We support President Mbeki's courageous stand to insist on a public reappraisal of AIDS. Demonstrations are planned on April 27 in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto and London to support South Africa in this enterprise and these words pledge our support in France.

AIDS and HIV are artificial concepts defined by political, moral and economic pressure and not by rigorous, ethical scientific scrutiny. A growing group of dissenters have been questioning the HIV / AIDS dogma since the beginning of the crisis.

Many questions have been raised which have been refused public debate.

These questions include :

1) Where is the proof of the existence of HIV ? There is no proof of the isolation of this viral entity by the traditional criteria of virology. And certainly none outside the laboratory test-tube.

2) Even if this retrovirus exists, the scientific papers published in 1984 "justifying" its causality in immune-suppression have since been proved to be fraudulent. Where is the rigorous proof that HIV is the cause of the 30 diseases named "AIDS" ? 3 different definitions of AIDS have been given by America's 'Center for Disease Control' since 1984 which include non-illnesses.

3) Two diametrically opposed theories of the action of HIV have been postulated since 1984. The initial 1984 theory proposed that HIV was a "slow" retrovirus that after initial infection would take several years before reawakening and causing damage to the immune system. The second (current) 1995 theory proposes that HIV is immediately active after infection and gradually wears down immunity. How can the AIDS orthodoxy justify such differing theories which are treated by the same form of medication ?

4) Where is the epidemic predicted in the 1980's ? The figures used by the World Health Organisation and the media confuse "HIV positivity" and "AIDS". For most of the third world an "HIV test" is not a necessary criterium for registering AIDS. And many traditional third world illnesses give false positives to these tests. In consequence these illnesses are not properly treated.

5) As there is no formal proof of the isolation of HIV, how can the tests be considered as "specific", and ethically, how can they be used as a death sentence for their recipients and an obligation to take dangerously toxic treatments ?

6) Where is the proof of the efficacy of the AIDS treatments which are the most toxic allowed onto the market in medical history ?

7) Where is the justification for allowing these highly toxic treatments to shortcut normal testing protocols and be marketed in record time ?

8) Refusal of official AIDS treatments and the use of natural, cheap, immune-stimulation treatments and therapies is the common point between most long term survivors of an AIDS diagnosis. Why is this information not given to the public ? Does South Africa really need to invest in expensive and unproven Western pharmaceuticals ?

9) Where is an international, independent watchdog committee to restrain this form of economic and scientific monopoly in international health policies ? Success in South Africa's refusal of world AIDS politics could pave the way for the creation of such an organisation.

10) Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS, has constantly refused (or been unable) to furnish the scientific proof of the existence of HIV and/or its causality in AIDS. Why ? This should surely be the cornerstone of any international AIDS policy.

We encourage and implore the South African people to become world leaders in refusing the immoral exploitation of an artificially created disease definition. Your country has the means to solve the problems of poverty, malnutrition and disease by humanitarian means. Outside the fear and bullying created by the pseudo-science of the pharmaceutical giants.

Your courage can light the way for others to take the path of freedom from fear, manipulation and economic greed in the domain of world health.

For our children and our children's children.

Mark Griffiths and Etienne de Harven, 23 / 04 / 2000.

Mark Griffiths
E-mail : information@sidasante.com

Etienne de Harven,
Le Mas Pitou, 2879, Route de Grasse, 06530 St. Cézaire sur Ciagne.
Tél : O4 93 60 28 39
E-mail : pitou.deharven@wanadoo.fr
Site Internet : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sidasante/edh/edhindex.htm

P.S.  On behalf of the International Coalition to End AIDS Censorship (ICEAC), we are requesting that everyone go to the following webpage and sign the on-line petition in support of South African President Thabo Mbeki:

<http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/news/mbeki.html>

You can also print out this petition in French and return it to us at the address below with as many signatures as possible

Our goal is to collect as many signatures as possible before April 27, 2000, which is the "International Day of Action in Support of President Mbeki." April 27th is also "Freedom Day" in South Africa, and the one-year anniversary of President Mbeki's inauguration. Although this petition campaign will be ongoing, all signatures collected by April 27th will be presented directly to President Mbeki's office.

The following groups support this initiative :

Academy of Nutrition Improvement (Nagpur, India), ACT UP San Francisco, ACT UP Hollywood, ACT UP Toronto, Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society, Alive and Well (Eugene, Oregon), AMG France, Continuum Magazine (London), El Peque o Periodico, The Forum for Debating AIDS South Africa (FDASA), Fundacion Arte y Ciencia (Columbia), Health Education AIDS Liaison (HEAL) Network (New York City, Denver, Hartford, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Washington DC, Hawaii, Toronto, Uganda), International Forum for Accessible Science (IFAS Switzerland), Joint Action Council Kannur (JACK), Journalists for a Free Media, New York, Rethinking AIDS Society (NYRAS), Students Against the HIV Causes AIDS Hypothesis (SATHIVCAH), The Mythbusters, The Coalition for Informed Choice, The Self Healing Temple, The Sheppard Foundation, TAPS (Brazil).

The website of the Forum for Debating AIDS in South Africa, is now running at <http://fda.co.za.>