SOUTH AFRICA (JUNE '01)

South Africa's "Health Ministry was emphatic that the government would not provide triple therapy of anti-retrovirals for the long-term management of AIDS." See this article.

"American singer and U.N. goodwill ambassador Harry Belafonte defended South African President Thabo Mbeki for creating a broader debate on the AIDS epidemic." See this Reuters report, and this article from SA's Business Day.

"South African President Thabo Mbeki again refused to link HIV with AIDS" read this AP release.

GADFLY MAGAZINE (JUNE '01)

"Last summer I read of Christine Maggiore, the woman who questions HIV science. The woman who finds more doubt than answers in existing research and is still looking for sound evidence that drugs like AZT really equal life. The woman who is HIV-positive." Read the article from Gladfly for more.

LATEST U.S. AIDS SCARE (JUNE '01)

"The front pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post announced truly dramatic data about the rise of HIV infection among young gay men in the United States." Andrew Sullivan, the New Republic senior editor who is also HIV-positive, wrote a critical column about the latest AIDS scare.

See also this article from The New York Times.

TIMES OF INDIA (JUNE '01)

"Now that the AIDS 'cocktail therapy' is being offered at a lower price by Indian pharmaceutical companies, developing countries like South Africa and India are under increasing social pressure to distribute these drugs free through their public health system. However, before jumping into this decision, other dimensions need to be considered." Rupa Chinai wrote a two part article for the Times of India. See also this other article by Chinai, and this article from the Indian Express.

Read also this article, and this article about the controversy over India's AIDS figures.

Update: Another article by Chinai.

ROCK THE BOAT 2001 (JUNE '01)

The Rock the Boat concerts are events that will explore and expose perspectives on AIDS that have been censored in the mainstream media for fifteen years. Funds raised by the concerts will go toward dissident projects. See their website for more info on upcomming events and ticket sale.

MOTHER JONES (JUNE '01)

"Should science -- and the media -- take a second look at the argument of HIV revisionists?" An article by Shelby Biggs for Mother Jones.

5 YEARS VIRUSMYTH (MAY '01)

We would like to thank everybody who visited this site over the past 5 years for listening to our story. Also thanks for promoting and linking the site, and for supplying us with new information. There have been around 400.000 visits already, and millions of articles have been downloaded. The site is now getting over 1500 visits a day.

FALSE CD4 CELL THEORY (MAY '01)

"Evidence suggests that a decrease in CD4 + T cells is not a death sentence" See this article from The Scientist.

THE CLOSING ARGUMENT (MAY '01)

Charles Ortleb is the former publisher of the New York Native, a gay newspaper from the past, famous for its dissident reporting. He wrote a courtroom novella, 'The Closing Argument', about an African American accused of spreading AIDS in New England. His attorney attempts to turn the tables and tries to convince the jury that everything the government is telling the public about AIDS is a lie. The story reflects Mr. Ortleb's twenty years of covering AIDS.

DEATH SENTENCE LIFTED (MAY '01)

"Man's life put on hold for 16 years before learning he does not have HIV" Read this article from the Toronto Sun.

INTERVIEW MOHAMMED AL-BAYATI (MAY '01)

Steven D. Keller interviewed toxicologist Dr. Mohammed Al-Bayati.

TREATMENT FAILURES (CONT.) (MAY '01)

A new meta study has found antiretroviral therapy to be associated with a high rate of severe liver toxicity, regardless of drug class or combination. See this Reuters report.

MISLEADING ADVERTISING (APRIL '01)

"The government is warning manufacturers of drugs used in the treatment of AIDS not to imply too much in their advertising." See this AP report. See also this article from the New York Times.

SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY (APRIL '01)

Dr. David Rasnick has given a talk at the International Conference on Science and Democracy in Italy.

THE HUMAN FACTOR (APRIL '01)

"Right after the holidays, a young friend of mine decided to get tested for the first time. The test said he was positive. As I watched what he went through, I got a single searing snapshot of how deeply one person can be impacted by the heavy AIDS propaganda that bombards us every day." Read this new article by Patricia Nell Warren.

AIDS FRAUD (CONT.) (APRIL '01)

"AIDS groups who have taken great pains to stake out a benevolent image still refuse to acknowledge that the number of "isolated incidents" of fraud, mismanagement, and abuse of AIDS funds are increasing nationwide." An article by Wayne Turner for Washington Monthly.

SIV IS HARMLESS TOO (APRIL '01)

"African green monkeys do not develop AIDS despite high levels of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in their blood." Read this report from AIDS Weekly.

PANEL REPORT RELEASED (APRIL '01) 

The Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel Report has been released. See this announcement by the South African Minister of Health, and the (interim) panel report itself.

"The Group For the Scientific Reappraisal of AIDS welcomes and endorses the panel report from South Africa... All ten experiments proposed by AIDS dissidents on the panel were endorsed for funding by the South African Cabinet." See the press release by The Group, and this summary.

See this report from AP, this article from Reuters, this report from The Guardian, an article from South Africa's The Star, an article from SAPA, and another article from SAPA, an article from South Africa's Financial Mail, and an article from the New York Press.

"We can only hope that our government and the scientists concerned with do everything in their power to speed up the experiments explained in the report of the Presidential Panel." See this article from ANC Today.

"South Africa, said Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, had no immediate plans to use the landmark legal victory to obtain anti-retroviral AIDS drugs." Read more in this article from the Wall Street Journal.

"Coverage of the interim report of the Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel has been superficial and shows a complete deviation from balanced journalistic scrutiny expected in democracies." See this press statement by panel members.

President Mbeki was asked if he would take an AIDS test. See also this AP report, "Mbeki qestioned the need for people to take HIV tests, saying there was disagreement among scientists about what exactly was being tested."

