AIDS in Africa

AIDS in Africa

“Despite the fact that AIDS was first declared and found in homosexual milieus in the USA, some ‘scientific studies’ have tried to locate the origin of AIDS in Africa. This is largely based on the false imaging of the African who is seen as somebody who cannot control him/herself sexually.”

“…This method of determining AIDS cases…leads to many abuses. Much money is spent on studying the origin of AIDS in the wrong places, but the researchers of course, are given a lot of money to make this type of research. Once more, Africans are used as objects of study and speculation. This is even more outrageous because many human and material resources are invested wrongly, instead of, for example, targeting the other immunosuppressing agents like TB, chronic malaria, malnutrition, and many other agents which have been shown to give similar symptoms to those of HIV.”

Presentation to Ecumenical Symposium Of Eastern Africa, 17-21 March 1999

— Peter Kanyandago, PhD, Professor, Anthropologist, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic Affairs, Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, Uganda

“People think a positive test means no hope, so the children are relegated to the back wards of hospitals which have no resources and they die. They are very sick when they come to us. Usually they are depressed, withdrawn, and silent...But as a result of their care here, they put on weight, recover from their infections, and thrive. Hygiene is excellent [and] nutrition is very good; they get vitamin supplements, cod liver oil, greens every day, plenty of protein. They are really flourishing.”

Hodgkinson Neville, P. Duesberg (ed.), AIDS: Virus- or Drug-Induced? Kluwer, 1996

— Father Angelo D’Agostino, Former surgeon who founded Nyumbani, a hospice for abandoned and orphaned HIV-positive children in Kenya

“…Disobedience of tribal custom [in W. Africa] is punished by... curse death, which means certain death to the victim…For the curse to be successful, the victim has to be made aware that he or she has been cursed...When the curse becomes known, the victim’s family and friends as well as the entire community withdraw their support. The victim becomes an outsider... Feeling hopeless and helpless, the victim withdraws, thus furthering his or her isolation... Although the threat to life is not acute, the emotional strain of feeling hopeless is evident over an extended period of time...The victim remains in a state of chronic fatigue and melancholia, and...he or she simply dies…psycho-physiological forms of giving up are often seen in (Western) hospitals. Patients...told of their imminent death have been known to react by withdrawing, eating and drinking poorly, and socially isolating themselves; at times these reactions result in premature death.”

Am J Psychiatry; 1977, Dec; 134(12): 1425-1427

— KM Golden, Voodoo in Africa and the United States.

“In spite of all the misinformation and faulty data, however, the fact that medical science has got it wrong does not mean that there is no problem. To the contrary. The situation [in Africa] is more grave than medical science and AIDS activists present. But this situation is not new, nor is it the result of HIV and AIDS. Rather, it is the terrible ongoing historic reality of life-threatening immunodeficiency as the chronic condition of the poorest and least defensible. The villain is not a virus; it is poverty itself. And the cure is not medicine; it is justice. And the hysteria around AIDS clouds the issue.”

“We define the effects of immunodeficiency in terms of ‘disease’ rather than ‘deprivation,’ because we have policies to deal with the first, while we do not have the political will to deal with the latter.”

“The media are predisposed to present exotic and deadly diseases which attack humans, with science and medicine as the stalwart army trying to build an adequate defence. The public are all the more susceptible when the exotic disease not only responds to prurient sensationalism (AIDS as a sexual disease, AIDS as punishment for evil and perversion) but also bears the hallmark characteristics of mainstream prejudice regarding sexual orientation and homophobia, race, poverty, and images of the Third World.”

“It is the premise that the cause of AIDS is primarily viral, together with the social-sexual theories about the spread of the so-called ‘AIDS virus,’ which lead to a prediction of an epidemic, not the observable facts. If the theory was correct, both about the virus, and sexual transmission, the present modest numbers would be impossible. Indeed there would be no controversy, because the numbers in Canada and the United States, where diagnosis and reporting is aggressive and rigorous, would already be astronomical. In fact, they are not astronomical, they are not increasing but decreasing, and they remain insignificant in absolute and epidemiological terms. The numbers reveal none of the mathematical characteristics of an epidemic.”

