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==Matthias Rath and AIDS==
==Matthias Rath and AIDS==
[[image:rathdemo.jpg|Demo against Rath in South Africa|left|thumb]]
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Rath and his Foundation were investigated by the law in South Africa after they had promised AIDS victims false hope und encouraged them to not take antiretrovirals, but to rather trust the [[cellular medicine]]. Rath was convicted of illegal experiments on humans.<ref>http://www.health-e.org.za/news/article.php?uid=20031294</ref> In March 2006 he was convicted of libel against the NRO TAC, Treatment Action Campain, in Cape Town.
At the opening of the International AIDS vaccine conference 2008 in Cape Town the new South African Health Minister Barbara Hogan made a clear statement that AIDS is caused by HIV and should be fought with evidence based medicine.<ref>http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/article29163.ece</ref>
1.000 people die each day from AIDS in South Africa. Hogan promised that vitamin treatments of HIV positive people will be prohibited. This was a direct reference to the business practices of Rath, who had made advertising campaigns for his treatments in South Africa for years. In 2005 WHO and UNICEF had warned from this method to treat AIDS.<ref>http://data.unaids.org/Media/Press-Statements01/ps_rath_30mar05_en.pdf</ref><ref>http://data.unaids.org/Media/Press-Releases03/pr_rath_11may05_en.pdf</ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20071020134733/http://www.gwup.org/aktuell/news.php?aktion=detail&id=271</ref>
The new South African Health policy endet the ten year era of [[HIV/AIDS-Denial]], which was held up by the former president Thabo Mbeki and his Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki#AIDS</ref><ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_South_Africa</ref><ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/17/mbeki-south-africa-aids</ref> Tshabalala-Msimang had been given the nickname Dr. Garlic because of her treatment of AIDS patients with [[garlic]], beetroot and Oliveoil instead of antiretrovirals.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5319680.stm</ref>
When the new SA president Kgalema Motlanthe took office he moved Tshabalala-Msimang to a less important position. AIDS-Activists celebrated that in a party before the parliament. Tshabalala-Msimang was accused to have caused the death of thousands of AIDS victims.
'''Aftermath:''' The rejection of conventional AIDS therapies in South Africa has caused the avoidable death of 330.000 AIDS victims from 2000 to 2005.<ref>http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2008-releases/researchers-estimate-lives-lost-delay-arv-drug-use-hivaids-south-africa.html</ref><ref>http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/news/news.asp?id=34133</ref> According to a study published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes further 35.000 newborn were infected who should have been treated with prophylaxis with Nevirapin.<ref>Pride Chigwedere, George R Seage III, Sofia Gruskin, Tun-Hou Lee, Estimating the Lost Benefits of Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa.JAIDS 2008 doi: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31818a6cd5 Online: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2008/11/26/harvard-universityreport.pdf</ref>
An offer of the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim in Jahr 2000, to supply the medicament Nevirapin for prophylaxis, to avoid mother-child infection, free of charge was dismissed. Only two pilot projects were permitted. Donations by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tubercolosis and Malaria for the province KwaZulu Natal were blocked for more than a year according to Pride Chigwedere, who had treated HIV patients in Simbabwe before he worked for the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
In 2009 a shipment of vitamin pills was busted by the Department of Health investigators as part of an ongoing investigation in Cape Town and criminal cases against Rath were opened.<ref>http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/drug-bust-at-ctn-airport-1.437824</ref>
==Rath as politician==
==Rath as politician==