Myths About HIV
- Are You Positive You're Negative? (January 16, 2009)
An easy-to-read report revealing the facts behind myths that keep people from getting tested for HIV.
To read PDF, click here.
From amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
- What is the craziest myth you've heard about HIV/AIDS?
From TheBody.com
- 100 Questions & Answers About HIV and AIDS: How do we know HIV wasn't created in a lab? (2008)
An excerpt from a book by Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H., responding to some of the most common questions that newly diagnosed people have about HIV.
From Jones and Bartlett Publishers
- 100 Questions & Answers About HIV and AIDS: Isn't it true that drug companies are withholding the cure to make money? (2008)
An excerpt from a book by Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H., responding to some of the most common questions that newly diagnosed people have about HIV.
From Jones and Bartlett Publishers
- 100 Questions & Answers About HIV and AIDS: What about the theory that HIV doesn't cause AIDS? (2008)
An excerpt from a book by Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H., responding to some of the most common questions that newly diagnosed people have about HIV.
From Jones and Bartlett Publishers
- HIV Myths Put Through the Wringer (Podcast) (August 20, 2007)
Dr. Luther Virgil from the Integrated Minority AIDS Network discusses -- and dispels -- some of the myths surrounding HIV.
In News & Notes, from National Public Radio
- Statement on the Gambian Government's Unproven Claim of a Cure for AIDS (April 24, 2007)
From International AIDS Society
- Rumors, Myths and Hoaxes About HIV/AIDS (March 8, 2007)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Magic Johnson Combats AIDS Misperceptions (December 1, 2006)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from CDC National Prevention Information Network
- Cruising With Lazarus (August/September 2006)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- Many People in All Racial Groups Believe in HIV Conspiracy Theories, Study Finds (March 2006)
In Journal of AIDS
- Study: Many Blacks Cite AIDS Conspiracy (January 25, 2005)
In The Washington Post
- True or False: The HIV Knowledge Test (November/December 2003)
Ten questions to gauge your awareness of HIV, who gets it and how it's treated.
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- One-Quarter of Canadians Believe HIV Can Be Transmitted Through Kissing, Mosquito Bites, Poll Says (September 3, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
On TheBodyPRO.com
- South Africa Man Jailed for Life After Raping Baby to Protect Self From HIV (July 29, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from CDC National Prevention Information Network
- Healthy Skepticism and the Marketing of AIDS (December 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Myths and Realities: HIV/AIDS (March 2000)
In Satya
- Along the Latex Highway: Getting It Straight -- HIV as a Gay Disease Is a Myth That Refuses to Die (March 1999)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- Nationwide Survey Finds Continuing Stigma and Misinformation About AIDS (July 1998)
From U.S. National Institute of Mental Health
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