Apparently, this controversy is news to you, no? Article is just as valid today as it was then--TTS
In that other thread, someone challenged you to have an aids victims blood injected into you regularly, you claimed no, they are sick from other infections. Ok, lets change that, would you allow yourself to be injected by nothing else other than the HIV virus over a period of time?
What has happened in the past decade bears out the reasonableness of the article. AIDS has become more of a female disease in America, but the emergence was truly quite slow. It has never leapt into the general population. In Africa, it would be false to say that the majority of cases are in women, as the author suspected, but it is very much more in the general female population than elsewhere. Supposed time bombs have not erupted. And the search for cofactors continues. Plus, The confounding factors mentionned in the article are mostly true (I can't think of one of them to refute).
Is AIDS caused by HIV? It is certainly a prominent factor. Can HIV alone cause AIDS? It still looks doubtful. I would love to read anyone else with any more to add.