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	South Africa: AIDS Denialism Speech
		Aids denialism involves a group of dissident historians, social commentators and scientists who have set about denying the forbidding fact of Aids.
		Denialists assert that the "hypothesis" that Aids is caused by a sexually transmitted virus is unproven and irresponsible.
		Aids in North America and Western European they attribute to "the long-term consumption of recreational drugs" and to the widespread use of drugs as sexual stimulants by homosexual men and, more recently, to the administration of anti-retroviral drugs that doctors wrongly prescribe for Aids.
	www.africaaction.org /docs03/cam0305.htm (2465 words)

	AEGiS-MISC: AIDS 'Denialism' Gathers Strange Bedfellows: The great tent of ignorance for those who deny HIV causes AIDS ...
		Although many AIDS denialists have questionable scientific credentials, several respectable scientists give the movement sustenance, including Peter Duesberg, a molecular biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and Kary Mullis, who received the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which is used to measure HIV viral load.
		Duesberg, the most famous AIDS denialist, has long argued that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that HIV causes AIDS, that HIV is simply a harmless retrovirus and that AIDS is really caused by illicit drug use, or by the very drugs used to treat HIV infection.
		While it might appeal to those with political motives, or to the fashionable and foolish, AIDS denialism must be countered, vocally and vociferously, because it threatens to deny a generation of children a fair shot at life.
	www.aegis.com /NEWS/misc/2006/VS060101.html (1341 words)

	The Scientific Evidence for HIV/AIDS
		As is stated in the Durban declaration the evidence that AIDS is caused by HIV-1 or HIV-2 is clear-cut, exhaustive and unambiguous, meeting the highest standards of science.
		The theory, which we call AIDS denialism, has gained such currency with President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa that his administration is reluctant to expand access to antiretroviral drugs.
		The AIDS denialists use pseudoscience and non-peer-reviewed Internet postings to bolster their false claims about H.I.V. The real facts about this virus have been uncovered by scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health, the British and South African Medical Research Councils, the Pasteur Institute and many other national research organizations.
	www.aidstruth.org (1156 words)

	AIDS - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions
		The AIDS diagnosis is usually made when a certain level of damage has been done to the immune system and is defined by the occurrence of opportunistic infections.
		There is still no known cure for AIDS according to allopaths, and many people still die every year, particularly in Third World countries where treatments are either not available or prohibitively expensive.
		As of the year 2002 AIDS is a global pandemic, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
	www.questionz.net /AIDS.html (1674 words)

	Out of Control (Harpers.org)
		As AIDS grew in the 1980s into a global, multibillion-dollar juggernaut of diagnostics, drugs, and activist organizations, whose sole target in the fight against AIDS was HIV, condemning Duesberg became part of the moral crusade.
		The “Bangui definition” of AIDS was established in the city of Bangui in the Central African Republic, at a conference in 1985.
		The overwhelming majority of AIDS patients with Karposi's sarcoma, for example, have been heavy users of nitrate inhalers, or “poppers.”; The case of “super AIDS” that was recently reported in New York turned out upon closer examination to be an individual with an extraordinarily heavy methamphetamine habit.
	www.harpers.org /OutOfControl.html (11211 words)

	Rethinking AIDS Responds to Farber Article and Gallo et al Rebuttal: Item #53: HIV and Holocaust ‘Denialism’
		Those who wish to engage the AIDS research establishment in the sort of causality debate that is carried on in most other branches of scientific endeavor are tarred as AIDS “denialists”, as if skepticism about the pathogenicity of a retrovirus were the moral equivalent of denying that the Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews.
		Analogous to holocaust denialism, AIDS denialism is an insult to the memory of those who have died of AIDS, as well as to the dignity of their families, friends and survivors.
		As with Holocaust denialism, AIDS denialism is pseudo-scientific and contradicts an immense body of research.
	www.rethinkaids.info /Gallorebuttal/Farber-Gallo-53.html (451 words)

