Editing Matthias Rath (section)

===Harvard multivitamin study===
Rath claimed that a [[Harvard School of Public Health]] study published in the ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]''<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Fawzi W, Msamanga G, Spiegelman D, Wei R, Kapiga S, Villamor E, Mwakagile D, Mugusi F, Hertzmark E, Essex M, Hunter D | title = A randomized trial of multivitamin supplements and HIV disease progression and mortality | journal = N Engl J Med | volume = 351 | issue = 1 | pages = 23–32 | year = 2004 | pmid = 15229304 | doi = 10.1056/NEJMoa040541| s2cid = 674022 | url = http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/9896/1/nejmoa040541.pdf }}</ref> validated claims that multivitamin supplementation slows the progression of HIV to AIDS. The study's authors released a statement condemning Rath's "irresponsible and misleading statements, as in our view they deliberately misinterpret findings from our studies to advocate against the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy."<ref name="harvard">[http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/press05062005.html Statement from the authors of the Harvard School of Public Health study], stating that Rath has misused their study results. Retrieved 20 September 2006.</ref> The authors felt that Rath had misused their results to argue that multivitamins should be used ''in place of'' antiretroviral medication. They affirmed the central role of [[HAART|antiretroviral medication]] in treating AIDS and indicated that multivitamins should be at most a ''supplementary'' treatment.<ref name="harvard"/>