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Halfway along the trail from Scout Lookout to Angels Landing in Zion National Park, Utah, the path narrows along an exposed sandstone rib so that hikers must walk single file. On the right side, the rock underfoot tumbles hundreds of feet into Refrigerator Canyon. On the left, it drops a thousand feet to another canyon floor, where the North Fork of the Virgin River meanders.
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is generally considered the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Some theorists dispute this, suggesting that HIV is unrelated to AIDS or is just one of several cof actors necessary for disease progression. I cannot say whether these theorists are correct. Nonetheless, my investigation of the ways in which HIV-negative gay men have been affected by the epidemic—and of the significance of HIV testing—does not depend on knowing the actual cause of AIDS. If we find out that something other than HIV causes AIDS, this does not change the historical fact that our fears, concerns, and anxieties about the epidemic were largely shaped by our belief that HIV causes AIDS.
I use the phrase “HIV testing” in this book because it is more commonly used by gay men and is shorter than “HlV-antibody testing.” The latter phrase is more accurate, because the ELISA and Western-Blot tests currently in use detect the presence of antibodies to HIV, rather than HIV itself.
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Johnston, W.I. (1995). Introduction Climbing to Angels Landing. In: HIV-Negative. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6106-8_1
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