Questions tagged [hiv-aids]

AIDS is a disease of the human immune system caused by HIV, a virus.

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Is HIV/AIDS a man-made disease?

There are lots of places that claim this. Is there any good evidence for or against this?
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Is "House of Numbers" an AIDS denialist film?

The film House of Numbers has had some quite mainstream backers including (for a brief time) an journalist at the New Humanist magazine. In House of Numbers, an AIDS film like no other, the HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten. This is the first…
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Are the chances of contracting HIV from an infected person this low?

I've come across a few resources like this one. In this case they claim: unprotected vaginal intercourse with an HIV-positive man who is chronically infected and not on antiretroviral treatment (ART) carries an estimated 0.08% risk of infection for…
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Do 62% of gay men diagnosed with AIDS practice unsafe sex?

LifeSiteNews Daily News reported in 2013 that Nearly two-thirds of gay men who know they have AIDS have sex without condoms: CDC report A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows approximately 62 percent of gay men who know they…
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