The FDA approvez the use of Saquinavir, the first of a new group of Protease Inhibitor antiretroviral drugs. Protease Inhibitors would not be taken by a majority of AIDS patients until some time in 1997. However, the media, pharmaceutical companies, and many scientists decide to attribute declining AIDS cases and death rates to the use of these drugs (AIDS cases peaked in 1993, and death rates in 1994). There exists no study to confirm the claim that Protease Inhibitors have reduced overall AIDS cases or death rates.

HEAL-Los Angeles is formed by healthy HIV-positive Christine Maggiore. HEAL-LA, now known as Alive and Well, exists "to bring honesty and accountability to AIDS reporting, research and education… At one time, we all accepted without question the popular belief that testing positive meant we would soon become ill and die. On our own, we each discovered information refuting the HIV/AIDS hypothesis".

Dr. Elinor Burkett publishes the book The Gravest Show on Earth: America in the Age of AIDS. "Not since And the Band Played On has any journalist taken readers behind the scenes in the war against AIDS to reveal how avarice, ignorance, and egotism are subverting the nation's struggle against the epidemic. But Elinor Burkett goes well beyond Randy Shilts. She not only reports on the decade of plague he did not cover, but addresses the wider questions about what AIDS reveals about America on the brink of the new millennium."

Dr. Mark Craddock, an Australian Mathematician, examines the math used by Drs. Ho and Wei in their Nature papers on AIDS published in the same year. Their papers form the basis for the concept of "viral load", but Dr. Craddock says the math is nonsense.

Dr. Duesberg publishes "Foreign-Protein-Mediated Immunodeficiency in Hemophiliacs With and Without HIV." in Genetica. In this article, Duesberg advances an alternative hypothesis for what is called AIDS in hemophiliacs. Dr. Duesberg and Dr. David Chiu publish "The Toxicity of Azidothymidine (AZT) on Human and Animal Cells in Culture at Concentrations Used for Antiretroviral Therapy" in Genetica. The authors conclude that at the dosage prescribed to AIDS patients, AZT is highly toxic to human cells.

Dr. Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Dr. Valendar Turner, Dr. John Papadimitriou, and Harvey Bialy publish the scientific article, "AIDS in Africa: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction" in the World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. In this article they examine the many myths of HIV and AIDS in Africa.

Dr. Papadopulos-Eleopulos and five other scientists publish "A Critical Analysis of the HIV-T4-Cell-AIDS Hypothesis" in the journal Genetica. This article presents evidence which the authors argue disproves the notion that HIV causes immune suppression by killing CD4 t-cells.

Journalist John Crewdson publishes a stunning critique of the ethics of Dr. Robert Gallo in the January 1 issue of the Chicago Tribune. "In Gallo Case, Truth Termed a Casualty."