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.

The following links provide more information about AIDS Truth:

• AIDSTruth.org Web Site Takes Aim at 'Denialists' (see original)
• Reporting AIDS - Fighting AIDS Denialism (web video)
• Science Covers AidsTruth.org
• Campaign against HIV/AIDS denial featured in Science

The AIDS Truth team members are (in alphabetical order):

• Dr. Nicholas Bennett, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital, Syracuse, New York
• Dr. Jeanne Bergman, The Center for HIV Law and Policy in New York City
• Martin Delaney, Founding director of Project Inform
• Dr. Brian Foley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
• Nathan Geffen, Treatment Action Campaign, Cape Town, South Africa
• Gregg Gonsalves, AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa
• Eduard Grebe, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Dr. Bette Korber, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
• Dr. Nicoli Nattrass, Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Ken Witwer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

The team would like to thank Bob Funkhouser for a substantial amount of work on this website over the last few years.