Lucia:
>It is my understanding, from what I have read, that what is called AIDS
>does not "occur" in people with compromised immune systems, so much as it
>is a name that has been given to a a collection of conditions and
>symptoms, such as hepititus to name but one, that people with compromised
>immune systems are vulnerable to.
>

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.

(In a way its a bit ambiguous do you think? that they are saying its "immune
deficiency" yet the test for HIV is antibodies, which are produced by the
immune system - huh?

Lynton
ps I'd rather be talking about Chlamidia ;)