The Politics of Aids, July 1994, Interpares

— Brian K. Murphy, Senior Policy Analyst with Inter Pares, the Canadian international social justice organization; Author, Transforming the World, An Open Conspiracy for Social Change, ZED Books (London and New York), 1999.

“‘1-IN-5 SOUTH AFRICANS ARE HIV-POSITIVE!’ ‘20% OF ALL SOUTH AFRICANS WILL DIE OF AIDS!’

“Figures for…HIV and AIDS in South Africa and Africa are grasped at and freely quoted ad nauseum by those who would have us believe that sub-Saharan Africa is being ravaged…by the biggest threat to ever face the continent. Presented as ‘facts,’ these figures seldom, if ever, come under serious scrutiny in the media and in the medical profession. Yet, even a slight scratch at the surface exposes a massive deception…The purpose of this article is to expose the reader to some of the critical questions that have to be asked of these misleading, if not deceitful, figures…”

“Have you ever wondered how it is that this HI-virus is able to be as discerning and selective as it is? In North America and Europe, it is able to discern and infect homosexuals…intravenous drug users, organ recipients, and recipients of blood products. In Africa, it selects people involved in heterosexual relationships for transmission, and the warning goes out that sexual promiscuity is the way in which the virus is spread. Even with my own limited understanding of viruses, this makes absolutely no sense…”

“The continent of Africa has been ravaged for many decades by all the problems that have been classically regarded as causing severe immune deficiencies…severe malnutrition, repeated infections, incompleted courses of…antibiotics, poor nutrition and sanitation, unhygienic medical conditions, abuse of various substances…Each one of these in itself has been clearly researched and documented as the cause of the destruction of the human immune system. Yet, it is these identical illnesses that are now being blamed on the HI-virus. Are we to believe that the elimination of the virus will lead to a massive decline in these historically common immune deficiency problems in Africa?”

“…The problem is that most people diagnosed as HIV+ in Africa have never been subject to a blood test, and most doctors in sub-Saharan Africa have come to list almost all forms of severe illness as AIDS. In Zambia the word that used to be used for ‘wasting sickness’ has simply been transferred for use as ‘HIV/AIDS’; therefore, where people used to have ‘wasting sickness,’ they now have ‘HIV/AIDS’! This means that any figures for HIV & AIDS in Africa are generally little more than the proverbial thumbsuck!”

“Can a virus be as discerning and selective as the HI-virus is said to be, when there is no other such virus? How can we simply throw out the African history of immune deficiencies, and reclassify most of them as AIDS at the stroke of a pen? Of what real value can the Bangui definition for AIDS in Africa really be, except to cause mass hysteria and unnecessary harm? Who’s fooling who with all these statistics based on nothing, and figures based on thumbsucks at best?”

First Aids, Figures For Africa, The Edge

— Rev. Dr. Charles de Jongh, D.Litt et Phil, D. Ed candidate (Higher Education), Lecturer in Biblical and Pastoral Studies at Baptist Theological College, Johannesburg, South Africa.

“…We’ve got to learn from what has happened here in the last 18 years and try not to repeat it, as we move into…Africa and Asia and India. I can’t overstate...how severe the problems are with the current therapies...People are dying from the effects of the therapies themselves in some cases...People are suffering from severe life-threatening complications of drugs. And a lot of them get to the point where they simply can’t use them anymore. So as we talk about bringing therapy to Africa, even if we can solve the problem and cost and infrastructure and delivery...are we doing the right thing with these drugs? Or are we unleashing another kind of epidemic over there of drug side effects as well?”

ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel. 2001 Jun 8

— Martin Delaney, Director of Project Inform, a mainstream California-based AIDS organization

“While the experts, with their statistics, would have one believe that there exists an extremely serious HIV/AIDS epidemic [in Africa], no trace of an epidemic is observable in the field. All that can be seen is a very poor, undernourished population suffering from malaria, endemic immunodeficiency and common illnesses.”

“The facts very clearly demonstrate that the endemic African immunodeficiency has nothing to do with a hypothetical ‘HIV,’ but is, rather, the result of malnutrition and its corollaries.”

