AIDS Causation

The continuing debate about HIV's responsibility for AIDS constantly ignores this very significant population, in whom the date of virus acquisition, its titer in plasma, and its effect on CD4 cells can be studied in a sequence and chronology unlike that of any of the adult cases. Undoubtedly, other "cofactors" can accelerate the course of HIV infection, but without HIV there is no AIDS. Duesberg's statement that "the drug AIDS hypothesis correctly predicts all aspects of American/European AIDS" in no way explains maternal-infant transmission.