HIV AIDS
AIDS epidemic grows unchecked
By Barry Mason, December 8, 2001
The United Nations (UN) has just issued its latest AIDS epidemic update. It is now 20 years since the immunodeficiency syndrome that came to be known as AIDS was first reported. In that time the disea...
UN AIDS Conference ends as a fiasco
By Barry Mason and Chris Talbot, July 9, 2001
The three-day conference of the United Nations General Assembly held to debate the global AIDS crisis was intended as a face-saving exercise for Western governments.
The effects of the AIDS epidemic on Southern Africa's children
By Barry Mason, May 28, 2001
A British television documentary and a report by the charity Christian Aid entitled No Excuses—Facing up to sub-Saharan Africa's AIDS orphans crisis bring out the terrible impact of this pandemi...
HIV/AIDS danger increasing in the West
By Barry Mason, May 11, 2001
Whilst the spread of AIDS has become the biggest health disaster on a global scale, its effects have been mainly concentrated in Africa and the developing world. But recent evidence from Western Europ...
South African court case ends in climb down by drug corporations
By Chris Talbot, April 21, 2001
The withdrawal of a court case by 39 pharmaceutical companies against the South African government is a set back for the industry's defence of patent rights. They brought the case against a paragraph ...
Marxism and the AIDS dissidents: Part 3—Drug therapies, statistical studies and the pharmaceutical corporations
February 2, 2001
Below we print the concluding part of an extensive reply by Chris Talbot to a number of letters written supporting the theories of AIDS “dissidents”. The first two parts of Chris Talbot's ...
Marxism and the AIDS dissidents: Part 2—Scientific objectivity
February 1, 2001
This is the second part of a reply by Chris Talbot to a number of letters written supporting the theories of AIDS dissidents. The first part, along with the original correspondence, was published yest...
Marxism and the AIDS dissidents:
Part 1-the dissidents' critique of orthodox AIDS theories
January 31, 2001
Below Chris Talbot replies to a number of letters written supporting the theories of so-called AIDS “dissidents”. In brief, these claim that the link between HIV and AIDS has been invented...
United Nations AIDS report confirms worst epidemic in history
By Chris Talbot, December 4, 2000
An estimated three million people will have died of AIDS in 2000, the highest annual figure yet recorded. 500,000 of these were children. Although 2.4 million of the total deaths were in sub-Saharan A...
An exchange of letters on AIDS/HIV
August 26, 2000
The World Socialist Web Site has received the following letter from a reader on HIV/AIDS, to which Chris Talbot replies below.
AIDS in Africa: an indictment of an outmoded social order
By Fred Mazelis, August 16, 2000
The 13th International Conference on AIDS, held in Durban, South Africa last month, highlighted the social catastrophe unfolding on the African continent. The meeting took place in the country with th...
UN report on AIDS paints a picture of devastation-Part 2
By Paul Scherrer, July 18, 2000
The United Nations and World Health Organization (WHO) report on AIDS paints a picture of devastation in Africa and warns of catastrophe in many other regions of the world, yet offers no solution to t...