	AIDS Denialism in Harper's Magazine
		Questioning HIV's role in causing AIDS is, of course, a valid and necessary endeavor as a counterpoint to HIV scientists who, in my estimation, have excellent evidence as to HIV being a necessary component to the many components that lead to an AIDS diagnosis.
		Mbeki’s denial should be considered a crime against humanity, against his own people, for his willingness to institutionalize such denialist policies in the South African government’s response to deaths meant that he murdered his own people.
		These were nations steeped in homophobia and AIDS phobia by presidents and dictators who did not want a disease associated with homosexuals to become associated with death and disease in their nations.
	www.actupny.org /reports/denialist_harpers.html (3152 words)

	GMHC: Treatment Issues
		However, the AIDS denialist movement became rather quiescent around the time the protease inhibitors appeared on the scene, and when triple combination therapy was shown to dramatically decrease HIV levels, and the incidence of AIDS-related opportunistic infections and death.
		It is clear that some have been, and this has provided fuel for the AIDS denialist movement, which in turn is causing even more harm with their message that people don't have to practice safer sex or go on treatment at all.
		AIDS is not a simple problem, and throwing drugs at it is not the simple solution we might hope it to be.
	www.gmhc.org /health/treatment/ti/1403.html (13976 words)

	AIDS Denialism in South Africa « The Wind is in from Africa
		AIDS Denialism in South Africa «; The Wind is in from Africa
		The first is a personal account of how AIDS changed the relationship between doctors and patients given the political charge of the disease when it first emerged and no one knew anything about it except that it affected many homosexuals.
		The idea that HIV and AIDS are related, in my opinion and the opinion of the scientific community in general, is indisputable.
	selenasd.wordpress.com /2006/06/04/deadly-quackery (425 words)

	Library - Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The sense for many AIDS activists and doctors is that this vision of free public health with a particular accent on maternal and child health has been betrayed by the refusal both to provide treatment to prevent mother to child transmission, and in state failure to provide triple antiretroviral therapy to HIV positive South Africans.
		Mbeki’s denialism is a reaction to racism attached to AIDS and can only be explained in terms of its hauntings by the ghosts of colonial medicine and Western culture, and their characterisation of Africans as diseased.
		Mbeki’s denialism has been fundamentally a struggle fuelled by his own mistaken belief that Western biomedical mainstream understandings of the causes and treatments of HIV and AIDS are part of a plot to discredit Africans, their culture and sexuality.
	www.nu.ac.za /CCS/?3,28,10,1216 (5011 words)

	HPH NOW, April 18, 2003, Judge Discusses AIDS Problem in South Africa
		He spoke of what he calls "AIDS denialism," or a systematic refusal to accept that AIDS exists, that it can be sexually transmitted, and is virally specific and infectious.
		This denialism has led to a struggle for truth at the core of the national response to AIDS in South Africa, he said.
		Denialism and shame have interfered with investigations into why the AIDS crisis has hit South Africa and Southern Africa particularly hard, said Cameron.
	www.hsph.harvard.edu /now/apr18/AIDS.html (511 words)

	Project Inform: Archive of Press Releases
		It is because ‘AIDS denialism’, that bizarre theory that HIV is harmless and that antiretrovirals cause rather than treat AIDS, remains a menace to public health – both in South Africa and the USA.
		In South Africa, the legacy of President Mbeki’s AIDS denialism is evident in his administration’s reluctance to expand access to antiretroviral drugs.
		AIDS denialism is a two-way street between South Africa and the USA: The courting of the denialists by the Mbeki administration gave them a lifeline in America.
	www.projinf.org /news/news_060406.html (961 words)

