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Table 4.

Health-related outcomes of people living with HIV/AIDS in relation to believing that there is a debate among scientists as to whether HIV causes AIDS.

	Does not believe there is a debate HIV causing AIDS (N =220)		Believes there is a debate whether HIV causes AIDS (N = 123)
Characteristic	M	SD	M	SD	AdjOR
HIV symptoms	3.7	3.7	4.5	3.7	1.1^*
CD4 cell count	473.1	324.8	455.6	303.1	1.0
Treatment
Adherence^a	90.9	16.5	84.4	21.8	0.9^*


	N	%	N	%

Undetectable viral load	109	69	51	56	0.5^*
Currently taking antiretrovirals	144	65	66	54	1.7^*

Note: analyses adjusted for years since testing HIV positive, sexual orientation, education, and AIDS knowledge;

analysis for 203 participants receiving HIV treatments

p < .05

** p < .01.