8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Registration

SESSION A
Chairman: Fidias E. Leon-S, MD, PhD.

5:45 - 6:00 p.m. Opening Ceremony, Colombia National Anthem, State of Santander hymn, Santander Industrial University hymn.
6:00 - 6:15 Welcome by the Principal of University.
6:15 - 6:30 Welcome by the Dean of the School of Medicine.
6:30 - 7:00 Facts, Factors and distracters in human retroviruses: a personal view Fidias E. Leon-S, MD, PhD.
7:00 - 7:30 How much longer can we afford the AIDS virus monopoly? Peter Duesberg, PhD.
7:30 - 8:15 Music presentation: UIS - Santander Industrial University Chorus.
8:15 p.m. Opening Reception.

SESSION B
Chairman: Peter Duesberg, PhD, Secretary: Mauricio de Castro-Costa, MD, PhD.

7:30 - 8:00 a.m. Tropical spastic paraparesis without HTLV-1 Vladimir Zaninovic, MD.
8:00 - 8:30 Discrepancy, evidence, coincidence, and inconsistency in the epidemiology of the tropical spastic paraparesis, Mauricio de Castro-Costa, MD, PhD.
8:30 - 9:00 Rethinking AIDS in Africa, Charles L. Geshekter, PhD.
9:00 - 9:30 COFFEE BREAK.
9:30 - 10:00 HIV-seronegative AIDS in an HIV-seropositive community, Claudia J. Rey G., RN(s) & the ASINO-HIV Group.
10:00 - 10:30 Alarming worldwide increment of immunological stressor agents, Roberto A. Giraldo-Molina, MD, MSc.
10:30 - 11:00 Inventing the AIDS Virus, Peter H. Duesberg, PhD.
11:00 - 12:00 p.m. DISCUSSION.

SESSION C
Chairman: Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Ph.D, Secretary: Nhora Merino de Villegas, MD.

2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Facts and controversies in the immunodiagnostic test for HIV, Nhora Merino de Villegas, MD.
2:30 - 3:00 Inconsistencies in the pathology of the retroviruses associated human and animal myelopathies, Mauricio de Castro-Costa, MD, PhD.
3:00 - 3:30 COFFEE BREAK.
3:30 - 4:00 AZT: Princess or vassal? Helman S. Alfonso, MD, MSc.
4:00 - 4:30 PCR, viral load, and AIDS, Kary B. Mullis, PhD.
4:30 - 5:30 DISCUSSION.
5:30 - 6:15 p.m. Monologue theater show: «A rumor that is destroying a community...», Francisco Centeno.

SESSION D
Chairman: Charles Geshekter, PhD, Secretary: Vladimir Zaninovic, MD.

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. HTLV-1 per se does not cause tropical spastic paraparesis, Vladimir Zaninovic, MD.
8:30 - 9:00 AIDS, children and haemophilia: uncertain dogmatisms, Paul Philpott, MSc.
9:00 - 9:30 Legal and Political consequences of the Terrorism of mutations, David Rasnick, PhD.
9:30 - 10:00 COFFEE BREAK.
10:00 - 10:30 Racism, sexual stereotypes, and AIDS in Third World Countries, Charles Geshekter, PhD.
10:30 - 11:00 The infectious conception of AIDS as a consequence of the crisis of the scientific method, Roberto A. Giraldo-Molina, MD, MSc.
11:00 - 12:00 p.m. DISCUSSION.

SESSION E
Chairman: David Rasnick, PhD, Secretary: Helman S. Alfonso, MD, MSc.

2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Neuromuscular disabilities of AIDS patients with and without antiretroviral treatment Elsa Suarez, PhT.
2:30 - 3:30 Oxido-Reduction, HIV and AIDS, Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, PhD.
3:30 - 4:00 Efficient alternative of dis-intoxication in patients with immunodeficiency, Paul Philpott, MSc.
4:00 - 4:30 COFFEE BREAK.
4:30 - 5:00 Nutrition and malnutrition in patients with AIDS, Elliet Gomez, ND.
5:00 - 5:30 Lack of clinical benefits of HIV protease inhibitors, David Rasnick, PhD.
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. DISCUSSION.

