Professor Charles Ssali
Mariandina AIDS Research Foundation
We should wonder why monkeys and chimpanzees are not dying from AIDS as much as the people that claim to be more advanced in every sense of the word? They have the SV virus equivalent to HIV that they have lived with for generations. The reason is that they eat from the trees and herbs that are the source of life as we have said. Why is Mariandina banned, a preparation made out of herbs and natural products from foods and vegetables. The National Drug Authority and the Minister of Health that are the custodians of the government means of looking after our health interests have failed to give me a satisfactory explanation for maintaining the ban. They have licensed products like AZT that carry severe toxic side effects in preference for that of natural products from herbs that have no toxic effects.
The multinational drug companies that are conspiring to ban the use of vitamins and all herbal medicine with significant medicinal properties are behind the activity and policies of our National Drug Authorities in most of African countries. In Kenya, the National Drug Authority of Kenya banned Dr. Kobel’s discovery of Pearl Omega. In South Africa, a recent discovery of an effective drug against AIDS was banned within days of its announcement. In Zambia, the same thing happened. In Uganda, the National Drug Authority banned Mariandina under the pretext that it has a few milligrams of vitamin C more than what you find in a mango. In Ghana, Dr. Drobo was murdered by multinational pharmaceutical companies for his discovery for an effective remedy against AIDS.
Before introducing AZT and protease inhibitors in Uganda in 1997, the Minister of Health placed a ban on Mariandina and then staged a party to launch AZT in Sheraton Hotel. (Date 05.11.97)
He assured the whole country that Uganda is fortunate to get a drug that costs 1.5m Uganda shillings a month at a good subsidised price of 600,000 shillings a month, compared to Mariandina that costs 30,000 shillings a month.
The multinational drug companies, in corroboration with UNAIDS, and the local health authorities, are placing a ban on natural herbal products to monopolise the vitamin and herbal remedies as their limitless source of revenue. These same multinational companies have introduced diseases to destroy plants and herbs that we use as source of nutrient so that we can become more dependent on their products. The same people have monopolised the business of producing the pesticides and herbicides that poison the environment and produce changes in our foods so that they score a double purpose of selling their products and reducing our population.
The people who ban locally invented products derived from vitamins and herbs are just the front for these multinational companies. It has become a society of man-eat-man just for the dollar.
First of all - volatile, synthetic pesticide poisons are the largest group of poisonous substances purposefully being added or disseminated throughout our environment. All of the major poison producers are in the "health" pharmaceutical business too - so as you become poisoned/polluted and sicken and begin to die from their allopathic poisons - they will sell you allopathic drugs to "survive". These people are not "guardians" of the environment. They are the destroyers of the environment - they are not in the "chemical or health" industry - they are in the death or poison "industry"
In addition, approximately 250,000 to 300,000 acres of Roundup Ready soybeans were planted in Argentina for the 1996/97 season. Since 1995, Monsanto has invested over US$200 million in glyphosate manufacturing technology, and plans to invest another US$180million for 1997.
The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry
1. The natural purpose and driving force of the pharmaceutical industry is to increase sales of pharmaceutical drugs for ongoing diseases and to find new diseases to market existing drugs.
2. By this very nature, the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in curing
diseases. The eradication of any disease inevitably destroys a multi-billion
dollar market of prescription drugs as a source of revenues.
Therefore, pharmaceutical drugs are primarily developed to relieve symptoms, but
not to cure.
3. If eradication therapies for diseases are discovered and developed, the pharmaceutical industry has an inherent interest to suppress, discredit and obstruct these medical breakthroughs in order to make sure that diseases continue as the very basis for a lucrative prescription drug market.
4. The economic interest of the pharmaceutical industry itself is the main reason why no medical breakthrough has been made for the control of the most common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, cancer, and osteoporosis, and why these diseases continue like epidemics on a worldwide scale.
5. For the same economic reasons, the pharmaceutical industry has now formed an international cartel by the code name "Codex Alimentarius" with the aim to outlaw any health information in connection with vitamins and to limit free access to natural therapies on a worldwide scale.
6. At the same time, the pharmaceutical companies withhold public information about the effects and risks of prescription drugs and life-threatening side effects are omitted or openly denied.
7. In order to assure the status quo of this deceptive scheme, a legion of pharmaceutical lobbyists is employed to influence legislation, control regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA), and manipulate medical research and education. Expensive advertising campaigns and PR agencies are used to deceiving the public.
8. Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded twice: A major portion of their income is used up to finance the exploding profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they are offered a medicine that does not even cure.
