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August 30

Scouts' successful ban
on gays is followed by
loss in support


"The secret of my
success"


Nigeria wants debt relief
tied to anti-AIDS fight


Clinton's visit is reminder
of crisis


Clinton addresses
women's role in war
against AIDS in Africa


Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka protests abscence of
health minister


Abalaka offers to submit
HIV vaccines to
lawmakers


How I discovered my
HIV vaccine - Abalaka


Chinese in Cameroon
do healthy trade


WHO cautions on
Urine Therapy


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Ugandan Gov Halts Alternative Aids Conf

Conference details
Dissident AIDS
Confrence in Uganda



August 29

AIDS preventable,
Clinton tells Nigerians


Nigerian press briefing by
Sandra Thurman and
Susan Rice


Syphilis: 'New World'
may not have been first


China tackles
used-syringe scandal


A sticky issue:
Needle safety


Global library forum
set for Nairobi


Most don’t drink enough water-and know it


August 28

Clinton says
Africa must
face up to Aids


11 deaths following UK meningitis vaccinations were hidden

Personal becomes political for Aids--marijuana
advocate


SF and the
Ryan White Act


Unlucky victims of the parasite that survives
despite huge odds


Gentle remedies


August 27

Drug, Biotech sectors embrace Bush--but just barely

SA HIV-Positive patient threatens to sue Hospital

AIDS drug tested in Dominican Rep

Huge USAID funding for African countries to fight AIDS

Unicef pleads for Kenya's starving millions

Calypte's shares surge after Chinese approval for HIV test

Elevated HIV RNA and low CD4 cell counts predict self-reported AIDS in
women


Health workers warned on Aids risk at Glaxo function

Shots fired over kids' vaccinations


August 25

A hand outstretched

Hospital marks files of HIV/AIDS patients

Tests show `sick building'
illnesses are real


Silence, complacency are growing HIV complications

Cidofovir clears severe molluscum contagiosum in children with AIDS

India
Truckers get giveaway condoms to check AIDS


August 24

Aids Girl looses appeal must return by 20th Sep

Congressional report slams FDA, CDC policies on disclosure

DuPont halts Sustiva ads FDA called 'misleading'

Children with tuberculosis should
be screened for HIV infection


Glaxo says HIV drug problems
well known


Viral genomic detection required
in seronegative HIV infection


Tshabalala declares support for traditional healers

FDA grants Amarillo's Veldona orphan status to treat oral warts in
HIV patients



August 23

'Live' online chat with Newsweek's
David France


Loans to buy AIDS drugs are rejected
by Africans


Do races differ? Not really,
DNA shows


Girl with AIDS fights a Wisconsin return

Clinton signs trust fund bill for fighting AIDS and tuberculosis worldwide

4-drug HAART regimen yields better
viral response than 3-drug regimen


Cyclists hit the road in Aids fund raiser

Bacterial DNA allergy vaccine to be further tested in humans


August 22

Dissenting Scientists to hold AIDS Confrence in Uganda

European authorities warn of Abacavir hypersensitivity

UN body shuns Nigerian Aids
cure controversy


Abalaka sheds light on the unseen forces behind the scene

Glaxo ready to give up one Cantab
vaccine


Higher utilization - new drugs increased drug spending

Marijuana aids nerve pain relief

Malaria, 'Mother of Fevers'


August 21

Newsweek
features Aids
Dissidents


Maggiore feature story on Newseek

The Aids Debate on Newsweek

Aids declines though high-risk behaviors continue

The bare truth: Can unprotected sex
ever be safe?


AIDS dissidents cause a stir

Girl with AIDS undecided about whether to return

India
Study: Change in behaviour of high-risk groups


August 19

Congressman demands probe of
S.F. Aids group


Clinton moves against Aids
in Africa


Better survival rates for respiratory failure in HIV patients

Leon offers Mbeki the peace pipe

Britan to assist retrenched Lesotho miners

Treatment of Mozambicans Probed

Roche drug slowdown spooks investors

Australia approves first heroin injecting room

FDA may blacklist importers of defective condoms

Geldof gets on board charity trading game


August 18

Students in sexual orgy after getting condoms

‘Throw Swazi Aids victims in camps’

