11 December 2018 - A quietly instituted “pause” on the federal procurement of fetal tissue for biomedical research has halted, at least temporarily, a research project seeking a cure for HIV.
6 April 2018 - A dubious story is based on a baseless, unverified, and anonymous Facebook post.
1 March 2018 - A new variant of a years-old rumor about a worker adding HIV-infected blood to foods or beverages takes aim at a popular brand of butter.
25 February 2018 - Rumors that a worker at Cadbury plant was arrested for contaminating the company's products with HIV-infected blood are a variant of an old and false rumor.
30 December 2017 - The controversial move followed the highly publicized resignation of six members in August 2017 and has been described as unusual.
27 November 2017 - A fabricated health scare that originated in Africa got a new lease on life in November 2017.
11 October 2017 - Web sites misstate what would happen under a bill that was signed into law on 6 October 2017.
15 July 2011 - Rumors that a worker at a Pepsi or Frooti plant contaminated those beverage products by injecting HIV-infected blood into them are old and false.
12 June 2017 - A bizarre, entirely false story originated on a web site notorious for bizarre, entirely false stories.
21 April 2017 - Rumors that the porn star is HIV-positive originated on a fake news web site.
11 November 2015 - Discolored bananas that have fallen prey to a fungus may be visually unappealing, but they do not harbor HIV and pose no threat to human health.
29 December 2016 - Age-old rumors about viral contamination of food evolved into a claim that HIV is present in canned food from Thailand.
