. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2018 Jun;22(6):1814–1825. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1657-6

Table I.

Endorsement of HIV Conspiracy Beliefs by 464 African-American MSM Recruited within 35 Social Networks and Varimax-Rotated Factor Loadings of AIDS Genocidal Beliefs and Medical Mistrust Subscales^a

		Factor Loadings for:
HIV Conspiracy Belief Item	% Agree (strongly or somewhat)	AIDS Genocidal Beliefs	Medical Mistrust
HIV is a man-made virus	34.6%	0.774	−0.019
AIDS was produced in a government laboratory	14.3%	0.790	0.340
HIV was created and spread by the CIA	13.0%	0.749	0.367
People who take the new medicines for HIV are human guinea pigs for the government^b	12.7%	0.512	0.512
AIDS is a form of genocide against Blacks	11.6%	0.731	0.386
AIDS was created by the government to control the Black population	9.3%	0.716	0.496
The medicine that doctors prescribe to treat HIV is poison	6.9%	0.288	0.753
The medicine used to treat HIV causes people to get AIDS	3.2%	0.185	0.827
Doctors put HIV into condoms	0.6%	0.196	0.800