African-American adolescents don't get STD screen

11-year-olds treated for sex diseases

Experts review use of antenatal steroids

Judge wants girl with AIDS back from Arizona

State seeks public input on HIV reporting plan

Roche confirms worrying drugs slowdown

Angels in America


August 17

Enrolled in a study? You should know who stands to gain

Clinton names 1st US envoy on Aids

Presidents statement on Thurman's appointment as Aids envoy

Physicians to take a more active role in reducing HIV/Aids crisis

Researchers take another look at contraceptive, AIDS risks

UNAIDS addresses HIV interventions in migrant populations

Early pathogenic events affect rate of HIV disease progression

British health chief oks wider human embryo cloning


August 16

Oliver Tambo lecture delivered by SA President, Thabo Mbeki

Newest disease detectives report to CDC

Girl with AIDS firm on staying in Phoenix

More Thai men dying prematurely

Drugs tested on Army 'deviants'

America's most unwanted

The miseducation of Nushawn Williams

Irish Prisoners are healthier than the general public


August 15

Which is true?
Drugs Cut HIV in Semen

Which is true?
Drugs DON'T Cut HIV in Semen

Doctors, don't let Mbeki scare you - De Lille

Health minister holds back
Aids drug


Mbeki 'race' clash with opposition over Aids

ALRP critical of HIV testing provision in proposed Care Act

Questioning Research

A Diagnosis Excess?

Counsellor's funeral confronts
Aids pandemic


DA fires broadside on Aids and rape

Experts focus on psychological aspects of Gulf War illness

Chickens fly coop as West Nile sentinels

Alternative therapies may help cancer patients cope

Study: Acupuncture helps cocaine addicts


August 14

Physicians should be aware of the limitations of tests for HIV

Botswana introduces HIV disclosure law

Ethiopia prey to a deceptive
'green famine'


Possible resurgence of rickets seen

Female circumcision goes underground in Tanzania

Two more Staten Island residents test positive for west nile virus


August 13

Potency traditional medicines recognized by research institute

Zimbabwe: Cheap therapies trials begin next month

Get tested - Get a free ticket to a gospel concert - WOW

UN calls for effective anti-AIDS programmes

Alive & Well letter to Sandra Thurman

HIV-infected Police afraid to tell fellow officers in N.Y.

Court: Pharmacists not obligated to warn about dangerous side effects

Doctors in £27m health fraud probe

Botswana plans HIV disclosure law

AIDS, Abalaka and the burden of Africa


August 12

ACT UP pair charged in S.F. assault


Prevention effort to focus more on those infected

The grim picture of health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Botswana introduces nationwide Aids counselling

State makes offer to vistims of infected blood

Boy born with HIV appears virus-free

Cognitive decline may signal encephalopathy in HIV-infected infants

Innovative HIV interventions needed for very young gay and bisexual men

Bristol-Myers issues letter about change in Videx dosing

Women treated with AIDS meds -resistant HIV-1 in cervicovaginal
secretions


Bayer with BTSB officer RTE report claims

Combination of stavudine and
zidovudine inferior
to stavudine alone


Buchanan assails GOP, Bush for running away from Homosexual issue

Barriers Hindering the education of Asian-Americans about AIDS


August 11

Jump in HIV infections brings call for new prevention programs

Zimbabwe to start testing AIDS drugs next month

Biotech firm seeks funding for AIDS tests

Calypte's HIV-1 urine test for Sub-Saharan Africa

California supreme court rules in favor of AIDS disability claim

Tropical disease could fight Aids

The AIDS pandemic - what cure?

United Nations groups call for political will on HIV/AIDS

Liberia earmarks $6.5 million for HIV/AIDS programme

Red Cross initiatives to reverse Africa's health problems

Killer AIDS stalks Malawi's corridors of power


August 10

AIDS threatens a careless generation

S.F. charity CEO's spending raises alarm

Botswana considers retroviral drug provision

Kenya seeks Sh3 billion for Aids projects

Seminar on treatment costs for AIDS mothers & babies to be held in Cape Town

SA: Religious sector joins hands against HIV/AIDS

SADC summit confronts health challenges

Bad Doctors going unpunished

West Nile virus 'more of a scare than a problem'

A probe of Puerto Rico?

