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Health and Disease - HIV and AIDS

AIDS vaccine: Efficacy, safety and ethics
A review of laboratory and clinical studies over the past decades since the identification of AIDS disease raises serious questions over the efficacy, safety and ethics of current vaccines against AIDS
Drs. Veljko Veljkovic, Nevena Veljkovic, Sanja Glisic and Mae-Wan Ho 29th July 2008

Controversy Over European Framework Programme AIDS Vaccines
One Italian researcher is taking another to court over criticisms of an AIDS vaccine. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho uncovers a dangerous vaccine project funded by the European Union and demands a halt on all clinical trials and a suspension of the project
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 12th October 2007

New Strategy HIV Vaccine Fails
This latest failure heightens concerns that the vaccine strategy may be fundamentally flawed and hence unsafe and unethical. Full disclosure of clinical and scientific data must be made mandatory.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 11th October 2007

Let Us Live and Let Them Die
A WHO staff member's parting salvo to the international health agency and its neoliberal approach to health
Sam Burcher 12th April 2007

Concentrating Exclusively on Sexual Transmission of HIV is Misplaced
Current medical interventions concentrate exclusively on addressing sexual transmission of HIV while much higher rates of non-sexual transmission are being ignored
Dr. Mae-wan Ho 5th April 2007

Beyond the HIV-Causes-AIDS Model
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho follows the trail of how a bad mathematical model has misled AIDS policies with disastrous consequences, and recent attempts to find a better model
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 3rd April 2007

On Quitting HIV
A powerful indictment of the HIV causes AIDS hypothesis from a mathematician who worked on it for ten years
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th March 2007

Women Confront Aids in Africa
WHO report puts Aids as the leading cause of death worldwide amon g people aged 15-59 , and female HIV infection rates now supersede that of men in some areas. African women are challenging the social issues that surround HIV/Aids to cut the death toll
Sam Burcher 4th March 2007

Unraveling AIDS
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Selenium Conquers AIDS?
Sam Burcher reports on a nutritional hypothesis with possible implications for prevention and treatment of the global pandemic
Sam Burcher 20th July 2004

Can Exercise Help Prevent & Treat Aids?
Dr. Veljko Velkovic presents evidence on how exercise may help treat and prevent AIDS, and if so, the simplest, most widely available and affordable natural 'vaccine' is being ignored.
Dr. Veljko Velkovic 6th April 2004

"Pink Panacea", at last a vaccine against AIDS?
Sam Burcher reports on an unconventional vaccine that could provide treatment for AIDS
Sam Burcher 3rd April 2004

Alternative AIDS Therapy from Cheap Generics
Conventional combination treatments for HIV/AIDS cost $22 000 per patient per year in the US. Do cheaper and less toxic drugs exist?
Sam Burcher and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 2nd April 2004

Can Traditional Medicine Help AIDS?
While billions of dollars have been pledged to help the worst affected, many of the poorest countries are still left without the medical support available in the west, and up to 80% of the population must rely on traditional medicine for primary healthcare.
Sam Burcher 1st April 2004

African AIDS Epidemic?
An estimated 26.6 million in Sub-Saharan Africa are living with HIV/AIDS, according to official figures. But critics say these statistics are nothing more than hype shrouded in smoke and mirrors.
Sam Burcher 31st March 2004

Aids & HIV?
Does HIV cause AIDS? Is AIDS a single disease? Do anti-viral drugs really help?
Dr Mae-Wan Ho 30th March 2004

AIDS the Global Pandemic?
Frightening figures on the AIDS pandemic make headlines all over the world. But do the figures conceal the real causes of human suffering?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 25th March 2004

AIDS Vaccines Worse Than Useless?
The US administration is offering AIDS-ravaged nations support for fighting AIDS tied to the purchase of GM products. The main anti-AIDS strategy is a class of vaccines that carries its own risks. Prominent AIDS researchers have called repeatedly for a moratorium as evidence of hazards accumulates.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 17th June 2003

Doubts Deepen over Safety of AIDS Vaccines
Another key AIDS vaccine is abandoned before phase III trial. This latest setback comes at the end of a string of failures in developing vaccines that may be worse than useless
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1st May 2002

AIDS-Vaccines Trials Dangerous
Vaccine developers and United Nation agencies are pushing for largescale clinical trials of AIDS vaccines in vulnerable Third World populations ravaged by the AIDS
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 27th July 2001

GM AIDS Virus More Deadly
Researchers have been creating one deadly virus after another in the laboratory, and the latest is ‘SHIV’, a hybrid between the human and monkey AIDS virus containing human interleukin genes that suppress immune response against viruses.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 19th July 2001

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