- CAPTE TOWN, South Africa
-- Activists in the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have called for a judicial
investigation into the presidency and the health minister to probe the 'prima
facie evidence that illegal and unethical experiments were conducted on
HIV-AIDS infected people with a toxic industrial solvent called dimethylformamide
(DMF) which the Mbeki-cabinet refers to as 'Virodene P058'.
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- The experimentation was for commercial benefit as the
ruling party holds shares in the company marketing the dangerous product
on the Internet.
- See these studies:
- http://www.virodene.com/downloads/organano
- grams/B4_Pilot_Study_Organograms_a.pdf
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- There was evidence that the Office of the Presidency,
President Mbeki and Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang were involved
in these trials even after the Medicines Control Council and the University
of Pretoria ruled them unethical and in contravention of the law, the TAC
said.
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- The organisation wants an indepencent judicial commission
of inquiry to determine to what extent the president and health minister
had been involved and how much experimentation on people was being conducted.
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- Qunta, a practising attorney, was an investor and director
in a company that profiteers from selling untested and unregistered cures
and treatments for Aids.The TAC said Qunta was appointed by the health
minister to a presidential task team on 'traditional medicines'.
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- The TAC further alleges that Qunta and her legal firm
had earned tens of thousands of rands in fees profiteering from the unethical,
unscrupulous and unlawful activities of Matthias Rath, the vitamin salesman.
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- The organisation believed that "at best it appears
someone in the presidency acted unethically in 2000 and 2001. At worst,
there is direct involvement of the president himself in corrupt, illegal
actions with potentially deadly consequences for patients with HIV-AIDS."
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- LINK to story:
- http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2190889,00.html
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