ACT-UP SAN FRANCISCO RIOT (APRIL '01)

"ACT-UP SF members Todd Swindell and David Pasquarelli -- each convicted of disturbing the peace, unlawful assembly and participating in a riot -- were sentenced to 120 days in the county jail," see this press release, and also this older press release.

OPEN LETTER TO GLAXO (MARCH '01)

Anthony Brink wrote an open letter to Glaxo-SmithKline's South African Chief Executive Officer. It concerns a radical problem with AZT not yet ventilated in the media to date.

Brink is the author of the (online) book 'Debating AZT'.

POPPERS REMAIN LEGAL IN U.K. (MARCH '01)

The U.K. Department of Health lost its test case against the manufacturers of the sex drug Poppers. See this press release from Positively Healthy. See also this article.

DODGY HIV TESTS (MARCH '01)

Current HIV tests are distinctly dodgy, as is the whole HIV theory, writes Dr. Val Turner in this short article for the South African newspaper The Star.

GERMAN COURT SAYS HIV NEVER ISOLATED (MARCH '01)

"The criminal law of the BRD and especially 220a StGB (Genocide) protects citizens from act of killings organised by a state which is deliberately misleading the public. It also protects the citizens binding the legal authorities to take actions after perusal." The German Human Rights Activist Karl Krafeld is fighting, for several years now, the German Government in a legal battle using this postwar anti-genocide law. This letter says a Judge has recently announced that in connection with AIDS there has never been isolated a virus.

TREATMENT FAILURES (CONT.) (FEB./MARCH '01)

An article from abcnews.com, an article from AP, one from Reuters, and an article from the New York Times about the new treatment guidelines. Hit hard but later instead of hit hard and early.

"Doctors throughout Europe are being warned of a potentially fatal side effect if pregnant women infected with HIV take Bristol-Myers Squibb's AIDS drugs Zerit (stavudine) and Videx (didanosine)." Read the Reuters report.

"Spanish AIDS researchers said prolonged use of anti-AIDS cocktails, and not a single drug, probably caused patients to develop unusual fat deposits on the upper back." Read the Reuters report.

"Cardiovascular disease risk factors are significantly increased in HIV-infected patients with lipodystrophy", see this Reuters report.

"Often, the medicines fail to work this well... There are significantly greater numbers of patients who have failing regimens", says this article from AP. See also this article from USA Today

End-stage liver disease has become the leading cause of death of patients treated with HAART. Read the Reuters report.

Patients did not report a quality of life improvement after HAART, another new study found out. See this item from AIDS Weekly.

"Less than half of adolescents with HIV are taking their medications as required," reports Reuters.

An article about 'drug holidays' from The Washington Post.

See also this article by Dr. Jay Levi from the San Francisco Chronicle.

CORTICOSTEROIDS AND AIDS (FEB. '01)

"AIDS in drug users and homosexuals in the USA and Europe is probably caused by the heavy ancillary use of glucocorticoids and other immunosuppressive agents to medically treat the wide range of the chronic serious illnesses." A new paper by toxicologist and pathologist Dr. Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati about the contribution of corticosteroids, illicit drugs, and malnutrition to the pathogenesis of AIDS.

Dr. Al-Bayati is the author of the book 'Get All The Facts: HIV does not cause AIDS'. See also this interview with him.

DOCTORS ORDERS (FEB. '01)

Read this article from Reason, for some "shocking examples of what despotic medical authorities are doing to kids."

LOW T4 COUNTS (FEB. '01)

A new paper by Matt Irwin, a medical student from the USA, presenting a brief review of several studies documenting low CD4 counts in people with a variety of diseases. "Caution is advised regarding the use of CD4 counts to make treatment and diagnostic decisions."

60 MINUTES ON AIDS (JAN. '01)

"The CBS news program 60 Minutes broadcasted a segment on AIDS whose theme was essentially one of stark terror." Read this report by Mark Gabrish Conlan.

TESTING IN AFRICA (JAN. '01)

Christine Johnson is an independent free-lance journalist who lives in the Los Angeles area. She wrote another article about why the HIV Tests don't work in Africa.

THE AIDS BLUNDER (JAN '01)

"The contagious, HIV hypothesis of AIDS is the biggest scientific, medical blunder of the 20th Century. The evidence is overwhelming that AIDS is not contagious, sexually transmitted, or caused by HIV. I have come to realize that embarrassment is the main obstacle to exposing this simple fact." A short article by Dr. David Rasnick, member of the South Africa's presidential AIDS panel, printed in SA's Mail and Guardian.

QUESTIONS FROM KENYA (JAN. '01)

"Since President Mbeki's expert advisors are raising so much plausible doubt, shouldn't we, at the very least, sit down and reason together?" Read this article from Kenya's The Standard Limited.

TREATMENT FAILURES (CONT.) (JAN. '01)

"New U.S. guidelines suggest that powerful anti-viral drug combinations should be used later, rather than earlier, in treating AIDS... some AIDS treatment experts are now acknowledging that a part of the focus on early treatment may have been driven more by hype than solid science, and that the early use of drugs with powerful side effects caused years of suffering that could, and should, have been avoided." See this SF Weekly article, this article from Newsday, and this report from Reuters.

The AIDS drug nevirapine has been shown to be "safe" as a treatment for pregnant mothers, but adult health-care workers risk potentially life-threatening side effects from the drug, US federal "health" officials have said. They gave a warning not to prescribe the drug to healthy health care workers stuck by needles anymore. See this report from Reuters, this AP article, and this one from the New York Times.

Pregnant women face a higher risk of fatal side effects from another AIDS drug combination, the US government and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. have warned. See this Reuters report, and this article from the AP.