoy perfect health without anti-retroviral drugs."
INDIA: Village Still to Recover from AIDS 'Stigma'
This short news item encapsulates the devastation inflicted worldwide by AIDS hysteria and the invalid "HIV test".
December '98 cover story
Are 26 million Africans dying of AIDS?
- "the biggest lie of the century" under fire
1st December is "World Aids Day". In the run-up to it, the Aids Establishment has been
issuing some dubious figures about a "pandemic" of Aids in Africa. But how accurate are
these figures? One African doctor calls it "the biggest lie of the century". Joan Shenton,
the
award-winning British TV producer and journalist says "it's all bad science". Fortunately,
the evidence on the ground in Africa so far doesn't support the "pandemic" figures.
Baffour
Ankomah reports.
for more on this see:
Dirty
tricks over AIDS figures - by Dr Christian Fiala
AIDS and Africa - a transcript of Joan Shenton's TV documentary
If this story were true...
- 480 Kenyans would die of AIDS each day;
- 175,000 Kenyans would die of AIDS each year;
- Three million Kenyans would have died of AIDS since 1981.
The fact is that in Kenya...
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PRESIDENT MBEKI QUESTIONS "AIDS"
 President Thabo Mbeki and the South African government setup an international panel
to reappraise the scientific evidence that HIV causes AIDS. Never before
has any government opened the debate for assessment by an independent
expert group. Here is a compilation of the wave of press leading up this historic initiative.
MBEKI, AIDS and the Press
Mbeki AIDS controversy press documentation chronology for the year 2000
compiled by Armin Osmanovic, Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg. Over 400 articles archived.
South African Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel Report
The first comprehensive, independent review of Aids science in
17 years! A synthesis report of the deliberations by the panel of experts invited by the President of the Republic of South Africa, the Honourable Mr Thabo Mbeki.
Presidential Aids Advisory
Report, March 2001
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HIV or Not HIV
By John Strausbaugh ~ New York Press
South African President Thabo Mbeki’s international panel convened twice in 2000, in Pretoria in May and again in Johannesburg in July. Between sessions there was supposed to be
a period of Internet discussion. What made the group so highly controversial–and widely denounced as folly–was that the selection of panel members
gave equal weight to traditional AIDS scientists (like the CDC’s Dr. Helene Gayle, HIV pioneer Luc Montagnier and South Africa’s Dr. Malegapuru
Makgoba) and so-called AIDS "dissidents" like Rasnick, who’s an expert in enzyme inhibitors and has been questioning mainstream AIDS theories for
two decades, and UC Berkeley retrovirologist Peter Duesberg, who’s long argued that HIV does not cause AIDS. That Mbeki was giving
them for the first time ever an official government platform to air their arguments against standard HIV/AIDS theory elicited shrieks of dismay around
the world.
David Rasnick's contributions to Mbeki's expert AIDS panel
How the mainstream refused to participate in Mbeki's internet discussions and other fascinating insights.
The Perth Group's presentation to Mbeki's expert AIDS panel
This is the presentation made to the Presidential Panel in Johannesberg on Monday July 3rd 2000 by the Perth Group.
It addressed the topic “HIV Testing and Surveillance”. The presentation has been edited to include extra data pointing
to a cellular origin for the “HIV” proteins.
December 2000
'Eight years ago, I went through the same experience as Mbeki'
An eyewitness account by Neville Hodgkinson, former science correspondent of The Sunday Times (London)
September 2000
Three stories on what went down in Durban South Africa:
Suspend all HIV testing Mbeki expert panel recommends
Eminent world scientists from both sides of the AIDS debate have been
mandated by the Mbeki AIDS panel to undertake historic experiments to attempt
to purify, or isolate, the HIV virus; and also examine the current HIV
testing methodologies. In the meantime, the panel wants all HIV testing to be
suspended. "It's a worthless distraction," says one panel member. Huw
Christie reports from Johannesburg.
Aids: Judgement day on the 13th
Pusch Commey, reports from Durban, on the good, the bad and the shananagians at the recent 13th International Aids Conference held in that city.
AIDS: There is no more room to hide anymore
There appears to be some confusion about the process of the South African
cabinet-approved Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel. By Anita Allen
President Mbeki might have a case on rethinking AIDS
BMJ 2002;324:237 (Letters, 26 January)
In South Africa's prisons there is a vast overcrowded (often 30 people per cell) population in which homosexuality is widespread and
condom use practically non-existent. This is the perfect breeding ground for the rapid spread of HIV. [...] The HIV infection rate for all South Africa's prisons is currently 2.3%. The rate in the prison population should be higher than that in
the general population, or at least the same. But the figures for prisons in South Africa are way below those generated by actuarial
models and antenatal data, which purportedly reflect the incidence of infection in the general population.
The trouble with nevirapine*
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
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.
Debating AZT: Mbeki and the AIDS
drug controversy
By Anthony Brink Foreword by Martin Welz
This book is hot off the press, January 2001.
