Earlier this week, at the opening of the International AIDS Vaccine 2008 conference in Cape Town, Hogan publicly declared that HIV does cause AIDS and should be treated with conventional medicine. 
Mapema juma lililopita, wakati wa uzinduzi wa mkutano juu ya Chanjo ya UKIMWI ya Kimataifa ya 2008 (International AIDS Vaccine 2008) huko Cape Town, Hogan, alitangaza hadharani kwamba VVU husababisha UKIMWI na kwamba ni lazima kukabiliana nao kwa kutumia dawa za hospitalini.