POZ.com: Viagra Maker Sued by AIDS Group, Activist Responds
The leaders at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation have nothing better to do today than file a lawsuit against Pfizer over its supposedly dangerous marketing of Viagra. Of course, the AHF folks are being aided and abetted in their effort by America's self-appointed nanny for STD and Viagra -- SF DPH's Dr. Jeff Klausner.
I guess the lack of evidence from an NIH panel about a link of Viagra and increased HIV infections means nothing to Klausner and AHF. Click here for some background on all of this.
You may recall that Mayor Gavin Newsom's former AIDS Czar, gay PWA Jeff Sheehy had this to say to the Bay Area Reporter in 2005 when Klausner petitioned the FDA over his concerns:
"Jeff Klausner wants the dicks of people with HIV in his back pocket and he wants us to ask him permission to use it. And I am not giving him my dick. Jeff Klausner is specifically targeting gay men with HIV. This is not what city funds should be used for. There is no science to justify this."
Well, my colleagues at Poz.com have taken my comments about today's move by AHF and Klausner and posted them on the magazine's web site. A snippet from the Poz.com post:
Considering that Pfizer is already responsibly including the message that Viagra does not stop HIV or other STDs in their bus shelter ads and on the package insert, which also stresses the need for safer sex, I suspect that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is campaigning against the company in order to squeeze an educational grant out of them.
Click here to read my full comments.
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