Why should South Africans
continue to be poisoned with AZT?

THERE IS A NATURAL ANSWER TO AIDS

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On 1 July 2004, a landmark study by Harvard University was published in one of the world's leading medical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine, summed up the same day by the world's most influential and respected newspaper, the New York Times: 'The study found that daily doses of multivitamins slow down the disease and cut the risk of developing AIDS in half.'

This is a 25 mg bottle of AZT supplied by Sigma-Aldrich for use in research laboratories. The label speaks for itself. GlaxoSmithKline recommends between 500 and 1500 mg of AZT daily – twenty and sixty times the quantity that Sigma-Aldrich warns research workers could kill or severely injure them – alleging that 'AZT has extended and improved the quality of life of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS around the globe'. Also that 'GlaxoWellcome [now GSK] are a reputable company. We do not lie to people.'

The question is why the people of South Africa have not been told about this. For actively promoting natural health approaches to AIDS, the South African government has continually been attacked by pharmaceutical interest groups and received no support at all from the medical establishment. The reason for this lack of support is obvious. Non-patentable natural therapies have very low profit margins, whereas patented synthetic pharmaceutical AIDS drugs are a multi-billion dollar business.

The Treatment Information Group and the Dr. Rath Health Foundation have launched a public education programme to break the silence about the natural answer to AIDS.

It is high time that everyone in South Africa, whether affected by AIDS or not, knows the facts.

1. The Harvard study, conducted in Tanzania over a period of eight years, involved more than a thousand HIV-positive pregnant women. It was a placebo controlled and double blind trial conforming to the highest standards. The study showed that inexpensive multivitamin treatment is more effective in staving off disease among HIV-positive women than any toxic AIDS drug. (NEMJ 2004 Jul 1;351(1):23-32)
2. More than a decade ago, a study co-authored by two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, published in another leading scientific journal, found that an optimal dose of vitamin C alone can block the replication of HIV by 99%. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1990 Sep;87(18):7245-9)
3. Every textbook of biochemistry recognises that vitamins and other micronutrients are the most decisive factor determining the optimum function of the immune system.
4. Hundreds of studies have found that AZT is profoundly toxic to all cells of the human body, and particularly to the blood cells of our immune system.
5. Numerous studies have found that children exposed to AZT in the womb suffer brain damage, neurological disorders, paralysis, spasticity, mental retardation, epilepsy, other serious diseases and early death. Read Poisoning our Children: AZT and nevirapine in pregnancy here.
6. Incredibly, two weeks after the publication of the Harvard study, the Medicines Control Council proposed new regulations that will effectively prevent free access to life-saving vitamin therapy and information about it, and recommended that HIV-positive women take AZT during their pregnancies.

On WORLD AIDS DAY the Treatment Information Group and the Dr. Rath Health Foundation ask the medical community and the people of South Africa:

• Do you want to continue being misled by the pharmaceutical industry and its front organizations to believe that exorbitantly expensive and highly toxic drugs like AZT and nevirapine are the answer to AIDS?
• Don't you think it's time to support the South African government and the traditional healers of South Africa and join our nationwide public information campaign based on natural science and medical truth?

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