See also: HIV Myths and Misunderstandings
Background Information
- AIDS Treatment News Denialist Series (TheBody) – This series of articles, though written in 2000 and 2001, is still an excellent review of the AIDS denialist arguments and the scientific response.
- Debunking Denialist Myths – from AIDSTruth.org, a web site devoted to documenting the scientific evidence for HIV/AIDS; page also available in Spanish
- HIV Causes AIDS – Avert fact sheet
- How HIV causes AIDS – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) fact sheet
- Origin of HIV and AIDS – Avert fact sheet with information about HIV origins and common myths
- The Evidence that HIV Causes AIDS – extensive summary from NIAID
- The Relationship Between the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome – article from NIAID containing a wealth of valuable information
- What about the theory that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS? – excerpt from the book 100 Questions & Answers about AIDS by Dr. Joel Gallant. Posted on TheBody website
Selected Articles
- Inoculating Against Science Denial. (April 2015, TheBodyPro)
- Why Frontiers Must Retract HIV/AIDS Denialist Paper: A Blog Entry by Kenneth Witwer, Ph.D. (March 2015, TheBodyPro)
- Controversy on Publication of AIDS Denialism Paper Continues. (February 2012, Poz)
- South African women with AIDS conspiracy beliefs half as likely to use condoms. (May 2011, AIDSmap)
- AIDS Denialist Ignored Scientific Misconduct Warnings. (May 2010, Poz)
- The cult of HIV denialism. (Spring 2010, Achieve)
- AIDS Denialist Film House of Numbers Opens in New York. (September 2009, Poz)
- Since When Is the Expression of Fear and Ignorance a Basic American Right?: AIDS Denialists’ Movie Does a Better Job in Spreading Fear Than an Insurance Company Lobbyist. (August 2009, TheBody)
- The truth about HIV/AIDS denialism: An interview with clinical psychologist Seth Kalichman, Ph.D. (June 2009, TheBody),
- Prominent AIDS denialist dies. (January 2009, Poz)
- Harvard study: South African AIDS denialism resulted in 365,000 deaths. (November 2008, Poz)
- HIV denial in the internet era. (August 2007. Center for HIV Law and Policy)
