Aids Panel Report

Recent News from
South Africa and around the world
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Updated daily by Douglas Bishop....READ

Popular Science magazine says
1 of 2 HIV tests can be wrong....READ

Aids drug could be banned [in South Africa]....READ

Alive and Well Newsletter from Christine Maggiore...READ

Indy Media Question AIDS....READ
Robin Scovill presented an almost final version of his documentary "The Other Side of AIDS" at the San Diego Indy Media Center

From the News Forum:
ANC MP Peter Mokaba dies....READ

Empty seats, empty stomachs
Forget the hungry - they cost money
Call it HIV - This makes money....READ

Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati
letters in the BMJ

7 May 2002
DO Not Give Your Soldiers Toxic Drugs:
HIV Does Not Cause AIDS...READ

5 April 2002
Stop Giving People Toxic Drugs:
HIV Does Not Cause AIDS....READ

15 March 2002
Keep The Dentist Working:
HIV Does Not Cause AIDS....READ

7 March 2002
AIDS in Africa is Caused by
Starvation and Medications....READ

30 January 2002
HIV Does Not Cause AIDS....READ

CONTINUUM Magazine
LAST ISSUE
Michael Baumgartner,
Acting Editor
Many of you will wonder what happened to CONTINUUM Magazine? It last appeared in print in 1998 and then surfaced again in February 2001 on the Internet. I am sad to inform you, that its Editor-in-Chief Huw Christie passed away in August (link to obituary). He asked me to help out as acting-editor prior to his death with what has now become the last issue of CONTINUUM Magazine....READ

IN MEMORIAM
Huw Christie Harry Williams
9th February, 1960 - 17th August, 2001
By Michael Baumgartner

The world lost a man who was committed to fact-finding journalism, a rarity in today's world of commercially conscious reporting. Huw Christie's magazine was to date the only scientific AIDS and health journal where critical, fact-based, uncensored reporting about AIDS and its suggested cause, the alleged "HI-Virus", was possible. By doing so he helped hundreds possibly thousands of people around the world to make informed choices about their health and the treatment of their conditions, classified as AIDS....READ

Making Waves, Changing Tides;
The story of Joint Action Council
Kannur (JACK), India.
Excellent Continuum Magazine article about the history and work of J.A.C.K. Because JACK is seen as challenging the government and the system, conventional funds are not available, whether by way of grant or donations. Currently JACK is US $10,000 in debt.
Donations to JACK can be made payable to: IFAS: VABECH22 account No 16 6.035.973.00 state: JACK ....READ

Perth Group
Release Major Paper
on Mother to Child
Transmission of HIV

A Bitter Pill - CIPRO

New setback in S.Africa's AIDS fight
The country's top medical research body estimates up to seven million South Africans could die of HIV/AIDS by 2010 but the government's statistics office refuted the findings saying it calculated the toll would reach one million....READ

HIV/Aids Report May
Be Released, Says Govt
SA Government spokesman Mr Joel Netshitenzhe told journalists after the fortnightly Cabinet meeting: "The meeting noted that the inter-departmental task team and Statistics South Africa had expressed concern on the methodology and findings of the report."....READ

Medical Research
Council Sticks to Its Figures
The controversial Medical Research Council (MRC)report on the extent of HIV/Aids is to be released to the public next Tuesday - and the MRC is sticking to its figures and methodology despite reservations expressed by an interdepartmental task team and
Statistics SA....READ

Taliban clampdown cuts
Afghan Heroin by half, UN hears.
Mr. Maertens said the UNDCP tested pilot programmes for alternative development in four districts of Afghanistan. In those districts, about 50 per cent of the poppies had disappeared....READ

Afghanistan Bombing
Could Cause AIDS Explosion
The U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan will eventually disrupt the flow of opium from one of the world's top suppliers and could cause heroin-injecting to surge in neighboring Pakistan, leading to a potential AIDS catastrophe, researchers said on Friday....READ

The First Shot
An Innovative NIH Center
Will Speed New Vaccines To the Public
Known as VRC-001-VP, this vaccine is not the first one targeting HIV to
be tested in a clinical trial. In fact, more than three dozen other HIV vaccines are under study in humans.

Aids Vacine Trial Begins
One Year After Labs Open
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) researchers at the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC) today announced the start of a clinical trial testing the first AIDS vaccine invented at the new facility. The vaccine was produced only one year after the building housing the new center opened in September 2000.

Asia-Pacific Nations Fighting AIDS
Government ministers from more than 30 nations in the Asia-Pacific region concluded a conference Wednesday by committing themselves to the fight against the AIDS epidemic.

Blame the Prostitutes!
© 2001 Michael Ellner/AIDSMYTH.COM
The other day I thought I heard a faint, hysterical voice saying, "AIDS is going to explode into the general population!". I reassured myself that I was dreaming, that it was nothing more than a long-since discredited echo from the American past. Unfortunately though, it's the American present - and the voices this time are coming from China, Indonesia and Vietnam....READ

Glaxo gives up rights to AIDS drugs in South Africa
GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Sunday it had handed over rights to its market-leading AIDS medicines in South Africa to a local generic drug firm, in an attempt to defuse a continuing row over access to treatment.....READ

Nevirapine to be compulsory
for pregnant women in Uganda
The ministry of Health is considering a mandatory HIV/Aids drug to all expectant mothers to prevent mother-to-child infection. Prof. Francis Omaswa told the SA parliamentary committee on Social Services that mothers are not willing to be tested for HIV in order for the drug to be given to those found to be positive....READ