"On 28 October 1999, South African President Thabo Mbeki ordered an enquiry into the safety of the
AIDS drug AZT. He did so after reading this debate. Debating AZT has now been updated to reveal
the President’s remarkable personal involvement in the subsequent controversy. It also takes a
critical look at the roles of rape survivor Charlene Smith, acting Constitutional Court Justice Edwin
Cameron, and AIDS Law Project director Mark Heywood, and it exposes the dereliction of the
medical experts and journalists on whom the South African public has relied. Described by South
Africa’s top investigative journalist, Martin Welz, as “extraordinary”, Debating AZT tells the inside
story and provides the shocking facts."
TRUTH ON AZT (DEC. '99)
"E Files is a current affairs programme on South Africa's free to air TV channel.
This segment is 13 minutes long and was almost taken off air a few days before
broadcast." Read this transcript of the item
about AZT made by Vivienne Vermaak.
"Glaxo Wellcome is a reputable company. We do not lie to people. We do not lie
to researchers, we do not lie to scientists, we do not lie to physicians and we do
not lie to patients."
A TIMELY FIRESTORM (DEC. '99)
"South African President Thabo Mbeki has started an uproar by refusing to give pregnant women AZT. With the International AIDS Conference in Durban looming, the stage is set for a major showdown." By Celia Farber for ironminds.com.
COURAGE TO DISSENT
Financial Mail (South Africa), November 26, 1999, Letters; Pg. 10
" Sir - The physician and Nobel laureate Albert SzyentGyorgyi said that
discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what
nobody has thought. It is in that light that all South Africans must judge the
debate sparked by your President over the toxicity of AZT. Dissidents do not
presume that Aids is a hoax or that there is proof that HIV does not cause the
syndrome. They argue from an interpretation of the scientific data that there is
still no proof that HIV does cause Aids. And, like it or not, this assertion is
correct. It is impossible to search the literature and find papers that suggest
otherwise. ..."
Valendar F Turner, Consultant emergency physician,
Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia.
A Critical Reappraisal of African AIDS Research and Western Sexual Stereotypes
Presentation to General Assembly Meeting, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa [CODESRIA], Dakar, SENEGAL, December 1998
by Charles L. Geshekter
Geshekter's review of African "AIDS" research demolishes the HIV=AIDS HYPothesis and offers hope for the future. "Multilateral institutions and African social scientists should familiarize themselves with the growing body of literature that demonstrates the contradictions, anomalies and inconsistencies in the orthodox view that AIDS is caused by a viral infection. Once they consider the non-contagious explanations for AIDS cases in Africa, they can help stop the relentless proliferation of terrifying misinformation that associates sexuality with death."
more articles by Dr. Geshekter
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Our observations of cross reactivity between LAM, and to a lesser extent PGL-1, with HIV-1 antigens suggest that HIV-1 ELISA and WB results should be interpreted with caution when screening individuals infected with M. tuberculosis or other mycobacterial species. ELISA and WB ["HIV" tests] may not be sufficient for HIV diagnosis in AIDS-endemic areas of Central Africa where the prevalence of mycobacterial diseases is quite high.
Kashala O, et al. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 1994;169:296-304.
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AIDS in Africa: distinguishing fact and fiction
E. Papadopulos-Eleopulos (1) Valendar F.Turner (2) John M. Papadimitriou
(3) Harvey Bialy (4)
The data widely purporting to show the existence and heterosexual transmission in Africa of a new
syndrome caused by a retrovirus which induces immune deficiency is critically evaluated. It is concluded
that both acquired immune deficiency (AID) and the symptoms and diseases which constitute the clinical
syndrome (S) are long standing in Africa, affect both sexes equally and are caused by factors other than
HIV. The presence of positive HIV serology in Africans represents no more than cross-reactivity caused
by an abundance of antibodies induced by the numerous infectious and parasitic diseases which are
endemic in Africa, that is, a positive HIV antibody test does not prove HIV infection. Given the above, one
would expect to find a high prevalence of "AIDS" and "HIV" antibodies in Africa. This is not proof of
heterosexual transmission of either HIV or AIDS.
World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology
(1995) 11, 135-143
(1) Corresponding author, Department of Medical Physics,
The Royal Perth Hospital, Perth 6000 Western Australia; (2) Department
of Emergency Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital; (3) Department of Pathology,
University of Western Australia; (4) Bio/Technology 65 Bleeker St. New
York, NY 10012 USA.
TB - The forgotten companion of HIV
UN General Assembly - Special Session on HIV/AIDS [UNGASS]
Some critics of the HIV/AIDS paradigm argue that "AIDS" is just a new label for many old diseases. This UNGASS report suggests that the presentations at the TB event came perilously close to supporting that view.
The Politics of AIDS
By Brian K. Murphy, Inter Pares
(Originally published in Third World Resurgence, July, 1994)
If we are to believe what we hear, human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an apocalyptic scourge that threatens the 21st century. This belief is promoted and reinforced by international medical authorities, multilateral institutions, governmental and non-governmental aid donors, and media conglomerates, and has become the commonplace in the streets and the halls of power. The information exists, however, to contradict this popular perception.
