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Joseph Sonnabend MD is a distinguished retired physician, scientist and AIDS researcher, notable for pioneering community-based research, the propagation of safe sex to prevent infection, and an early and unconventional multifactorial model (Co-factors) of AIDS. During the 1980s and 1990s he treated many hundreds of HIV positive people.
In these recently-released outtakes from the documentary House of Numbers, Dr. Sonnabend describes how amfAR exaggerated the risk of AIDS to funding from Congress:
One day one of the networks had received a press release from us, and the press release said that heterosexual AIDS is about to happen, that straight men are going to drop in droves… And I said that’s B.S. where’d you get that from? It was a total fraud and scam. It was a fundraising ploy… but it was so efficient that it resulted in a LIFE Magazine cover which said ‘No one is safe from AIDS.’ … Once he put out this scare, the money started to flow. It really did.
These newly-released outtakes from the documentary House of Numbers shows how AIDS was marketed by the media during the 1980s and 1990s – and even how it is marketed today.
Pre-order a copy of the documentary at www.HouseOfNumbers.com.
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Tags: AIDS, amfAR, Corruption, HIV, House of Numbers, Joseph Sonnabend, Life Magazine, social marketing