For example, there is a retrovirus expert who does not accept that HIV causes Aids.
In a speech to labor leaders on Sept. 19, Mlambo-Ngcuka said, without qualification, that HIV causes AIDS.
The retrovirus known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans.
On his website Virus Myth, he claims that there is no proof that HIV causes Aids.
Some 80% are sure, unlike Mr Mbeki, that HIV causes AIDS.
Treating asymptomatic carriers of HIV causes greater qualms if it brings no benefit to the people actually taking the medicine.
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) causes an infection that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS.
After all, a court wouldn't sanction someone for calling people crazy who deny that smoking causes lung cancer or HIV causes AIDS.
Mbeki and Tshabalala-Msimang have embraced other Aids dissidents, including one of Rath's most enthusiastic backers, Anthony Brink, a lawyer and former judge who calls the belief that HIV causes Aids a "mass hysteria".
The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, an infection that greatly diminishes the cell-mediated immune system.
In public comments and private meetings over the past six weeks, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has emphasized that the government now believes unequivocally that HIV causes AIDS, a connection that President Thabo Mbeki once publicly questioned.
