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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2007 Rethinking AIDS Objects to New Yorker Article Misrepresenting Serious Concerns About HIV Drugs in South Africa SAN FRANCISCO, April 4, 2007--Rethinking AIDS, an international organization of more than 2,300 scientists, medical doctors, journalists, health advocates and business professionals, said today that an article published in The New Yorker of March 12, 2007, distorted the views of scientists who raise critical questions about AIDS in South Africa, and misrepresented key facts about the South African government’s response to its health crisis. In response, RA, through its media contact given below, is making several of its board members available for media interviews. RA’s board includes medical doctors and scientists with extensive experience working in Africa as well as in pharmaceutical development, public health, infectious disease and diagnostics. The article by Michael Specter, titled “The Denialists,” appeared one year after Celia Farber’s controversial article in Harper’s Magazine, “Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science,” exposed problems with HIV drug safety and testing practices in Africa and the U.S. In an e-mail leaked to the public, Specter stated that he in fact planned his article as a response to Farber’s. Specter’s article cited claims made by the Treatment Action Committee, a pharmaceutical-supported AIDS drug advocacy group in South Africa, which, together with HIV researcher Dr. Robert Gallo condemned the Harper’s report as “denialism.” RA’s point-by-point rebuttal to their claims of numerous errors in Harper’s found all facts correct and all conclusions consistent and justified. (Suite)