"The atmosphere at the Aids Panel was extremely tense and emotional. Both sides thought the other was putting lives at risk. Peter Duesberg (the original dissident scientist, who says HIV does exist but is harmless, and that Aids is caused by other infections and recreational drugs) stormed out of the meeting in tears, twice." The orthodox faction behaved hardly any better.
"The people I found most convincing were the Perth Group." These two maverick doctors who documented all the other conditions that can (occasionally) produce a positive HIV antibody test result. They've done good work defining how accurate such tests can be.
But they believe HIV doesn't exist and is therefore the one thing that the tests never

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"I've always worked at the Hope House Hospice (above) - one of two in Zambia, it has 20 beds for the thousands dying in the country"

measure. Zulu himself does not claim medical expertise.
In a letter to Thabo Mbeki, Zulu explained what happened to him next: "I resigned as co-ordinator of the Network of Zambian People Living with HIV/Aids. I had already stopped taking my Aids medications in February 2000. But by March 2001, I started feeling very weak and could hardly walk. A fungal rash invaded my mouth and my feet. My toenails dropped off. I don't want to appeal to your emotions, but I got real

scared."
But it wasn't really his own illnesses that shocked Zulu back into Aids