2006 Awards (Announced June 24, 2007)

S.A.R.A Category	Recipient	Citation
S (Scribe)	Celia Farber	Celia Farber’s article “Out of control: AIDS and the corruption of medical science” started a firestorm of squealing and protestations from the AIDS establishment which only got louder after the publication of her book “Serious Adverse Events”. Celia’s enormous sensitivity and humanity cause her to feel the pain and anguish caused by the HIV=AID$=Death dogma more than most people. Her continued journalism in the face of vicious attacks shows extraordinary courage. The other nominees for this award were Anthony Liversidge and Stephen Davis.
A (Activist)	Stephen Davis	Stephen Davis has been a dynamo in 2006, setting up a variety of new dissident websites, each with their own focus, including Help4HIV.com providing video and audio podcasts, LivingWithoutHIVDrugs.com for the life stories of HIV-positive people not taking drugs, and sites for the Guinea Pig Kids video and his own excellent book, blending accurate technical information on the HIV=AIDS scam into a gripping courtroom drama. Stephen has also been frequently interviewed on the radio. Stephen’s energy is exhilarating and inspiring. The other nominee for this award was Anthony Brink from South Africa. URL: http://theaidstrial.com/
R (Researcher)	Rebecca Culshaw	Rebecca Culshaw is a mathematician who used to work on HIV mathematical models until she became disenchanted with the HIV/AIDS theory. She boldly announced her rethinking in an online essay “Why I quite HIV”. Her thoughts and analysis of what’s wrong with the theory are described in more detail in her book “Science Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?”. It is particularly brave for a young researcher to speak out especially knowing that standing up for what you believe to be the truth has ended the careers of several AIDS rethinkers. Another nominee for this award was David Rasnick. URL: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/culshaw1.html
A (Administrator)	Kevin Borick	Kevin Borick is a senior criminal lawyer in Adelaide, South Australia, who succeeded in putting HIV on trial as part of the defence of Andre Parenzee, charged with several counts of criminal endangerment for having sex without revealing his positive HIV status. Kevin has worked this exhausting case at no charge to his client. Starting from a position of not knowing anything about alternative theories of HIV and AIDS, Kevin has created masterful arguments that became so dangerous that one of the inventors of HIV and AIDS, Robert Gallo, felt compelled to testify. URL: http://garlan.org/Cases/Parenzee
H (Healer)	Mohammed Al-Bayati	Mohammed Al-Bayati has testified in numerous trials where parents have been falsely accused of causing the death of their own children. Most of these have not involved HIV/AIDS but in 2005 and 2006 Dr. Al-Bayati was central to defending Christine Maggiore from serious criminal charges by showing that the LA Country coroner’s conclusion that her daughter Eliza Jane died of AIDS was incorrect, and that the unfortunate death was probably caused by an allergic reaction to amoxicillin. Dr. Al-Bayati is also on the board of Alive & Well and is author of the book “Get All The Facts: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS”. Other nominees for this award were Tine van der Maas, Roberto Giraldo and Matt Irwin. URL: http://toxi-health.com

2005 Awards (Announced 3/19/2006)

S.A.R.A Category	Recipient	Citation
S (Scribe)	Anita Allen	Anita Allen deserves recognition for all the hard work she put in the alternative HIV/AIDS movement and of her social and scientific criticism of the African “AIDS” pandemic. She continues to expand the discussion/explanation of the HIV/AIDs phenomenon within a broad socio-economic as well as scientific framework. Her concern with poor African women and children, the current target of the AIDS industry and its poisonous drugs, should be the current focus of all in the dissident movement as it represents a true crime against humanity, given the many uncertainties around the realities of AIDS, the validity of HIV testing and potential long-term risk of antiretrovirals and on the developing fetus/infant.
A (Activist)	Christine Maggiore	Alive and Well, the organization that Christine Maggiore founded, saves lives by giving people accurate scientific information about HIV and about AIDS. She is a powerful individual who has furthered the debate about AIDS by framing the questions in a logical manner that average people understand, allowing them to make informed decisions regarding HIV and AIDS. In the aftermath of her daughter Eliza Jane’s tragic death Christine has shown that she is model of wisdom, integrity and courage for all dissidents, especially those who are HIV-positive. She is still able to find the strength to challenge the orthodoxy in every way she can, still tries to inform people about healthy lifestyles, always keeping the facts in mind.
R (Researcher)	Peter Duesberg	Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and author of “Inventing the AIDS Virus” and author of numerous scientific papers on problems with the HIV/AIDS theory. After the publication of his paper “Retroviruses as Carcinogens and Pathogens: Expectations and Reality” in the journal “Cancer Research” in 1987 he became a scientific pariah, cut off from research funding, unable to find editors willing to risk publishing his research and shunned by many of his peers. However he has persisted, and still has the courage to express his views. He could have been a biotech multi-millionaire by now, like many of his former colleagues, but he has stood up for what he believes is right. Throughout all he has preserved his wry sense of humor and has been an enormous support helping many people realize that a positive HIV test is not a death sentence.
A (Administrator)	Anthony Brink	Anthony Brink has played a leading role in raising awareness of the toxicity of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa, to the very level of Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s President. He has written many papers and several books, bringing this information to people around the world. His writing is characterized by an incredible wit and sarcastic attacks on his opponents, who he sees actively killing thousands of his countrymen through their ever shriller assertions that antiretroviral drugs are safe, even to pregnant women and their fetuses.
Special	Serge Lang	Serge Lang was a distinguished Yale mathematics professor. He stirred up controversy with his ‘files’, extensive documentation of communications with and about people he felt were guilty of unscientific practices. Some of these were document in his book ‘Challenges’. He was also a forceful advocate for the re-examination of the HIV/AIDS theory. A remembrance in the Yale University newspaper is at yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=29843. A less constrained discussion in “New AIDS Review” is at newaidsreview.org/posts/1126904973.shtml.

