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Tanzania: Factory Closed Over Fake Ante-Retrovirals

The Tanzanian government has suspended three top officials at the Medical Stores Department (MSD) and halted production at the Arusha-based Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industry (TPI) over circulation of fake antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.

Published
11 October 2012
From
allAfrica.com
HIV prevention policy
Ugandan President Museveni blames HIV rise in NGOs’ promotion of ‘prostitution, circumcison and condoms’

President Museveni has blamed the increasing HIV/Aids prevalence in Uganda on non-governmental organisations' promotion of condom use, sex work and circumcision.

Published
03 October 2012
From
Key Correspondents
Pharmaceutical industry
The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal

The doctors prescribing the drugs don't know they don't do what they're meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they're not telling.

Published
25 September 2012
From
The Guardian
Bad science and bogus treatments
Amazon Warfare: How Anti-Circumcision Activists Try To Squelch HIV/AIDS Science

Two diligent and dedicated authors spent years researching the origin, spread, and potential prevention of AIDS in Africa. Two minutes and a few clicks were all that was required for a passionate extremist group, opposed to circumcision, to obfuscate and delegitimize their findings in front of one of their most important and public audiences.

Published
25 September 2012
From
Slate Magazine
Bad science and bogus treatments
Half of medical reporting 'is subject to spin'

A study that you probably won’t be reading in your daily paper or favourite news website anytime soon casts serious doubts on the reliability of mainstream medical and health journalism. The study found that 51% of news items reporting on medical trials – specifically on randomised controlled trials (RCTs), which are seen as the gold standard in judging whether a treatment is effective or safe – were subject to “spin”.

Published
20 September 2012
From
NHS Behind the Headlines
Taking an HIV test
Why Zambians don't test and treat

A study amongst 2443 people in Zambia, recruited from HIV clinics and community organisations, found that social ostracism, rejection by sexual partners and fear of not being

Published
26 July 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Bad science and bogus treatments
Getting circumcision science right in the media

The evidence that voluntary medical male circumcision reduces the risk of a heterosexual man contracting HIV in high prevalence areas is beyond reasonable doubt.

Published
09 July 2012
From
Quackdown!
Circumcision
Facebook used to promote medical male circumcision

In bid to fight a group of ‘pseudo-scientists’ who deny that circumcision has nothing to do with control of HIV infection, a group of African scientists, nurses, doctors, counsellors, advocates and journalists have opened a Facebook page to help counter this.

Published
09 July 2012
From
Key Correspondents
Pharmaceutical industry
How Secrecy in Medical Research Harms our Health

Medical research data remain shrouded in secrecy. As a result the data is distorted and misrepresented by pharmaceutical companies launching new medicines.

Published
05 July 2012
From
Open Society Foundations
Bad science and bogus treatments
Sowetan villainizes life-saving treatment: Another “ARV boob” booby

Today the Sowetan carried the story of a woman with grotesquely overgrown breasts. The paper’s reason for her condition: ARVs in general. In a climate where close to 6 million people are living with HIV and will eventually need treatment, this kind of coverage is deeply misleading and unethical.

Published
18 June 2012
From
JournAIDS
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