Dr. Papadopulos-Eleopulos and three other scientists attempt to publish a scientific article entitled "A Critical Appraisal of the Evidence for the Isolation of HIV" in the journal of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons. After many months the editorial board declined to publish the paper saying it would be of little interest to readers.

Martin Delaney, co-founder of Project Inform, writes to the President of the National Academy of Sciences attempting to have Dr. Peter Duesberg "unelected" from the Academy for publishing his views on AIDS. Delaney is unsuccessful.

The FDA grants approval for delavirdine, the first in the latest group of drugs, the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors.

During the course of the year it becomes apparent that the number of people affected by the "side effects" of the protease inhibitor drugs was greater than had previously been thought. It is also clear that some of the "side effects" are quite serious, the FDA issuing specific warnings concerning diabetes and hyperglycemia in patients receiving protease inhibitors.

The development of the concept of "drug resistance" increases in popularity. Patients who become sick while taking "anti-AIDS drugs" are said to be "failing treatment" or are said to be becoming "drug resistant." (Some argue that this is an indirect way of saying the drugs don't work or are harming patients, rather than helping them.)

At the end of the year, UNAIDS reports that word-wide the "HIV epidemic" is far worse than had previously been thought. Updated surveillance techniques suggested that 30 million people were now living with HIV/AIDS and 16,000 new infections were occurring every day. These estimates, based on complicated computer speculation, are reported as fact by the uncritical media.