The scientific evidence for HIV/AIDS

About AIDSTruth.org

This website presents the scientific evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS and that the benefits of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) outweigh the risks. The website was created by research scientists and community advocates engaged in the worldwide struggle against HIV/AIDS. As is stated in the Durban declaration, the evidence that AIDS is caused by HIV-1 or HIV-2 is clear-cut, exhaustive and unambiguous, meeting the highest standards of science. However, a few vocal people - AIDS denialists - refuse to acknowledge the facts, and continue to conduct a duplicitous propaganda campaign aimed at convincing people, including HIV-infected individuals and government health officials, that the virus is harmless or, in some extreme cases, non-existent, and that standard medical practice should be abandoned. The purpose of this website is to expose the denialist propaganda campaign for what it is, in order to prevent further harm being done to individual and public health. In March 2006, after Harper's Magazine published a feature article by AIDS denialist Celia Farber, a number of scientists and activists joined together to create a website for the purpose of countering AIDS denialist misinformation and debunking denialist myths, while providing truthful information about HIV and AIDS. The result is the AIDSTruth.org website.

The AIDS Truth website receives no funding from any source. The team members contrbute to the website in their spare time, and decisions as to content are made by the team members in the interest of global public health.

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The AIDSTruth.org team

The team members (in alphabetical order) are:

  • Dr. Nicholas Bennett, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital, Syracuse, New York
  • Dr. Jeanne Bergman
  • Dr. Brian Foley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • Nathan Geffen, Treatment Action Campaign, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Gregg Gonsalves, Yale University, USA and International Treatment Preparedness Coalition
  • Eduard Grebe, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Dr. Bette Korber, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • Prof. Nicoli Nattrass, Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town
  • Ken Witwer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Past contributors to AIDSTruth.org:

  • Martin Delaney, founding director of Project Inform, until his death in early 2009
  • Richard Jeffreys, Basic Science Director, Treatment Action Group
  • Bob Funkhouser, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • Prof. John Moore, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York