Science Daily Says:

"Our results show that the strain of virus that spawned the U.S. AIDS epidemic probably arrived in or around 1969. That is earlier than a lot of people had imagined," said senior author Michael Worobey.

The research is the first to definitively pinpoint when and from where HIV-1 entered the United States and shows that most HIV/AIDS viruses in the U.S. descended from a single common ancestor. The actual ancestral HIV entered the U.S. long before the storied "Patient Zero," Worobey said.

"Haiti was the stepping stone the virus took when it left central Africa and started its sweep around the world," said Worobey, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at The University of Arizona in Tucson. "Once the virus got to the U.S., then it just moved explosively around the world."

But wait Sr. Michael Worobey! Lots of people believe (completely rightly!) that there is no definitive connection between HIV and AIDS! It is clearly a government conspiracy to kill off homosexual men and those terrible Africans! HIV is a completely harmless virus meant to scare us into submission. After all the drug companies are making billions of dollars off the medications. Why do you think they don't want to ship some cheap drugs to Africa - they know the drugs won't help the AIDS patients since HIV isn't connected! But wait... hold on... aren't the HIV drugs supposed to help turn it into AIDS? I'm sooo confused. I guess HIV does turn into AIDS - things are so complicated these days with all these conspiracies! Which one am I supposed to believe?!

Luckily, Wired has a great list of the best conspiracy theories including:
AIDS Is a Man-Made Disease, Church's Fried Chicken Sterilizes Black Men, Paul Is Dead, Nasa Faked the Moon Landings, and many more! So if you don't know which conspiracy theory to join, head over to Wired to pick one you can call your very own! But remember you can only choose one because if you support more than that you'd just be crazy!