	HIV & AIDS in South Africa
		The first recorded case of AIDS in South Africa was diagnosed in 1982, and although initially HIV infections seemed mainly to be occurring amongst gay men, by 1985 it was clear that other sectors of society were also affected.
		At the International AIDS Conference in Durban, the new South African President Thabo Mbeki made a speech that avoided reference to HIV and instead focused on the problem of poverty, fuelling suspicions that he saw poverty, rather than HIV, as the main cause of AIDS.
		There was widespread dismay amongst the AIDS prevention community that a politician (particularly one who had once been head of the National AIDS Council) could display such ignorance, and a fear that his statement would cause confusion amongst the public, undermining years of AIDS prevention campaigns.
	www.avert.org /aidssouthafrica.htm (6016 words)

	Overestimating AIDS: Phillip Johnson
		Neither the exposure of the long-suppressed doubts about the validity of the scary statistics nor the failure of the vaccine trials has motivated the researchers to consider the possibility that there might be something wrong with their understanding of the epidemic.
		The need for an audit becomes particularly apparent when we consider that AIDS in Africa has a definition (officially termed the “Bangui definition”) so completely different from the definitions of AIDS used in North America and Europe that it is altogether a different condition, unique to Africa.
		There will be no audit if the AIDS careerists can prevent it, because their credibility and standard of living depends upon maintaining the status quo, which requires not looking in places where you may find something you do not want to see.
	www.arn.org /docs/johnson/le_overestimatingaids.htm (1586 words)

	The Body: AIDS Denialism
		The Evidence That HIV Causes AIDS (February 27, 2003)
		HIV Misinformation (on HIV deniers) (September 23, 2000)
		HIV Causes AIDS: Proof Derived from Koch's Postulates (Spring 2000)
	www.thebody.com /whatis/cause.html (778 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Columns: About AIDS
		"AIDS denialism" is the belief that HIV and AIDS are bogus.
		It's worth noting that no AIDS denialists are practicing physicians in the field and that few are even scientists: They treat no patients or work toward a solution.
		Other agendas – perhaps valid, perhaps not even recognized – underlie denialism: dislike/distrust of corporations or profits, opposition to Western-style medicine, anger at "the system," ordinary ego, a passion for being against something, etc. Some are pushing their own self-interest.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-04-22/cols_aboutaids.html (499 words)

	NEEP
		AIDS denialism and the EP of African AIDS.
		AIDS is caused by a complex of immunosuppressive behaviors that are particularly common in the gay community, and injecting drug users.
		AIDS is used today as hunger was used in the past-- to stimulate public support for sending money to Africa.
	www.phys.washington.edu /users/rwynar/xNEEP.htm (3161 words)

	AIDS at 25 : AIDS Denialism Reportage in the MSM
		AIDS at 25 : AIDS Denialism Reportage in the MSM
		Warren on The Promise and Peril of Circumcision
		Hannah's post about AIDS denialism provides a nice segue into this article in the Vancouver Sun, which discusses the systematic denial of AIDS and HIV issues by governments.
	scienceblogs.com /aids/2006/08/aids_denialism_reportage_in_th.php (418 words)

	Open letter to ACTUP NewYork I & II - Confundo
		Scared to death, or at least pretending they are, by a virus the Aids deniers don't see at all.
		As are formulas like "Disputing the overwhelming evidence that HIV causes AIDS is not only unscientific, but also inexcusably derails the only known approaches that can stop the terrible pandemic of AIDS" that just sound stupid to a person who is convinced that HIV and AIDS are nonsense.
		But I deny the fact that they were suffering from what people have called the AIDS syndrom.
	www.secondpagemedia.com /confundo/index.php?showtopic=12311 (3083 words)

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		Currently available HIV antibody tests are extraordinarily accurate, both in terms of sensitivity (the ability of the test to give a positive finding when a subject is truly HIV-infected) and specificity (the ability of the test to give a negative finding when a subject is truly HIV-free).
		AIDStruth.org: Website presents the scientific evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS and that benefits of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) outweigh the risks.
		Delaney M: HIV, AIDS and the distortion of science.
	www3.niaid.nih.gov /news/focuson/hiv/resources/default.htm (516 words)

