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.
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.
“Helping individuals and communities by bringing people and services together through programs which include telephone counseling, crisis intervention, information, referral, and training services.”
The new Jersey AIDS Health Fraud Task Force is made up of 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.
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."
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.
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?
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).
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).
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