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Uganda: Government and doctors insist circumcision reduces HIV spread

Local HIV/Aids researchers and the medical fraternity have dismissed the findings of a new research that questions the effectiveness of male circumcision in curtailing the spread of HIV virus. A cross section of medical practitioners interviewed yesterday said they would disregard the findings in latest issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine also published in Thomson Reuters Australia, saying the new research appears intended to frustrate efforts to combat HIV/Aids.

Published
08 March 2012
From
Daily Monitor
Religion and faith
Ethiopians Trade Holy Water for AIDS Drugs

Many HIV-Positive Residents Come to Squatter's Camp for Traditional Cure, Stay for Antiretrovirals, as Death Toll Declines

Published
06 March 2012
From
Wall Street Journal
Bad science and bogus treatments
Death by denial: The campaigners who continue to deny HIV causes Aids

As each of their followers dies, those who campaign against HIV treatments simply move on to the next level of denial.

Published
21 February 2012
From
The Guardian
Bad science and bogus treatments
Uganda: Three Held Over Defective Drugs

A month after two ladies were arrested for selling fake ARVs, three people are in custody for allegedly selling drugs that were phased out of the country under the World Health Organisation's directive.

Published
09 February 2012
From
AllAfrica
Bad science and bogus treatments
Paper denying HIV–AIDS link sparks resignation

The publication of a paper denying the link between HIV and AIDS 1 in an Italian anatomy journal has prompted a member of its editorial board to resign in protest. 

Published
30 January 2012
From
Nature.com
Bad science and bogus treatments
Bryan Fischer Of American Family Association: God Will Cure AIDS If Gays Stop Having Sex, Doing Drugs

Bryan Fischer is at it again. The right-wing Christian extremist, who has previously endorsed the idea that HIV is not the caise of AIDS , is now suggesting that the disease can be cured -- if the victim stops doing drugs and having sex.

Published
19 January 2012
From
Huffington Post
Bad science and bogus treatments
AFRICA: Snake oil salesmen and dodgy HIV "cures"

Uganda's National Drug Authority recently arrested sales representatives of a company selling a drug that purports to cure HIV; the firm's owners are not licensed to sell medicine and are being sought by the police.

Published
19 January 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Bad science and bogus treatments
HIV created by West to enfeeble third world, claims President of Iran

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has claimed that Western nations created HIV to enfeeble the third world and create a market for Western pharmaceuticals.

Published
18 January 2012
From
Daily Telegraph
Bad science and bogus treatments
What do we know about AIDS deaths in South Africa?

The obscure Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology has published an article by AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg packed with errors. It claims that data from Uganda and South Africa shows that there is no evidence of an HIV epidemic. The article will have no influence on medical science. Nevertheless its publication and the subsequent unnecessary publicity it received in the world's leading science journal, Nature, provide a good opportunity to explain how we do know there is a massive HIV epidemic in South Africa.

Published
16 January 2012
From
Quackdown
Bad science and bogus treatments
Fighting on after the war is over, HIV contrarian publishes yet another paper

As attention first focused on HIV, a handful of scientists very publicly raised questions about whether the scientific evidence was as solid as others thought. And, years later, at least one's still at it: Berkeley molecular biologist Peter Duesberg. Last month, after his latest effort to see his arguments published ended up in a retraction and the firing of an editor-in-chief, Duesberg managed to get it published in the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology.

Published
10 January 2012
From
Ars Technica
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