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ARE 26 MILLION AFRICANS DYING OF

AIDS?"The Biggest Lie of the Century" Under Fire

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By Baffour n!omah

New Africane#. $%%&

1st December is "World AIDS Day". In the run-up to it, the AIDS stablishment has been issuin! somedubious fi!ures about a "pandemic" of AIDS in Africa. # documentaries to be broadcast on, or before, 1

December ha$e been lined up in %ritain and elsewhere to reinforce the stablishment line. %ut how

accurate are these fi!ures& 'ne African doctor calls it "the bi!!est lie of the century". (oan Shenton, theaward-winnin! %ritish # producer and )ournalist says "it*s all bad science". +ortunately, the e$idence on

the !round in Africa so far doesn*t support the "pandemic" fi!ures. %affour Anomah reports.

The balan#e sheet of "fri#an '(" for the year $%%& loo!s li!e this: ugust: "new #lass" of )'*+ the virus said to #ause

'(+ was "dis#overed" in a Cameroonian woman by Fren#h resear#hers in ,aris. The new virus is said to be so different to allother strains of )'*-$.

$ #tober: t the #losing of the (e#ond To!yo 'nternational Conferen#e on fri#an evelopment 0T'C ''1+ U2'(+ the U2outfit headed by the Belgian ,eter ,iot+ managed to snea! the following paragraph into the "To!yo genda for #tion" - thenewest blueprint for fri#an development in the ne3t #entury adopted at the #onferen#e:

")'*/'(+" the paragraph said+ "has e3a#ted a tremendous toll in human suffering+ death and lost produ#tivity. Currently+ of the4$ million adults and #hildren living with )'*/'( worldwide+ $ million of them live in fri#a. 5ighty per #ent of all womenwith )'*/'( are in fri#a. s a result+ life e3pe#tan#y is de#lining+ infant and #hild mortality are on the rise+ and individuals6produ#tivity and e#onomi# development are threatened. The insidous effe#ts of )'*/'( affe#t the entire spe#trum of e#onomi#and so#ial a#tivities."

nly a passing referen#e was made to malaria+ the s#ientifi#ally proven single biggest !iller on the fri#an #ontinent. 7hy+ afterthe failures of the past de#ade in '( resear#h and fore#ast+ U2'( still wants the world to #on#entrate billions of dollars on)'*/'( - a "disease" that is yet to be s#ientifi#ally proven - at the e3pense of malaria+ the already proven "biggest !iller" offri#ans+ should worry us all.

& #tober: Came the biggest news of all. The ,opulation ivision of the United 2ations epartment of 5#onomi# and (o#ialffairs announ#ed that "'( has a#hieved pandemi# proportions in several of 48 sub-(aharan #ountries where at least one infour people is infe#ted with )'*".

The report+ part of the U26s world population survey for $%%&+ said '( is dramati#ally #utting the life e3pe#tan#y in manyfri#an #ountries and will leave their populations far below what was e3pe#ted in the ne3t $9 to $ years.

"'n Botswana+ the hardest hit #ountry in sub-(ahara fri#a+ life e3pe#tan#y whi#h stood at ;$ years only five years ago+ hasdropped to 8< and is e3pe#ted to drop further to 8$ between 999 and 99"+ said the 2ew =or! Times+ >uoting the U2population survey. "'n ?imbabwe+ where one in five adults is )'*-positive+ the mortality rate is signifi#antly redu#ing the#ountry6s population growth+ from 4.4@ a year between $%&9 and $%& to $.8@ now+ and a proAe#tion of less than $@ beginning in999. "7ere it not for the virus+ ?imbabwe6s population would probably now be growing at .8@"+ the U2 report added for goodmeasure.

)owever+ it made no mention of the a#tivities of the thousands of 7estern #ondom and family planning evangelists whodes#ended on fri#a in the last $9 years under the sponsorship of the very same U2 agen#ies spewing out those bogus figures. 2oone needs a ,h to !now that the #han#es of ma!ing babies are #onsiderably redu#ed with in#reased #ondom use. Thus+ the more?imbabweans use #ondoms or plan their families+ the more their #ountry6s population growth rate will de#line. 't has nothing to dowith any virus. The same #an be said of population growth rates elsewhere in fri#a.


