Thanks for your reply.

As I understand it, AIDS is defined as symptoms for a group of around 30 diseases when a patient is HIV positive. So by that logic...

Teberculosis + HIV = AIDS
Teberculosis + no HIV = Teberculosis

Even though both scenarios produce the same Teberculosis symptoms such as frequent coughing, blood in sputum; just because the patient is defined as HIV positive, he/she is said to have AIDS.

This doesn't make sense. What role does HIV play? Maybe I'm missing something.

Last edited by DJBMASTER; 08/22/10 05:58.