Aidsontkenning

Aanhangers van aidsontkenning menen dat hiv niet de oorzaak is van aids. Sommige groepen ontkennen het bestaan van hiv, terwijl anderen aanvaarden dat hiv bestaat, maar beweren dat het een onschadelijk passagiersvirus is en niet de oorzaak van aids.

Opname van hiv, gemaakt met behulp van een transmissie-elektronenmicroscoop

Over de veroorzakende rol van hiv in de ontwikkeling van aids bestaat wetenschappelijke overeenstemming, gestaafd met vele bewijzen.[1][2] De argumenten van de ontkenners zijn gebaseerd op het selectief uitkiezen en het verkeerd weergeven van achterhaalde wetenschappelijke gegevens[3] met de mogelijkheid de volksgezondheid in gevaar te brengen door mensen af te raden bewezen behandelingen te volgen.[4][5][6][2][7][8] Aangezien de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap deze argumenten verwerpt, zoeken aidsontkenners tegenwoordig hun toevlucht tot het internet.[8]

Onderzoekers van de volksgezondheid hebben alarm geslagen vanwege het aantal slachtoffers van aidsontkenning; onafhankelijke schattingen schrijven 330.000 tot 340.000 aidsdoden, 171.000 hiv-infecties en 35.000 hiv-infecties bij zuigelingen toe aan het omarmen van aidsontkenning door de Zuid-Afrikaanse regering.[9][10]

Zie ook

Verklaring van Durban

Bronnen

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Watson J. (2006) . Scientists, activists sue South Africa's AIDS 'denialists'. Nat Med. 12 (1): 6 . PMID: 16397537. DOI: 10.1038/nm0106-6a.
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[iomreport-1] Confronting AIDS: Update 1988, a report from the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academy of Sciences, published in 1988. On page 2 of the Executive Summary, the panel writes that "…the evidence that HIV causes AIDS is scientifically conclusive."

[niaid-2] The Evidence that HIV Causes AIDS: a fact sheet from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. Accessed August 18, 2010.

[denying_science-3] (2006) . Denying science. Nat. Med. 12 (4): 369 . PMID: 16598265. DOI: 10.1038/nm0406-369. “To support their ideas, some AIDS denialists have also misappropriated a scientific review in Nature Medicine which opens with this reasonable statement: "Despite considerable advances in HIV science in the past 20 years, the reason why HIV-1 infection is pathogenic is still debated."”.

[4] Watson J. (2006) . Scientists, activists sue South Africa's AIDS 'denialists'. Nat Med. 12 (1): 6 . PMID: 16397537. DOI: 10.1038/nm0106-6a.

[5] "Discredited doctor's 'cure' for Aids ignites life-and-death struggle in South Africa", by Sarah Boseley. Published in The Guardian on May 14, 2005. Accessed 9 Feb 2007.

[Cohen-6] The Duesberg Phenomenon, by Jon Cohen. Science (1994) 266:5191, pp. 1642–1644. PMID 7992043.

[durbandec-7] , (2000) . The Durban Declaration. Nature 406 (6791): 15–6 . PMID: 10894520. DOI: 10.1038/35017662. — full text available here.

[SmithNovella-8] Smith TC, Novella SP (August 2007). HIV denial in the Internet era. PLoS Med. 4 (8): e256 . PMID: 17713982. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040256. Geraadpleegd op 2008-05-06.

[chigwedere-9] Chigwedere P, Seage GR, Gruskin S, Lee TH, Essex M (October 2008). Estimating the Lost Benefits of Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) . PMID: 18931626. DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31818a6cd5.

[NattrassAA-10] Nattrass N (February 2008). Estimating the Lost Benefits of Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa. African Affairs 107 (427): 157-76 . DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adm087.