FULL CLAIM: “HIV was an invention created by the West”, people “took the HIV medication and got HIV”, you can “reverse HIV naturally”
In the beginning of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) crisis in the 1980s, many conspiracy theories about AIDS and the virus that causes it, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), arose[1], although these have since been disproven. One classic discredited conspiracy theory about HIV is that it was created by the United States government. Even today, when the origin of HIV is known–the virus jumped from monkeys/primates into humans–this false conspiracy still persists.
This discredited conspiracy theory was repeated in a 25 April 2022 video shared on Instagram and Facebook, where an individual called Yahdan Yada, an herbalist, claimed that “HIV was an invention created by the West”. He made a number of other claims about HIV, including that people “took the HIV medication and got HIV” and that you can “reverse HIV naturally”. As we’ll show below, these claims are false, and people living with HIV should not replace proven, effective HIV drugs with unproven diet-based treatments.
There are two types of HIV: HIV-1, which is present worldwide and is responsible for the global AIDS pandemic, and HIV-2, which is found primarily in West Africa. Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 can be further broken down into groups and subtypes, respectively, such as HIV-1 groups M, O and N, and HIV-2...
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