Dear Ambassador, Eric Goosby,
As molecular biologist and specialist in the field of infectious diseases, we must strongly emphasize that the issue of HIV/AIDS in the human community is not a political issue for the case of political priority or economic issue for the case of economic priority. It is more and more a scientific entity regarding the survival of human kind that must be considered as scientific priority.
After thirty years since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, there is still no simple solution to break the dimensions of pandemic in the world.
The ideal HIV drugs would not just suppress the virus, but would eliminate it from the body. No independent scientist in the world can come with confirmation regarding the prescription and initiation of HAART in order to eliminate the HIV virus. And there is no independently scientific evidence to verify the optimal CD4 threshold at which to initiate HAART. At the same time, there is no independently scientific evidence to verify the significant protection against HIV transmission among partners by the efficiency of the drugs despite the reduction of viral load.
HIV has a remarkable ability to resist antiviral drugs and hide in the body and form a non-eradicable reservoir, so the idea of eradicating the virus appears to be impossible. If treatment is interrupted, HIV rapidly springs back into action, rising to detectable levels within weeks. Meanwhile, no matter how effective the available drugs, the harsh reality is that they must be taken for life which makes the administration of drugs unbearable for patients and at the same time the costs of the drugs become terribly expansive. And if we as the neutral observer don’t conceal the harsh reality that the patients on HAART suffer also from a host of conditions including heart, kidney, liver and bone disease, cancers and serious cognitive problems.

As molecular biologist and specialist in the field of infectious diseases, we must strongly emphasize that the development of a safe and effective preventive vaccine for HIV aiming for the ultimate control of the worldwide AIDS pandemic remains as a priority for scientific community and its development have presented significant challenges. The challenges include the extraordinary diversity and hypervariability of HIV-1, the early establishment of latent viral reservoirs and the lack of clear immune correlates of protection.
By unequivocally experimental evidence in our hands, we believe that the development of an effective HIV vaccine is an achievable goal but the introduction and marketing of HAART transform HIV virus to a globally gigantic confusing problem to deter the development of an HIV Vaccine.
We declare in a clear cut statement that the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) is not in the interest of human being’s survival. The reason is that the treatment by these kinds of drugs leads to a condition that HIV evolves and enhances its pathogenic characteristics more and more. HAART cannot overcome the HIV virus ultra-extensive capacity for adaptation and diversification under an evolutionary period. Don’t create a HIV/AIDS viral sunami of unknown dimensions circulating in the world by marketing of HAART for the case of short-term interest.
In order to curb the HIV pandemic it must be a way to protect against HIV transmission. Neither HARRT nor any other preventive method can exhibit capacity to protect effectively against HIV transmission.
It is not possible to fight a war without resources. The great resources in order to fight and curb HIV are the scientific capacities.
According to our view the world community lacks at the present time the scientific capacity to sketch such visionary utopia indicating a world free of HIV and its infections. Or to promises reduction of new infection even though in its minimum scale by 2015 or 2016.
It is possible to manipulate statistics as it sometimes emerges by corrupt rulers and media or to portray a fabricated reality by the media in order to manipulate the opinion but the concrete world and its cruel reality after a while feels differently by the people from manipulative imagination of corrupt rulers or media.
It must be also emphasized that the incidences of miracles do not associate with scientific endeavors.

Dear Ambassador, Eric Goosby,
As scientists in the field of infectious diseases, we must strongly emphasize that the genuine scientific enterprise suffers dynamically from a serious structural problem today. The reason is that scientific shareholders in biotech and pharmaceutical companies cannot act as free and sincere scientists but act as archbishops of “interests” in the realm of science for the purpose of dominance in market. And as it is obvious for everybody they kill the dynamic of scientific enterprise. The consequence is the dominance of censorship and self-censorship so that the true scientific enterprise changes its character into sub-scientific enterprise.
However we have learned a great lesson from the history of science and that lesson is that the advance of science doesn’t obey the rules dictated by science’s archbishops. As transparent evidence, we refer to the history of HIV/AIDS. Indeed there are many apples that falling from the tree in this field but the archbishops of science pretend that everything is normal and under control by demonstrating a feeling of dislike and abnormal confusion to new idea and innovative solutions.

Hopefully,
Drs. Seyed Mohsen Khatami and Peter Wallenberg