Hmm...interesting little opinion article here.

http://www.suntimes.co.za/articles/article.aspx?ID=ST6A92136

"Four years after the radical views of a group of Aids dissidents were
given extraordinary government attention, leading doctors and Aids
experts this week declared their influence on policy "dead"."

"Brink said dissidents were "no longer" advising the South African
government on Aids."

"Nathan Geffen, spokesman for the Treatment Action Campaign, said the
dissident phenomenon stood apart from all other popular false beliefs
in that it had been endorsed by a government, and had placed the lives
of thousands at risk."

"Abdullah said: "My sense is that [the dissidents] have had their
day.""

"Karim, now deputy vice-chancellor of research at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal, said: "They are a spent force." "

"Karim described his experience on the Aids Advisory Panel: "It was
surreal. I simply found [the dissident] arguments silly.""

Bennett