Letter to Uganda's "The Monitor" from Alex Russell and Winfred Mwebe

19th November, 1999 (published November 27, 1999)

Dear Editor,

Despite the Western myth that ‘HIV’ originated in Africa there is no scientific proof that anyone in Africa is ‘HIV’ positive. Prof. Gordon Stewart wrote in The Lancet (21st August, 1999): “…why has HIV never been isolated by electron-microscopy or gradient ultracentrifugation from co-culture cellular material from any African patient?”

The other Western myth is that Africa has an ‘AIDS’ pandemic and can only be saved with expensive, toxic, ‘anti-viral’ drugs. South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki recently publicly stated that he would not endorse the use of the ‘AIDS’ drug AZT in his country due to its extreme toxicity. What is nominated as ‘AIDS’ in Africa is merely the relabelling of older conditions such as TB, malaria, malnutrition and poverty. President Yoweri Museveni last year stated that 68% of Uganda’s population lived in poverty. It is poverty which induces immune suppression and malnutrition.

The myth of ‘HIV’ is used in Africa for population control and to police sexual practice. The fact is that ‘HIV’ particles have never been seen, isolated or recovered from uncultured blood or plasma. People need to be informed that there are no ‘HIV’ or ‘AIDS’ pandemics in Africa and make their protests heard at the Durban World AIDS Conference next yeare. Don’t let Western AIDS Imperialism control and kill you.

Yours sincerely,
Alex Russel, Continuum Magazine Assistant Editor
Winfred Mwebe, Continuum African Community Liaison