“The so-called ‘HIV’ tests are unspecific; the positive results they may give are misleading and lead to the false belief in the existence of a viral epidemic. A positive test — and this applies especially to Africa — is not a sign of a specific viral infection. These so-called ‘HIV’ tests are deceptive, in that the positive results give the illusion that a precise diagnosis has been made.”

“And yet, it is these very same misleading [HIV test] results which constitute the basis of official statistics and which lead, first the experts, then the scientists, medical doctors, newspaper reporters, and finally the general public to believe that Africa is being ravaged by a specific viral infection called ‘HIV/AIDS!’ People speak of an epidemic of ‘HIV/AIDS,’ but the only thing which has the appearance of an epidemic is what I would call the ‘epidemic of tests,’ an artificial epidemic which is being actively promoted.”

“[The HIV tests] are also dangerous because they cause panic and stigmatization, they lead to the use of toxic anti-viral drugs and they draw attention away from the real sources of immune system deficiencies. Common sense and scientific reason dictate their abandonment.”

“For more than 15 years, the various scientific, medical and mass media alike have ceaselessly portrayed Africa as the continent caught in the grip of a new deadly sexually transmitted infection, and doomed to the most somber future imaginable. Yet, during this very same period, the population that was in the eye of the cyclone and received no specific treatment has continued to increase as before.”

“In 1985, the newly out ‘HIV’ tests detected the first HIV-positive individuals in precisely this same [Tanzania] border area…According to the experts, this region was doomed to be decimated, unless energetic measures were taken to combat this new deadly virus.

“Fifteen years later, we can begin to take stock of the situation. The following are official census results: For Tanzania, a regular upward curve can be observed for the period 1967 to 2002, with a [population] growth of 49% between 1988 and 2002. There is no drop in the population. For the Kagera region, we see the same upward curve, with 53% growth between 1988 and 2002.”

“…‘HIV’ tests were conducted [in Tanzania], but they led to the observation that sick children, whether ‘HIV’-positive or ‘HIV’-negative, recuperated equally well, so long as they received adequate nutrition and medical attention.”

“To state that the priority, with respect to emergency humanitarian aid, should be given to the fight against ‘HIV’ and to giving those countries the possibility of buying cheap-priced anti-viral products is just as irrational as saying to someone suffering from acute vitamin C deficiency, ‘Sir, I see that you are suffering from scurvy. You’d better go buy yourself some antibiotics and condoms.’”

December 8, 2003, address to European Parliament Conference on AIDS in Africa, Brussels

— Dr. Marc Deru, MD, Visé, Belgium

“The gross figures about African AIDS were extrapolated to heavy degrees of exaggeration from small samples, thanks to interested publicists consciously running up the score. At a time (1980-2000) when AIDS was portrayed as decimating Africa, the population was actually increasing from 378 million to 652 million. Remember as well that people don’t die of AIDS per se but of other diseases attacking individuals made vulnerable by immune deficiencies whose principal cause, universally, is not HIV but nothing more mysterious than poor living conditions. The more selective precondition of AIDS can thus be posthumously assigned, presumptively.”

AIDS Reconsidered. 2006 Oct.

— Richard Kostelanetz, MA. Fulbright Scholar. Prolific writer, musician, videographer and artist.

“Nutritional AIDS dominates the scene in South Africa today as indeed it did during Apartheid. In the middle [19]50’s and 60’s, 50 percent of black children were dead before the age of five. The causes of death were recorded as: Pneumonia, High Fever, Dehydration and intractable Diarrhea due to protein deficiency. Today, these clinical features are called AIDS. Today in South Africa, TB is the leading cause of death and morbidity amongst Africans, but this is called AIDS.”

December 8, 2003, address to European Parliament Conference on AIDS in Africa, Brussels

— Dr. Sam Mhlongo, MD, Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at the Medical University of South Africa, Johannesburg.

“Let me repeat it again: The African people have little resistance to infectious diseases because they’re poor, and they don’t get enough to eat. Rich people live longer than poor people; everyone knows that. Africa’s own fat cats who rule their nations by milking their citizens dry, don’t get AIDS. And the reason is not that they use condoms, or restrict themselves to one sexual partner. No, they simply eat well, and they have access to proper medical care.”

