On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Lynton Blair wrote:
> So is it possible to be diagnosed AIDS positive while being HIV negative?
> Or must HIV always be positive for them to call it AIDS?
> I'm not trying to imply causation here, I just want to understand more
> about the way they do it.
I don't know, but if they don't know what it is that they call HIV (and
what constitutes being positive and negative varies greatly between
countries!) then the test results don't really mean anything. The
correlation you're asking about is not a reliable indicator of anything.
Lucia