Irish TV station, RTE, rejects claim on gay content

Is it Lyme? Doctors debate diagnosis, treatment of tick -borne illness

AIDS estimates: Thakur questions varying figures of U.N. agencies


August 9

Nigeria: 142 AIDS patients sue over ban on Abalaka vaccines

Out of the closet the AIDS epidemic has a new face

$250,000 AIDS-care grant given to MCO

Calgery: Gay sex leading HIV cause in city

CMV retinitis rates decline as HAART use increases

Novel method used to estimate cost of treating people with HIV

AIDS activists begin hunger strike

Canada's NSERC to fund collaborative research in fungal genomics

Drug samples sway physicians' prescribing habits

God, Science and HIV: A case study in how to distort an argument

HIV-infected children fare worse when living with biological parent

HCV activist group criticizes community coalitions supported by Schering-Plough

Doctors Exposed

Ministry promises to fund Israel Aids Task Force

Bombay seeks 'rat catchers' in effort to stem disease

AIDS comparison made

Gay center shifts focus to age, diversity issues

Scouts' gay ban imperils funding

US teen birth rates continue to fall


August 8

SADC Ministers back Aids
Drugs call


Two separate crowds address HIV controversies

Mandela appeals to donors worldwide to help fight HIV - AIDS

SA: Tons of medical waste found in house

Living standards and childhood leukemia

Discussing sex imparts attitudes to teens


August 7

Southern African summit begins

Probe into infants' mysterious drip deaths


Foundation gives Harvard $45 million to fight TB

Canada tainted blood deal offered


August 6

Access to HIV drug Kaletra to be expanded

Drug company accused of skirting Maine law

WHO assails new report on
breast-Feeding


Mom pickets military over son's illness


family lauded for revealing a member's Aids status

Lethal superbug at large in Britain

Haggling 'makes the poor poorer

High hopes for herbs


August 5

HIV-positive cops struggle in secrecy

Tuberculosis: risk to AIDS patients

Experimental anti-cancer drug also has anti-HIV properties

In China, denial of AIDS reality

Piercing opens possibilities of serious illnesses


Angolas civil war facilitating spread of AIDS

Drug makers rip off African AIDS victims

AIDS Network marks 15 years

Scrub typhus infection suppresses HIV-1 viral load

One million Aids deaths in Uganda

Suicidal thoughts more prevalent in older HIV-infected individuals

Tobacco Industry Revealed


August 4

Prison Aids policy on trial

Few doctors trained to treat HIV patients

Medical studies in China questioned

Movement leadership is killing Ugandans more than HIV/AIDS

Kampala: Free services at AIDS show

Hospital gets new Aids tool

Man kicks wife out home after she tests HIV+

Chemicals are threat to unborn daughters

Mosquito attacks its own problem

Salon.com: Letters to the editor


August 3

HIV used to collect debts

Ampligen viewed as next hope for HIV antiretroviral resistance

Stress, poor social support associated with faster progression to AIDS

Bone marrow biopsy can provide rapid diagnosis in febrile HIV-infected patients

Plasmid DNA potentially useful component of HIV vaccine

Multiple factors explain lack of HIV-1 transmission betweenserodiscordant
partners


'Traveling' Doctors go where the need is

Zulu king warns against AIDS
pandemic

Mother convinced vaccinations are to blame

The unexpected comeback of
tuberculosis


[In German]

Study may force re-think on
rheumatoid arthritis



August 2

AIDS vaccine for unborn passes animal test

Uganda AIDS infections
drop, deaths up


Circumcise call to halt Aids virus in Africa

Kaposi sarcoma sometimes responds to thalidomide therapy

Moving the Mountain

Needle exchange for drug users at risk of HIV

AIDS charity switching focus
to education


AIDS show to give oral sex condoms

Computers used to track West Nile virus

India
HC bans advertisement on
AIDS cure


Centre objects to AIDS figures of
U.N. agencies



August 1

Syphilis shocker

San Francisco 'New rise in HIV rate rings alarms'

Thousands Zambians died last year of AIDS-related
diseases


Pelosi seeks to minimize cuts in City's federal AIDS funding

Oregon drug deaths decline

Dead Crows fuel West Nile concern

Transcript: Steve Sternberg answers questions on AIDS


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Protestors Get Net-Savvy
New 30th Aug Whether keeping track of imprisoned protesters, swapping tips or sharing the specifics of the next rally, the Internet has become an indispensable medium to expand the protest base and circumvent traditional news sources.

From The Electrohippies

MythTV News in
5 Languages
From 28 Aug, the Go.com translator is available in 5 languages on Aidsmyth News. It will translate this page & also any stories linked from this page. Choose a language option above.