— Dr. Wilhelm Godschalk, PhD, Biochemist, The Hague, Netherlands. Formerly Asst. Prof., University of Virginia Medical School, Assoc. Prof., University of Puerto Rico Medical School, Senior Scientist at the Center for Energy and Environmental Research. Did research with Dr. Jesse Beams, one of the lead scientists on The Manhattan Project.

“There was a time when I imagined medical research as an idealized endeavor, carried out by scientists interested only in truth. Up close, it turns out to be much like any other human enterprise, riven with envy, ambition and the standard jockeying for position.”

“[South Africa’s] coffin makers had to be laboring hard to keep pace with growing [AIDS] demand. One newspaper account…told of a company called Affordable Coffins, purveyor of cheap cardboard caskets, which had more orders than it could fill. But the firm was barely two months old when the story ran, and two rival entrepreneurs who launched similar products a few years back had gone under.

“…So I called the real-wood [coffin] firms…‘It’s quiet,’ said Kurt Lammerding of GNG Pine Products. His competitors concurred—business was dead, so to speak.

“‘It’s a fact,’ said Mr. A. B. Schwegman of B & A Coffins. ‘If you go on what you read in the papers, we should be overwhelmed, but there’s nothing. So what’s going on? You tell me.’

“So I called a black-owned firm, Mmabatho Coffins, but it had gone out of business, along with some others I tried calling. This was getting seriously weird. The death rate had almost doubled in the past decade, according to a recent story in South Africa’s largest newspaper. ‘These aren’t projections,’ said the Sunday Times. ‘These are the facts.’ And if the facts were correct, I thought, someone somewhere had to be prospering in the coffin trade.

“…I wandered around [the carpentry workshop building] searching for coffin makers, but there were only two. Eric Borman said business was good, but he was a master craftsman who made one or two deluxe caskets a week and seemed to resent the suggestion his customers were the sort of people who died of AIDS. For that, I’d have to talk to Penny. Borman pointed, and off I went, deeper and deeper into the maze. Penny’s place was locked up and deserted. Inside, I saw unsold coffins stacked ceiling-high, and a forlorn CLOSED sign hung on a wire.

“At that moment, a forbidden thought entered my brain…For years, experts tell you that the plague is marching down the continent, coming ever closer…This has to be true, because it’s coming from experts, so you start looking for evidence. Laston, the gardener at Number 10, is suspiciously thin, and has a hacking couch that won’t go away. On the far side of the golf course, Mrs. Smith has just buried her beloved servant. Mr. Beresford’s maid has just died, too. Your cousin Lenny knows someone who owns a factory where all the workers are dying. Your newspapers are regularly predicting that the economy will surely be crippled, and schooling may soon collapse because so many teachers have died.

“But then you find yourself staring into Penny’s failed coffin workshop and you think, Jesus, maybe something is wrong here...”

“In my suburb, I can assure you, people’s brains are so addled by death propaganda that we automatically assume almost everyone who falls seriously ill or dies has AIDS, especially if they’re poor and black. But we don’t really know for sure, and nor do the sufferers themselves, because hardly anyone has been tested. ‘What’s the point?’ asks Laston, the ailing gardener. He knows there’s no cure for AIDS…Last winter, he came down with a bad cough, and everyone said it was AIDS, but it wasn’t — come summer, Laston got better. Then Stanley the bricklayer became our street’s most likely case. Stan maintained he had a heart condition, but behind his back, everyone was whispering, ‘Oh, my God, it’s AIDS.’ But was it? We had no idea. We were playing a game, driven by hysteria.”

“…If the numbers could be gotten so wrong in America, what are we to make of the infinitely more dire death spells cast upon the developing world? In 1993, Laurie Garrett wrote in her book ‘The Coming Plague’ that Thailand’s AIDS epidemic was ‘moving at super-sonic speed.’ It has stalled at just below two percent, according to UNAIDS. In 1991 All India Institute of Medical Sciences official Vulmiri Ramalingaswami said AIDS in India ‘was sitting on top of a volcano,’ but infection levels there have yet to crest one percent. The only place where the AIDS apocalypse has materialized in its full and ghastly glory is in Geneva’s [WHO’s] computer models of the African pandemic, which show millions dead and far worse coming.”

