The AIDS Pandemic: The Collision of Epidemiology with Political Correctness Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford, Seattle, 2007

James (Jim) Chin

Clinical Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley

Since the mid-1990s, I've had the following disagreements with UNAIDS

1. UNAIDS has systematically overestimated or has accepted overestimates of HIV prevalence in most countries throughout the world;
2. UNAIDS continued to maintain that the AIDS pandemic was ever increasing and expanding up to mid-2006 when it was forced to acknowledge that annual global HIV incidence (new infections) peaked by the late 1990s!
3. UNAIDS continues to exaggerate the potential for epidemic HIV transmission in most "general" populations.

UNAIDS' Nov 21, 2007 report confirms that I've been right on target!

This website includes:

(A) - Updated Sept 5, 2008: Commentaries on HIV/AIDS reports on the status of the AIDS pandemic, by UNAIDS, other agencies and news coverage of such information.

(B) - Updated Sept 5, 2008: Details, reviews, and updates of my book that are at marked variance with the prevailing position of UNAIDS and AIDS program activists.