HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS Connection

Resources and Links

• The Evidence That HIV Causes AIDS
• Learn More About How HIV Causes AIDS
• MACS and WIHS Studies Provide Overwhelming Evidence That HIV Causes AIDS
• The Relationship Between the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Search or browse the 190,000+ HIV-related scientific papers in the PubMed database of the National Library of Medicine.
• U.S. Census Bureau: HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database. A comprehensive compilation of HIV seroprevalance information and AIDS case reporting from developing countries.
• Kurth R: Does HIV cause AIDS? An updated response to Duesberg's theories
• Nicoll A, Killewo J: Science, sense and nonsense about HIV in Africa
• O'Brien SJ: The HIV-AIDS debate is over/what to tell your patients when they ask if HIV causes AIDS
• O'Brien SJ, Goedert JJ: HIV causes AIDS: Koch's postulates fulfilled
• Reports related to HIV/AIDS published in 1981–2010 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• The Durban Declaration: HIV Causes AIDS
• UNAIDS: AIDS Epidemic Update
• WHO evaluation of HIV test kits. Currently available HIV antibody tests are extraordinarily accurate, both in terms of sensitivity (the ability of the test to give a positive finding when a subject is truly HIV-infected) and specificity (the ability of the test to give a negative finding when a subject is truly HIV-free).
• AIDS Denialism (From The Body)
• AIDS Treatment News series on answering AIDS "denialists"
• AIDStruth.org: Web site presents the scientific evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS and that the benefits of antiretroviral drugs outweigh the risks.
• Canadian AIDS Society's position statement: HIV Causes AIDS
• Cohen J: Five-part series in the journal Science evaluates the claims of "AIDS dissidents."
• Critical Path AIDS Project: AIDS Denialists & "Dissidents"
• Delaney M: HIV, AIDS and the Distortion of Science
• Harris S: The AIDS Heresies: A Case Study in Skepticism Taken Too Far. (From Skeptic)
• Hemmingsen BB: The Odd Claim of the HIV Dissenters: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS. A Critical Evaluation of Their Arguments.
• Schoofs M: How African Science Has Demonstrated That HIV Causes AIDS
• Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa) rebuts AIDS denialist arguments. March 2006 (PDF)
• Search the AEGIS database for articles on the etiology (cause) of AIDS and on the views of AIDS dissidents/skeptics.
• New York Times: AIDS timeline and articles, 1981–2001. Free registration required.
• AIDS: The Agony of Africa. Pulitzer Prize-winning series by Mark Schoofs in the Village Voice.
• The HIV InSite Knowledge Base. An online textbook on HIV disease from the University of California, San Francisco.

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