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s far as the figures go+ the most disturbing thing is that in their haste to do fri#a6s image the most harm+ the U2 agen#ies do notapparently #ross-#he#! with one another+ or even #o-ordinate their figures before rushing to announ#e.

'n To!yo+ while U2'( bambooled the $ fri#an #ountries present at the T'C '' #onferen#e with the "fa#t" that: "f the4$ million adults and #hildren living with )'*/'( worldwide+ $ million of them live in fri#a"+ the U2 population surveybarely two wee!s later was telling the world: "f the 49 million persons in the world #urrently infe#ted with )'*+ ; million or&;@ reside in 48 fri#anD #ountries. 'n addition+ %$@ of all '( deaths in the world have o##urred in these 48 #ountries."

(o who do we believeE U2'( or the U2 ,opulation ivisionE

t the To!yo Conferen#e+ U2'( distributed what it #alled "5pidemiologi#al fa#t sheet on )'*/'( and se3ually transmitteddiseases" on every fri#an #ountry. The table 0right1 shows a small sele#tion of the "fa#ts" as distributed by U2'( at the#onferen#e:

'f U2'( is to be believed+ the mortality rate from )'*/'( in sub-(ahara fri#a is well over %9@. 'f this a#tually refle#ts thereality on the ground+ then fri#an #emeteries should be filling up by now - as fri#ans do not #remate their dead+ they bury them.But you don6t see #emeteries filling up in fri#a. "(o where are the gravesE"+ as the eminent hanaian do#tor Feli3 Gonotey-hulu so elo>uently put it $9 years ago when the same "pandemi#" announ#ements were being made about fri#an '(.

'n fa#t U2'( itself at some point must have found its own figures so hilariously #omi#al that it felt obliged to in#lude a"health-warning" in the "fa#tsheets" distributed in To!yo.

"'n $%%< and during the first >uarter of $%%&+" the health-warning began+ "U2'( and 7) wor!ed #losely with nationalgovernments and resear#h institutions to re#al#ulate #urrent estimates on people living with )'*/'(. These #al#ulations arebased on the previously published estimates for $%%8 and re#ent trends in )'*/'( surveillan#e in various populations.

"5pimodel + a mi#ro#omputer programme originally developed by the 7) lobal ,rogramme on '(+ was used to #al#ulatethe new estimates on prevalen#e and in#iden#e of '( and '( deaths+ as well as the number of #hildren infe#ted throughmother-to-#hild transmission of )'*+ ta!ing into a##ount age-spe#ifi# fertility rates. n additional spreadsheet model was used to#al#ulate the number of #hildren whose mothers had died of '(.

"The #urrent estimates do not #laim to be an e3a#t #ount of infe#tions. Hather+ they use a methodology that has thus far proveda##urate in produ#ing estimates whi#h give a good indi#ation of the magnitude of the epidemi# in individual #ountries..."

2oti#e the words+ "#al#ulations"+ "mi#ro#omputer programme"+ "spreadsheet model"+ and the e3traordinary admission that "the#urrent estimates do no #laim to be an e3a#t #ount".

'n other words+ fri#ans #an safely go to sleep with the !nowledge that the alleged ; million of their #ountrymen+ women and#hildren living with )'*/'( are mere "#al#ulations" made by a "mi#ro#omputer programme" using a "spreadsheet model"prepared by the dis#redited and now defun#t 7) lobal ,rogramme on '(. The figures+ therefore+ do not refle#t the truesituation on the ground.

'n the past+ these e3tremely alarming figures are !nown to have been used to #aAole governments and institutions into giving moremoney to the U2 agen#ies and others dealing with '(.

To fri#ans+ the most troubling aspe#t is that people around the world do ta!e these figures at fa#e value+ and thus believe thatalmost every fri#an is riddled with the )'* virus from head to toe and only waiting to die of '( in $9 years time or so+ if not

dying now.

Thus+ for fri#a6s own self-belief and #onfiden#e+ it is time fri#an governments shed their apathy+ spo!e out and #hallenged thesefigures as the )aitians did in the early $%&9s when they were falsely blamed for the origins of '(. fter all+ it is the fri#angovernments who live with the ; million of their #itiens said to be on death row. (o they must !now the e3tent of the"pandemi#"+ if ever there is one.

t the T'C '' #onferen#e in To!yo+ the U2, assistant administrator for fri#a+ Is Thelma wori 0originally from Uganda+this writer was told1 even had the temerity to atta#! fri#an governments at a press #onferen#e for "denying" the e3tent of the'( "pandemi#" in their #ountries.


