“HIV infection if untreated by anti-virals, leads almost inevitably to the diagnosable disease AIDS”
I’m basically agnostic on the HIV/AIDS question, but my layman’s understanding is that even mainstream thought on AIDS would not support this second statement. I believe it’s well understood that there are nontrivial numbers of people who are HIV+ and do not develop AIDS, decades after infection. This may be the gene mutation(s) referred to by timtyler, or it may be something else (I’m not well-read on the specifics)
I’m basically agnostic on the HIV/AIDS question, but my layman’s understanding is that even mainstream thought on AIDS would not support this second statement. I believe it’s well understood that there are nontrivial numbers of people who are HIV+ and do not develop AIDS, decades after infection. This may be the gene mutation(s) referred to by timtyler, or it may be something else (I’m not well-read on the specifics)
You may be right that some people infected with HIV will never develop AIDS. Thx for the correction.