2004 Awards (Announced 2/27/2005)

S.A.R.A Category	Recipient	Citation
S (Scribe)	Liam Scheff	Liam Scheff first came to wide attention when he exposed the abuse of children in the name of AIDS research at the Incarnation Children’s Center in New York City in late 2003. This included threatening children with ‘the operation’ if they refused their medications – their stomachs would be cut open and a tube inserted, allowing the staff to medicate them much more easily. Liam has since written on several other AIDS-related issues, including the emerging Nevirapine drug scandal involving the National Institutes of Health. The other nominee was Anthony Brink of South Africa.
A (Activist)	Rod Knoll	The founder of the AIDSMythExposed website and discussion forum and a long time AIDS dissident. This has become an important resource, particularly for people who are new to the dissident movement. Rod has spent considerable time pointing newcomers in the right direction. Other nominees were David Pasquerelli, Roberto Giraldo, Kelly Jon Landis, Oscar Mwaanga and Paul King.
R (Researcher)	Dr. Etienne de Harven	A retired University of Toronto professor and virologist. Dr. de Harven is one of the few dissidents with direct knowledge of electron microscopy. He worked as a scientist in this field from the 1950’s until he retired. Now he devotes much of his time challenging the proof that the supposed retrovirus HIV has been isolated, according to the ‘classical’ standards laid down by him and other scientists in the 1960s. Other nominees were Peter Duesberg, Fred Cline, Liam Scheff, Matt Irwin and Anthony Brink.
A (Administrator)	David Steele	A California lawyer who is suing GlaxoSmithKline over the use of AZT for a boy pricked by a syringe. He claims, among other things, that the risk of cancer from AZT is well documented, but essentially hidden on the drug’s label. This case is very important for protecting children from coercive medication, in this case instigated by Planned Parenthood. David Steele has questioned the connection between HIV and AIDS for several years. Other nominees were Johathan Fishbein and Anthony Brink.
Special	David Pasquerelli	David Pasquarelli was a leading AIDS activist in San Francisco. His &#145;in your face&#146; tactics angered many in the establishment, even though they tolerated similar tactics from pro-drug activists. After being jailed on trumped up charges of assault, complete with false evidence, his health declined as he suffered from anemia, PCP and thrush. He died on March 8, 2004. A memorial site is at <a href=”http://www.davidpasquarelli.com”>davidpasquarelli.com</a>.

2003 Awards (Announced 3/1/2004)

S.A.R.A Category	Recipient	Citation
S (Scribe)	Rian Malan	Once upon a time Rian Malan fervently believed that HIV/AIDS was killing millions of Africans. But, after attempting to prove South African President Thabo Mbeki's skepticism wrong, he had to conclude that it was the wild statistical guesstimates coming out of WHO and UNAIDS that were wrong. He has bravely pursued his research and writing despite a considerable amount of hostility from those who defend the current dogmas.
A (Activist)	Rob Johnston (posthumous)	Robert Johnston devoted much of his energy and life to AIDS rethinking and was one of the driving forces behind HEAL Toronto. Its website still contains much of the information that he compiled. He did most of the work in producing the rebuttal to the Durban Declaration, the ‘catechism’ of AIDS dogma signed by thousands of scientists in 2000, as a reaction to South Africa President Mbeki’s attempts to open up the debate. Even while ill from cancer and chemotherapy treatments, he completed the rebuttal to the NIAID/NIH document “The Evidence that HIV Causes AIDS”. Rob’s death in early 2003 saddened AIDS rethinkers the world over.
R (Researcher)	The “Perth Group”	For more than a decade this group of scientists, originally all from Perth, Australia, but now including those from elsewhere, have investigated the accuracy of HIV tests. Eventually determining that there was no ‘gold standard’ to measure these tests against, they concluded that HIV had never been proven to exist. Their landmark paper “The Isolation of HIV - Has it Really been Achieved?” was published in the alternative AIDS magazine Continuum in 1996. These scientists have continually struggled to open the debate, writing papers that are often refused publication by journals because they ask awkward questions about current HIV/AIDS beliefs. Perhaps more importantly, their papers are extensively researched and largely contain references to mainstream HIV/AIDS papers, which would make them difficult to dismiss if published. This increases the need of the AIDS establishment to censor them.
A (Administrator)	Thabo Mbeki	Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa, has never claimed that HIV does not cause AIDS. But, simply by asking for an investigation into the question, he has managed to turn the entire AIDS establishment against him. The catechism of AIDS, the ‘Durban Declaration’, was aimed squarely at him by people who think that it is just as wrong for politicians to ask questions as for scientists.

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