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(he+ however+ neatly ignored the fa#t that $4 years ago+ the U2 agen#ies were saying mu#h the same about Uganda being "thehardest hit" in fri#a and how Uganda6s "heavily infe#ted" population would be wiped out in a matter of years. That direpredi#tion never #ame to pass. 2ow in '( #ir#les+ the tal! is about the "Ugandan mira#le". (o what happened to Uganda6s"heavily infe#ted" populationE They got some '( #ure perhapsE

(in#e those apo#alypti# days+ the U2 agen#ies 0the 7) then in the forefront1+ have been shifting the goalposts - they havemoved the "hardest hit #ountry tag" from Uganda to Tanania to ?ambia to Ialawi to (outh fri#a+ a bit of ?imbabweand...now...Botswana.

nd Is wori+ an fri#an woman powerful enough to #hallenge these figures at the highest level with the view of ma!ing the'( 5stablishement return to the days of "good s#ien#e"+ is rather blaming her own people for not a##epting the bogus figures#hurned out by mi#ro#omputers. (he must surely !now that the )'* hypothesis itself and the )'* tests based on it+ have beenproven to be hugely unreliable.

"'t6s a lie+ the figures are all lies+ the biggest lie of the #entury+" said an fri#an do#tor attending the T'C '' #onferen#e inTo!yo. )e did not want to be named out of fear that his #areer prospe#ts #ould be harmed by the '( 5stablishment.

To impartial onloo!ers+ the attempt by the 5stablishment to destroy the reputations and #areers of dissenters #hallenging the)'*J'(Jeath hypothesis+ is a very troubling one. Too troubling that it is one of the main themes of a boo! published earlierthis year by the award-winning British T* produ#er and Aournalist+ Koan (henton. Titled ,ositively False - 53posing the mythsaround )'* and '(+ the boo! tells how Koan (henton herself survived the 5stablishment onslaught on her reputation and#areer+ and how the dirty tri#!s are still being used to frustrate her independent T* produ#tion #ompany+ Ieditel ,rodu#tions. 'n

the past year alone+ Koan has had several #ontra#ts for T* spea!ing engagements and do#umentaries #an#elled or "demoted to si3-minute news items" by even some of the liberal-minded T* e3e#utives in Britain.

'n the boo!+ Koan tells how she entered the '( debate with a #ertain Aournalisti# #ampaigning inno#en#e and eal. "radually+ 'began to realise that the wall of opposition was unbrea#hable. 7e were up against massive #ollusion between a dogmati# s#ientifi#establishment and sheepish governments being bullied into handing over thousands of millions of dollars to further resear#h into abogus and unproven hypothesis."

'n the first $9 years+ Koan (henton6s #areer in medi#al Aournalism saw the ma!ing of $99 T* do#umentaries whi#h won her#ompany seven international awards. (even of those do#umentaries were on )'*/'( alone+ two of whi#h won the HoyalTelevision (o#iety ward and the British Iedi#al sso#iation ward.

The story is best told by Koan herself:

"The story of )'*+" she reveals in her boo!+ "and the pani# over '( has led to over $99+999 published papers on )'* and'(. (ome 89 billion of the U( ta3payers money and M billion in the UG has been spent on '( sin#e $%&8... =et+ in all thistime+ no #ure for '( has been found...

"7hyE Be#ause the '( edifi#e is built upon the false hypothesis that the retrovirus )'* is the #ause of '( and that '( isan infe#tious disease. 'n fa#t+ the '( syndrome has not behaved li!e an infe#tious disease would. 't has remained restri#ted to#ertain high ris! groupsN groups that are already prone to severe immune suppression."

(he #ontinues: "7hat ' have learned over these years is that the s#ientifi# #ommunity is no longer free. Today s#ien#e #an bebought+ and the individual dissenting voi#e is able to be silen#ed and dismissed be#ause of the enormous sums of money involvedin prote#ting a prevailing hypothesis+ however flawed it may be.