Christine Maggiore on Fox
23rd Aug 1:00pm PST
interviewed by Linda Vestry

Maggiore makes Newsweek
New 21st Aug MSNBCNewsweek features a story on Christine Maggiore. Unusually, it presents dissident arguments, without a hysterical reaction to her views. Interesting?!
See News 21 Aug, at right


Acquired Intelligence
Deficiency Syndrome

New 18th Aug
Press release from CDC and CIA:
New incurable disease ALERT:
A deadly and irreversible irrational belief caused by a mental retrovirus called HIV (Human Intelligence-Deficiency Virus)


Beware: Three Gay Stooges
New 17th Aug
Outlining their plans recently to the SF Board of Supervisors, were Aids Stooges Mitch Katz, Tom Coates
& Mike Shriver

by David Pasquerelli,
ACT UP SF


We can Become Very E-fluential
The AidsMyth-Buster
uses a mass marketing strategy similar to that developed by Burston Marsteller - advisors to leading Pharma Corps.
Are you E-fluential?

by
Fintan Dunne



Dissidents need to Get Real
New 14th August
With monolithic news organisations pushing the party line on Aids, dissidents need to become more media savvy and use novel means to communicate effectively, writes
Martin Kaufman




Doubting Aids meds activism
ACT-UP Larry Kramer's
July eulogy for activist and POZ writer Stephen Gendin.

This extraordinary speech shows the dilemma of mainstream activism. In it Kramer complains the movement "gave the drug companies our bodies to make poisons that kill HIV & us too"
Dr Alan Cantwell,
Aids author, responds




Christine Maggiore on KLOS
New 9th August
Long interview on Los Angeles Radio KLOS, August 7th. She talks about her experiences at the Durban AIDS Conference, including meeting Winnie Mandela and Judge Cameron. She also takes calls from listeners.
Windows Media Format


Radio Free Act Up
Saturday, August 5
from 5 to 7 pm PST

..why HIV testing is flawed
..recent Christine Johnson forum
..fallout from the barebackers
..report Indian action group
...and more
In San Francisco 93.7 fm
or Webcast
http://interzone.org/radio



__AIDSMYTH ALERT__
If you have taken Ziagen
and side-effects made you
discontinue or holiday the drug:


Resuming Ziagen
may be fatal

due to toxic shock type reaction


Ziagen Warning Issued
4th Aug Glaxo Wellcome has issued a warning for its anti-HIV medication Ziagen after reports of allergic reactions affecting 5% of patients. Some of these reactions were were fatal. Despite this, Glaxo have buried the warning on their Ziagen.com website- without fanfare.
Glaxo Ziagen Warning Webpage
Our hack
Ziagen.com site


Exploring Aids
4th Aug More Articles Added
Now over twenty feature articles
Drawn from the best of AidsMyth.


Gary Null Aids Special
Gary Null, has scheduled a powerful, two-day radio special on "AIDS in Africa" which will be broadcast live from NOON to 1:00 PM (EST) on Thursday, August 3rd,
and Friday, August 4th.
3pm EST here
Netcast Details



Mutilated by SA Military
New 30th July
A new investigation has revealed a secret project during apartheid, to 'cure' homosexuals by giving them sex changes. To this day dozens of victims of the program are crippled and disfigured, stranded halfway between male and female by incomplete sex-change operations performed by the SADF.
Mail & Guardian


Mbeki gets award:
Newsmaker of the year
'My plea to the media is:
Use your freedom, roundly criticize the Government as is your right, which we are committed to defend, but do not simply hit out without cause or reflection.




Durban Report
by Anita Allen

New 21st July The Durban Aids Conference revealed great hypocrisy in the Aids debate, writes Anita Allen in her Durban Report:
Shoveling out the Aids Controversy


Durban Report
by Christine Maggiore

New 19th July From an anonymous Interent Cafe in Durban, a busy but heartened Christine Maggiore sends this report on her exhibit at the Durban Conference in South Africa




Mandela shines as AIDS
Conference comes to an end
New July 15th Mandela referred to Mbeki 'as a man
of great intellect who takes scientific thinking very seriously.'


Letter to Clinton, Schröder,
July 13th From Karl Krafeld and Dr. Stefan Lanka


AIDS 'dissidents' praise Mbeki
July 13th Charles Geshekter, a scientist on Mbeki's panel, said estimates of nearly 34 million people living with HIV-AIDS were hugely exaggerated and that only a small fraction were actually dying of AIDS.


Mainstream panel scientists 'embarrassingly ill-prepared'
July 13th AIDS 'dissident' Charles Geshekter interviewed Geshekter says 'The emphasis in the AIDS fight is wrong. There should instead be a march for toilets and clean water, for food rather than AZT or nevirapine.'




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