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Nature Medicine 13, 1391 (1 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/nm1207-1391

BBC apologizes for airing AIDS 'denialist' documentary

Virginia Hughes

Three years after airing a documentary that claimed HIV-positive orphans were exploited in clinical trials of AIDS drugs, the BBC has apologized. The apology is a response to complaints by several prominent AIDS scientists that the video, Guinea Pig Kids, primarily aired the views of AIDS denialists, who don't believe that the HIV virus causes AIDS.