Dr. Peter Duesberg publishes the culmination of his work on AIDS, the book Inventing the AIDS Virus. In this 722 page book, Duesberg presents massive amounts of evidence against the HIV=AIDS hypothesis, indicting AZT as a cause of disease, and examining the history of the biomedical research machine that led us to where we are today.

Healthy and HIV-positive Christine Maggiore publishes the first edition of the book: What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? This book, in a simple and straightforward fashion, deconstructs the many myths surrounding HIV and AIDS.

Neville Hodgkinson, former science writer for the London Sunday Times, publishes the book AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary Science, in which he deconstructs the HIV hypothesis and the AIDS establishment.

In the August issue of the newsletter Reappraising AIDS, Dr. David Rasnick, a protease inhibitor expert, writes the article, "Inhibitors of HIV Protease Useless Against AIDS: Because HIV Doesn't Cause AIDS".

During 1996 an increasing number of drugs receive approval from the FDA in the United States, both for use on their own, and/or in combination with other drugs. Another treatment development that takes place is the development of the "viral load" test, which is claimed to provide information about the risk of "progression to AIDS."