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Out of Control AIDS and the corruption of medical science Posted on Friday, April 7, 2006. Originally from Harper's Magazine, March 2006. By Celia Farber. Joyce Ann Hafford was a single mother living alone with her thirteen-year-old son, Jermal, in Memphis, Tennessee, when she learned that she was pregnant with her second child. She worked as a customer service representative at a company called CMC Call Center; her son was a top student, an athlete and musician. In April 2003, Hafford, four months pregnant, was urged by her obstetrician to take an HIV test. She agreed, even though she...

HIV/Aids Debate ContinuesBusiness Day (Johannesburg) OPINION June 6, 2002 Posted to the web June 6, 2002 David Rasnick Johannesburg ON APRIL 23 1984, Margaret Heckler, then US health secretary, promised an AIDS vaccine by 1986. Now, June 3 2002, Medical Research Council president Malegapuru Makgoba says that expectations of a vaccine within seven to 10 years are realistic. It seems that the older the AIDS epidemic gets, the longer we have to wait for an AIDS vaccine.The uncertainty on efficacy is just the tip of the iceberg of the problems facing an AIDS vaccine. For example, Makgoba fails to say...