Etiology

Experts Stress that HIV Causes AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 24th, 2000

David Ho, one of the world's leading AIDS researchers, stood in front of thousands of experts at the International AIDS Conference and made a statement few would have thought necessary a few months ago: "HIV is the cause of AIDS."

At previous AIDS gatherings that statement would have been so obvious as to appear bizarre. But fears that President Thabo Mbeki's recent flirtation with fringe AIDS theories has given "AIDS dissidents" unprecedented clout have pushed many AIDS researchers and activists to take a stand on what had long been considered a closed issue.

In the run-up to the conference, 5,000 scientists and doctors signed the "Durban...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2000-07-24)

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