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(56,582 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 02:57 AM Oct 2014

AIDS vs HIV-AIDS [View all]

I was reading a biomed journal today in a vain attempt to pretend I can still keep up this many years after grad school, and I noticed something. I've seen "HIV-AIDS" used rather than "AIDS" for years now, but this article actually spelled out the acronym as "HIV-associated immunodeficiency syndrome", whereas I had grown up thinking of it as "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome".

Does anybody know when that change happened?

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AIDS vs HIV-AIDS [View all] Recursion Oct 2014 OP

HIV positive means you've been exposed to the virus and are making antibodies against it. Warpy Oct 2014 #1

There are immunodeficiency syndromes not associated with HIV Recursion Oct 2014 #4

A lot of the clinical literature (papers and such)... Spider Jerusalem Oct 2014 #2

Thank you. I should have thought of Google Scholar Recursion Oct 2014 #3