{"id":90,"date":"2006-03-03T23:44:30","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T04:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2006\/03\/03\/south-africa-md-px-multivitamins-"},"modified":"2006-03-03T23:44:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T04:44:30","slug":"south-africa-md-px-multivitamins-not-arvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2006\/03\/03\/south-africa-md-px-multivitamins-not-arvs\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa MD px multivitamins, not ARVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a168'><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><font size=\"2\">To follow up the point<br \/>\nyesterday about Duesberg, here&#8217;s an example of junk science and commercial self-promotion attempting to muscle out accepted HIV therapy, pedaling vitamin pills in its<br \/>\nplace (BBC, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/4771448.stm\">Doctor must stop SA Aids adverts<\/a>&#8220;, 3 Mar 2006).&nbsp; According to the BBC, Dr Mattias Rath, a South African doctor,<\/font><font size=\"2\"> claims that ARVs are toxic.&nbsp; A <\/font><font size=\"2\">joint statement from the World Health Organization,<br \/>\nUNICEF and UNAIDS describes Dr Rath&#8217;s<br \/>\npublic claims and advertisements as dangerous and unhelpful.&nbsp; According to the BBC, &#8220;<\/font><font size=\"2\">some<br \/>\nAIDS workers in South Africa say that some people have stopped using<br \/>\nARVs following Dr Rath&#8217;s public campaigns. Dr Rath has long advocated<br \/>\nthe health benefits of vitamins, in conditions as diverse as cancer,<br \/>\nheart failure and osteoporosis.&nbsp; <\/font><font size=\"2\">The profits from his vitamin marketing company go to support his health foundation.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To follow up the point yesterday about Duesberg, here&#8217;s an example of junk science and commercial self-promotion attempting to muscle out accepted HIV therapy, pedaling vitamin pills in its place (BBC, &#8220;Doctor must stop SA Aids adverts&#8220;, 3 Mar 2006).&nbsp; According to the BBC, Dr Mattias Rath, a South African doctor, claims that ARVs are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}