Home » 2000 » Volume 2 - Number 4 » HIV Did not Originate as a Result of the OPV Trials in the Late 1950s
Anne-Mieke Vandamme
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*Correspondence: Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Email not available
The Royal Society organised a discussionmeeting in London 12-14 September 2000, onthe origin of HIV and the AIDS Epidemic. Themeeting intended to investigate the scientificsupport for the hypothesis that HIV originateddue to accidental transfer into humans of SIVcpz,as a result of oral polio vaccination trials in centralAfrica during the late 1950s.