"That morbidity and mortality in haemophiliacs attributed to HIV, arises principally from other causes."

The submission presents evidence that the world-leading U.S. Centres for Disease Control published in 1994, that even before heat treatment, "drying of HIV-infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed--essentially zero" (CDC quote).

This confirms research by some of the signatories to the submission that infective HIV cannot be transmitted throuth haemophiliac Factor VIII therapy. Evidence is also included that HIV has never been isolated such as to meet to legal requirements, and that over 60 factors can cause false-positive HIV test results.

The submission asserts that the true causes of observed morbidity and mortality in haemophiliac patients were immunosuppressive effects of blood factor therapy itself; prescribed corticosteroids and/or pneumonia medication; and fatal side-effects of antiviral medication erroneously prescribed as a result of incorrect HIV/AIDS diagnosis.

The submission says "we outline and substantiate alternative causes of morbidity and mortality that merit examination by the Tribunal....[and] stand ready to assist in any way we can the course of your inquiries." The submission is collectively supported by:

• Dr. Harvey Bialy PhD, Institute of Biotechnology, Mexico; Member SA Aids Panel
• Prof. Etienne deHarven; (Emeritus Pathology) Toronto Univ. / France; Member SA Aids Panel
• Fintan Dunne, Joint Editor, Aidsmyth.com, Ireland;
• Rev. Dr. Michael Ellner; Pres. H.E.A.L. NYC, New York, USA.
• Prof. Manu Kothari (Anatomy), Seth G.S., Mumbai, India; Member SA Aids Panel
• Kathy McMahon, Joint Editor, Aidsmyth.com, Ireland;
• Prof. Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos (Medical Physics), Perth, Australia; Member SA Aids Panel
• Prof. Valendar F. Turner (Emergency Medicine), Perth, Australia. Member SA Aids Panel

BACKGROUND: In April 2001, the South African Government published the first interim report of the Aids Panel proceedings. The report found there was "fundamental disagreement on the interpretation of the scientific and clinical data and evidence on the cause and progression of AIDS". That was the first time any published Government report has found that there is a legitimate interpretative scientific dispute as to the role of HIV in AIDS. This finding may have considerable implications for the scope of judicial inquiries into HIV/AIDS.

Earlier, an article entitled "HIV and Aids: The myths, the virus and the burden of proof" in the November 2000 issue of the South African Law Society magazine De Rebus, had commented: ".... the legal issue of whether a court ought to be entitled to assume that HIV causes Aids is in doubt."

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