[dmartin]

It is my understanding that HIV by itself will not cause AIDS but that the addition of infection or weakened immune system response due to drug use will.

An associate of mine who is involved in this type of research states that you could inject yourself with HIV and not develop AIDS. It is when you begin getting sexually transmitted diseases and weakening your immune system by using hard drugs that your system breaks.

Thoughts?

[M. Dodge Thomas]

An associate of mine who is involved in this type of research states that you could inject yourself with HIV and not develop AIDS. It is when you begin getting sexually transmitted diseases and weakening your immune system by using hard drugs that your system breaks.

Thoughts?

There are many examples of individuals who have become infected with HIV and progressed to AIDS in the absence for other “aggravating factors” such as illicit drug use. In the US the classic example is that of patients infected via transfusions performed as a part of medical procedures before the introduction of HIV screening of the blood supply and subsequent HIV progression to AIDS of those of their spouses to who the disease was transmitted sexually.

[gidget7]

I understand what you are saying. But it isn't only drug use that weakens the immune system, other diseases, or other conditions, mostly the invasive ones cased by waste material being introduced into the blood stream, and infections that follow are much more likely to turn HIV to AIDS

[Ciexyz]

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