SESSION F
Chairman: Kary B. Mullis, PhD, Secretary: Roberto A. Giraldo-Molina, MD, MSc.

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Fermentation, immunosuppression, and neurodegeneration: is there any linkage? Fidias E. Leon-S, MD, PhD, Marta Carpintero, MSc.
8:30 - 9:00 How to win the war against AIDS, Peter Duesberg, PhD.
9:00 - 9:30 COFFEE BREAK.
9:30 - 10:00 Myth and realities upon AIDS, Kary B. Mullis, PhD.
10:00 - 11:00 DISCUSSION.
11:00 - 11:30 Closing ceremony, AIDS weithout HIV: A new path for researching in the next century Dr. Mario Camacho Prada, Governor of the State of Santander and Dr. Jimmy Chamorro, Honorable Senator, Colombian Republic.
11:30 - 12:15 Music presentation: Band of «Centrabilitar» Institute.
12:15 - 1:00 International press conference Chairman: Neville Hodgkinson Secretary: Angel Galeano.
1:00 p.m. Lunch at «Casona la Perla».

COLOMBIAN

• Helman S. Alfonso, MD, MSc - Barranquilla.
• Elieth Gomez de Avellaneda, ND - Bucaramanga.
• Fidias E. Leon-S, MD, PhD - Bucaramanga.
• Nhora Merino de Villegas, MD - Santafé de Bogotá.
• Claudia J. Rey G., RN(s) - Bucaramanga.
• Elsa Patricia Suarez, PhT - Bucaramanga.
• Vladimir Zaninovic, MD - Santiago de Cali.

Kary B. Mullis, PhD - Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for the discovery of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which is used to determine viral load for HIV. He is a long-standing critic of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. San Diego, CA, USA.

Mauricio de Castro-Costa, MD, PhD - Professor of Neurology and Physiology. One of the leaders in HTLV-1 research. He has been working on the clinical and immunological inconsistencies observed in tropical spastic paraparesis. Ceara, Brazil.

Peter H. Duesberg, PhD - Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley. Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Pioneer in retrovirus research, the first person to isolate a cancer gene, and the first scientist to criticize the infectious view of AIDS. Proponent of the Drugs/AIDS hypothesis. Author of several books questioning the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. Berkeley, California, USA.

Charles L. Geshekter, PhD - Professor of African History at California State University, Chico. Author of several articles about underdevelopment, and sexual stereotypes of AIDS in Africa. Three time recipient of Fulbright Fellowships. He was the Chairman of the History of Science Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Pacific Division (1991-1995). Chico, California, USA.

Roberto A. Giraldo, MD, MSc - Internist, specialist in infectious and tropical diseases. Independent AIDS Researcher. Thirty years experience in clinical, academic, and research in infectious and tropical diseases. He is a critic of the infectious conception of AIDS and instead he proposes that AIDS is caused by mutiple, repeated, and chronic exposure to immunological stressor agents of chemical, physical, biological, mental and nutritional origin. Queens, New York, USA.

Neville Hodgkinson, British Journalist - Former medical correspondent of the «Sunday Times» of London. Author of «Will to be well - the real Alternative Medicine» and «AIDS: the Failure of Contemporary Science». Oxford, England.

Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, PhD - Professor of Biophysics at the Department of Medical Physics at the Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia. For a decade the professor has been proposing that the real cause of AIDS is the exposition to a variety of oxidizing agent. Author of several papers criticizing the so-called «AIDS-test». She and her group are the proponents that HIVhas never been isolated and that it does not exist as a viral independent entity. Perth, Australia.

Paul Philpott, MSc - Publisher and Editor of Reappraising AIDS, «a monthly publication of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV and AIDS Hypothesis». Author of several articles questioning the infectious view on AIDS. Detroit, Michigan, USA.

David Rasnick, PhD - Twenty years experience in pharmaceutical research with protease inhibitors. Outspoken critic of the current diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for AIDS. Supporter of the Drug/AIDS hypothesis. Chairman of the international «Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis». Visiting scientist in Peter Duesberg laboratory. Berkeley, California, USA.