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p ACT UP Hollywood

p 8965 Santa Monica Blvd., PMB #157 • West Hollywood, CA 90069 Tel: (323) 692-7766 • Email: [email protected]

p ACT UP San Francisco

p 1884 Market Street • San Francisco, CA 94102

p Tel: (415) 864-6686 • Fax: (415) 864-6687 • Email: [email protected]  

p ACT UP is determined to end AIDS through militant direct action. We confront complacency, conflict of interest and corruption in the AIDS industry. We protest homophobia, racism, sexism and poverty as the causes of ill health. ACT UP does not accept contributions from pharmaceutical companies or the government.

p Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society

p David Crowe, President

p Box 61037 • Kensington Postal Outlet • Calgary, Alberta T2N 4S6, Canada
Tel: (403) 220-0129 • Email: 71574,[email protected]  

p Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society uses scientific evidence to challenge the myth that HIV is the cause of AIDS, and specifically to question the use of toxic compounds to fight AIDS. Goals are accomplished through education, lobbying and, if necessary, legal action in the province of Alberta, Canada.

p Alive a Well AIDS Alternatives

p Christine Maggiore, Director 11684 Ventura Boulevard • Studio City, CA 91604 Toll-Free: (877) 92-AL1VE • Fax: (818) 780-7093 Email: [email protected]  

p Alive & Well questions the HIV=AIDS=Death paradigm based on a growing body of scientific, medical, and epidemiological data, and promotes awareness of life-affirming facts to HIV positive diagnosed persons and concerned citizens worldwide. In addition to sponsoring scientific and medical studies, Alive & Well offers a yearly calendar of free community events, produces books, videos, and other materials that present alternative views of AIDS, and shares resources with Alive & Well affiliates and other organizations around the world that support informed choices for people affected by HIV and AIDS.

p The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis

p Dr. David Rasnick, President

p 7514 Girard Avenue #1-331 • La Jolla, CA 92037
Toll-Free: (877) 256-6406 • Fax: (619)272-1621 • Email: [email protected]  

p The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis comprises medical scientists, physicians, other professionals and concerned people who conclude that HIV might not explain AIDS and that everyone should think and speak freely on this topic without fear of professional, social, or academic reprisals. The Group publishes the monthly newsletter Rethinking AIDS.

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p HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison)  

p Michael Ellner, President, Founding HEAL Chapter
PO Box 1103 • Old Chelsea Station • New York, NY 10113 Tel: (212) 873-0780 • Fax: (212) 873-0891 • Email: [email protected]  

p Ron Piazza, National Contact for Independent Chapters, USA Toil-Free: (800) 738-3642 • Email: [email protected]  

p HEAL, Independent Chapters, Canada  

p Carl Strygg, Robert Johnston, Co-founders
993 Queen Street East • Toronto, Ontario M4M1K2, Canada
Tel: (416) 406-HEAL • Fax: (416) 778-7381 • Email: [email protected]  

p HEAL provides information needed to make truly informed decisions about HIV testing and treatments. Some HEAL chapters offer natural and nontoxic alternatives to these treatments. Others offer insight into the wider social context for the complex of noninfectious health risks that cause AIDS. Write or call for more information, and a complete list of independent HEAL chapters and/or affiliates in the US, Canada and other parts of the world.

p International Coalition for Medical Justice (ICMJ)  

p Deane Collie, Executive Director • Robert Beard, Chief Counsel
302 East Davis Street, Suite 221 • Culpepper, VA 22701
Tel: (540) 829-9350 • Fax: (540) 829-9009 • Email: [email protected]  

p ICMJ promotes and encourages ethical and responsible scientific research methods and advocates true informed consent for medical treatment methods. ICMJ provides grant funding for research and education, as well as legal defense and legal defense funding.

p Mothers Opposing Mandatory Medicine  

p 11684 Ventura Boulevard • Studio City, CA 91604 Toll-Free: (877) 804-4MOM • Fax: (818) 780-7093 Email: [email protected]  

p MOMM provides critical education and peer support to expectant and current mothers faced with choices regarding HIV testing and pharmaceutical HIV and AIDS treatments, and offers information on healthy childbirth, breastfeeding, and living in wellness.

p The National Vaccine Information Center  

p 512 West Maple Avenue, Suite 206 • Vienna, VA 22180 Tel: (703) 938-0342 • Fax: (703) 938-5768  

p The National Vaccine Information Center (NV1C), founded in 1982 by parents of vaccine injured children, is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the right of all citizens to informed consent to vaccination. NV1C takes the position that scientific evidence to date is not sufficient to prove HIV causes AIDS and that if an HIV vaccine is made available to the public in the future, no citizen should be required to use it without their voluntary, informed consent. NV1C maintains that the ethical principle of informed consent, which is applied to all other medical procedures carrying a risk of injury or death, must be applied to all vaccinations, including a future AIDS vaccine.

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p Students Reappraising AIDS

p Kai Thorup, Director
2880 SW 75^th Way #2205 • Davie, FL 33314
Toll-Free: (877) 411-AIDS • Florida: (954) 382-9995 • Email: [email protected]  

Students Reappraising AIDS encourages students to raise questions that challenge the HlV=AIDS=Death paradigm in their classrooms, among their fellow students and on their campuses by providing a forum for scientists, physicians, journalists and activists to present factual information that exposes the myth that HIV causes AIDS.