Concerns have been raised about the impartiality of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in licensing anti-HIV drugs and we reproduce data questioning the suitability of the FDA in driving anti-HIV medication to market.

We also examine the vexed question of precisely which diseases correlate with AIDS diagnoses by looking at data showing these diseases exist in the non-HIV diagnosed population. We reproduce the data in order to initiate further dialogue and debate.

The American heterosexual AIDS epidemic has not materialised as expected and this article suggests some of the reasons why. Another article (from POZ Magazine), written by the founder of the World's first AIDS research journal (JAIDS), Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, suggests that female to male transmission of HIV in the USA has not significantly impacted on the AIDS epidemic, unlike the situation in Africa.

American far right fundamentalism is jeopardising medical research into sex and drugs undertaken by leading US research agencies.