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Roberto A. Giraldo

Medical Doctor, Specialist in Internal Medicine with

a Major in Infectious Diseases from University of Antioquia, Colombia. Graduated

with distinction from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,

University of London, after obtaining a Master of Science in Clinical Tropical

Medicine.

For four decades dedicated to clinical, academic, and

research activities regarding different aspects of infectious, tropical, and

immunological diseases, in various regions of Colombia, the United States,

Europe, and Africa.

Much of his research has been in the field of secondary

or acquired immune deficiencies, especially those occurring in developing

countries. In 1967 studied, with Professor Jacob Frenckel at the Kansas University

Medical Center, Toxoplasma gondii and Pneumocystis carinii infections, as

surrogate clinical markers for human immunodeficiency. Also in 1967 studied

opportunistic fungal infections with professor Donald Greer at the Centers

for Disease Control (CDC) in Kansas City, Kansas. During 1974 and 1975, at

the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, studied the main risk

factors for endemic Kaposi’s sarcoma, as a surrogate clinical marker

for immune deficiency in African countries.

From 1979 until 1987 worked as a clinician at a remote,

rainforest region of Colombia. Here had the opportunity to work shoulder to

shoulder with indigenous traditional healers, exploring ways to address a

great variety of medical issues related to poverty, malnutrition, immune deficiencies,

parasites, and infections.

Independent researcher of AIDS since 1981. Have several

publications on AIDS and related conditions. In 1997 published a book

"AIDS and Stressors: AIDS is neither an infectious disease nor is sexually

transmitted. It is a toxic-nutritional syndrome caused by the alarming worldwide

increment of immunological stressor agents." The book was published in

Spanish in 2002: “SIDA y agentes estresantes: el SIDA no es infeccioso

ni se transmite sexualmente. Este es un sindrome toxico-nutricional causado

por el alarmante incremento mundial de agentes estresantes para el sistema

inmunologico.”

1993 to present work as a technologist in the Laboratories

of Clinical Immunology and Molecular diagnosis at the New York Presbyterian

Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, in New York City. Here had the opportunity

to run and know in detail the Elisa, Western blot and PCR (viral load) tests

for HIV.

Since 2000 member of the South African Presidential

AIDS Advisory Panel. Advisor of several African countries concerning nutrition

and diseases related to poverty. In 2003 presented to 14 Ministers of Health

of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) the scientific bases

for this proposal: “Nutritional therapy for the treatment and prevention

of AIDS.”

Former president of Rethinking AIDS: The International

Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of AIDS. Member of the Board of Directors

of Health Education AIDS Liaison, HEAL-New York and of the Art and Science

Foundation of Medellin, Colombia. Panelist at the South African Presidential

AIDS Advisory Panel. Scientific advisor of several non-government organizations

in Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and

Spain.

New York City, 2005

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