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Articles tagged with: HIV
CLAIM REVIEWS
Kaposi’s sarcoma is an opportunistic cancer that occurs in advanced AIDS patients; it’s not caused by poppers
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Poppers are the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma
SOURCE: Robert Willner, Facebook
Published: 07 Apr 2023
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HIV infection is the cause of AIDS; persistent HIV/AIDS denialism relies on false information and is potentially deadly
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“HIV does not cause AIDS”
SOURCE: Judy Mikovits, Instagram
Published: 18 Nov 2022
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Sperm washing to help HIV-discordant couples conceive biological children safely was reported in the 90s; not “huge medical breakthrough” in 2022
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A South African scientist made a “huge medical breakthrough” by successfully removing HIV from a sperm cell in a lab
SOURCE: Facebook users, Facebook
Published: 31 May 2022
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Persistent myths that HIV was created by the West and that HIV medication causes HIV are both false
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“HIV was an invention created by the West”, people “took the HIV medication and got HIV”, you can “reverse HIV naturally”
SOURCE: Yahdan Yada, Facebook, Instagram
Published: 30 Apr 2022
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Stem cell transplantation isn’t a scalable treatment for HIV
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Umbilical cord stem cells can be a cure for HIV; umbilical cord blood should be collected
SOURCE: Facebook Users, Facebook
Published: 21 Feb 2022
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The COVID-19 vaccines don’t weaken the immune system and are unrelated to the HIV VB variant
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The COVID-19 vaccine “destroys the subject’s natural immune system”; HIV VB variant is a “cover up”
SOURCE: Alex Jones, Facebook, Twitter, The Alex Jones Show
Published: 11 Feb 2022
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A new, highly virulent HIV variant named VB variant was indeed identified in the Netherlands
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Highly infectious HIV 'VB' variant makes people ill twice as quickly
SOURCE: Emily Craig, Daily Mail
Published: 09 Feb 2022
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An investigation found no evidence that deaths of HIV-positive foster children enrolled in AIDS drug trials were caused by trial medication, contrary to recent claims
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“[Anthony Fauci] Funded Experimenting With AIDS Orphans…25 Died”
SOURCE: Steven Ahle, Unite America First
Published: 02 Nov 2021
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Claims that people were being killed by zidovudine (AZT) instead of AIDS are unsubstantiated
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One time in the 80’s-90’s, people died from AZT and not the actual AIDS virus; Anthony Fauci pushed this treatment
SOURCE: Facebook Users , Facebook
Published: 06 Sep 2021
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There is currently no cure for AIDS; reports to the contrary are incorrect
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AIDS was cured in more than a dozen patients
SOURCE: Alfredo Bowman, Facebook
Published: 09 Apr 2021
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