VIRUSMYTH HOMEPAGE

DEBATING AZT
Mbeki and the AIDS Drug Controversy

By Anthony Brink

2000

• FOREWORD BY MARTIN WELZ
• DEDICATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PREFACE
• AZT: A MEDICINE FROM HELL 
• AZT: A MEDICINE FROM HEAVEN  (Dr D J Martin) 
• AZT AND HEAVENLY REMEDIES 
  • [1] Dr Martin scolds the editor of the Citizen from a high horse.
  • [3] AZT and muscles.
  • [10] AZT and bone marrow.
  • [14] What does AZT do for opportunistic infections?
  • [15] Does AZT have “long lasting beneficial effects”?
  • [16] What did the Concorde trial in Europe reveal about AZT?
  • [17] The invention of HAART cocktails.
  • [18] Does AZT prolong life – or shorten it?
  • [19] The grim findings of the Claude Bernard Hospital study in France.
  • [21] Pressure from the manufacturer to sweeten the Concorde findings.
  • [22] Does AZT “improve quality of life”?
  • [26] AZT and the liver.
  • [30] AZT, foetal toxicity and birth defects.
  • [37] Is AZT safe for neonates and children?
  • [39] Are the ‘side effects’ of AZT different from AIDS?
  • [40] How well do untreated HIV-positive people do?
  • [41] How are children exposed to AZT in the womb affected?
  • [43] What did the introduction of AZT do for the AIDS death rate in the US?
  • [44] What cancer risks are posed to babies of mothers treated with AZT?
  • [49] Does AZT reduce HIV transmission from mother to child?
  • [50] AZT and the ‘AIDS experts’ at Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital.
  • [51] A precedent for AZT: Diethylstilbestrol.
  • [52] Cancer again.
  • [56] AZT, nerve damage and dementia.
  • [58] AZT and hearts.
  • [59] AZT and eyes.
  • [60] A lesson from Japan.
  • [61] More cancer.
  • [66] AZT and needlesticks.
  • [67] Why AZT can never in principle prevent HIV infection.
  • [70] AZT and rape victims. 
  • [72] MRC president Dr William Makgoba and the South African experts.
  • [73] Big-shots overseas.
  • [74] The National Minister of Health on AZT.
  • [75] Charlene Smith cheerleading AZT.
  • [84] The puzzling GlaxoWellcome HIV-AIDS Helpline.
  • [86] Mbeki and D P leader Tony Leon debate AZT for rape victims.
  • [88] The New York Times on ‘African AIDS’.
  • [89] Mbeki replies to Leon in his Oliver Tambo Memorial Lecture.
  • [90] South African journalists slap down the government’s concerns.
  • [93] Don’t take HAART - the latest research reports.
  • [111] A Pellagra parable.
  • [112] ACT UP founder Larry Kramer speaks about HAART.
  • [113] A withering indictment of AZT by the Perth group.
  • [114] AZT, Jewish weddings and soccer riots.
  • [115] GlaxoWellcome’s feeble response to the Perth group critique.
  • [116] Mbeki chides the ignorant MRC president and Nature correspondent.
  • [118] The lazy pharmacology professor who let the President down.
  • [124] The AZT campaign peters out, and Nevirapine moves in.
  • [125] AZT and its coy advocates.
  • [126] Justice Edwin Cameron and medical miracles.
  • [130] AIDS Law Project director Mark Heywood sounds off.
  • [134] Dr Neil McKerrow’s caring cures.
  • [135] Mbeki answers an appeal by a judge, church leaders and an AIDS expert to provide AZT to pregnant women.
  • [136] Mbeki explains his reservations about AZT.
  • [138] Journalists react to Mbeki’s grasp of the triphosphorylation problem.
  • [139] Mandela on Mbeki.
  • [140] The calomel calamity.
  • [141] Conclusions
• APPENDIX I   
• APPENDIX II    
• WHY THE ‘AIDS TEST’ IS USELESS AND PATHOLOGISTS AGREE    
• THE AIDS APOSTATES    
• THE POPE OF AIDS    
• HOW COULD THEY ALL BE WRONG?  DOCTORS AND AIDS    
• AN AIDS CASE    
• ILLUSTRATIONS

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