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. 2015 Aug 7:3:193.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00193. eCollection 2015.

Commentary: Questioning the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis: 30 Years of Dissent

Alexey Karetnikov  1
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Commentary: Questioning the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis: 30 Years of Dissent

Alexey Karetnikov. Front Public Health. .
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Keywords: AIDS; AIDS denialism; HIV; antiretroviral therapy; pseudoscience; public health.

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Contrasting impacts of HIV/AIDS science versus HIV/AIDS denialism on public health. (A) Mortality and frequency of use of protease inhibitor-based combination antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected patients with fewer than 100 CD4+ T-lymphocytes per cubic millimeter, in January 1994–June 1997. Reproduced from Ref. (91), with permission from Massachusetts Medical Society©. (B) Estimating the human costs of Mbeki’s AIDS policies implemented with the direct support of HIV/AIDS denialists. Reproduced from Ref. (12), with permission from the Author.
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