
FDA/State AIDS
Health Fraud Task Forces: Evaluating Medical Therapies
The Task Forces are a network of AIDS Health Fraud Task Forces throughout the United
States of America has developed a proactive approach to combat these fraudulent
product/treatment promotions affecting people with HIV/AIDS and their partners, family,and
friends.

California AIDS Fraud Task Force
The AIDS Health Fraud Task Force of California welcomes you to our cyberspace presence.
This site was created to help expand the reach of our public education campaign on AIDS
Health Fraud.
Colorado HIV/AIDS Consumer Information
Task Force
According to government estimates, billions of dollars are being spent each year on
fraudulent AIDS treatments. Why? Because affected persons believe and hope that cures may
exist. However, not all promoted treatments are fraudulent or harmful. Some may be
beneficial. As educated consumers, our task is to separate fact from fiction, and to avoid
the expensive and unhealthy victimization from medical treatments which do not work or
have been proven ineffective
Florida HIV/AIDS Hotline
Helping individuals and communities by bringing people and services together through
programs which include telephone counseling, crisis intervention, information, referral,
and training services.
Georgia AIDS Therapy Information Network
The Georgia AIDS Therapy Information Network (GATIN) was formed in 1990. The Members of
this group are representatives of local AIDS organizations and government agencies. Our
goal is to educate the community about the dangers of AIDS fraud and to increase the
ability of individuals to make informed decisions about their health.
Michigan AIDS Task Force
The Michigan AIDS Fraud Task Force was founded in 1990. The Task Force members are
representatives from local community AIDS education and service organizations, state and
local health departments, professional health organizations, and the Food and Drug
Administration. The primary purpose of the Task Force is to help educate people about the
dangers of AIDS fraud.
Texas AIDS Health Fraud Information
Network
The HIV epidemic has created business opportunities for many people. In many cases, people
and companies pursue these opportunities with the sincere intention of helping while
staying within the bounds of the law and maintaining fiscal integrity. The same motives
can sometimes lead to harm even with the best of intentions. In some cases, the motive is
simply to make a buck regardless of the consequences to those affected. The latter is what
opens the door to fraud.

AIDS-Related
Quackery and Fraud
Stephen Barrett, M.D. The fact that AIDS causes great suffering and is deadly has
encouraged the marketing of hundreds of unproven remedies to AIDS victims. John Renner,
M.D., president of the Consumer Health Information Research Institute, who attended
meetings of groups promoting unorthodox methods, has commented that "many of the
expert quacks in arthritis, cancer, and heart disease have now shifted into AIDS" and
that "every quack remedy seems to have been converted into an AIDS treatment."
How to
Spot Health Fraud
You don't have to look far to find a health product that's totally bogus--or a consumer
who's totally unsuspecting. Promotions for fraudulent products show up daily in newspaper
and magazine ads and TV "infomercials." They accompany products sold in stores,
on the Internet, and through mail-order catalogs. They're passed along by word-of-mouth.
Buying On-line:
Tips and Warnings for Consumers
With hundreds of drug-dispensing Websites in business, how can consumers tell which sites
are legitimate ones, especially when it is very easy to set up a site that is very
professional looking and promises deep discounts or a minimum of hassles?
Anti-Quackery Resources & WebRing
The Anti-Quackery Ring is a webring dedicated to the dissemination of consumer protection
information regarding so-called alternative medicine, quackery & health fraud. If you
are sympathetic to the aims of the National Council Against Health Fraud, and you consider
Quackwatch to be a reliable source of anti-quackery information, then this webring may be
just what you're looking for. This ring is for sites whose purpose it is to combat
health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies, and which are more concerned with
scientific proof than the unproven anecdotes of so-Called "Alternative Medicine"
(sCAM).
Anti-Quackery
Ring
For sites whose purpose it is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies,
and which are more concerned with scientific proof than the unproven anecdotes of
so-Called "Alternative Medicine" (sCAM).