September 29, 2005

Parental Guidance Suggested

Thursday, September 29, 2005—Last week, Los Angeles’ county coroner announced that the 3-year-old daughter of Christine Maggiore—an HIVer who famously insists that HIV does not cause AIDS—died of AIDS-related pneumonia. Doctors failed to give daughter Eliza Jane the proper medications for the easily curable pneumonia because she had never been tested for HIV. When an ear infection spread to her lungs last spring, her pediatrician instead prescribed mild antibiotics. The child died a few days later. Local authorities are investigating Maggiore and her husband, Robin Scovill, for child endangerment, and at least one of her pediatricians has expressed dismay and remorse for failing to insist on an HIV test for the child. Maggiore continues to run a nonprofit organization combating the scientific assertion that HIV causes AIDS. She doesn’t take HIV meds herself, breast-fed both of her babies and had consistently refused to allow them to be tested for HIV.