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John Lauritsen ”The Social Epidemic: Battling HIV in sub–Saharan Africa” by Elizabeth Gudrais (September–October 2010) echoes the prevailing myths about ”AIDS” in Africa, without ever coming to grips with the real issues. Although Africa has supposedly been devastated by “AIDS”, the population in South Africa, Uganda and elsewhere on the continent has grown. ”AIDS” in Africa is not the same as “AIDS” in Europe and North America; in both it is a new name for old diseases. altheal.org/statistics/fiala.htm The sad reality is that most people in Africa are poor – so poor they can’t even get clean drinking water. The goal should be to eliminate poverty and unsanitary living conditions, rather than providing unvalidated “HIV” tests and harmful and worthless drugs. The sub–article (”The Politics of Paying for HIV Care”) gets to the point: “Harvard’s PEPFAR program has paid for antiretroviral therapy (ART) for more than 130,000 people….” That is, profits for Big Pharma. The drugs being marketed to Africa – AZT and Nevirapine – are toxic and have no benefits demonstrated through honest, double–blind, placebo–controlled studies. To my knowledge there is no proof that “AIDS” is caused by HIV–1 (North America and Europe), by HIV–2 (Africa), or by any other infectious agent. If there is such proof, Harvard Magazine would do us all a service by publishing an article stating the HIV–AIDS hypothesis in a clear and falsifiable manner, marshalling evidence for that hypothesis, and answering criticisms made by AIDS critics (dissidents/rethinkers) like myself. John Lauritsen | |||||||