One interesting (and ironic) interview is the one with Christine Maggiore, an hiv+ women who became an AIDS denialist after being influenced by Dr. Duesberg, a prominent AIDS denialist who is also interviewed in the film. She tested positive in the early 1990s and died in 2008 due to pneumonia, a common secondary infection caused by aids. She also gave birth to a daughter after she was diagnosed with hiv, and refused to take antiretroviral drugs during her pregnancy, which would have reduced the chance of her daughter catching the virus. Her daughter died at three of pneumonia, and showed many signs of being immunocompromised and hiv +.

Taking conspiratorial views is fine for things like the JFK assassination, where ones opinion is irrelevant, but for serious issues like hiv/aids that may affect you personally it’s important to listen to the mainstream view, rather than the fringes. By being caught up in aids denialism, Maggiore probably shortened both her life and even worse, that of her daughter.

The other aspect of this documentary that I dislike is that it has many scientifically trained individuals using technical terms that most average viewers wouldn’t know about – and doesn’t attempt to explain them. This leaves the viewer without a real understanding of what is actually being said.

Aids denialism is a serious thing. For once I must say I’m thankfull for the media to exclude these kind of outrageous allegations, so that not more people get drawn in to believe the conspiracy theory and risk their life.

No one said ARV´s perfect or great, but to scare people in to not taking a life-saving medication is murder. Mbeki should serve a life-sentence for genocide and anyone who deny true information to sick vulnerable people should not be able to speak no more.

If you are intertested in finding out about the forces and economics behind aids denialism and how to work against them I recommend Nathan Geffens book called: “debunking delusions”.

AIDS and HIV is real and it is treatable.We need to focus on taking the stigma of the disease away, finding better cheaper medications, and prevent spreading with, needle exchange program, and safe-sex education. To waste time on a debate where one side is ,as I said, outrageous and wrong when there is so much to do all ready would be stupid and harmfull.

Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits (2008) http://goo.gl/Stytf

“You have to understand that there’s a reason on the African side to buy into this particular equation. With the end of the Cold War, Africa has found itself unable to play the super-power game, playing the United States, or the Western Powers against the Soviet Bloc. And so many ministries of health and many, uh, governments in general, accepted that little dogma, wh-”

And then the audio switches to

“Not get the kind of aid, and the kind of assistance that the US government, the UN, the WHO, and so forth, uh, felt very strongly that this is what these African governments needed.”

Wtf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL1yagwaKM4

obviously there is a debate. A huge one…and that’s why we’re here discussing this right now. And that’s why there are activists groups dedicated to the “other side.”

Lol @ saying there is no debate when then entire film exposes the debate!

I am so SICK of people thinking they are morally superior to others and shooting down their argument with such an empty line…”there is no debate.” ha.
quite frankly, I wouldn’t be weary of listening to the opinions of anyone who has posted here. Do your own research, be objective, keep an open mind…and decide for yourself what side of the DEBATE you want to be on.

@”me”: I will address a few of your questions and irritating rhetorical “hmmm”s. 0.3% transmission PER NEEDLE means 3% transmission for 10 needle shares, 30% for 100. Many IV drug users inject multiple times every day, if they share with an HIV+ person for just a few weeks transmission is virtually certain. Similarly a prostitute with 5 partners a day will very likely transmit or contract HIV eventually. Secondly, the idea that Africans are morally pure and westerners decadent is balls, pure and simple. Neither are intrinsically worse or better than the others. Where ever you go, people are people, and lie, cheat, screw around and so on. However, in the west we have free and easy access to Condoms, and blanket education on their use and usefulness. Before education and the widespread use of condoms, HIV spread among gay men in the west extremely quickly. As for testing, by its nature, HIV is simply difficult to test for.

HIV AIDS is extremely heavily studied and well understood. HIV causes AIDS, there is no debate.