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Anthony Mbewu is made director of GFHR: Is this an appropriate appointment?

Anthony Mbewu with Matthias Rath Anthony Mbewu, the current President of the Medical Research Council of South Africa (MRC), has been appointed the Executive Director of the Swiss-based Global Forum for Health Research (GFHR). The South African government...

Published Wed, Nov 04 2009 4:55 AM by AIDSTruth.org

Filed under: Features

Call for Mandatory Disclosure of Pharmaceutical Industry-Funded Events for Health Professionals

We endorse this call for mandatory disclosure. Mandatory Disclosure of Pharmaceutical Industry-Funded Events for Health Professionals Robertson J, Moynihan R, Walkom E, Bero L, Henry D (2009) PLoS Med 6(11): e1000128. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000128...

Published Thu, Nov 26 2009 5:52 AM by AIDSTruth.org

Filed under: New research

Survival of Children with HIV in the United States Has Improved Dramatically Since 1990s, New Analysis Shows

Mortality Rate Still Higher Than for Children without HIV The death rates of children with HIV have decreased ninefold since doctors started prescribing cocktails of antiretroviral drugs in the mid-1990s, concludes a large-scale study of the long-term...

Published Sun, Dec 20 2009 10:31 AM by AIDSTruth.org

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The dangers of denying HIV: John Moore reviews Seth Kalichman's Denying AIDS in Nature

Nature 459, 168 (14 May 2009) | doi: 10.1038/459168a ; Published online 13 May 2009 John P. Moore Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy by Seth Kalichman Springer : 2009. 205 pp. $25 Inadequate health policies in South Africa...

Published Mon, May 25 2009 8:08 AM by AIDSTruth.org

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New Statesman: The Spectator denies it all

The Spectator 's editor, who has in the past questioned climate change , has now started " Questioning the AIDS consensus ", inspired by the denialist film House of Numbers . New Statesman's Mehdi Hassan writes: I have blogged before...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2009 12:48 PM by AIDSTruth.org

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Debunking Delusions - New book by Nathan Geffen

[ibimage==146==ib_thumbnail==none==self==null]AidsTruth contributor and a leader of the Treatment Action Campaign, Nathan Geffen, has published a new book documenting AIDS denialism and the related quackery in South Africa titled Debunking Delusions:...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 5:27 AM by AIDSTruth.org

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Reviled, Yes. Genius? Not So Much

Newsweek Exposes Duesberg’s Psychopathology by Jeanne Bergman for AIDStruth.org Peter Duesberg: Photo by Seth Kalichman "The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2009 8:06 AM by AIDSTruth.org

Filed under: Features

Maggiore's labs

"House of Numbers" offers new information about the late Christine Maggiore's experience with HIV testing. In the movie, her oral narrative and the dated lab reports on screen simply don't line up. What the film clearly shows by including...

Published Sun, Nov 01 2009 12:00 AM by AIDSTruth.org

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The dishonest Rian Malan

By Nathan Geffen, 1 December 2009 In a piece published in Rapport newspaper and on politicsweb , Rian Malan claims: on't trust anything the Aids bwanas say - especially not Nathan Geffen of TAC. Earlier this week, he informed the world that Zuma's...

Published Tue, Dec 01 2009 5:09 AM by AIDSTruth.org

Filed under: Features

HIV/AIDS is leading cause of death of women of reproductive age: UN report

The World Health Organization's report Women and health: today's evidence, tomorrow's agenda identifies HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age: "Globally, the leading cause of death among women of reproductive...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2009 8:48 AM by AIDSTruth.org

Filed under: News

MMR-scare doctor Andrew Wakefield struck from the register

Andrew Wakefield The doctor who sparked the "MMR scare" and a hero of the anti-vaccination movement, Andrew Wakefield, has been struck from the medical register in the United Kingdom by the General Medical Council after being found guilty of...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 10:10 AM by AIDSTruth.org

Filed under: News

South Africa needs an HIV/AIDS truth commission

Salim Abdool Karim with his wife and collaborator Quarraisha Abdool Karim Photo credit: CAPRISA In this article prominent South African AIDS researcher, Prof Salim S. Abdool Karim, calls for a truth commission to account for South Africa's past HIV...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2009 3:44 PM by AIDSTruth.org

Filed under: Features

The Lancet reviews AIDS denialist film "House of Numbers"

Talha Burki writes in The Lancet Infectious Diseases : Strange, perhaps, for The Lancet Infectious Diseases to review House of Numbers. It is a threadbare documentary that claims there is no connection between HIV and AIDS. It arrives at this conclusion...

Published Tue, Nov 17 2009 11:32 AM by AIDSTruth.org

Filed under: News

Clarification on false claims made in emails circulating on the Internet

We have learnt that Dr Jim Murtagh has made false claims about his relationship with some members of aidstruth.org in email correspondence with AIDS denialists. We do not wish to be drawn into the squabbles of people not associated with us. Nevertheless...

Published Mon, Jun 22 2009 6:32 AM by AIDSTruth.org

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Berkeley Drops Probe of Duesberg After Finding 'Insufficient Evidence' - ScienceInsider

ScienceInsider reports: The paper that cost the editor of Medical Hypotheses his job will have no further consequences for its main author, molecular virologist Peter Duesberg of the University of California (UC), Berkeley. The university has ended its...

Published Wed, Jun 23 2010 6:48 AM by AIDSTruth.org

Filed under: News

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Anthony Mbewu is made director of GFHR: Is this an appropriate appointment?

Call for Mandatory Disclosure of Pharmaceutical Industry-Funded Events for Health Professionals

Survival of Children with HIV in the United States Has Improved Dramatically Since 1990s, New Analysis Shows

The dangers of denying HIV: John Moore reviews Seth Kalichman's Denying AIDS in Nature

New Statesman: The Spectator denies it all

Debunking Delusions - New book by Nathan Geffen

Reviled, Yes. Genius? Not So Much

Maggiore's labs

The dishonest Rian Malan

HIV/AIDS is leading cause of death of women of reproductive age: UN report

MMR-scare doctor Andrew Wakefield struck from the register

South Africa needs an HIV/AIDS truth commission

The Lancet reviews AIDS denialist film "House of Numbers"

Clarification on false claims made in emails circulating on the Internet

Berkeley Drops Probe of Duesberg After Finding 'Insufficient Evidence' - ScienceInsider