[metmom]

For your statement to be true there could not be anyone who is HIV positive that does not go on to AIDS. Is that the case 100% of the time or are there some HIV ‘carriers’ that never develop AIDS?

The other issue, is that if someone who is HIV negative, develops the kind of opportunistic infections that HIV patients get, they are not considered to have AIDS because they are not HIV positive.

Nice little Catch 22, isn't it?

[count-your-change]

Yes it is. But therein is one of the problems, trying to define what is AIDS. I know there are official descriptions and the subject is best on its own thread but the silliness of the statement I quoted was just a bit much to let pass.

AIDS long ago ceased being a problem to dealt with and became a football to score points with in that game of Catch 22.

[FormerRep]

No, it isn’t. Autoimmune disorders have many sources beyond retro viruses. None of them are pretty.