The Other Side of AIDS (2004)

Christine Maggiore: Self - Director, Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives

Quotes 

• Christine Maggiore : I just want to read four things that you can find on the back of the drug ads, that in the front have handsome, tanned men climbing up mountains in short shorts, and smiling women, and all that stuff... And in the back it says

  [reading] 

  Christine Maggiore : , At this time there is no evidence that Ziagen will help you live longer or have fewer of the medical problems associated with HIV or AIDS... It is not yet known whether Crixivan will extend your life or reduce your chances of getting other illnesses associated with HIV... At present, there are no results - none! - from controlled clinical trials evaluating the effects of Viramune on the incidence of opportunistic infections or survival... And finally there is one that simply says

  [reading again] 

  Christine Maggiore : , There have been no clinical trials conducted with Combivir.

  [to the camera] 

  Christine Maggiore : If these drugs would show health benefits which they don't, in the form of long term, controlled scientific studies published in the medical literature, the drugs' companies would be putting the good news on the front page, instead of putting these disclaimers on the back page.