►March 3, 2004 - Ancient Virus May Help HIV Patients Live Longer - HealthDay via Yahoo!

►March 3, 2004 - Mysterious virus may thwart HIV - New England Journal of Medicine via New Scientist

►March 4, 2004 - CDC Reports That OraQuick Test Produces Fewer False Positive HIV-1 Results Than Other Available Tests - OraSure Technologies, Inc. via Business Wire

Comment:  Avoiding a false HIV positive result is certainly important given the regimen of toxic drugs that HIV positive people are pressured to get.

►March 3, 2004 - Persistent Hepatitis G Virus Infection in HIV-Positive Men May be Associated With Prolonged Survival - New England Journal of Medicine via Doctor's Guide

►March 8, 2004 - Doctors protest 400% price hike in HIV medication - An AIDS group has filed a lawsuit alleging antitrust violations. Two state attorneys general are investigating, but Abbott says all complaints are without merit. - www.ama-assn.org

►Polio vaccines and the origin of AIDS: some key writings - www.uow.edu.au

►The Origin Of Aids - A Scientific Controversy - Tuesday March 2nd at 7.30pm - Special Broadcasting Service Television via www.sbs.com.au - "In his 1999 book The River, author Edward Hooper, a former BBC journalist, charts a remarkable journey to the possible origins of AIDS. He presents strong circumstantial evidence that points to the inadvertent contamination of an experimental oral polio vaccine administered in Africa in the late 1950’s. Hooper argues that this vaccine most likely became the vehicle by which a simian precursor of HIV/AIDS carried by chimpanzees was able to jump the species barrier into humans. If his conclusions are correct it would indicate that the very people who were working to save lives were themselves responsible for unleashing this terrible disease."

►September 25, 1999 - A controversial HIV/AIDS hypothesis - The River - A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and AIDS (requires registration) - journal article (The Lancet)

►February 6, 2004 - A New Approach to Halting HIV Infection - press release - Tulane University via www.newswise.com

Comment:  But what if, as some believe, there is no need to halt the spread of HIV because it has nothing to do with AIDS or anything else problematic?

►February 2004 - Perinatal HIV transmission is low but still a concern (requires registration) - At an urban hospital, only nine of 131 infants born over a two-year period were HIV positive. - Infectious Diseases in Children

►January 23, 2004 - HIV experts suggest halt to Thailand vaccine trial - www.indystar.com

►January 2004 - HIV diagnoses increased in more than half of the United States (requires registration) - New statistics show that more effort in prevention strategies is needed. - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com

Comment:  But what if, as many believe, HIV has nothing to do with AIDS?  Then what do these diagnoses mean, other than an spelling an opportunity to create fear and sell toxic drugs?

►January 22, 2004 - Researcher Ho Retracts Claim About AIDS Development - www.quicken.com - "A clue to the most enduring mystery of the AIDS epidemic - why some people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus never develop the disease - has just crumbled...In a rare published retraction in the journal Science, researcher David Ho, the AIDS world's nearest thing to a rock star, said he erred in a September 2002 announcement that he had found the mysterious protection factor - an immune booster secreted by special white-blood cells called CD8 cells."

►January 22, 2004 - Is AIDS Vaccine Trial In Thailand A Waste Of Money? - www.voanews.com - "The problem, as critics see it, is that neither shot seems to work very well on its own. The first shot has not looked promising in preliminary tests. The second shot has already failed a previous large-scale trial. Cornell University AIDS researcher John Moore says putting the two together doesn't add up...'There is this argument that naught plus naught might equal one. Personally, I don't buy into it. The evidence that the two vaccine components work better together than apart is really very poor.'"

►January 4, 2004 - AIDS: A Death Cult - by John Lauritsen - www.altheal.org - "This article has been hard to write. I've taken a break from "AIDS" for several years, and returning to the topic now, I've been in shock over what has been done to us. My opinions have not changed: I still regard "AIDS" as the greatest blunder and the greatest hoax in medical history -- an epidemic of incompetence and an epidemic of lies...As long as there has been "AIDS" there have been critics of the orthodox AIDS model: "AIDS dissidents". For the most part our voices were silenced. As AIDS became a religion, a death cult -- with sacred commodities, dogmas, rituals, and sacrifices - any expression of skepticism was tantamount to blasphemy."

►January 21, 2004 - CDC to ask for probe into HIV positive party goers - The China Post - "The Center for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday announced that 28 of the 92 homosexuals nabbed by the police at a drug party last week are HIV positive...According to the CDC, only one party goer admitted to the police that he is HIV positive. The police later identified 27 more reported AIDS cases after checking with the health authorities...They were all caught while attending the infamous drug and sex party, known as the "Home Party" in the gay community."

Comment:  What's THAT about?

►January 20, 2004 - Biggest-ever AIDS vaccine trial draws stinging criticism - USA Today - "When the world of AIDS vaccine research erupts into controversy, as it did again last week, the source is often pent-up frustration over the snail's pace of progress and the best use of research money...More than 20 years into the epidemic, only one vaccine has completed two large-scale clinical trials. It failed both. The latest flap centers on yet another test of that vaccine as part of a two-shot combination with another experimental vaccine."