Is AIDS an epidemic form of African Kaposi's sarcoma?: discussion paper.

The article discusses if AIDS is an epidemic form of African Kaposi's (KS) sarcoma. The researcher stresses that it has been presumed that it is a new disease, appearing de novo in the U.S. in 1979. In this paper, the hypothesis is made that KS in Africa is a sexually-transmitted infectious disease that is disperse predominantly by male homosexual intercourse, and that the cause of AIDS is also the factor responsible for African KS, introduced into a susceptible population.