>About 40% of the AIDS patients in the U.S. (5), and many of >those who are at risk for AIDS, have been confirmed to have >neutralizing antibodies to a retrovirus (3, 7) that was discovered >in 1983 (15). These antibodies are detected by the "AIDS test" >(3). Less than a year later, in 1984, this virus was adopted as >the cause of AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human >Services and the AIDS test was registered as a patent, even >before the first American study on the virus was published (16). >The epidemiological correlation between these antibodies and >AIDS is the primary basis for the hypothesis that AIDS is >caused by this virus (3, 7, 12, 14, 17, 18). AIDS is also believed >to be caused by this virus because AIDS diseases appear in a >small percentage (see below) of recipients of blood >transfusions that have antibo- dies to this virus (3, 12, 19-22). In >view of this the virus has been named human >immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by an international committee of >retrovirologists (18) and antibody to HIV became part of the >definition of AIDS (3, 5, 7). If confirmed, HIV would be the first >clinically relevant retrovirus since the Virus-Cancer Program >called for viral carcinogens in 1971 (23, 24).
The footnotes are appended to the article, at the link--
I think it is important to read the link that Wolfgang provided, on the evidence that HIV causes AIDS, as well as the other stuff--
Also, I want to mention that VirusMyth is an archive for documents from a wide variety of sources, that were previously scattered on the web--The various authors differ on a many points, which gives an open mind a lot of excercise--