HIV/AIDS denialism

HIV/AIDS denialism - belief, contradicted by conclusive evidence, that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) does not cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Article “HIV/AIDS denialism” in English Wikipedia has 85 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 185 references and 17 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “HIV/AIDS denialism” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “HIV/AIDS denialism”, its content was written by 609 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1642 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1237 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3400 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #347 in July 2003
• Global: #2061 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18770 in June 2016
• Global: #32528 in June 2016

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) HIV/AIDS denialism		85.0425
2	Russian (ru) ВИЧ-диссидентство		78.4775
3	Basque (eu) GIB/HIESaren negazionismoa		72.8479
4	Italian (it) Ipotesi alternative sull'AIDS		70.7484
5	Spanish (es) Negacionismo del VIH/sida		61.1415
6	Hebrew (he) הכחשת איידס		57.9117
7	French (fr) Contestation de la responsabilité du VIH dans le sida		55.809
8	German (de) AIDS-Leugnung		49.6889
9	Malay (ms) Penolakan HIV/AIDS		48.5398
10	Thai (th) แนวคิดปฏิเสธเอดส์		44.5559

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "HIV/AIDS denialism" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HIV/AIDS denialism		2 610 307
2	Russian (ru) ВИЧ-диссидентство		769 093
3	Spanish (es) Negacionismo del VIH/sida		672 954
4	German (de) AIDS-Leugnung		490 948
5	Italian (it) Ipotesi alternative sull'AIDS		220 438
6	French (fr) Contestation de la responsabilité du VIH dans le sida		218 793
7	Japanese (ja) エイズ否認主義		121 828
8	Portuguese (pt) Negacionismo da VIH/SIDA		76 141
9	Chinese (zh) 艾滋病重估运动		74 399
10	Persian (fa) انکار ایدز		40 531

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "HIV/AIDS denialism" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HIV/AIDS denialism		9 777
2	Russian (ru) ВИЧ-диссидентство		1 225
3	Spanish (es) Negacionismo del VIH/sida		772
4	German (de) AIDS-Leugnung		530
5	Italian (it) Ipotesi alternative sull'AIDS		474
6	Chinese (zh) 艾滋病重估运动		425
7	Persian (fa) انکار ایدز		359
8	Japanese (ja) エイズ否認主義		352
9	French (fr) Contestation de la responsabilité du VIH dans le sida		333
10	Portuguese (pt) Negacionismo da VIH/SIDA		115

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "HIV/AIDS denialism" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) HIV/AIDS denialism		609
2	German (de) AIDS-Leugnung		218
3	Russian (ru) ВИЧ-диссидентство		175
4	French (fr) Contestation de la responsabilité du VIH dans le sida		145
5	Italian (it) Ipotesi alternative sull'AIDS		139
6	Spanish (es) Negacionismo del VIH/sida		133
7	Japanese (ja) エイズ否認主義		35
8	Hebrew (he) הכחשת איידס		31
9	Dutch (nl) Aidsontkenning		29
10	Portuguese (pt) Negacionismo da VIH/SIDA		24

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "HIV/AIDS denialism" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) HIV/AIDS denialism		1
2	Italian (it) Ipotesi alternative sull'AIDS		1
3	Russian (ru) ВИЧ-диссидентство		1
4	Arabic (ar) إنكار متلازمة نقص المناعة المكتسبة		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) HİV dissidentlik		0
6	German (de) AIDS-Leugnung		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Aidoso-retaksado		0
8	Spanish (es) Negacionismo del VIH/sida		0
9	Basque (eu) GIB/HIESaren negazionismoa		0
10	Persian (fa) انکار ایدز		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "HIV/AIDS denialism" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) HIV/AIDS denialism		1 237
2	Arabic (ar) إنكار متلازمة نقص المناعة المكتسبة		384
3	Portuguese (pt) Negacionismo da VIH/SIDA		320
4	Chinese (zh) 艾滋病重估运动		227
5	Persian (fa) انکار ایدز		217
6	Italian (it) Ipotesi alternative sull'AIDS		211
7	Korean (ko) HIV/AIDS 부인주의		137
8	French (fr) Contestation de la responsabilité du VIH dans le sida		103
9	Russian (ru) ВИЧ-диссидентство		102
10	Ukrainian (uk) Заперечення СНІДу		95

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إنكار متلازمة نقص المناعة المكتسبة
az	Azerbaijani HİV dissidentlik
de	German AIDS-Leugnung
en	English HIV/AIDS denialism
eo	Esperanto Aidoso-retaksado
es	Spanish Negacionismo del VIH/sida
eu	Basque GIB/HIESaren negazionismoa
fa	Persian انکار ایدز
fr	French Contestation de la responsabilité du VIH dans le sida
he	Hebrew הכחשת איידס
hi	Hindi एड्स का इंकार
id	Indonesian Denialisme HIV/AIDS
it	Italian Ipotesi alternative sull'AIDS
ja	Japanese エイズ否認主義
ko	Korean HIV/AIDS 부인주의
ms	Malay Penolakan HIV/AIDS
nl	Dutch Aidsontkenning
pt	Portuguese Negacionismo da VIH/SIDA
ru	Russian ВИЧ-диссидентство
sr	Serbian Порицање ХИВ/АИДС
th	Thai แนวคิดปฏิเสธเอดส์
tr	Turkish HIV/AIDS inkarcılığı
uk	Ukrainian Заперечення СНІДу
vi	Vietnamese Phủ nhận HIV/AIDS
zh	Chinese 艾滋病重估运动

Best Rank

English: #18770 06.2016

Global: #32528 06.2016

Best Rank

English: #347 07.2003

Global: #2061 07.2003

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