President Mbeki's letter to world leaders (April 3, 2000).

"South African President Thabo Mbeki, under pressure to supply the anti-AIDS drug AZT to thousands of rape victims in the country, said his government was investigating whether the drug was safe to use," writes Reuters. See also this I-Africa news item. Glaxo lied again and said the drug was safe. AP reported Mbeki got his information from the internet. Could be from this site. See also this article. Prof. Duesberg has been interviewed on SA's prime-time TV. Glaxo met with SA's Health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and requests are being made to declare "a global state of emergency on HIV/AIDS". Another article from the Financial Mail. An article by Anthony Brink was published in The Citizen. South Africa simply could not afford to give AZT to people with HIV and AIDS, Tshabalala-Msimang said. She asked Department of Health Director General Dr Ayanda Ntsaluba to compile a report on AZT. The Financial Mail made it a cover story. President of the Medical Research Council Dr William Malegapuru Makgoba said the MRC is going to review AZT too. New African published an article too. See also this article from the New York Times, and this one from SA's The Mail & Guardian

The South African government is going to 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." Read more in this SAPA press release, this item from The Star, another one, and this article and this editorial from the Citizen. Some articles published in Focus. Part of the invitation, Dr. David Rasnick's letter to Mbeki, the statement made by the Minister of Health, and another report by SAPA. A reply to Rasnick's letter by the Perth Group, with replies. "The ANC, scientific organisations and institutions ...indicated their support for the government's initiative...", says this SAPA article. Some articles printed in the Daily Mail, an article from South Africa's Financial Mail, another article from The Village Voice, an item from Nature, and an article from the Sunday Independent. "At least one so-called dissident has accepted an invitation to sit on the panel," says this report from SAPA. An item by AP, (part of) the Business Day column, and the release from Mbeki's office. Another article from The Star, an article from Newsday, and an editorial from The Mail & Guardian. story from The Australian Financial Review. An article from The Sunday Times, a report from Agence France Presse, an item from The Independent, another article from the San Francisco Chronicle, an article from The Mail and Guardian, an article from Newsweek, and a Reuters release. An article by Dr. Zweli Mkhize, KwaZulu-Natal Health Minister.

"President Thabo Mbeki has given an interview to an AIDS dissident journalist," see this item from the Star. The Meditel interview has been broadcasted on Carte Blanche, M-Net, to 40 African countries. See this article from Reuters, and this one also by Reuters, but the next day, like this SAPA release.

President Mbeki wrote a letter to world leaders. See this Washington Post front page article.

You can now sign an online petition to support president Mbeki.

-this list ubdates 17/04/00.
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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.

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