OUT OF
AFRICA
by Celia Farber, Spin March 1993
Plagued by poverty, drought, and famine, Africa has also been burdened with
terrorinducing AIDS propaganda imported from the West. Is there really an epidemic of
AIDS in Africa? Celia Farber's 1993 report is an excellent eyewitness account.
We were the only car on the road. Joan and I, seated in the back, stared out the car
windows, silenced by the sight. It was as if the whole place had been shredded a
chaos
of dust and debris, rotting wood shacks, garbage, people in rags, children in rags. The
poverty in Uganda was crushing, total, and unrelenting. As we drove deeper and
deeper
into the Rakai District, the "AIDS epicenter of the world," all this talk of HIV and
Tcells
and safer sex started to seem a little absurd. We got out of the car and surveyed what
looked like a swamp, with a pipe emerging from it. This was, it turned out, the
surrounding villages' water supply. It was also where the sewage was deposited.
People
looked listless, malnourished Many of the children had swollen bellies, thc telltale
sign of
malnutrition.
"Don't ask them what they eat," advised one doctor we spoke to, "ask them how often
they eat."
The nearest hospital was miles away. There were no cars; the only means of
transportation were donkeys and the occasional bicycle. The Ugandan government
sets
and enforces fees for medication, which most people can't afford. It became clear to
us
that most people living in the Rakai district had no access to health care whatsoever.
Malnutrition, filthy water, diseases left untreated - and the WHO had come in with
"AIDS
educational programs," instructing people how to use condoms?
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In 1985 Gallo and his colleagues reported testing a number of sera collected in 1972/73 from the West Nile district of Uganda. These were obtained from healthy children randomly selected as controls for a study of Burkitt's lymphoma. Their mean age was 6.4 years and both ELISA and WB were performed. Fifty of the 75 children (67%) were found to be positive. According to HIV experts these positive results are explicable by virtue of mothers infecting their children. Thus Gallo and his colleagues expected to find at least an equal percentage of adults infected. Since Mortimer et al assert that "Very few HIV-infected children are surviving into adulthood in good health" and, given the fact that neither these children nor adults had treatment for HIV or AIDS, and the incubation period of AIDS in Africa is claimed to be four years and predominantly heterosexually transmitted, by now there should be no person left alive in Uganda. Since obviously this is not the case one must conclude that whatever is being measured by the "HIV" ELISA and WB tests, it is not a lethal, AIDS causing retrovirus.
Saxinger WC, Levine PH, Dean AG, et al. Evidence for exposure to HTLV-III in Uganda before 1973. Science 1985;227:1036-1038.
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THE TIMES OF INDIA
Wednesday 2 September 1998
Hidden Costs of AIDS Obsession
By Rupa Chinai
WITHOUT any evaluation of how its AIDS control and prevention programme has
worked
in the past decade, India is plunging into the second phase of the programme bent
upon
repeating the same mistakes. With many questions still remaining unanswered about
HIV/AIDS, the disease is being given top ranking status, eclipsing all other killer
diseases,
and skewing India's health policy.
AIDS IN THAILAND
The data cited as evidence for widespread HIV infection
of Thai men by heterosexual contacts has been critically
analysed by Eleni Papadopulos et al. The Perth Group
concluded that these data do not prove that
Thai men acquire HIV by sexual contact with prostitutes
specifically or by heterosexual contact in general.
HIV and Mortality in Africa
Does it prove that HIV causes AIDS?
by Dr. Vladimir Koliadin
In a British-funded study, it was found that mortality in young (13-44) adults in Uganda is
60 times higher for HIV-seropositives than for seronegatives. Mainstream AIDS scientist
present these results as a strong evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Such arguments
are very persuasive to public and most scientists, even though being essentially flawed.
Elementary analysis shows the results don't confirm, but refute the official HIV-causes-
AIDS hypothesis, and they are in good agreement with predictions of the alternative
hypotheses advanced by "AIDS-dissidents".
African delegates reappraise AIDS
US Information Agency presents Maggiore & Rasnick, by Christine Maggiore.
WHEN THE International Visitors Council of Los Angeles called inviting Alive & Well, the AIDS reappraisal group that I direct, to meet on May 18, 1999 with a visiting delegation of African AIDS leaders, I figured somebody had made a mistake.
Making AIDS a business imperative
Barrie M Craven, Christian Fiala, Etienne de Harven and Gordon T Stewart
The Lancet 354 August 21, 1999, p679
This letter responds to an editorial in THE LANCET July 3rd 1999. It raises some hard questions regarding the reality of AIDS in Africa and how these myths are perpetuated.
Statement from the First International Holistic AIDS Conference
Held at Uganda Martyrs University,
Nkozi, Uganda 29 August - 1 September 2000
A Call for support to Strategies of Hope to the African HIV/AIDS Holocaust
From Peter Kasule, HEAL Uganda, 5 June 2000
Regarding: AIDS in Africa,
and The Continued Suppression of Dissenting
Views
in Science and Medicine
From: Dr. James DeMeo, MEMORANDUM: 15 January 1996
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