NOTE: While the concerns of commercial bias, corruption and kick-backs expressed here are serious and well-documented, they in no way endorse or support a thesis which denies any of the following:
(1) That HIV is necessary in the causation of the immune deficiency syndrome called AIDS; (2) That HIV antibody tests accurately diagnose HIV in up to 98% of infected individuals after 4-12 weeks of infection; (3) That antiretroviral medicines, while far from perfect, improve immune function and can extend life; (4) That HIV is heterosexually as well as homosexually transmitted; (5) That condoms, when used properly, can prevent HIV transmission; (6) That HIV/AIDS is one of many serious public health challenges in many regions of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