",oliti#s+ power and money dominate the s#ientifi# resear#h field to su#h an e3tent that it is now no longer possible to put ahypothesis that has be#ome dogma to the test.

"(#ientifi# trials sponspored by pharma#euti#al #ompanies often involve many different university fa#ulties at one time and#onse>uently tie up most of the e3pert voi#es. The dogma is written up in tablets of stone in medi#al te3tboo!s and young s#ien#estudents swallow it without >uestion. Those that are already in well paid Aobs find it easier not to ro#! the boat. 7hat would be thepointE They would simply lose their Aobs."

Koan (henton laments the fa#t that the '( debate has been driven by money+ money+ money. "The sale of )'* test !its haveDbe#ome a sour#e of immense revenue+" she writes. "5a#h time a drop of blood isD tested+ it meansD 84 pen#e for the #ompanyprodu#ing the !it. Iany s#ientists resear#hing into the '( virus themselves haveD #ompanies selling test !its and ownDmillions of dollars in #ompany shares. '( for these individuals isD a very profitable business."


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(he #ontinues: "The story of '( is also spe#ial be#ause it is the first time in the history of medi#ine that so mu#h money hasbeen thrown into one parti#ular disease.

"7ith 89bn spent in $8 years in the U( alone+ it is the biggest industry ne3t to the defen#e department. The money was fuelled bythe plague terror ta#ti#s used by well-established organisations li!e the U( Centers for iesease Control and its offshoot+ the5pidemi# 'ntelligen#e (ervi#e also !nown as the medi#al C'D whose members are strategi#ally pla#ed in positions of power andinfluen#e in the media.

"There is yet another #omple3 reason for the support of an infe#tious agent as the #ause of '(. 'n the 7est+ those affe#ted bythe syndrome are %9@ male+ of whom 9@ are homose3ual habitual drug users - both intravenous and re#reational.

"uring the $%&9s+ the gay #ommunity had a powerful lobbying voi#e with governments that were an3ious to be seen to be6politi#ally #orre#t6. n infe#tious #ause of '( was more e3pedient for the gay #ommunity."

Koan re#alls that money was at the root of the legal battle in the mid-$%&9s between the Fren#h and meri#an "#o-dis#overers" ofthe )'* virus itself. They all wanted a monopoly over the test !it patent revenue.

n the very same day+ in the spring of $%&8+ when Iargaret )e#!ler+ the U( )ealth (e#retary+ with Hobert allo by her side+announ#ed at a press #onferen#e in 7ashington C that "the probable #ause of '( has been found"+ allo filed a U( patent forthe )'* blood test !it he had developed. )is #laim that he was the sole dis#overer of the virus was soon #hallenged by the Fren#hdo#tor+ Lu# Iontagnier who happened to be the first to have "dis#overed" the virus.

"(o+ at he behest of ,resident Honald Hegan and the thenD Fren#h ,rime Iinister Ka#>ues Chira#+" Koan (henton writes+ "alloand Iontagnier met in a Fran!furt hotel room to wor! out a settlement.

"The end result was that the Fren#h and meri#ans settled the lawsuit. 'n Iar#h $%&uietly dropping the a#tual reported figures. "7e #hallenged these figuresat a meeting at the London (#hool of )ygiene and Tropi#al Iedi#ine in $%%4+ and there was a red-fa#ed a#!nowledgement thatthe figures they were using as fa#t+ were no more than guess wor!.

"'n pril $%%+ the 7) lobal ,rogramme on '( dismissed


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"' believe+" uesberg told Koan+ "that '( is not+ or #annot even be an infe#tious disease. n infe#tious disease+ believe it or not+has a #riteria to itN how it happens+ when it happens. For e3ample+ if you get infe#ted by a bug or by a virus+ within wee!s ormonths after #onta#t or after that infe#tion+ you will have symptoms of a disease.

"'n )'* and '(+ however+ we are told you get si#! $9 years later+ $9 years after infe#tionO That is not how viruses or ba#teriawor!. They wor! faster or never. They are a very simple me#hanism li!e a little #lo#! that #an do only one thing - go around thedial on#e+ and that ta!es 8 to 8& hours with a virus.

