In July, Dr. Peter Duesberg is invited to write a short statement ("HIV Is Not the Cause of AIDS") for the journal Science. A paper with the opposite viewpoint ("HIV Is the Cause of AIDS") is authored by Drs. Gallo, Blattner, and Temin.

Dr. Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos publishes the scientific article "Reappraisal of AIDS- Is the Oxidation Induced by Risk Factors the Primary Cause?" in vol 25 of the journal Medical Hypotheses.

Throughout the year, gay publications Christopher Street and the New York Native run stories promoting alternative AIDS causation hypotheses.

The FDA implements new regulations which shorten the time taken for the development of new treatments for AIDS. This effectively means that pharmaceutical companies are no longer required to prove long-term safetey and/or efficacy (efficacy means the extent to which the drug actually works, or doesn't work) of the drugs they want to market.

The WHO's Global Program on AIDS instituted World AIDS Day as an annual event on December 1st each year.