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==[[HIV infection epidemiology and demographics|Epidemiology and Demographics]]==
==[[HIV infection epidemiology and demographics|Epidemiology and Demographics]]==
==AIDS denialism==
{{main|AIDS reappraisal}}
A small minority of scientists and activists question the connection between HIV and AIDS,<ref name=Duesberg>{{cite journal
| author=Duesberg, P. H.
| title=HIV is not the cause of AIDS
| journal=Science | year=1988 | pages=514, 517 | volume=241 | issue=4865
| pmid=3399880 | doi=10.1126/science.3399880
}}</ref> the existence of HIV itself,<ref name=Papadopulos>{{
cite journal
| author=Papadopulos-Eleopulos, E., Turner, V. F., Papadimitriou, J., Page, B., Causer, D., Alfonso, H., Mhlongo, S., Miller, T., Maniotis, A. and Fiala, C.
| title=A critique of the Montagnier evidence for the HIV/AIDS hypothesis
| journal=Med Hypotheses | year=2004 | pages=597&ndash;601 | volume=63 | issue=4
| pmid=15325002
}}</ref> or the validity of current testing and treatment methods. These claims have been examined and widely rejected by the scientific community,<ref name=consensus>For evidence of the [[scientific consensus]] that HIV is the cause of AIDS, see (for example):
*{{cite journal |author= |title=The Durban Declaration |journal=Nature |volume=406 |issue=6791 |pages=15-6 |year=2000 |pmid=10894520 |doi=10.1038/35017662}} - full text [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6791/full/406015a0.html here].
*{{cite journal
| author=Cohen, J.
| title=The Controversy over HIV and AIDS
| journal=Science | year=1994 | pages=1642&ndash;1649 | volume=266 | issue=5191
| url=http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/cohen/266-5191-1642a.pdf}}
*{{cite web
| author=Various
| publisher=[[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]] | year=
| url=http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/focuson/hiv/resources/
| title=Focus on the HIV-AIDS Connection: Resource links
| accessdate = 2006-09-07
}}
*{{cite journal |author=O'Brien SJ, Goedert JJ |title=HIV causes AIDS: Koch's postulates fulfilled |journal=Curr. Opin. Immunol. |volume=8 |issue=5 |pages=613-8 |year=1996 |pmid=8902385 |doi=}}
*{{cite journal |author=Galéa P, Chermann JC |title=HIV as the cause of AIDS and associated diseases |journal=Genetica |volume=104 |issue=2 |pages=133-42 |year=1998 |pmid=10220906 |doi=}}</ref> although they have had a political impact, particularly in South Africa, where governmental acceptance of AIDS denialism has been blamed for an ineffective response to that country's AIDS epidemic.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Watson J |title=Scientists, activists sue South Africa's AIDS 'denialists' |journal=Nat. Med. |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=6 |year=2006 |pmid=16397537 |doi=10.1038/nm0106-6a}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Baleta A |title=S Africa's AIDS activists accuse government of murder |journal=Lancet |volume=361 |issue=9363 |pages=1105 |year=2003 |pmid=12672319 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12909-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Cohen J |title=South Africa's new enemy |journal=Science |volume=288 |issue=5474 |pages=2168-70 |year=2000 |pmid=10896606 |doi=10.1126/science.288.5474.2168}}</ref>


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Human immunodeficiency virus
Stylized rendering of a cross section of the human immunodeficiency virus
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of the human immunodeficiency virus
Virus classification
Group: Group VI (ssRNA-RT)
Family: Retroviridae
Genus: Lentivirus
Species
  • Human immunodeficiency virus 1
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