Myths About HIV/AIDS

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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.
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From amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
AIDS Myths and Misunderstandings (April 26, 2007)
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From AIDS InfoNet

U.S. HIV Awareness Is Disturbingly Low, Survey Suggests (April 28, 2009)
The latest nationwide survey by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, which reveals disturbing trends about how much complacency the U.S. has about its HIV epidemic, and how far we still have to go in fighting misconceptions and stigma.
From Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Global Fund Executive Director Co-Authors Article Dispelling AIDS Myths (March 20, 2009)
The more experts learn about how to fight HIV throughout the world, the more they realize that many of the assumptions people hold about the pandemic aren't true.
From Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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)
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In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Healthy Skepticism and the Marketing of AIDS (December 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Myth Versus Reality (December 1, 2001)
In I Care ... Do You? Youth and AIDS in the 21st Century, from American Association for World Health
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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