Health Education AIDS Liaison, Toronto


Media Spotlight

This is an index of media items that feature HEAL Toronto.

Cause of AIDS disputed
By Tess Laidlaw The Online Reporter Nov. 29, 2001
AIDS is now a household word, but there is still doubt in some circles about what actually causes the disease.

Treatment and prevention
By Helen Muleme The Gazette Oct. 25, 2001
It is routinely accepted HIV leads directly to AIDS. However, in the last 17 years, a growing number of people have begun to question this premise.

HIV: the tough questions
Interview with CARL STRYGG from HEAL Toronto - complete text - with JOHN FORBES for INQ MAGAZINE. Aug/Sept. 2001

Healthy skepticism
Fab Magazine - July 5 2001
Condom Country campaign rides a wave of controversy. If advertising campaigns are judged by the amount of attention and discussion they generate then the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) has a winner on its hands.

Essay
The non-believers
Why do a bunch of healthy-livers irritate other AIDS activists so much?
story by Kelly Rude / The world is flat, right?
XTRA!(Toronto), August 26, 1999

Two LongTerm Healthy HIV-Positive Men Defy Medical Belief
CTV Television, Inc, SHOW: CANADA AM
August 17, 1999
FAVARO: They're among a small but increasingly vocal group of HIV infected people who are living longer using healthy diets, exercise and optimism but not medications.
SHANE: I felt sick within the first two weeks.
FAVARO: Adam took powerful antiHIV drugs for a year but couldn't tolerate the side effects the fatigue and muscle wasting. So he quit.
SHANE: Everything was fine after that. I felt a lot better, I had a lot of energy, I didn't have the fatigue. And I felt good about myself.

Positive healing
The Toronto Sun Monday, August 9, 1999
Some long-term HIV survivors are using optimism, not drugs, as a weapon
By Sharon LEM, Sun

Positive
Toronto Life, June, 1999
An HIV diagnosis used to be viewed as a death sentence. Today, the growing number of longterm survivors calls into question some basic assumptions about the disease. What these "thrivers" seem to have in common is strenght of character and an optimistic outlook.
By Sky Gilbert

Rethinking AIDS
Maclean's (Toronto Edition), April 12, 1999
A growing lobby challenges the HIV connection
By Mark Nichols

Rethinking AIDS again
CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks (Nov. 21, 1998)
Here you can listen to a "real audio" file of the recent broadcast about HEAL. "Rethinking AIDS again -- the debate over whether HIV causes AIDS has arisen once more.... We'll explore this controversial issue, and try to understand why it's back." With brief cameo appearances by Carl Stryg. Primarily a discussion between Dr. Wainberg, President of the International AIDS Society, and Robert Root-Bernstein author of Rethinking AIDS. The later having drifted back toward the mainstream since publishing his book in 1993.
Program Line Up. Real Audio sound files: Listen in realtime, or download

HEAL - Kary Mullis media coverage
The press response to HEAL Toronto's presentation of Dr. Kary Mullis was unprecedented. Here are the articles and reviews in the print media. There were also interviews with Dr. Mullis on National TV & radio. Rev. Dr. Michael Ellner, of HEAL New York had a half hour interview on Talk-TV (CBC NewsWorld).

Tuesday, October 13, 1998
Special to The Globe and Mail
ZEITGEIST: AIDS dissidents wage lonely battle
HIV: A RED HERRING?
For years, medical skeptics, including a Nobel prize winner, have questioned the orthodoxy that HIV causes AIDS. Now they're organizing.
by Sky Gilbert

October 18, 1998
The Toronto Sun
'MIND FIELD' FOR AIDS
NOBEL WINNER SAYS HIV MAY NOT EXIST

You might be forgiven for thinking that Nobel prize-winning chemist Dr. Kary Mullis is a little eccentric... .
By Michael Clement-- and Brad Honywill

NO PROOF HIV CAUSES AIDS, SAYS SPEAKER
Biochemist describes AZT as poison

A digest of reviews from the Globe & Mail (Canada's National Newspaper) and the two major Toronto daily papers.


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