Focus on the HIV/AIDS Connection

Related Links

Government

• NIAID Fact Sheet: The Evidence That HIV Causes AIDS
• NIAID Report: The Relationship Between the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• NIAID Fact Sheet: How HIV Causes AIDS
• MACS and WIHS Studies Provide Overwhelming Evidence That HIV Causes AIDS
• NIAID Fact Sheet: HIV/AIDS Statistics
• Search or browse the 190,000+ HIV-related scientific papers in the MEDLINE 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, S. J.: The HIV-AIDS debate is over/what to tell your patients when they ask if HIV causes AIDS
• O'Brien, S. J., Goedert, J. J.: HIV causes AIDS: Koch's postulates fulfilled
• Reports related to HIV/AIDS published in 1981 – 2006 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

Non-government

• The Durban Declaration: HIV Causes AIDS
• UNAIDS: AIDS Epidemic Update 2005
• 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, B. B.: The Odd Claim of the HIV Dissenters: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS. A Critical Evaluation of Their Arguments.
• Heywood, M.: The Price of Denial (PDF)
• San Francisco AIDS Foundation: HIV Causes AIDS—and Knowing It Could Save Your Life
• Schoofs, M.: How African Science Has Demonstrated That HIV Causes AIDS
• Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa): The Science of HIV/AIDS. March 2006 (PDF)
• Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa) rebuts AIDS denialist arguments. March 2006 (PDF)
• Community Voices: News and Views on AIDS Causality from AIDS Activists and Educators (from AEGIS)
• 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 AIDS Knowledge Base. A textbook on AIDS from the University of California, San Francisco.
• Electron micrographs and other images of HIV

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