Donated Blood
Reveals Hidden Viruses
A small number of people who donated blood following the recent terrorist attacks in the US have been told that they have HIV, hepatitis and other diseases. Donors are contacted if traces of disease are found. The process usually takes a few days but has been delayed because of the confusion in the aftermath of the attack....READ

Safe and Sound
Underground
Christine Maggiore in
Mothering Magazine
September/October 2001 Issue
Susan Gerhard Mothering Magazine reports on grave injustices driving many HIV-positive moms and their families into hiding.
Part 1 Notes Part 2 Part 2.1 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Unafraid of HIV
Christine Maggiore
Interview with ABC:
READ
In 1992, Christine Maggiore
tested positive for HIV after a routine medical exam. Believing she was terminally ill, she devoted herself to warning others about the dangers of AIDS....READ

Transcript of Live Chat
With Christine Maggiore By 20/20
In 1992, Christine Maggiore tested positive for HIV after a routine medical exam. Believing she was terminally ill, she devoted herself to warning others about the dangers of AIDS....READ

AIDS legal
Judgement Day
looms in SA

READ

Donald Woods R.I.P.,
enemy of apartheid,
dies at 67
READ
MORE HERE

Huw Christie R.I.P.,
Aids Rethinker editor of Continuum Magazine,
has died 17th August, 2001, reportedly of KS complications and physical exhaustion.

Or put another way, he died young, of an excess of insight, art and intelligence -in the course of his relentless and impossible commitment to humanity.

Read comments on our
Huw Christie Appreciations Page:
TO HUW

GLAXO DRUG GIANT
PLEADS FOR TIME IN
SA AIDS DRUG SUIT

by Fintan Dunne, Editor,
16th July 2001

READ IT HERE

South African barrister
Anthony Brink

IRISH LINDSAY TRIBUNAL ACCEPTS
AIDS RETHINKER SUBMISSION

July 4 2001, DUBLIN -- The Irish Lindsay Tribunal into haemophilliac deaths has today formally accepted a submission from an international group of Aids Rethinker scientists and activists. The submission was made June 21st, but no acknowledgement of it's receipt was issued by the Tribunal.

In the interim, AidsMyth.com editors widely canvassed key political and legal figures on the contents of the submission. On 2nd July, we communicated with the Tribunal and the Irish Attorney General, Michael McDowell, in re the failure to acknowledge the submission.

We have now recieved a formal acceptance of the submission and an apology for the delay from the Solicitor to the Tribunal, Mr. John V. Nolan (view here).

As a result, international pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline, is now facing legal challenges to it's anti-HIV drugs in Ireland and in South Africa - where a civil legal action over toxicity of the drugs has commenced. This is not to be construed as indicating that the Tribunal has acted other than in good faith in this matter.
STOP PRESS: We have also now secured legal representation
to process the procedural aspects of the submission.

COURT BATTLE OVER AIDS DRUGS TOXICITY
BEGINS IN SOUTH AFRICA

July 2, 2001, JOHANNESBURG -- A SOUTH AFRICAN woman is citing President Mbeki’s controversial views on Aids in an R1,000,000 legal action against the British manufacturer of the drugs she claims killed her husband. The case, which is likely to reignite debate over Mr Mbeki’s views on the HIV-Aids epidemic, could also open the way to similar damages claims against pharmaceutical companies.

Attorney Richard Stretch, a member of Hayman's legal team, said Mbeki had been cited because of his statements about the toxicity of AZT. (click headline for more)

Media And Government Decide to Bury the Hatchet
The Sowetan (Johannesburg) July 2, 2001 by Chris More
President Thabo Mbeki and his Government have come to a historic agreement with South Africa's leading editors to make peace and build trust for the sake of national interest.

THE PROPHET OF NEW THINKING
Before addressing Irish businesspeople, lateral thinker
Dr. Edward de Bono spoke to Fintan Dunne about
New Thinking, the Internet, The Gang of Three
and "parallel thinking" for the new millennium.

They say if you design a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door. Dr. Edward de Bono has designed new ways of thinking, and for thirty years has beaten his own prophetic path about the world to proclaim them. AIDS Rethinkers would benefit if this kind of revolution in thinking gathers pace. MORE

REPORT PREDICTS MASSIVE RESISTANCE
TO MANDATORY AIDS VACCINE IN USA
Millions of parents would refuse to have their children vaccinated by any variation of an HIV/AIDS shot, the Committee to Protect Medical Freedom said at a news conference Wednesday in a paper, titled "If AIDS doesn't kill you, the AIDS vaccine will". MORE

GALLO WARNS OF GLOBAL FAMINE DUE TO AIDS
"The problem is so serious, we may need to consider direct taxation
to provide a continuous flow of funds to reverse the epidemic"

HERE ...AIDSMAGjune

Previous News

ROBERT GALLO in Dublin, Ireland, 27 June, 2001

UN conference on AIDS just a PR stunt

INDIA'S AIDS MOTHERS BEAR 70 CHILDREN
TO KEEP UP WITH AIDS ORPHAN FIGURES

WHAT REALLY KILLED HAEMOPHILIACS?
MAGGIORE MAKES MAINSTREAM

'POLITICALLY INCORRECT'
ABC Network hits on AIDS

XOLANI NKOSI R.I.P.
MORTALLY POISONED?

AIDS IS BACK-
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH

  GLAXO-LOTRONEX
  LANCET SLAMS FDA

  NO ANTI-RETROVIRALS YET
  SAYS SA HEALTH MINISTER

MBEKI WINS ANC VICTORY
WINNIE BACKS PRESIDENT

MONTAGNIER ECHOES MBEKI
ON AIDS CO-FACTORS

NEW STUDY SHOWS
hivCD4 COUNTS MAY BE USELESS

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