“In Tanzania, AIDS doctors can increase their income just by saving the hard-currency per diems they earn while attending international conferences. Here in South Africa, entrepreneurs are piling into the AIDS business at an astonishing rate, setting up consultancies, selling herbal immune boosters and vitamin supplements, devising new insurance products, distributing condoms, staging benefits, forming theater troupes that take the AIDS prevention message into schools. A friend of mine is co-producing a slew of TV documentaries about AIDS, all for foreign markets. Another friend has got his fingers crossed, since his agency is on the shortlist to land a $6 million safe-sex ad campaign.”

“AIDS in Africa—In Search of the Truth,” Rolling Stone Magazine, Nov. 22, 2001

— Rian Malan, South African author of My Traitor’s Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe and His Conscience.

“I’ve seen no evidence of an AIDS plague anywhere in Africa. No overloaded hospitals, no sick people lying about the streets, no horror stories from locals and the epicenter of the epidemic is supposed to be in the very places in central and southern Africa where I’ve spent the most time. In fact, when I was in the Congo’s Katanga province last year, I went out of my way to visit a hospital in Lumumbashi run by a Belgian doctor to talk with someone who actually dealt with these things first hand. His opinion was that people were dying of lots of things, but not noticeably more than was ever the case.

“He thought that to whatever degree AIDS was a problem, malaria was a vastly bigger problem. He thought AIDS was 90% hysteria and 10% reality.

“Other than Mr. Mbeki, nobody I talked to in South Africa even cared about AIDS, simply because so few people even knew somebody who knew somebody who supposedly had it. People are far more concerned about crime.”

International Living Magazine, Aug, 2000

— Doug Casey, Editor, The International Speculator, Author of the #1 NY Times bestseller, Crisis Investing.

“I cannot understand how any doctor can say that HIV testing in Africa is acceptably reliable. In the developed world HIV testing consists of ELISA test followed by the Western blot test. This is because studies have shown that the ELISA test alone produces at least an 83% false positive test result rate. However, in Africa, due to lack of resources, testing usually consists of the ELISA test only. Often, HIV testing is not even performed and people are diagnosed on the basis of unspecific symptoms such as weight loss and diarrhea.”

“Antiretroviral drugs are another huge concern. Long term use is known to cause immunosuppression and side effects that are actually indistinguishable from AIDS. The pharmaceutical companies do not even attempt to deny this. Millions of people have been encouraged to put all their hope and trust in these drugs. I doubt that they are told that within 10 years time when they develop symptoms of ‘AIDS,’ no one will really know whether it is due to the HIV or due to the identical fatal side effects of the drugs.”

— Mukai Chimutengwende-Gordon, fifth-year medical student at Bristol University, England

“A patient [in Africa] is given an AIDS diagnosis when they have two major symptoms and one minor symptom. The major symptoms are weight loss, chronic diarrhea and chronic fever. The minor symptoms include coughing and generalized itching. It’s absurd when you understand how common these symptoms are in sub-Saharan Africa. To begin with, less than 50 percent of Africans have access to safe drinking water. Over 60 percent have no sanitation. Most African villages don’t have sewage systems. Human and animal excrements mix with the water supply. People drink this water and ingest infectious parasites and bacteria. As a result, dysentery is endemic.”

“When your intestines are full of infectious microbes, you’ll likely develop a fever. Your body will try to purge itself by expelling the bacteria…This is infectious diarrhea, and it’s incredibly common in Africa. Diarrhea drains …nutrients from the body. It weakens the immune system. When you have no safe water, you’ll have diarrhea chronically. When you have chronic diarrhea, you can’t help but to lose weight. At this point, you’ve fulfilled the major symptom criteria in the African [Bangui] definition for AIDS. The Bangui Definition simply re-labels symptoms of poverty as AIDS.”

“TB is very widespread in Africa. The typical symptoms are fever, weight loss and coughing. This is exactly what is required for an AIDS diagnosis. Malaria is the most widespread disease in Africa and tropical countries. The symptoms include fever, weight loss and fatigue. If you have a cough or itching, and you have malaria in Africa, you can be diagnosed with AIDS.”

