Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

HIV is the virus that can lead to AIDS.

There are few people who have never heard of this disease, as it is a global problem. The World Health Organisation reports that as of December 2007, there were 36 million people living with HIV worldwide.

Most people will have heard something of the disease originating from monkeys in Africa. However, it is an increasingly popular theory, that not only is HIV a man-made disease, designed and executed within laboratories with government funding and direction, but that it was deliberately experimented with using certain groups, such as homosexuals (the gay plague, the gay cancer) and blacks.

Some would say this was a deliberate method of eradicating "unwanted" groups. A technologically advanced genocide. Others would say that it was a convenient way of testing years of research into bio-warfare and the possible applications of "aggressive cancer technologies".

In 1971 President Richard Nixon, as part of his War On Cancer, combined the U.S. Army’s biological warfare department at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, with the National Cancer Institute. The Special Virus Cancer Program was also ongoing at this time, looking at viruses that caused cancer.

In 1978 there was an experimental Hepatitis B project involving gay men in New York. In 1979, the first case of AIDS related illness was reported. Similar vaccine programs were carried out in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Then, in the 80's there was an explosion of cases.

No clear "official" explanation has been offered. The monkey theory does not stand up to scrutiny, as apparently this would mean that the virus had been "lurking" in Africa for thousands of years, til suddenly in the late 70's it jumped across continents and became a relatively instant epidemic in both Africa and America almost simultaneously.