The starting point is the advertisement placed in The New York Times on 6 May 2005, entitled, “Stop AIDS Genocide By the Drug Cartel!”, and subsequently also in the International Herald Tribune, by Dr Rath Health Foundation (go to www.dr-rath-foundation.org.za). The outcome, if all truth are being told, can mean the demise of the pharmaceutical industry’s multi-billion dollar business with disease.

In February 2004, Pope John Paul ll has made a statement accusing the pharma cartel of committing genocide in Africa with patented AIDS drugs.

According to the said advertisement, 15 full blown AIDS patients who have never been on ARV (anti-retroviral) drugs, were treated with specific vitamins, amino acids, minerals, and polyphenols extracts from green tea. Blood tests and clinical evaluation were performed at the start and after 4 weeks on the nutrient programme.

It was reported that within a short 4 weeks, “all known immune system markers – including CD4, total white blood cells, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, significantly improved.

The scientists responsible for the AIDS research in South Africa, whose research protocol was accepted by the SA Health Ministry, are Alexandra Niedzwiecki, PhD (Dr Rath Research Institute, USA), David Rasnick, PhD (Dr Rath Health Foundation, South Africa), Prof Sam Mhlongo, MD (Medical University of Southern Africa), and Matthias Rath, MD.

The advertisement in question has passed the scrutiny of the most litigatious country of the world, ie USA. However in Malaysia, the New Straits Times and The Star have declined to publish the ad.

We want to ask – despite the failure of conventional treatment using ARV drugs for AIDS, to even prolong the lives, during the past two and half decades, why is the media abdicating its role to inform the public of such new promising treatment? Shouldn’t the editors and health journalists be keen to know if there is such breakthrough in AIDS research? The facts as stated in the said advertisement could easily be checked with a phone call to the SA High Commission. We wait for the day of reckoning, and hopefully soon, when SHAME is a much feared word.

Scientists and AIDS researchers have only one course of action after this – to replicate the study conducted by Dr Rath Research Institute in collaboration with SA Ministry of Health, to either prove or refute the findings. Are there any AIDS researchers left out there with conscience to serve mankind?

DR WONG ANG PENG
Coordinator, Dr Rath Health Alliance, Asia
President, Society of Natural Health
Director, The Humanitarian Project – Health For All