(Editor's note: The following is a transcript of an oral presentation given by Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H. at the International AIDS Conference in Gabon, Africa called "Hepatitis B Vaccine and the Origin of HIV/AIDS: Perspectives on a Possible Vaccine Induced Pandemic," May 29, 2001, Les Premieres Recontres Medicales, Libreville, Gabon, Africa

Honorable First Lady, and esteemed program officials, it is indeed an honor for me to be among an American delegation invited by the First Lady to present some recent perspectives from the United States concerning HIV/AIDS as a possible vaccine induced pandemic. I am the author of the American best selling book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola‹Nature, Accident or Intentional?, and I will be reporting today from my current publication in the May 2001, issue of the peer reviewed scientific journal of Medical Hypotheses published in England, reprints of which are being prepared for distribution tomorrow.

I presented this thesis initially at the XI International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver, in 1996, beginning with data that showed that approximately sixty-five percent (65%) of Black Americans believe that HIV/AIDS may be genocide.