the rollback of south africa's biological warfare program

UNAIDS discovered to their horror that the spermicide nonoxynol-9, a
chemical found in many contraceptives lubricants and gels worldwide, is not
only ineffective against HIV, it actually appears to increase the chance of
infection in high-risk women. Of 999 prostitutes in Africa and Thailand, 59
women using a nonoxynol-9 contraceptive gel called Advantage-S became
infected with HIV, compared with 41 women using a placebo. Claudia Kalb,
“In ‘We Have to save Our People,” Newsweek, 24 July 2000 posed on afronets@usa.nealthnet.org,
July 17, 2000.
95 Jeff Collins, "Suspects all visited the home of a South African trade official,
police say,” Orange Country Register, (July 18, 2000). Dr. Ford, Dino
D’Saachs and Dr. Jerry Nilsson, who are all suspected of conspiring to kill
Biofem Inc. chief executive James Patrick Riley, visited the South Africa trade
attaché, Gideon Bouwer in the 1980s.
96 Arthur Allen, “Vaginal Detergent,” Salon.com (http://salonmag.com/
health/feature/2000/06/26/biofem), 26 June 2000 (accessed August 9, 2000).
(http://salonmag.com/health/feature/2000/06/26/biofem), 26 June 2000
(accessed August 9, 2000). Jeff Collins, "Suspects all visited the home of a
South African trade official, police say,” Orange Country Register, (18 July
2000).
97 Interview with Dr. G. Scharf, 6 July 2000.
98 Jeff Collins “Suspects all visited the home of a South African trade official,
police say” The Orange County Register. (July 18, 2000). This article cites a
Sunday Times interview with Knobel, in which he confirmed that he relied on
Ford’s expertise whenever he had questions about chemical or biological
weapons and said that he helped Ford and Riley gain approval for the use of
products produced by BioFem. Knobel also confirmed that he introduced Ford
to Wouter Basson, who arranged a briefing with Project Coast scientists and
Dr. Ford at Fort Klapperkop outside Pretoria in June or July 1987 where he
demonstrated how to lace teabags, doilies and even a Playboy magazine with
deadly bacteria. A new project, Codename Project Larry, was started around
the time of Ford’s visit but was closed within a few months. While Dr. Knobel
reports no knowledge of a Project Larry, Adriaan Botha, a Project Coast
scientist who attended this briefing, reported that Ford sent them five bags of
biological material they hoped to cultivate into organisms that could be used to
kill the enemies of apartheid. Jeff Collins “Ford advised South Africa on
warfare devices," Orange County Register (15 March 2000).
99 Arthur Allen, “Mad Scientist,” Salon.com (http://salonmag.com/
health/feature/2000/06/26/biofem), 26 June 2000 (accessed August 9, 2000)
100 See Andrew Bluth and Tony Saavedra “The materials are collected at the
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