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Find out more about dissident scientists
Learn more about Zackie Achmat and TAC
Scan demographic statistics of South Africans with AIDS
Update on availability of drugs in South Africa
Find out more about dissident scientists.
While researching AIDS online, South African President Thabo Mbeki came across several websites that put forth the theory that the AIDS virus is not caused by HIV. We present the following links to enable you the opportunity to read over these arguments first-hand, with the stipulation that P.O.V. and PBS do not endorse any of the content or arguments presented on these websites.
Peter Duesberg on AIDS
Professor Peter Duesberg has been at the forefront of a campaign asserting that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. He serves on the board of Rethinking AIDS, an organization whose president Roberto Giraldo was appointed to serve on the South African Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel. His website contains a bibliography of his publications and an FAQ outlining his position on the HIV/AIDS connection.
VirusMyth.com
This website contains articles by people who think AIDS is not connected to HIV and puts forth other theories about the cause of AIDS.
Alive and Well AIDS Alternatives
This website promotes the theories presented in the book, "What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS was Wrong?" by Christine Magiorre.
Roberto Giraldo
Papers and editorials proposing that AIDS is caused not by HIV, but by repeated exposure to pollutants in soil, water, air and food.
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Learn more about Zackie Achmat and TAC.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power examines South Africa's most prominent AIDS activist in an article entitled "The AIDS Rebel" originally published in "The New Yorker" magazine in May 2003.
Village Voice: AIDS: The Agony of Africa
In part 7 of this Pulitzer-prize winning series, entitled "South Africa Acts Up," journalist Mark Schoofs takes a look at the efforts of Zackie Achmat, Mercy Makhalemele and others who organized in the late 90s to ask the government to fight AIDS more aggressively.
TAC: Treatment Action Campaign
The advocacy organization started by Zackie Achmat and others in 1998. Their stated purpose is "fighting for affordable treatment for people with HIV."
Time Europe — Heroes of 2003: Zackie Achmat
Find out more about activist Zackie Achmat in this article.
Scan demographic statistics of South Africans with AIDS.
South Africa has sub-Saharan Africa's biggest economy and is a leading contributor to peacekeeping on the continent, having big deployments in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi. But with about 4.7 million of its 45 million population HIV positive, US officials have privately expressed alarm about the impact of AIDS on its armed forces.
BBCi — AIDS in Africa: The Orphaned Continent
AIDS kills some 6,000 people each day in Africa — more than wars, famines and floods. Millions of children are orphans, many more live with HIV or AIDS. This special report, with a case study of South Africa, correspondents' dispatches, key facts, audio, video and interviews, asks why the devastation continues. (2000)
AIDS Foundation of South Africa
Click on "AIDS in South Africa" for up-to-date statistics and other data about the impact of HIV and AIDS on the South African population.
UN's Human Development Report
An international league table (PDF) in this year's report, published in August 2003, showed South Africa sliding backwards into underdevelopment, primarily because of the economic impact of HIV/ AIDS. (source: Financial Times, July 11, 2003)
UNAIDS: South Africa
Navigate through a list for information on AIDS statistics and the programs of UNAIDS in South Africa.
Update on availability of drugs in South Africa.
Follow this developing story in State of Denial's Update section and in the "News Portals" area of the Resource section.
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