"There is no way that a virus #ould possibly slow down or wait a wee! or wait $9 years. That is totally absurd.

"'(+ as it is thought of+ is primarily a result of+ ' suspe#t into3i#ation - #>uired 'mmune efi#ien#y - as the word a#tuallysays. 'n '(+ you a#>uire it by #onsuming drugs and through malnutrition that is often typi#ally lin!ed to it. n#e that hashappened+ on#e you are immune defi#ient+ then you are open to many infe#tions that are se#ondary or opportunisti# as we say.That is not therefore an infe#tious disease. 't is the result of that."

2o wonder uesberg has had his resear#h funding #an#elled and has be#ome the most vilified virologist in the whole wide world.

Koan (henton ne3t as!ed him: 'f the infe#tious hypothesis is proved wrong at the end+ what thenE

"The impli#ations would be very serious"+ uesberg replied. "*ery+ very serious in fa#t. Iillions of lives that #ould have beensaved won6t be saved if we wor! on an ungrounded or poorly grounded hypothesis..."

't was time for Koan (henton to ta!e a #loser loo! at "fri#an '(". t the end of $%%+ she travelled with her team to fri#a toshoot a do#umentary on '(+ after a resear#h trip a few months earlier. (he remembered that as early as $%&&+ r )arvey Bialy+another of the meri#an heavyweight dissenters had said:

"There is no s#ientifi# literature about '( in fri#a. 't is $99@ ad hominem+ ane#todal trash... ' had thought for a long time thatwhat was being #lassified as '( in fri#a+ whi#h was a #ompletely different syndrome of diseases than what was being #alled'( in the 7est+ was in fa#t nothing more than a new name for a #olle#tion of old diseases. iseases that are #alled '( are#lassi#al fri#an diseases in populations that have for a very long time been subAe#t to these infe#tions. 7hen that is readAusted interms of terribly+ terribly sero-epidemiology+ in regard to the so-#alled '( virus+ the pi#ture be#omes a very grim one+ at least astatisti#ally grim one. The whole notion of fri#an '( is si#! to begin with. 7hy is there su#h a thing as fri#an '(E o wehave meri#an '(+ sian '(+ Fren#h '(E"

Koan and her team of resear#hers travelled to fri#a to find out for themselves. (he #ites two studies in hana and Cote d6'voire inwhi#h "'( without )'*" was found in < patients in hana and $4 patients in Cote d6'voire. ll of them were suffering formthe "#lassi#al symptoms of "fri#an '(": weight loss+ diarrhoea+ #hroni# fever+ tuber#ulosis and neurologi#al diseases. =et uality of surveillan#e data."

Koan: "The +899D do#umented #ases of full-blown '( whi#h+ when tested+ were )'* negative."

r de Co#!: "7ell+ then they6re not '( #ases. They6re not '( in the way we tal! about )'* disease."


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Koan: "But they were #alled '( in the do#uments. They were #alled #lini#al #ase definition Bangui '(. o you seeE"

r de Co#!: "f #ourse ' see. ny #ase definition+ parti#ularly one whi#h is #lini#ally based is not going to be perfe#t."

This reminded Koan (henton of what r Iartin !ot-2wang+ one of Uganda6s leading TB spe#ialists had told her in Gampala:

" patient who has TB and is )'* positive would appear e3a#tly the same as a patient who has TB and is )'* negative.Clini#ally+ both patients #ould present with long fever+ both patients will present loss of weight+ both patients will present with aprolonged #ough+ and in both #ases the #ough #ould be e>ually produ#tive. Therefore+ #lini#ally+ ' #annot differentiate between the

two. 5ven when ' loo! at the blood analyses+ ' may find some similarities between the two groups."

Koan (henton already !new+ from a study her own Ieditel ,rodu#tions had done ba#! in London between Kune and #tober $%%;+that false positive results and in#onsisten#ies between one test !it and another and between different laboratories+ were rampant inthe trade. For e3ample in the study+ one sample given by a volunteer+ ,eter 2i#holls+ went from )'*-positive three times to )'*negative twi#e - all in the spa#e of one month.

Koan (henton was left to as!: "re TB and Ialaria being #alled '( in fri#aE". The Ugandan health minister+ r KamesIa!umbi proferred an answer: "7e have more than

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