South African Court Bans AIDS Vitamin Trials
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) Jun 13 - A South African court on Friday issued an
order banning unauthorised clinical trials of vitamin therapies for
AIDS conducted by a team including a former adviser to President Thabo
Mbeki.
The Cape High Court ruled against German physician Matthias Rath and
U.S. doctor David Rasnick, a former member of Mbeki's AIDS advisory
council, in response to a case brought by the lobby group Treatment
Action Campaign (TAC) and the South African Medical Association
(SAMA).
The two bodies accused Rath of conducting illegal clinical trials
among poor blacks and profiteering by selling and distributing
unregistered vitamin treatments among poor communities.
"It is declared that the clinical trials conducted in South Africa ...
are unlawful," Cape High Court Judge Dumisani Zondi said in his
ruling.
Rath and his Rath Foundation promote vitamin pills and micronutrients,
mainly minerals such as iron or iodine, that they say can reverse the
course of HIV/AIDS.
Critics say Rath's work has led to unnecessary deaths when HIV-
positive people stopped using life-saving antiretroviral drugs.
In court papers, TAC and SAMA accused the South African government of
not doing enough to stop Rath and failing in its constitutional and
statutory duty of care to the public.
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who has herself courted
controversy by advocating garlic and beetroot instead of
antiretroviral drugs, denied the allegations.
Tshabalala-Msimang and a senior Health Ministry official argued before
the court that Rath's products were not really medicines but
foodstuffs that were outside the Medicines Control Council's
regulatory scope.
The court said on Friday that Rath and Rasnick, two of 12 people
mentioned in the suit, would be prohibited from conducting unlawful
clinical trials in South Africa or from publishing advertisements for
their products.
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June 14, 2003
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