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Legal
challenges to Matthias Rath
A German vitamin-maker and entrepreneur named Matthias
Rath publicly questioned the effectiveness of HIV medicines in
advertisements in South African newspapers. Rath claims that his
nutritional products can cure HIV/AIDS[8]
and that antiretroviral medications are toxic. TAC successfully pursued
retractions and corrections from the newspapers, and Rath was censured by the South African media control body.
TAC has sued the Minister of Health for failing to stop what it claims
are Rath’s illegal activities, including "conducting unauthorised
experiments on people, distributing unregistered medicines and
advertising unproven treatments for AIDS." In a unanimous March 3, 2006
decision, the Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division court found in
favour of TAC against Rath in a defamation suit. As a result of this
decision, Rath may not claim that TAC is a front for the pharmaceutical
industry, a « Trojan horse » or « running dog » of that industry,
is funded by the pharmaceutical industry, receives funds from
pharmaceutical front organisations in return for promoting
antiretroviral medicines, or targets poor communities in order to
promote the interests of pharmaceutical companies, since the court found
no evidence that any of these allegations were true.