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Warpy

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

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Oct 7, 2014, 03:42 AM

Oct 2014

AIDS means you've had it for a long time or haven't had it treated and your immune system has collapsed.

I have no clue about what HIV-AIDS means unless it is an attempt to conflate the infected but treated and living well with the sick and dying.

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

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