HIV/AIDS Myths: Top Ten Myths About HIV and AIDS

Becky Kuhn, M.D., co-founder of Global Lifeworks, debunks the following 10 myths about HIV and AIDS: HIV doesn't cause AIDS; because of ARV medications, we no longer need to be concerned about HIV/AIDS; if you have HIV and are sexually active, you no longer need to practice safer sex; you can't contract HIV through oral sex; you can't get HIV from one sexual encounter; a woman cannot spread HIV to another woman by having sex with her; if you are HIV positive but your viral load is undetectable, you cannot spread HIV; AIDS can be spread by kissing, hugging, or shaking hands; if you have HIV, you can cure it by having sex with a virgin; every individual with HIV will eventually develop AIDS. This video refutes misinformation from videos "Lee Evans Speaks Out About the HIV Tests," "Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS," "AIDS Inc.," "The Other Side of AIDS," and "House of Numbers." It also debunks the claims of HIV denialists like Peter Duesberg, Stefan Lanka, Kary Mullis, Celia Farber, Christine Maggiore, Gary Null, Andrew Maniotis, the Perth Group, Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, David Rasnick, Valendar Turner, Robin Scovill, Brent Leung, David Crowe, Walter Gilbert, Harvey Bialy, Rebecca Culshaw, Roberto Giraldo, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and Matthias Rath. Visit http://aidstruth.org/denialism/denialists, http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. This video is freely downloadable from http://www.archive.org/details/aidsvideos_myths . Disabled accessibility: The transcript for this and many other AIDSvideos.org videos can be downloaded from http://aidsvideos.org/translate.shtml . [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate our videos into other languages! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to to learn how you can help!!! © Copyright 2006-2011 Global Lifeworks. All rights reserved. This work is licensed to be used for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.]

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[mphello]

Actually, I have a non-HIV-AIDS question. I would think that pretty much ANY virus in the body could be transmitted sexually, even those not normally classified as STDs.

e.g. I had shingles, so I know I have the varicella zoster virus in me.

I wonder if I could transmit THAT, even though its dormant location is in my nerve endings.

Last gave blood 2009, and no sex since then. So, I know I am clean of the things they test for.

[AIDSvideos]

@mphello: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. IIRC, the virus that causes chickenpox (on first exposure) and shingles (later in life) is generally only considered transmissible by an adult when the virus has become active and the adult has an active shingles outbreak. Other viruses affect specific tissues in the body and genital-to-genital sexual contact in and of itself wouldn't pose a risk of transmission (although being in close proximity to the person's cough or sneeze would).

[sorass1]

you cannot get hiv through oral sex period insertive oral sex is a theoretical risk receptive is1 in 10000 and most doctors say that is way to high saliva does not transmit hiv. u can get hiv through unprotected vaginal sex/anal and sharing needles breat milk and mother to child. always use condoms as they are EXTREMLY effective against tranmissin of hiv, unless the condom breaks or slips of during sex u have no need to be tested. HIV does not break through a condom.

[AIDSvideos]

@sorass1: HIV can be transmitted to either partner via oral sex. See our vid "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One."

[andyastro1]

i wish there was CURE FOR HIV/AIDS..

[Holebis]

Thanks for this video.

Added to my HIVAIDS-playlist

Gaygreetings from holebis ♥♂♂,♀♀♥

[Clempt90]

@mphello Shingles normally only present when the immune system is compromised or weakened most notably in the elderly or over 50s. It is caused by the virus that causes chicken pox in infants and then is held in check by the immune system.

[mphello]

would not violate any fundamental law of physics, like Conservation of Mass, Energy, Entropy, Momentum; the Pigeonhole principle (no 2 objects can occupy the exact same space at the exact same time).

So the times I have disagreements with established medical science, it's really issues "on the fringe" - NOTHING fundamental, NOTHING that "overthrows the tenets of science, evolution", etc.

And to all: anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real AND serious AND happening now.

[mphello]

...microbiology, microbiology lab, basic aseptic technique in a lab, polymerase chain reaction, etc etc and even *I* would never assert anything on my own with such assinine certainty that goes against conventional science.

That's NOT to say that certain things that are taken as "laws" in biology - e.g. if I had shingles as an adult, then I MUST have had chickenpox as a kid - are mere strong correlations: i.e exceptions have not been observed, but an exception would not violate any

[mphello]

What is it with people who assert such ridiculous falsehoods, e.g. "you cannot get AIDS by oral sex", with such confidence? I can understand if someone who really is not knowledgeable being skeptical and wondering HOW that is possible and asking WHY? But this degree of confidence on blatantly wrong ideas, which totally saturates the internet, can be attributed to nothing but the Dunning-Kruger effect and extreme political agendas.

I have an Associate in Biotechnology, so I've had

[mphello]

@AIDSvideos Thanks!

[mphello]

Too bad there isn't a cure for stupidity, either.

[safarsafar1234]

@nubcakesssx3 WHAT? no no. If someone has it they can give it to you. It cant come out of nowhere.