I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as AIDS is, in fact, HIV/AIDS, or, as I’ve recently taken to calling it, HIV plus AIDS. AIDS is not an autoimmune disorder unto itself, but rather another manifestation of a fully functioning HIV infection made useful by the HIV RNA, cell utilities, and vital biological molecules comprising a infection as defined by the American Medical Association.

Many humans are infected with modified version of an HIV infection every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of HIV which is widely spread today is often called “AIDS”, and many of its victims are not aware that it is basically an HIV infection, developed by retrovirus evolution.

There really is an AIDS, and these people are suffering from it, but it is just a part of an infection they have. AIDS is the syndrome: the collection of symptoms that manifest after the start of some underlying medical problem. The syndrome is an essential part of a disorder, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete GRID. AIDS normally presents in combination with an HIV infection: the whole disorder is basically HIV with AIDS added, or HIV/AIDS. All the so-called “AIDS” infections are really infections of HIV/AIDS.