“In some African countries, such as Tanzania, health authorities have decided that a patient exhibiting just one of the major symptoms — diarrhea, fever or weight loss — can be given an AIDS diagnosis.”

“This is hardly scientific. The idea that there should be a different kind of AIDS for Africans or Europeans or Americans defies the scientific definition of viral infection. A single virus doesn’t cause different diseases in different people or in different countries. A viral infection doesn’t vary so wildly so as to create pelvic cancer in women, Kaposi’s sarcoma in gay men, and tuberculosis in Africans. But this is what we’re asked to believe about HIV.”

“…In the meantime, Aids experts drive around the country in four-wheel-drive air-conditioned vehicles, if they are not saving the world from Aids in their comfortable offices or presenting their latest medical experiments on Africans at an overseas conference. The government has not only bought condoms for millions of dollars on credit, but borrows even more money from the industrialised countries in order to buy imprecise HIV tests and toxic Aids medications…a reader of the daily New Vision in Kampala wrote recently: ‘Most people die from malaria. So give us free mosquito nets instead of condoms and Aids medicaments.’”

“The Aids hysteria of the last 20 years was indeed politically correct, but led to a neglect of other far more important aspects in health care…it was also to the disadvantage of people in Africa. Innumerable western companies, NGOs, international organisations and Aids experts profited from it. HIV/Aids is indeed a new disease in this world of virtual reality and Infotainment: The celebrated discoverer of HIV later admits that he could in fact never purify the virus and the supposedly deadly disease leads to a real explosion in population growth in the so-called ‘epicentre,’ the country most heavily affected [Uganda].”

“TASO — The AIDS Support Organisation [in Uganda] claims to be independent, but they’re heavily funded by the pharmaceutical industry. They’re currently constructing buildings to prepare the ground for massive HIV testing, with this non-specific, cross-reacting test, and to distribute toxic AIDS drugs. These drugs are similar or identical to chemotherapy drugs used in cancer treatment. They work by stopping cell growth. They kill your body from the inside out. These are the most toxic drugs known to medicine, and they’re being applied to the most vulnerable part of the population — pregnant mothers, unborn children and newborns — all based on a faulty test, or no test at all, while their actual food, shelter and water needs continue to be ignored.”

“The most effective way to reduce all of these infectious diseases is to improve the standard of living and hygiene for local residents — to provide safe, clean, non-stagnant water, proper sanitation, plentiful, healthy food, treated mosquito nets, proper housing and basic medical care. This is exactly how the incidence of TB and other infectious diseases was dramatically reduced in the US and Europe. What’s astounding is that the UN is recommending just the opposite.”

“The UN’s exact recommendations: to redirect billions of dollars from health, infrastructure and rural development into AIDS — condoms, safe sex lectures and deadly pharmaceuticals. This is not what these already suffering people need to be healthy and successful. This is exactly how to propagate death, disease and poverty.”

Scheff, Aids Debate, Boston Dig

— Dr. Christian Fiala, MD, PhD, specialist in OB/Gyn, Vienna, Austria; Member of President Mbeki's AIDS Advisory Board

“It seems to me that when you’re looking for the cause of a disease, you’re looking for commonalities, not differences. AIDS in the United States is characterized by such things as severe immunosuppression and characteristic opportunistic infections like Kaposi’s sarcoma and candidiasis, whereas in Africa it’s associated with other symptoms like wasting disease. [In Africa], they’ve always had the wasting disease and the malaria. Other parasitic diseases come to mind. Having an infection with the HIV virus doesn’t predispose you to getting these diseases. People in that environment get them because they’re in the environment that exposes them to those sorts of infectious agents.”

“The virus should cause the same disease, and it clearly doesn’t in Africa. They’ve just taken all the old diseases, combined with HIV, and called it AIDS. But a lot of people in Africa just have the same diseases they’ve always had.”

Null, “AIDS: A Second Opinion” Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, June 2000

— Dr. Mark Chanley, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas

“Duesberg and Ellison’s case against HIV is bolstered by the many cases that defy the HIV-only theory. In Rwanda, for example, I learned of the case of an international prostitute who gave birth to twins. The seronegative baby died from AIDS, while the seropositive one lived. There is still a lot of rethinking to be done regarding HIV and its relationship with AIDS, and Professor Duesberg has been right to insist over the past four years that the debate should not be closed.”