	Centre for the Study of AIDS - The curious tale of the Minister and the vitamin seller
		He has formed an alliance with various AIDS denialists (who don’t believe HIV causes AIDS), and now claims there is no need for people to take “high-priced and toxic” antiretroviral drugs if they take his products.
		AIDS denialist Anthony Brink is now working for the Rath Foundation.
		AIDS denialists Dr David Rasnick and Medunsa’s Professor Sam Mhlongo, a close friend of Mbeki’s, are also working with the Rath Foundation.
	www.csa.za.org /article/view/356/1/1 (918 words)

	Bearing Witness
		Called “a beacon of inspiration” and “a fighter” by some members of the audience, Edwin Cameron is an internationally recognized human-rights and AIDS activist, and a Judge of Appeal on the Supreme Court of Appeal in South Africa.
		Though he had become an AIDS expert over the years, Cameron did not disclose that he was positive until 1999; he believes he contracted HIV sometime in 1986.
		In Africa, AIDS is sometimes thought to be part of a white-borne racist agenda, propagated by stigmatizing conceptions of African sexuality and Africa as the “origin” of AIDS.
	www.aumag.org /features/CameronDec05.html (868 words)

	Respectful Insolence (a.k.a. "Orac Knows"): More rebuttals of HIV/AIDS "skeptics"
		AIDS is a remarkably nasty illness - it'd be a perfect divine punishment, if there weren't anything interfering like a real cause.
		Her husband, Robin Scovill for his film, “The Other Side of AIDS” - a pathetic excuse for a “documentary” that is about as biased as one can get for supporting the ridiculous idea that AIDS is not caused by HIV.
		The thing that amazes me about AIDS Denialists of all the different flavours is that they subject "orthodox" science to endless skepticism but are incredibly credulous regarding claims made by fellow Denialists.
	oracknows.blogspot.com /2005/11/more-rebuttals-of-hivaids-skeptics.html (6611 words)

	NEWFESTIVAL Despicable AIDS Denialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Made during the 13th World AIDS Conference in South Africa, this documentary challenges established theories regarding cause and treatment of the disease, investigates the pervasive influence of pharmaceutical companies, and offers alternative and controversial views on the multi-faceted story of AIDS in South Africa.
		AIDS films don't have an audience and are harder to find.
		AIDS Denialists undermine efforts to teach safer sexual behaviors needed for reducing the spread of HIV; discourage people from seeking useful treatment available from their doctors; and serve to confuse people about important medical matters which affect lives in the most profound way
	www.actupny.org /reports/newfestivaldenialism.html (616 words)

	AIDS at 25 : AIDS denialism kills
		His talk covered their most egregious faults: the abuse of science (misrepresenting peer reviewed research), their failure to publish any of their own work in peer-reviewed journals (like the proponents of intelligent design), and the myths they spread (such as AZT is one of the world's most toxic chemicals).
		Those who believe "HIV causing AIDS is pure fiction" have been invited numerous times to publish their findings in peer reviewed journals, but have yet to do so.
		Thus, according to you definition, a causal relation between HIV and Aids shouldn't even be mentioned in any journal, scientific or not, otherwise than as a pure hypothesis.
	scienceblogs.com /aids/2006/08/aids_denialism_kills.php (1228 words)

	African AIDS Awareness Campaign -- Committed Activists fight HIV/AIDS Denialism in South Africa
		When it was reported in 2001 that every day 150 unborn babies contract HIV in South Africa, TAC sent letters to the Minister of Health and to the National Parliament, seeking a response.
		TAC then joined forces with the AIDS Law Project (ALP) and took the government of South Africa to court.
		They produce posters and leaflets specific to given neighborhoods so that the faces of the people living with AIDS will be familiar to the populations that read about them — naturally, the materials are printed in the necessary local languages.
	overland.naomba.com /tac.html (888 words)

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