There are two big predictors of HIV in the US:
1) Population density
2) Race
No other factors can predict the HIV rate. What we get from that is that if you are black, the test is statistically biased to show that you have HIV. It has nothing to do with sexuality, drugs or anything else: it has to do that, for some unknown reasons, blacks have a higher likelihood of reporting HIV positive.
In Africa, when you add it to all the false positives associated with various infectious diseases, it is probably likely that there is no HIV epidemic in Africa whatsoever, at least when viewed at in comparison to developed countries such as the United States.
I can’t believe I missed your excellent reply. And although I have never quite heard it put the way you just did, the gist of what you are saying is what AIDS Rethinkers have been saying for years.