AIDS post-HIV : beat of a different drummer - AltHeal

I n t e rnational Conference on the
Validity of HIV/AIDS Programmes
Including Methods of Testing
Roberto Giraldo reports on the remarkable
meetings in India earlier this year
Roberto Giraldo MD is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Clinical Tropical
Medicine, currently working in the laboratory of Clinical Immunology in the
New York Hospital Cornell Medical Centre. In March he became President of
the 700-strong international Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of HIV/AIDS.
Dr Giraldo has published papers and articles on the problems with ‘HIV
testing’, ‘mother-to-child transmission’ and breastfeeding, and the toxicity of
‘anti-hiv’ medications. His book AIDS and Stressors concisely explore s
s e v e re immunodeficiency as a toxic-nutritional syndrome caused by the
alarming increment of immunological stressor agents.
Public Health Institute, Government of
Maharashtra, Vaccine Institute Campus.
Nagpur, Central India.
January 30 and 31, 2000.
BACKGROUND
For several years Dr. Shantilal Kothari,
Nutritionist and President of Academy of
Nutrition Improvement (ANI) in Nagpur, has
been questioning the official Indian national
AIDS program (NACO). He has sent lots of
letters with scientific documents from the AIDS
dissident re s e a rchers, to the health authorities
of the State of Maharashtra, to the Ministry of
Health of India in New Delhi, and to WHO and
UNAIDS in Geneva. He has also written dissident
articles in the main newspapers of India. A
year ago he created a Club with people
diagnosed as "HIV positive" which currently has
over 200 members.
Last year Dr. Kothari performed a peaceful
hunger strike, to try to force the Government of
India to meet with us. On August 10th, 1999 the
Ministry of Health, Government of India finally
asked Dr. Kothari to organise an Intern a t i o n a l
C o n f e rence with experts and scientists fro m
both sides of the HIV/AIDS debate.
ORGANISATION
The conference was organised by Dr. Kothari
and Dr. K.C. Jain (Conference Coordinator), in
Co-operation with the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare of the Government of India and
the
Directorate of Health and Family Welfare of the
Government of Maharashtra.
Rajendra Khatry, journalist of the Indian Express
was responsible for promoting the confere n c e
in the media.
A group of people diagnosed with AIDS or
labelled "HIV-positive" were working as volunteers
to the conference.
The walls of the hall where the conference took
place, were artistically decorated with copies of
articles from Peter Duesberg, David Rasnick,
G o rdon Stewart, John Lawritsen, Eleni
Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Etienne de Harven,
Neville Hodgkinson, Joan Shenton, Huw
Christie, Christine Maggiore, Michael
Baumgartner, Michael Ellner, Paul Philpott, and
Roberto Giraldo.
During the lunch and coffee breaks all attendees
of the Conference had the opportunity of
testing the exquisite Indian vegetarian cuisine.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Written documents, food, re f re s h m e n t s ,
national and international lecturers transportation,
were financially supported by the
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