Celia Farber
Celia Farber has written on the issues and controversies surrounding HIV, AZT, and AIDS for more than a decade. She is a regular contributor to Esquire, Spin, USA Today, and Gear, among other U.S. publications. She is the mother of one son and resides with her family in New York City.
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August 1999
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AIDS dissidents take their
message to Capitol Hill while the
establishment pretends there's
nothing to discuss.
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July 1999
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After six years as an AIDS educator,
Mark Pierpont resigned because he
could no longer participate in what he
feels "may one day be seen as the
greatest violation of the principle of
informed consent in the history of
Public Health."
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June 1999
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The difference between thinking you will live and
thinking you will die often depends on an HIV antibody test that is
shockingly unreliable. The case of a 3-year-old boy in North Carolina
proves that even hospitals have to admit this now
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May 1999
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The Tyson family loses its breast-feeding court
battle in Oregon
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March 1999
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We are in the midst of the second major wave of
AIDS terror propaganda
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February 1999
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An HIV-positive mother in Oregon almost loses custody
of her baby because she resists giving him AZT and wishes to breast-feed
him
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January 1999
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Rather than fearing the HIV virus, there are gay
men who actually eroticize it, and their stories are seeping through
to the mainstream
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December 1998
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In a decision that will affect millions, the CDC
is forcing states to document everyone diagnosed with HIV, civil liberties
be damned
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November 1998
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It is not the HIV retrovirus that has changed our
world so indelibly. It is the idea that physical contact and intimacy
can kill you
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October 1998
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Valerie Emerson's battle to keep her HIV-positive
son off of toxic AIDS drugs isn't quite over, despite her recent victory
in court
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Sept/Oct 1998
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Rarely, if ever, has a single diagnostic test had
such an enormous impact on the lives of the millions of people who rely
on it
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Sept/Oct 1998
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The fears. The misconceptions. The facts
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Sept/Oct 1998
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The impossible choices facing HIV-positive women
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September 1998
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After seeing her daughter Tia die horribly while
on AZT, Valerie Emerson didn't want her four-year-old son Nikolas to
suffer a similar fate
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August 1998
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Some Reflections on the Sorry State of AIDS Journalism
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April 1997
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Some experts wonder whether the new "cocktail"
therapy craze is bad science and wishful thinking
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October 1996
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The International AIDS Conference
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July 1996
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The treatment for AIDS stands accused of being
deadlier than the disease itself
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Aug/Sept 1994
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A multinational corporation complete with its own
belief system, figure heads, logos and even facial expressions
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July 1994
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Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry
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November 1993
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The so-called AIDS test is too flawed to be reliable
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August 1993
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The Ninth International Conference on AIDS in Berlin
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April 1993
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Is there really an epidemic of AIDS in Africa?
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March 1993
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Is there really an epidemic of AIDS in Africa?
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September 1992
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Disturbing financial connections between the makers
of AZT and prominent activist groups
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June 1992
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The medical establishment is ignoring powerful
evidence that HIV doesn't spread sexually, and it may in fact be harmless
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April 1991
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The results of a three-year study on AZT raise
serious doubts about its usefulness
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November 1989
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The AZT Scandal
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