Table of Contents
Is AIDS a New Disease?
1
Is HIV the Cause of AIDS?
4
Is the “AIDS Test” Accurate?
7
Is the Rate of HIV Increasing?
12
Is AIDS Our Biggest Health Threat?
13
Are We All at Risk for AIDS?
15
Is AIDS Devastating Africa?
18
Are New Drug Treatments Responsible for Declines in AIDS?
21
Does HIV Take Years to Cause AIDS?
23
Do Pregnant Women Who Test HIV Positive Give Their Babies AIDS?
24
AZT: A Drug in Search of a Disease
29
A Sobering Report on Protease Inhibitors and “Combo Cocktails”
32
What’s Up with Viral Load?
36
Are These Facts News to You?
41
Public Health, Public Relations, and AIDS
45
Can Popular Consensus Be Wrong?
47
If It’s Not HIV, What Can Cause AIDS?
51
Incorrect Information about HIV and AIDS Costs Lives
60
If You Have Tested Positive
64
Options for Healing and Wellness
69
What You Can Do to End AIDS
74
Sources for Further Information
75
Understanding AIDS Speak: A Guide to Language in the Age of HIV
79
References
84
Appendix: The Other Side of AIDS
94
HIV and AIDS in 2007: A Brief Update
126