“Prior to the days of Aids in Ghana, dozens of fatal diseases ranging from TB to various cancers caused a death per day, on my ward alone of 34 beds. Today, because of Aids, it seems that Africans are not allowed to die from these conditions any longer.”

“...Why do the world’s media appear to have conspired with some scientists to become so gratuitously extravagant with the untruth?”

Duesberg, “Inventing the Aids Virus”

“Where there was ‘AIDS’ there was money. A brand-new clinic, a new Mercedes parked outside, high-paying jobs...A leading African physician warned us, ‘You will never get these doctors to tell you the truth. When they get sent to these AIDS conferences around the world, the per diem they receive is equal to what they can earn in a whole year at home.’”

“If tens of thousands [of Africans] are dying from AIDS, (and Africans do not cremate their dead), where are the graves?”

Lancet, July 25, 1987

— Dr. Felix Konotey-Ahulu, MD, a Ghanaian physician at London’s Cromwell Hospital

“‘1-IN-5 SOUTH AFRICANS ARE HIV-POSITIVE!’ ‘20% OF ALL SOUTH AFRICANS WILL DIE OF AIDS!’

“Figures for…HIV and AIDS in South Africa and Africa are grasped at and freely quoted ad nauseum by those who would have us believe that sub-Saharan Africa is being ravaged…by the biggest threat to ever face the continent. Presented as ‘facts,’ these figures seldom, if ever, come under serious scrutiny in the media and in the medical profession. Yet, even a slight scratch at the surface exposes a massive deception…The purpose of this article is to expose the reader to some of the critical questions that have to be asked of these misleading, if not deceitful, figures…”

“Have you ever wondered how it is that this HI-virus is able to be as discerning and selective as it is? In North America and Europe, it is able to discern and infect homosexuals…intravenous drug users, organ recipients, and recipients of blood products. In Africa, it selects people involved in heterosexual relationships for transmission, and the warning goes out that sexual promiscuity is the way in which the virus is spread. Even with my own limited understanding of viruses, this makes absolutely no sense…”

“The continent of Africa has been ravaged for many decades by all the problems that have been classically regarded as causing severe immune deficiencies…severe malnutrition, repeated infections, incompleted courses of…antibiotics, poor nutrition and sanitation, unhygienic medical conditions, abuse of various substances…Each one of these in itself has been clearly researched and documented as the cause of the destruction of the human immune system. Yet, it is these identical illnesses that are now being blamed on the HI-virus. Are we to believe that the elimination of the virus will lead to a massive decline in these historically common immune deficiency problems in Africa?”

“…The problem is that most people diagnosed as HIV+ in Africa have never been subject to a blood test, and most doctors in sub-Saharan Africa have come to list almost all forms of severe illness as AIDS. In Zambia the word that used to be used for ‘wasting sickness’ has simply been transferred for use as ‘HIV/AIDS’; therefore, where people used to have ‘wasting sickness,’ they now have ‘HIV/AIDS’! This means that any figures for HIV & AIDS in Africa are generally little more than the proverbial thumbsuck!”

“Aggravating the entire picture, is the use of seemingly wonderful statistical projections which are no more than projections based on estimates based on nothing! To date, no proper statistical analysis of the prevalence of HIV & AIDS has been done in any African country…a proper random representative sampling of the population…which are then subject to a blood test (the credibility of which is highly dubious, producing over 50% false positives in many cases) to determine the actual prevalence of HIV & AIDS...”

“Can a virus be as discerning and selective as the HI-virus is said to be, when there is no other such virus? How can we simply throw out the African history of immune deficiencies, and reclassify most of them as AIDS at the stroke of a pen? Of what real value can the Bangui definition for AIDS in Africa really be, except to cause mass hysteria and unnecessary harm? Who’s fooling who with all these statistics based on nothing, and figures based on thumbsucks at best?”

First Aids, Figures For Africa, The Edge

— Rev. Dr. Charles de Jongh, D.Litt et Phil, D. Ed candidate (Higher Education), Lecturer in Biblical and Pastoral Studies at Baptist Theological College, Johannesburg, South Africa.